We grew Jack O Lantern pumpkins in our garden this year. The boys sure loved them. Cooper thought they were fun to pick up and then throw. We were amazed he could pick them up. Crue has LOVED watching the pumpkins (big and little) grow this year.
My grandpa Little celebrated his 90th birthday this year. We went up north to join the celebration. This is a picture of the cousins that were there (from the 5 kids between my grandpa and grandma - there was a bunch there from the kids with his first wife but for some reason they didn't join in). It's pretty much the kids from 3 of the families.
I laughed one day when Cooper sat in the box of blocks and just played with them (he usually climbs in there to get all the electronics for the tv you can see on the left).
Every October the sheep farmers bring their sheep off the mountain for their winter grazing. Some of them join in the sheep parade they do (there's a whole weekend of events that go on - tractor pulling, sheep camp trailers to look at, and a bunch of other things). They have stuff like tractors, semis with trailers - the ones used to haul livestock, sheep camp trailers, horses, cows, and just a bunch of stuff in the parade. The best part is the end when they have around 1000 sheep coming down the road. Main Street is actually the only livestock trail through a town that is still used. We were right at the end of the parade. One of the sheep decided to start running in front of the others. It stopped and looked back and soon others decided to start running. Pretty soon all the sheep took off, along with the farmers that were running down the road to chase them. Only one was on a four-wheeler. It was pretty fun and the boys loved watching the sheep.
This is still at the livestock festival but now inside a building. Crue was a little scared of the horses (this one is a miniature horse) but he sure liked watching them and trying to feed them. (Sorry about the bad expression on his face - it was the only picture I had of him.)
Cooper on the other hand, loved the horses and wasn't afraid to touch them. This one is actually a really big mule.
The saturday after Thanksgiving we went with Jeremy and Molly and Molly's family to get a Christmas tree. We've never taken the kids before (we've gone by ourselves) but with people there to watch them and cousins to play with, they had a blast. Except Cooper who cried a lot of the time. As we were getting into the truck I got this picture of Crue. I love his expression! He's so stinkin' cute.
When I was a little girl we used to lay under the Christmas tree and look up into it. It was really fun and it's a cool view (you should try it). I did that last night with Crue and he loved it. He had one of his cars that he was driving on the underside of the branches. He told me to take a picture of him under the tree so here he is.
Last year I got a tree on clearance at Big Lots for $1.90. It's just a 4 foot one but it has lights on it already. I thought it was perfect for the boys because it's not a big nice tree I spent a lot of money on if they break it, and I could let them decorate it themselves. Crue loved decorating it. Cooper had fun with it too until he decided it was more fun taking the ornaments off after Crue put them on. We'll have to try again next year. :) Now if you come over Crue tells you that the tree in our living room is mommy and daddy's tree (I guess he came up with that on his own) and his and "tooper's" tree is in the family room. He's pretty proud of it. :)
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Your kids are getting so big! Looks like Utah does have some fun things to do ;) but you should still move here!
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