Early Winter

Goings on

Halloween day started out with a bang as poor Hamilton fell off his chair at Great Harvest and his chin landed on a toy train. Grammy and I raced over to the doctor's office with the boys and Hamilton was all smiles by the time we arrived. Unfortunately the smiles quickly disappeared as he was strapped down and stitched up. Quite the traumatic experience for mom and Ham!

Later that night we did a little trick or treating at our church parking lot.

Lachlan received a baby blessing at church last week and the familia came over for a little lunch afterwards.

We took a trip to Manito Park with Grammy to enjoy all the fall leaves before it gets to be too cold.

Hamilton is quite the animal lover and was ecstatic to find a kitty at Aunt Dana's Halloween party.

A few pictures from Cameron's work party which is always fun.

At Mac's preschool Halloween parade he decided he was tired and so laid down to take a rest half way through.

Lachlan made one cute train conductor albeit with an extremely large hat.

Fall festivities begin...

For the first time since we've had children it seems like the holiday's will be a never ending kid extravaganza without much effort on our part thanks to family events, preschool and church activities. The boys are excited to debut their Thomas the Tank Engine outfits (which much to my joy were $10 at a garage sale) tomorrow at Mac's preschool parade. I'm looking forward to seeing if I can control three crazy boys once their full of Halloween candy, we'll see.

pumpkin picking

The good news is that Mac is getting a lot better at writing his name. The bad news is that we discovered this by looking at the dashboard of our car.

Last Saturday we took a trip to Walter's Fruit Ranch to pick out some pumpkins and play in their enormous sandbox full of dried peas. As you can see from below Mac took the rule about no throwing peas very seriously.

When we first started looking for a pumpkin Mac was unimpressed an declared that, "This place is dirty and cold". Grammy would be so proud that her love of cleanliness has been passed down through the generations!

Poor Lachlan never seems to get a good photo these days, he's either sleeping, eating or in his car seat.

Here's an ode to Hamilton's crazy hair, I can't get enough of this mad scientist look.

And finally pics from our trip to the park. Hamilton discovered a love of hanging from the bars and proceeded to hang for about three minutes, impressing all around.