New Family Pictures

We decided to have family pictures taken since we hadn't had one since Mason was like 14 months old. A lady in our ward is an awesome photographer and she took us to the house that was lover 100 years old. It was a lot of fun. The house was very nice and the yard was great for pictures. Mason was a total ham and really wanted to dominate the camera. Morgie doesn't like getting her picture taken and she would not smile at all. The kids did pretty good while we were trying to get good shots and were rewarded with suckers and fruit snacks. Here are a few of our favorite pictures.

This picture describes the kids perfectly. Morgie is really somber and Mason is alway happy and in her face.

Daddy and Mason with a silly squinty face.

Daddy and Morgie with her anoyed face.

This is the family picture we chose for our Christmas card and also for the big picture displayed in our home. Once again it displays the kids personalities perfectly.

Mason, mommy and Morgie

This is the only picture of Morgie that we got where she was smiling - even a half smile around a sucker. I love how blue her eyes are in the picture.

Haloween

This Halloween Grandma Lomax and Shalese came to visit. Actually Shalese is moving here to Utah for her job. So Grandma Lomax got to go trick-or-treating with me and the kids. The kids were really excited to go trick-or-treating but we had to wait a little while because it started raining and it was pretty cold. We waited a little while and the rain died down a little so we headed out around our street. Despite the rain we still had several trick-or-treaters and we went throught 2 big Costco size bags of candy.

We always have to go to Pete and Kristy's house trick-or-treating first. They are some of Mason and Morgie's favorite people.
Mason saw some other kids riding in their wagon so we had to get ours and we had to ride from house to house in the wagon but the kids seemed to enjoy it and it kept Mason from running ahead of us and getting lost.

Morgie was the cutest butterfly ever and the costume kept her warm on the cold rainy night. She was also super excited to get a bunch of candy and we could hardly keep her out of it.

Mason loved being a sting bee and he would turn around and show everyone his stinger on him bum.

The kids had lots of fun despite the rain and got way too much candy. Morgie really got into trick-or-treating this year. Her and Mase had lots of fun and also enjoyed answering the door and handing out candy to other trick-or-treaters.

Carving Pumpkins

Daddy got home early to help Mason and Morgan carve their pumpkins. Both kids were very excited and Mason wanted to be right on top of the pumpkins while they were being carved.

Daddy almost cut of his fingertip while carving one of the pumpkins. He was a tropper and wrapped it up and went about finishing the job.

While Shane had the first aid kit out to bandage his finer Mason decided he needed to apply a bandage to his forehead.

Deer Hunt

Once again Justin came down this year to go on the deer hunt with Shane. Nothing to exciting happeded this year - last year they were hero's and rescued two people who had driven off the side of the mountain. Anyway... Shane always looks forward to this week to hang out with his brother and to hunt Bambi's daddy. Shane got one and it is the biggest one he has ever shot so he was pretty happy.

Just one more deer head to hang in the crawl space!

Pumpkin Patch Take Two

We went to the pumpkin patch again this time with daddy. The kids had lots of fun riding in the cart and running through the pumpkin fields. Mason really wanted a big pumpkin and a white ghost pumpkin. He was also very sweet and made sure his sister has a little pumpkin. We always love taking a family outing to the pumpkin patch and we can't wait for Haloween!

Doesn't daddy look thrilled to be going after Mason in the hay maze!

Haloween Party

We had our annual Haloween party and grandma Crook's house. It was fairly nice weather so we were able to have the party in grandma's backyard. Jade, Stacy and their kids and Bill and Phylis were able to be there.
Grandma Crook had a bunch of different colored bags the kids could decorate with Haloween stickers to put their candy in.

My two little bugs. Mason was a sting bee and Morgie was a butterfly.

We had a pumpkin pinata and the kids were really excited to gt the candy out of it. We started with the youngest kid and went up from there. Morgie go to go first and I got to help her.

Mason got his turn and hit the pinata a few times. The pinata was a lot harder to break open that anticipated so after all the kids got a change to hit it Ryan finally got all the candy to fall out. The kids all got tons of candy and were happy.

Mason the sting bee, Cameron was mickey mouse, Ellie was a witch and Morgie was a butterfly.

Pumpkin Patch

We meet up with grandma Crook, grandma Hilton, Mandy, Ellie, Cameron, Jade, Stacy, Cybil, Cameran and Savanna and went to the pumpkin patch at Pack Farms this afternoon. They loved running around the pumpkin fields and Mason loved running through the maze trying to find Ellie and Savanna. Morgie like to ride with the pumpkins in the cart. This is really the first Halloween that she kind of knows what is going on. Last year she was only a few months old and was not interested. It was fun watching the kids run around and helping Jade pick out the uglies pumpkin we could find.