The Cold Days I wrote of...

Crue had to get almost bundled in warm clothes the other week because of the cooler temperatures. He was so adorable! I sat him down to play in the grass and a photo op was born! The other boys decided they wanted in on this mini photo shoot! One of Kellan's new things is to put his arm around people when he takes pictures with them. No one taught him, he just did it one day and has continued since. Crue is a pretty good little poser now that he sits up so well! Last week we got lots of rain and HAIL! Caleb got a weather lesson that included what hail is and why it happens. You can barely see it but Caleb called those white things covering the yard, "ice balls that hurt your arm". I thought the boys should have new jammies to kick off the colder season... they LOVE them. Probably just because they glow in the dark! We have fun every night "charging up" and then dancing around in the dark. We've warmed up a bit this week but the weather is still great! Can't complain about low 70's!

Pumpkin Art

Our pumpkin art festivities this year began with decorating the small pumpkins. They became fun caricatures. The first one is Kellan's with the crazy hair. Very fitting. The next one was designed by me and it's in resemblance of Chris... aka, DJ Big Drop, even though his "headphones" look more like ear muffs. The last one is Caleb's cool bug guy saying, "Heyyyy."

The next pumpkin activity was our jack-o-lantern making! The boys loved scooping out pumpkin guts. It was fun getting messy... necessitating the lack of clothing. Digging for guts! Daddy went for a nostalgic, surfing theme. It went along well with our "ocean" Halloween theme this year. He also tried something really new... Caleb got in on it... Ultimately this was our goal... We were going to take a really cute picture of Crue wearing just a pumpkin in the outdoor scenery but we got a week of really cold weather to foil our plans! So this was the best we could get - still really cute though!

Halloween Celebrations

The Young family went with an ocean theme for Halloween this year. We dressed up for the ward party and only the kids dressed up to trick or treat. As you can see we had two sharks, two scuba divers and a mermaid. It was hard to walk in my mermaid tail so I was a "mermaid on land" for most of the night. I love this picture of Daddy and Caleb! Caleb's "tank" is a two liter soda bottle strapped into a little water backpack with "sea creatures" hanging out on it. I put my mermaid tail on to pass out candy! These boys are pretty cute! Caleb decided to be Thor for trick or treating on Halloween night. Danica Faiva came with her dad, Rich to trick or treat (mom, Kristin and brother, Kaimen were in Utah). She was the prettiest witch! Kellan started off great trick or treating and opened his bag for every door... for the first 5 doors before getting sick and tired of it. After that, he yelled "No" at every person passing out candy and had no expression. We tried heading home but he didn't want to do that either so we ended up pushing him in the stroller and he was a happy boy! Thor was a trick or treating maniac! Crue went trick or treating for a little bit. He's the happiest shark I know! Cute sharks! Caleb LOVED Crue's shark costume! All in all it was a successful, candy filled night!

More Park Pictures

Here are some more pictures Nana took at our birthday park evening! Crue enjoyed watching his daredevil brothers! MUSCLES! Caleb is such a good big brother and took Crue down the slide several times. Don't worry it was a very short slide and Mama stood by the whole time. Crue loves that he sits up now! And so do I... great photo ops! Showing off his tricks in the sunset. I love these three crazy boys!