Getting started on October, finally!

So, we're mid-way through November and I'm finally getting started on my October posts.  I'm going to just blitz through them...ready? :)

General Conference Weekend

October 4-5

I love, LoVe, LOVE Conference Weekend when we get to stay home together as a family to listen to our Prophet, Apostles, and other church leaders speak to us.  It's such a re-energizing experience every 6 months and I always look forward to it.  It's definitely a different kind of adventure trying to "listen" to Conference with little kids, but so worth it!  Our girls really did great!

I've been working for months on trying to get some file folder games put together for our girls.  I started cutting them out back in June on our long car ride down to St. George.  I had printed a ton of them and didn't get them all cut out on that trip, so any time after that when we'd be in the car for an hour or more, we'd bring the file folder games with us to cut them out.  Darwin ended up getting the rest of them cut out for me.  We spent Conference weekend listening to Conference and cutting, coloring and gluing, file folder games.  We're still not done because we still need to laminate them and then get them all cut out again.  It's a LOT of work, but I'll be glad when we finally get the time to get them completed :)

My loves.

Rori insisted I take a picture of her pencils :)


Jaker's
October 6
There's a super fun (not to mention FREE) pumpkin patch that shows up around Halloween.  The kids (and maybe adults, too) love it!  We went a couple of times this year.  The first time we met our neighbors there, and then our Aussie's met up with us too.

One big hit is always the corn pit.  I'm honestly not a huge fan, partly because the corn is pokey when you're not wearing shoes (and when you are wearing shoes you end up with a shoe full of dried corn)!  The kids love it though.


 Savy's friend, Mia, just chillin' in the corn :)

Our beautiful Savannah-Wannah


Cutie-pa-tootie Aurora!

Rori and Orlando on top of the hay pyramid

They were up pretty high and Rori was a little scared to come down on her own so I had to go help her down--meanwhile, Savannah booked it straight for some horses on the other end of the field--it's hard when there's just one of us and two kids to keep track of! Haha!

Their "cheese" faces crack me up sometimes.

Savannah's favorite part (by far!) was the petting zoo. This girl LOVES animals and can't help but get overly excited when she's around them.  It's pretty darn cute, I must say.  Too bad her Momma isn't willing to get her a pet just yet.

Sisters and BFFs!

Tracee cracked up because trying to get this picture made us think if the Brady Bunch.

Pumpkins make a perfect backdrop!

We were sad Daddy missed being with us on this trip, but he got to come with us another time...

Carpet Cleaning, Jaker's and our Pumpkin Patch
October 11
We've been wanting to get our carpet cleaned for a while and I finally found a good deal on Amazon so we went for it!  It was a much better experience with much better results than our last shot at cleaning our carpets.  Darwin thanked me a couple times for making it happen :)  The girls, of course, loved taking our house apart to get ready for the clean carpets.

We brought Aurora's mattress into the living room after they woke up that morning so they had something to snuggle on for their early morning TV watching :)

Savy thought it was pretty crazy to see her crib propped up sideways on our bed

Luckily the weather was pretty awesome for most of October and it happened to be a beautiful day the day we got our carpets cleaned, so we took Daddy to Jakers with us this time while we waited for the carpet to dry.


 
You can only tell a kid not to throw the corn so many times before you finally give in and realize you need to just let your kid be a kid sometimes [totally talking about myself here ;)]


 Especially when Daddy's in on it too!  What can I say?  He's just a really big kid and I love him for it!

Beautiful Savannah!

 Daddy buried Aurora in the corn--this is the only shot I got before she sat up and uncovered herself.

Drip, drip, drop!  Little corn kernel showers!

We missed out on the tube slides the first time we went, but the kids loved them this time!



 Once again, Savannah LOVED the animals!

Darwin was really cautious about letting Savannah pet the miniature donkeys because they were feisty little things!


Fun VW Bug all decked out for Halloween :)

And a creepy skeleton driving an old pickup truck

It was a must to visit the petting zoo again.  I love that I caught this shot of Darwin kissing Savannah's head.  Our girls are both so kissable!



I love Savannah's curly piggy-tails!

They're just like her big sister's curly piggy-tails!
Rori put corn in her shirt to feed the animals like she saw some bigger girls do :)

Cuddly little piggies

On a mega-slow super fun hayride around the pumpkin patch!  The kid driving the tractor was probably 10 years old.  It's probably a good thing he was driving it so slowly! :)

After a fun morning at Jaker's we had a yummy lunch together at Subway and then headed to our very own pumpkin patch to pick the pumpkins Aurora helped Daddy plant way back in May.
I love that I captured this shot of one of Daddy's beezee's on a pumpkin flower--two of our favorite things together: beezee's and pumpkins :)

I love the change of the seasons!

No words needed, but I couldn't resist posting this picture. Haha!

Savy was getting pretty tired at this point--it was WAY past nap time! She was a trooper though!

This picture kind of cracks me up more than it should.  Don't ask me why.

Rori was tired and wanting snuggles too.

Rori and Grandpa showing their "pumpkins".  "Silly, Grandpa!" as Rori would say.

Savy and her pumpkin

More to come on October later!