Beautiful Fall Fun

This has been a gorgeous October - and we have LOVED it. Fall brings football, and this has been our first experience watching our boy Carson play a little flag football under the lights. Here we are during his last game of the season. Go Cowboys! It has been nice to enjoy a slower pace in the day time, and be out and doing something every night with the oldest two kid's sports.

We had a fun weekend with Nicole and her girls in town from California! We celebrated the UEA break at Grandma's house with her and many of the cousins and sisters/sisters-in-law. It was really fun to see Lauren again. She and Graham are only a couple months apart. While we were together, we played at a park and enjoyed the Davis High School Soccer Playoffs. Here are Kate and Romy at the park.

We went on a perfect fall hike up to Red Pine Lake in Little Cottonwood Canyon. It was fun to be out in the gorgeous fall weather and be in the middle of the beautiful fall colors. I feel so enriched when I look back on these pictures.

Okay - a little fun. We took a couple friends and headed out to a pumpkin patch last week. What fun to do the corn maze, "ride" the tractors and pick the perfect pumpkin. Here are Audrey and her friend Rylee. Fall is great!

The First Grade Heaven for Moms

Whew! School is back in session and we are all having a breather. With a new first grader, I now have two kids in school full time. Not only are we getting more individual space during school time, we moved into our newly completed basement this month as well! Audrey and Carson are both downstairs, our whole house is reorganized and the garage is finally cleaned out so Chad's car can go back in. We also re-painted the master bedroom, master bath and new "spare" room. It is like we have a whole new house. And, Kate isn't sleep deprived anymore from trying to keep up with Audrey's schedule. We are all a little more calm now. We don't have the cool flat screen TV and cozy couch set - but look at all the space in our new family room!

I have been "patiently" waiting to redo the kitchen - and I am so excited to finally have it done! With a little bit of money, tools borrowed from friends, tons of painting and lots of questions at Home Depot - we have a great before and after story for our kitchen. I am so pleased with how it turned out.

Okay - here is what the kids were up to:

Audrey's been playing soccer.

Carson is learning flag football.

Kate has started ballet (and learned to ride a bike without training wheels!)

It has been quite an athletic month.

Graham turned 7 months old at the end of September, and he has really taken to eating solids. He wants what we are having, and so I have started giving him waffles for breakfast every morning. He is a cute kid - lots of teeth and more on the way. He still loves attention and is starting to sit up for longer amounts of times.

Chad is training for a marathon - it is this weekend - so more details later.