Fall Leave Fun

Since we moved we don't have leaves to rake and the kids were sad.  So we volunteered to help our friend.  

 Proof that little boys will turn anything into a gun.

Fun Fall Weekend

Since we moved last January we didn't know what the trees were by our new place until spring time and then we discovered one was an apple tree of some kind.

 It grows these tiny apples that aren't crab apples, but something else.  My neighbor thinks they are wild apples.  Anyway, after the neighbor kids ate them for a week and didn't die I allowed my kids to eat them.  They picked the bottom branches pretty clean and constantly begged me to reach and get the higher ones.  These were also getting slim when a higher power intervened.  It was crazy windy on Friday and one of the big branches fell.  The kids were thrilled!  They picked buckets of tiny apples.

 Then we headed off to visit my brother.  I was so excited because I love trips in fall weather.  I love watching the trees as you travel.  The kids had a blast together.  Brent and I got to go to the temple and work on some family names.

 Here we are having some cousin love.  MC2 called his cousin his "husband" at some point.

 On the way home we stopped at Adam-ondi-Ahman which was great.  I told the kids about coming there when I was younger.

 Right after I took this picture a certain child who shall remain nameless pushed her younger brother who pushed the baby off the bench and on to a rock!  Otherwise it was a great time.

Field Trip

With three kids at school and only one at home during the day I thought I would have gobs of time to sit around and cuddle with my two year old.  Yeah, that hasn't happened.  Somehow other things have taken over my life.  Young Women's takes a big chunk.  I have also started volunteering at my kids' school just one day a week for like a half hour.  I also started teaching piano lessons to two kids from our ward.  I have been teaching the oldest two for the last two or three years, but adding two more has taken some adjustment.  The Girl Child has been in gymnastics and speech therapy also once a week.

Last week we had an awesome Harry Potter night.  This is my young women's presidency.  Love these ladies.

 Thanks to a friend who watched the baby ALL day I got to go on a field trip with MC1.  It was fun.  We got to go to the Stake Capital.  I let him use my camera which he took random pictures of stuff like this...

 All these people are from Iowa.  I know, you suddenly realize how cool we are here.

I'm glad I got to go with him.  The battery died on the camera (wonder why?) before we got to the State Capitol building so you'll have to just go there yourself.