Last weekend we got to get out of town for a weekend away! Twice a year we head for Kearney, NE for stake conference and make a weekend out of it. We live 2 hours away from our stake building and Christian always has meeting on Saturday so we make it a mini vacation instead of spending 4 hours driving . This year we shopped...YAY, went out to eat...yum, swam, and went to church. The boys had TONS of fun swimming in the kiddie pool! Here are some pictures of the boys enjoying the pool!
We got another big snow storm Thursday night (I have a feeling it's going to be a long winter!), so Friday morning Christian and Carson went out and did a little sledding on the hill across from our house. Carson had such a fun time that next time it snows, we are headed to the big sledding hill at one of the parks in town for sure!
I'm a little behind on my blogging! For once, I have more to blog about than I can handle! We carved pumpkins last Thursday evening. Carson was WAY anti pumpkins. We was all about doing it, but didn't want anything to do with the scooping out part! I was really surprised. Travis, on the other hand, had a grand ol' time digging into the pumpkin. He thought the "guts" were weird, but he wasn't afraid to get into it. Carson drew his face on and Christian did his carving. I ended up carving Travy's pumpkin and my own. Here are some pictures from our night. The first 3 are from today. I couldn't get pictures of the boys with their pumpkins the night we did them because it was raining. Enjoy!!
I love fall! I love the smells, the colors, and the fun things that we get to do. One thing we did this year that we haven't done before is make caramel apples for the families that Christian home teaches. It was an interesting process, but fun. The caramel ended up falling off the caramel that night, but they still tasted good!
Yesturday, we woke up to a few inches of snow on the ground which made Carson super excited to go out and play! We had 2.5 inches of rain earlier the day before, so it was SUPER wet snow, making if perfect for building a snowman! We were even luckier because Christian got to stay home and play with us! We had fun building our snowman...that the dog later tackled, and throwing snowballs at eachother! Travis thought it was the coolest thing to eat the snow! He would stand in front of the snowman and eat the snow off of it. It must have tasted good because he kept saying "nummy"!
Assembling the snowman...
Yummy!!
The only request my parents had while visiting us was to go to the pumpkin patch. Neither of them had been to one before, so it was fun to take them there. It's always fun to pick out your own pumpkin. We each picked out our own pumpkin and are looking forward to "fixing" our pumpkins, as Carson says!
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