October 2011

October came and went so fast! I love October in Texas! The weather is starting to cool off a little, which means high 70's and 80's and not high 90's into the hundreds. We were all meant fro the warmer climate, especially me♥

The first Sunday of every October is General Conference weekend. Our Prophet and Church Leaders speak on different topics of things that are meant to help and better ourselves. I love Conference. We don't have cable T.V. so we stream the sessions through our laptop. I always put together a plethora of activities to keep the kids entertained so that I can listen to the speakers.  Of course Jared was on call so it was up to me to man the fort!

Liam LOVES to sing the Primary songs. He carries this song book with him everywhere and sings follow the Prophet, Book of Mormon Stories, and more at the top of his lungs! I love it.

The next day Jared was post call so he came home and went to bed, poor guy. Later when he woke the kids wanted to paint their faces. If you know me I was all over it! I didn't have a ton of colors, but we had fun♥

October 9th. Avery is such a great reader, she loves to read to her brothers. 

Linc sporting his sweet Harry Potter cape pretending to eat a spider, such a boy!

Jared had the next day off so I had planned for us to all go to the pumpkin patch. I miss Virginia and everything they had there. One of our favorites was Cox's farm♥ This patch was still fun and worked, but it was no cox farm!

                               

Liam pointing out rotten pumpkin guts, of course.

One thing they did have that the boys LOVED was a little tractor train ride. Ave liked it the first couple of times, but then she was good.

They had this baby wart hog and oh my goodness it was the cutest thing EVER! Avery wouldn't leave it for anything so we had to keep coming back and checking on her. She was in heaven.

Ever since Liam went to his first petting zoo in Utah, he can't get enough of feeding animals and touching them.

Don't mind Lincoln.......

While the two older kids painted their pumpkins I sent Liam to go play with Dad.

This is where I found them♥

Time for a treat! The boys got ice cream.......

While my girl got the biggest caramel apple!

October 22nd

Time for a Sea World trip. We have been going all year and earlier this month, but they now have their Halloween stuff out. The kids love to trick or treat there. Liam liked getting candy, but wanted nothing to do with the characters!

The kids were fascinated with the little bananas, doesn't take much these days.  

It was sooo hot, of course, so we stopped for a drink at the park and played a bit.

Avery FINALLY went on the Steal Eel roller coaster. Lincoln had gone the last time we were there and loved it. Liam and I waited for them and this is what came our way. Avery attached to Jared! He didn't even have to hold onto her! Let's just say she is" NEVER going on that thing again"!

Avery got glasses this month. She looks so darling in them. She was getting headaches all the time with the occasional migraine, poor baby. We made her an appointment to get her eyes checked to see if that was the cause.  And it was, mostly. She only needs them for reading, but her headaches have gone down like 70% and we haven't had a migraine for a while now!

My darling friend and Photographer, Molly Metcalf, took our pictures. It was my first big swap with bows and it was so much fun. I love having something to swap with♥

October 31st Halloween!

My mom flew out to go trick or treating with the kids. Poor things was so sick with a nasty cold. But she popped her cold pills and took it like a man!

We went to our friends house for a fun Halloween dinner. Liam was infatuated with the dry ice coming off the home made Root Beer, which was AMAZING by the way and will be a tradition from now on!

You  will notice little Liam's cute potbelly. Since he doesn't have a ton of stomach muscles to hold everything in, plus a large hernia at the top of his stoma, his little belly protrudes out more so than other kids. We are currently looking for some kind of Pediatric hernia support.  Hoping to help ease the uncomfortableness of this issue.  

The kids painting pumpkins with Nana.

There was sooo much food! The sloppy Joe's were in the pumpkins.......

Spiders in the ice cubes. Doesn't get much better than that!

So I didn't go all out for Halloween costumes this year since the kids were dead set on doing it themselves. Lincoln had the whole Harry Potter outfit, but it was soooo dang hot that by the time they started trick or treating he was in his shorts, shirt, and glasses.  Avery wanted to be an angel. She wouldn't let me do her hair, or course, and picked out her own stuff. Liam was an Incredible Batman, Love it!

Don't they look like they are sooo happy to take a picture?!

Jared made it home just in time for a bite to eat and trick or treating.

The girls on the block.

Liam stopped after the first house to eat his candy. By the end of the night his bag was over flowing and too heavy for him to carry. That's right, Mom and Dad needed some candy too.

By the last leg he was done and bummed a ride with Scarlet♥

I love the weather in Texas, I know I mention this often but it's great. I just miss the changing of the leaves. We had so much fun this month. The kids are staying very busy in school and Lincoln is starting to learn how to read. Liam's health is good and we are continually looking for new products that work with his body.  We are so blessed to have each other and I wouldn't trade it for anything♥