October is OVER?!?

It's hard to believe that November is already here!  I've been waiting for Fall for so long that now it's kinda stressing me out that it's flying by!  

Below are a few posts of our October happenings and in this post are some random pictures to wrap up the month.  Happy NOVEMBER!!!

We roasted hot dogs with some friends and cousins. 

The kids were testing out the new motorized trains and Reese laid in the middle of the track watching them go around and around for over an hour.  

Reese turned TWO months!  He's starting to get chubby cheeks and thighs to show for it.

 Carter was playing with Mr. Potato Head and thought it was SO funny to stick the parts in the wrong places.  Here he is with an arm in the nose hole.

He was a little confused as to why the glasses didn't fit...

We had a little chunk of dry ice left over from when we made root beer for the ward party.  The next morning McKay helped the kids play with it.

Sydney said,

"Mom, if we're ever being good and you want to give us something, don't give us money, just get us some dry ice to play with!".

Ok Sydney...note taken. :-)

Ooooh, in these dry ice pictures you get a sneak peek of some remodeling that's going on in our house!!!...notice the new flooring??

Pumpkin Carving

McKee Ranch

Right off the strip here in Vegas there's a little family ranch.  It seems so out of place.

They had a little pumpkin patch complete with pony rides and hay rides.

When we got there (an hour before they closed) the pony was being put away.  She was tired.  This meant the kids got to ride a "real" horse.  Haha.

They loved it.

We had horses while I was growing up and I can't wait until we own some property where we can have them again!

Right after the horse ride the big kids climbed this huge stack of hay.

They were up there for just long enough to take this picture and somehow ended up with handfuls of hay in their underwear...

Sooo, they walked around for the rest of the time very uncomfortable....shoving their hands down their pants trying to get it out.  Oh man.

Bonnie Springs

Bonnie Springs did a cute little Halloween Haunted Town for kids.  We met up with my brother and his family and gave it a shot.  

Sydney is the only girl cousin on my side....but not for long!!!  My brother Michael and his wife Becky are expecting their first girl (after 3 boys) in December!

Here are all the cousins, minus Reese, waiting to take the train to Haunted Town.

On the train.

Think Carter was excited?!?

 Sydney and Evan.

Conner and Jackson.

It got dark shortly after this picture was taken and then it was too hard to keep track of everyone and take pictures at the same time...but the kids had a blast.  I love that we live so close to family and get to do fun stuff like this! 

Pumpkin Patch

To start off our Halloween/Fall festivities we visited a pumpkin patch near our house.

I've been looking forward to this for months and was very excited to get out and enjoy the cooler weather.

The temperature ended up being over 100 on this day....oops.

We still had fun.

McKay thought the shape of this pumpkin was just hilarious...

Sydney wasn't too sure.

Carter was totally creeped out by the warts on the little pumpkin.

The place was pretty busy, but somehow Carter got the bouncy house to himself for about 5 minutes.  

Some Most of our outings feel like failures these days.  As much as I prepare and plan before leaving the house something always seems to go wrong.  I can't count how many times I've walked to the car carrying a screaming baby, chasing a crying 1 year old, and pushing an empty double stroller.  I'm worn out by bed time and often wonder how I'm going to face another tiring day (following a sleepless night)....but it's always better in the morning.  Life is hard right now...REALLY HARD...but I'm able to enjoy moments of each day and look forward to watching my kiddos grow up.