Soon to be missionaries

I'm so excited watching these two getting ready for being missionaries.  They're going to be amazing!

Alpine Loop

We drove Cristina's family up and around Alpine loop.  I told them about aspen trees, talked to them about who lives up at Sundance, and what kind of animals live on the mountain.  It got dark sooner than we were ready for, but we got a chance to show them Mt Timp temple in the dark and that was neat.  They live about 2 hours away from their temple, and they are endowed.  I think it's really neat.  When I was in Manta, there were only a handful of endowed members.

pumpkins

We went and picked out our pumpkins.  Sam's already died and got thrown out, but the rest are ready to carve for Halloween.  I'm so terrible with that part.  I always forget until the last minute.

I love that these brothers have each other.

This nut... Always in mismatched socks and if you don't specifically tell her to put shoes on... no shoes.

Fall leaves

Every October we go up to see the leaves.

I loved this picture!

another misc

Evelyn made a dragon on an egg.  She said, "I want you to take a picture mom!"

Seth has been super into dinosaurs.  We stopped at the post office and next door was a Sinclair station.  Seth loved the dinosaur, but he wasn't sure he could stand by it without me.

With our Thanksgiving Point pass, I've been taking Seth to the dinosaur museum every time he says that he wants to see dinosaurs while the kids are at school.  He loves it. 

misc

Seth is always a good shopper.  He always pushed Ramona's scooter around Walmart.  I thought that was pretty funny.

We don't always make it to scouts, but we try.  I thinks it's a very positive thing for Sam.

Goblin Valley

The second day of the break, we went to Goblin Valley.  The kids played cops and robbers with Jer and a bunch of kids that we knew from soccer and found down there.  Sam LOVED being able to jump and climb.  He loved running as fast as he could through everything.  I have more pictures, but I don't have a way to download them off the sd card right now.  Soon.  We played in the first valley, played following the leader where each of the kids took turns leading us through different hoodoos.  We hiked back into the third valley where they played tag and I cuddled with a very tired 3 year old.  By the way, I think I have a bone spur in my right foot. I seem to have about 5 miles on me before it hurts and a few more miles before I'm limping.  Oh the joy.

Fall break

For our Fall Break we decided to go hiking.  We spent the night in Green River at this cute place called River Terrace.  Comfortable, beautiful river, a pool, etc...

Our first hike was the 3 mile hike to Delicate Arch.  That was so fun.  It's a fun terrain, and beautiful.  The kids did terrifically until we got over the top of the ridge... then it was extremely windy.  Seth screamed until I took him behind an outcropping, Evelyn was scared so I took her with me, Sam and Ada both went with Jer to see it better.

This was Evelyn's favorite.  She loved this little window with the view of the arch.

Sam was a little traumatized when they got back, but he recovered as we went down.

We took the little side path to see the petroglyphs too.  That was fun.

We also went to the sand dune arch.  That was always my favorite.  I love the soft a beautiful sand.

We had a soccer ball in the car and when we stopped for lunch, it was a perfect time to kick it around.

The wind kicked up here too.  It was fun until the wind kicked up again.

The third one we went on was the landscape arch.  Totally we saw about 9 arches.  Seth was done after this one.  He found a piece of driftwood and turned it into a car.  It was so funny.  Evelyn kept swiping branches back and forth on the path saying that she was erasing the foot steps.  Seth was counting too.  He was jumping from rock to rock saying, "1,2,3,4,5... 1,2,3,4,5.... 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.... 5,4,3,2,1."