Playing catch up...

Here are a few more pics of the last month...family visits, Fall Festival, and Halloween!!

Watching Trent's last soccer game of the season. It was great to finally see Loren after his year of teaching in China!

We picked out a couple of pumpkins to carve with Grandma, but the boys wouldn't get in and take out the seeds! They did enjoy eating them though.

Drew wanted his pumpkin to have lots of teeth!

Loren and Trent had a fierce game of driveway hockey goin' on.

We attended a Fall Festival...complete with 2 moonwalks, lots of carnival games, and need I say CANDY!! Drew had to have 2 glare protectors just like Trent...he wanted to put them on himself.

Nice aim! Lots of practice I guess!

Love the tongue sticking out...such concentration for a 4 year old!

Trick-or-Treating!!!! The boys each managed close to 200 pieces!!!!

Birthday Boy!

Well we celebrated Drew's 4th birthday last week. Hard to believe he's already 4. We took him to Tokens 'n tickets because I refused to go to Chuckie Cheese. To my delight we were the ONLY ones there until about 10 minutes before we left - just 2 high schoolers showed up. It was great fun, without the madness of a gazillion other children running around! Of course the boys enjoyed picking out some prizes with the 192 tickets they won. They chose bubble tape...yum...(no doubt I could have just bought 2 at Meijer for less than $2, instead of the $10 I spent on tokens! At least they had fun playing all the games, and I appreciated not fighting a big crowd.) Enjoy some childish wonder...

Labor Day Weekend

Friday we all headed up to Michigan to spend time with Mike's family. The boys, as always, had so much fun playing with cousins at grandma's house. Mike also got to take Trent to Ann Arbor for the U of M vs. Utah football game. Mike said Trent really got into the game and was hugging him after they made a big play. I wish I had some pictures to show you. Trent told me his favorite thing about the game was "seeing a touchdown and eating a strawberry italian ice." I'm sure Mike will look forward to more football time with Trent.

I stayed behind with Drew and relaxed, read, and watched him play. After lunch they played out in the fort in the woods and didn't come in again until 5:30 when it was time for dinner. I went to check on them a few times and snapped a few pics there.

The boys both enjoyed bouncing on the new trampoline. Trent kept begging me to jump, so I even got out there for a few games of "don't touch the ball." Boy my calves and quads got a good work out!!

The whole family gathered to celebrate the September b-days. Hard to believe Drew will be 4 this year!! Doesn't hardly seem possible. He loved his Star Wars Legos, but informed me he wants a "banilla cake with white frosting" next time! (wasn't a fan of the chocolate) Oh, well...more for me :)