All Things Halloween

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I love that once a year I can still play dress up! I also love all the pumpkin, apple cider and crunchy leaves. We have had a really weird fall so far. Snow one week and warm the next but we still managed to visit the pumpkin patch and corn maze.



 Pumpkin carving FHE with our friends.

 Jax loves to kiss baby Julian and to try and be a big boy with Emmett.

The finished products!

 Happy Halloween from the Avengers! Bax was not sure he liked being dressed up or that he liked Jax playing with his hammer.

I love Halloween but I do not do scary. My Halloween tradition since college is to watch the movie Clue and pass out candy. We figured Jax was too small to appreciate Trick or Treating so we stayed home and continued the tradition. This is one of my favorite parts from the movie.

The wind was blowing like crazy so we decided to have hot chocolate and cider for all of our Trick or Treating friends who needed a break from the cold. Jax was the center of attention with the big girls and the little kids decided they needed to watch Tangled.

Family Pictures

Family picture time! With the adoption finalized I wanted to take pictures to celebrate us becoming an official family. It is such a stressful thing deciding clothes and who will take them (I should have majored in photography). We got rained out a few times but we finally got a beautiful day. The high school cross country team was practicing in the park so we were taking pictures in between them running laps and Jax decided he was still tired after a two hour nap but I think they turned out great. I have such a great family and not to brag but my baby is pretty much the cutest baby in the world!

Cabin Fever

Luke was sick for about a week and a half and we didn't go anywhere but church. And while I loved having Luke home all day with us (he slept a lot) I was getting cabin fever. If you have never seen Muppet Treasure Island this is exactly how I felt:

So Luke offered to take me on a pine cone hunt since I've been wanting pine cones to make a fall craft. It was a crappy cold and windy/snowy day but we bundled up and went out. Jax's favorite place to be is on top of his daddy's shoulders. He loves his Daddy and loves to be tall! We drove around town and couldn't find any pine cones so we headed up Sinks Canyon. It was cold but pretty so we had to stop and take some pictures. A fun day with my boys! Baxter was loving running around exploring.