Happy Halloween

What a fun few days! Our ward had a Trunk-OR-Treat party last night. The boys had a blast. Isaiah buddied up with one of the missionaries and stuck to him like glue. He pushed his chair so close to him that he didn't give him any breathing room. If the missionary would stand up so would he and then he would stand right up next to him. Braxton was the first to line up into the haunted house that the young men and women made in our Relief Society room, and Isaiah was the first to go again. Isaiah kept telling all of the scary people to not scare him, it was a crack up. Isaiah is getting to be so fun to watch around the holidays. He was eating up trick or treating and also went to a few cars twice. He can't wait to go to the few houses on our street tonight. We carved pumpkins this morning and the boys were able to design their own pumpkin. They are so proud of the creations. We are going to have a creepy dinner made by mom and pretty much stay home and watch a scary movie. Scooby Doo here we come. Happy Birthday Grandpa!

Camporee

We took the boys this past weekend to Braxton's Boy Scout Camporee. There were a total of 1200 boy scouts. The boys were so excited to be able to go camping. They were able to go fishing and caught a bunch of leaves and weeds. They made tin art and learned about the solar system, bees, rocks and volcanos, fire safety, they were able to plant flowers and bring them home, and Braxton learned about Native American culture and dance. By the end of the day everyone was wiped out.

Hey Mom!!! Can I Keep it?

Last night when I was making dinner I let the boys go into the backyard to play with their friends. They were having so much fun! They were looking for bugs and other things to play with. They also notice that our backyard neighbor had a tepee type fire pit thing going on and they attempted to find all of the fallen tree limbs that they could to make their own (notice the girl in the background rolling a chopped tree trunk to put underneath the fire to get it started. They even went so far as to get the driest pine needles to put all over the tepee to get the fire started a little better. They attempted this three times at three different locations which I was laughing at until I later found out that Isaiah was trying to help too and each time he would place his log down it would be just a little too hard and the whole thing would fall down. The kids also scuffed around the dirt with their shoes so that the dust would fly so that I would think that it was smoke. Braxton at one point came in and asked me if he needed to let his nice friend go. I promptly told him that he wasn't going to be coming in the house. We have quite a few different types of lizards here. We find them climbing up the bricks of our house and running around in the yard. This is just the first one that we have caught. The boys are having a blast here and needless to say so are we!