Raking Leaves, Picking Pumpkins, and Paying Tithing

October 10, 2016

Grandma and Grandpa have a lot of big trees at their house.  When autumn time comes there are LOTS of leaves to clean up.  It's fun that the girls are getting old enough (and that they're excited) to clean up leaves!

Sweet sisters!

Taking a break :)

When they decided they were done cleaning up leaves we moved to the garden so they could do some digging.  One of our transient bunny pets joined us :)

Cute little bunny :)

When Daddy got home we decided to harvest the pumpkins. Yay!

Burying a tomato in the dirt :)

We finally talked them into helping with the pumpkin harvest.  It honestly didn't take much convincing :)

Waiting in line for another pumpkin :)

Cuties!

Watching and learning from the pro :)

My happy pumpkin pickers!

Me and my boy!

My two handsome fellas.

Washing off all the dirt.

Our sweet boy watching all the action from the porch :)

10+ little pumpkins all in a row

Checking out a boo-boo on her knee


Paying Tithing

A little while ago we started a chore chart with the girls.  They get a sticker every time they help with a chore and then once they get a good amount of stickers on their chart we pay them a nickel for each sticker they have.  We've also been teaching them about paying tithing, and this was their first time officially paying tithing.  They were so excited!

Never complete without a silly picture! :)

Seeing Savannah's face when she gave her tithing envelope to the bishop was priceless!  She was absolutely beaming and had the biggest smile on her face!  We were so glad to see her so happy about paying her tithing :)

It was a fun day filled with lots of good things!

October in a nutshell.

I've falling severely behind in blogging, as usual, so I'm going to try and hammer out as many of our events and outings into one blog post as I can.

As you know we think our kids are cute :)  I always like to post the random pictures of each of our kids.

Aurora is a hoot!  She still likes to take pictures whenever we let her get her hands on the camera.  I love seeing the random stuff the kids take pictures of.
Watching a Pippy Longstocking Halloween show we got from Nanny last year.

Talmage's baby swing

Aurora came home from school one day singing a silly song her substitute teacher had taught them.  They end up in a silly position at the end of the song :)
Thumbs up, thumbs up.
A tootie-ta, a tootie-ta, a tootie-ta-ta.
Thumbs up, thumbs up. Elbows back, elbows back.
A tootie-ta, a tootie-ta, a tootie-ta-ta.
Thumbs up, thumbs up. Elbows back, elbows back. Legs apart, legs apart.
A tootie-ta, a tootie-ta, a tootie-ta-ta.
Thumbs up, thumbs up. Elbows back, elbows back. Legs apart, legs apart. Knees together, knees together.
A tootie-ta, a tootie-ta, a tootie-ta-ta.
Thumbs up, thumbs up. Elbows back, elbows back. Legs apart, legs apart. Knees together, knees together. Bottoms up, bottoms up.
A tootie-ta, a tootie-ta, a tootie-ta-ta.
Thumbs up, thumbs up. Elbows back, elbows back. Legs apart, legs apart. Knees together, knees together. Bottoms up, bottoms up. Close your eyes, close your eyes.
A tootie-ta, a tootie-ta, a tootie-ta-ta.
Thumbs up, thumbs up. Elbows back, elbows back. Legs apart, legs apart. Knees together, knees together. Bottoms up, bottoms up. Close your eyes, close your eyes. Stick your tongue out, stick you tongue out.
A tootie-ta, a tootie-ta, a tootie-ta-ta.
Thumbs up, thumbs up. Elbows back, elbows back. Legs apart, legs apart. Knees together, knees together. Bottoms up, bottoms up. Close your eyes, close your eyes. Stick your tongue out, stick you tongue out. Turn around, turn around.
 A tootie-ta, a tootie-ta, a tootie-ta-ta! Yeah!

She's discovered how fun it is to make googly eyes with water bottles.

She makes us laugh :)
 
And it's always fun to make silly faces!

Savannah with our cute little mummy.  She had a hard time saying "mummy" for some reason, but it was adorable!  I caught her trying to say it with the video camera so we can remember it forever! :)

Having a Sunday snooze on the couch with Daddy.
 
 I'll save Talmage's pictures for his monthly birthday post. :)

October 7, 2016 - Driving Alpine Loop
One evening we decided to go drive Alpine Loop to enjoy the beautiful autumn colors in the mountains.
Happy girls driving up the mountain!
(Talmage slept through the whole thing, as usual.)

Silly girls!
 
 We made a stop for a little photo opp.
Mommy and the girls :)

Silly faces!


Beautiful scenery! Love the mountains in the background.

Pretty aspen trees.

Cute girls!

Talmage finally woke up and joined us for some pictures.


Our handsome little guy!


Love that smile!

I so love this little man!

Me and my sweetheart!

This one is pretty random, but we grew our own green onions this year.  It was pretty exciting! :)

My work put on a private One Republic concert for employees and a guest.  Because Talmage is pretty little still and refuses to take a bottle we felt like we couldn't leave him with anyone so I offered my tickets to our Aussies.  Jared ended up having to go flying so Tracee talked me into going with her and leaving Darwin home to take care of the kiddos.  I'm so glad we went together.  It was a fun time!
We decided to ride FrontRunner up to SLC for the concert and our timing was off (turns out the train only runs once every hour on the weekend instead of every 30 min like it does during the week and we got to the station just as one train was leaving) so we ended up spending more time on the train than we thought we would but it gave us more time to chat and we got to the Vivint Smart Home Arena just in time for One Republic to come on stage.  The timing was perfect!

At the concert
(not sure why the picture turned out like it did, but we'll make it work!)

Thanks for talking me into going with you, Trace!  Good times and good memories :)
(P.S.  The concert was awesome!  Tracee and I both agreed that we like One Republic even more after seeing them live.  Definitely a fan!  You should check them out if you're not familiar with their stuff.)

Happy October!