Happy Halloween!

Meet our Martian and our Bumble Bee! Both costumes were thanks to our friend Hannah who happened to have them left over from Halloween-past. Score! Mason won our church's youth costume contest and has a cute little trophy to show for it :) Lincoln made bank with candy, I believe due to cuteness. They went to a Halloween party Fri night (see our Bishop being "Mummified"), trick or trunking Saturday night, and trick or treating around a neighborhood on Monday night. Whew, that's a lot of Halloweening!

Happy Birthday Mase!

Mason has somehow zoomed to the age of 3! And the word zoom fits this little boy perfectly. He zooms everywhere! He is a bundle of energy and keeps us on our toes with his antics and wit. I worry age 3 might do us in (who said terrible 2s? liar!), but he always manages to follow up with some 3 year old charm that makes me smile and just want to squish him from cuteness. He is a motor-mouth and NEVER meets a stranger. His birthday (week) was filled cake galore, making his own pizza, lots of presents, lots of visits from Grandparents, and Halloween parties thrown in the middle. It was seriously like a week of partying! Here are some pics of our cutey-patootey.

Harvest Time!

Here we go... lets baaaaaaack up and get caught-up!

We went to the most fabulous pumpkin patch that was a few minutes from us - everyone knows I love a bargain, and boy, this was a bargain AND a blast! Doesn't get much better than that. It cost our family of 4 $4 to get in and each boy got their own individual pie pumpkin, we all got a hay ride, a trip through their corn maze, a peek at their pigs, and all the playing time you wanted on their cool amusements. Adult size teeter totter? Yes please! We will definitely be going back next year!

Ta Da!

We all know the most *important* skills for babies are cute little performances such as... blowing kisses, waving bye bye, etc. (forget morals, social skills.... ;) ). I said "TA DA!" earlier this week and Lincoln picked it up pretty fast... see for yourself! (we still have to work on his inflection, this guy only has ONE speaking level).

Post Dinner Entertainment

Not sure how this got started... this was towards the end but they still had some pep! Quality time as a family, ya know. :) **please excuse how loud and high-pitched my voice is!

Visiting Daddy

Mason has had some 'moments of missing Daddy' this summer... including a period when he'd wake up in the night trying to 'catch him before he left' (sigh). So, as an incentive to relax and comfort the little fella, we enticed him with a visit(s) to see Daddy at work (if he chilled out and slept :). Here are the two cuties at Daddy's desk -

Yeehaw!

We've been able to go horseback riding at my parents a few times this summer and Mason even got some ride time! Here we are on the ever-faithful Nidja (uh, is that how you spell it?). Matt and I even got to take both horses back into the woods on a trail ride alone and it was soooooo lovely (we didnt run into any spider webs... otherwise, it might've not been so lovely).