October Pics

 Here are a few glimpses from the things our family was doing in October.

Josh loves to take a nap on Sunday afternoon and McKay's doggie makes the nap that much better.

 We were Boo-ed, which the boys thought was completely awesome.

 There were some really fun things inside our little Boo...

 ...Palmer wanted to demonstrate the gummy tongues.

 For some reason when the boys have hot chocolate, they always need two silly straws to drink it.  It's a thing now.

 Halloween peeps are the best in hot chocolate.

 McKay and his best friend Ezra (who has now moved and we are SO sad.)

 McKay also really loved Ezra's sister who would be a little event planner for their play dates and they had some fun times!

 Palmer and a friend each made a flock of bats to decorate their rooms for Halloween.

 We live in the most gorgeous area, this is the most beautiful place right behind our house.  There are usually horses in this field and I just love it!

 McKay loves to write his name, especially in Josh's journal...

 Josh and I have random cravings for cake and buttercream frosting (regularly...).  He brought home this baby one night.  

 I went walking one morning with a friend and we passed this number in front of someone's house.  What a great Halloween decoration!

 Georgia leaves SLOWLY change, but when they do, it is amazing.  This picture so doesn't do it justice.

 This is one of my favorite streets, the canopy of trees is so pretty!

 This was at our ward Trunk or Treat.  It was amazing and I missed out on taking pictures.  It was at a Christmas Tree farm with a chili cook off, hay rides, costume contest and a fun photo booth  It was so much fun!

 Instead of decorating for Halloween for our trunk, we decided to make it a birthday party to go along with our costume birthday theme.

 Superman and Falcon (yet another picture of the best friend who is now gone and we are MOURNING his loss...)

These is how you know the night was fun.  Even Superman was totally wiped out.

 Out of all of our traditions in Utah, we didn't do very many this year.  We have got to figure out the holiday thing here, but we did do sugar cookies and spudnuts.  I guess that's all that matters.

 I'm pretty sure the that the boys frosted the cookies, put one candy, frosted again, and put on more candy.  It worked.

 All sorts of creations were happening.  One day we will work on things being aesthetically pleasing, but for now, it's all about as much frosting and candy they can fit on.

 This was the cookie Josh made with the left over cookie dough (did I mention that anything baked at our house is usually done by Josh.  What can I say, he's better than me!)  We loved that it looked like Frankenstein.

 This is my classic version.  I make him every year.  Finally a tradition that I actually did!

 We have been thrilled to have a little taste of Utah here as a new Costa Vida opened.  We've been there quite a few times since and it's always a pleasure.

 I am the Personal Progress leader in my ward and this was a little bit our Young Women in Excellence night.  I spent a lot of hours and oxygen on that balloon arch back there.

 Holiday activity!  WAhoo!

On Halloween Josh had to dress up for work, he didn't want to go as only half of the birthday costume, so he went with his standby cowboy costume.  I thought it was pretty cute :)

Clayton, Georgia

We went with some friends to Clayton, Georgia for a few days.  It was such a beautiful weekend and the leaves had just started changing colors.  The seasons here are a little big behind what we are used to, but when the leaves finally changed they were so gorgeous!  This was such a cute cabin we stayed in.

The rocking chair thing is a big thing in the south.  Many porches sport them and we were glad to relax in these two.  The whole cabin was decorated so adorably.  

 Our friends have the cutest little girl and she and McKay attacked Palmer.  I'm pretty sure he thought it was great.  

 In the morning we had pumpkin pancakes.  This little porch on the back of the cabin was so perfect for breathing in the crisp fall air while eating breakfast.  

One of the things we were super excited about was to head into South Carolina and pick apples.  I have always thought apple picking the perfect fall activity, but in Utah with insurance laws most of the apple orchards won't let you pick your own.  Our only experience of picking our own was at a tiny orchard with tiny apples.  I was so excited to finally get to finally do REAL apple picking....and we missed the season by a couple of weeks.  Apparently it was an early season and by the time we got there all of the apples had been picked.  Lame.  

 The boys however did get to shoot apples out of this awesome slingshot which made the whole drive worth it for them.  We checked with a lot of other orchards and found the same thing, no apples.  

 We went to a farm that had a little market full of fun jams, ciders and of course apples.  

There was every kind of jam you could think of.  This was my favorite one.  

 We each bought an apple pastry and were in heaven.

 Fresh picked apples are my favorite.  These were so delicious!

 The boys loved all of the wooden toys they could play on.  Isn't this train amazing?

 There was also a cute little farm that we could check out the animals.  

 Apparently many a pumpkin had been dropped off this tower.  I had a hard time getting the boys (and Josh) to come down!

 I'm not sure what the boys favorite thing was, the apple adventure or shooting beebee guns.  Actually i'm pretty sure it was the guns...I had a chance to shoot one too, I wasn't very good.

 The boys were much better shots. 

 We headed to Tallulah Gorge for a hike and it was breathtaking!

 My only picture of the millions of stairs that we climbed up and down.  It was a good workout.

 This suspension bridge was incredible, and a little freaky.

This trip was so much fun!  We have loved exploring Georgia!

Palmer's Arrow of Light

 Palmer worked so hard on his scouting to earn his Arrow of Light.  The night he got it was such a special one.  The pumpkin above is a tradition in our ward.  It was pretty fun to see it on fire. 

 We have the greatest scout leaders.  The Arrow of light was supposed to be like the first Thanksgiving dinner.  It was so cute!

 I got to paint Palmer as an Indian brave. 

 Not really sure what is happening here, but it was too good of a picture not to post.  

 All four of these cute boys got their Arrow of Lights together.  

 They had to shuck corn as part of the ceremony.

 They made "pie" which magically came out of a play oven as perfect pies.  

 They then had to hunt a turkey.  This one was pretty fast.

 Crossing over to Boy Scouts.

 I love that all of the Boy Scouts welcome the new scouts in.  

 Palmer with his new Boy Scout leader.  He thinks he's pretty great.  

So proud of this determined, smart, hard working boy.