First Haircut!

Tytyn finally got his first haircut after almost 18 months. Tyrel was a little attached to his long mulletish hair. It was cute cause it was his baby hair and still made him look like a baby, but it was time for it to go. I knew he'd look much better with a clean cut haircut. Here are some before and after pics of my handsome little man.

Carving Pumpkins

We carved our pumpkin for FHE on Monday night

Bookworm

I LOVE to read. All the women in my family love to read! When we get into a good book you don't see us around much for a few days. Tyrel hates when I get into a book. I keep telling him that if he just got into reading too then we could read TOGETHER, but he's not having that. I hope to pass this on to my children that books are GOOD, not bad. One of my favorite things is to curl up with a blanket and a good book! Fortunately so far things are going well with my first child.

Fall

My sister made me this cute Halloween banner, isn't it adorable! She sent it to me in the mail and we hung it up ASAP!

He really enjoyed taking pear after pear out of the box and digging right it

 I love this time of year. I know everyone says that, but I really do! I get into this mode where I just wanna can and bake and get all organized for the upcoming winter. I canned salsa and peach filling with my mom when she was here, but since then I've canned about 50 pounds of pears. I think I got 20 quarts and 15 pints in all. I also did some apple filling and am thinking about doing some apple butter with my leftover apples. Has anyone every done that? I've heard its really yummy, but have never tried it. I thought it'd be a good idea for cute little Christmas gifts or just to eat!

Here's half of my pears. I love how pretty they look afterwards!

It's been awhile!

I've slacked off the past month or so in updating my blog. Sometimes I feel like I don't have exciting stuff to post about. One thing I never did post about was my super fast and fun trip down to Utah about a month ago. My Aunt Teens had tickets to Mary Poppins and invited me to go along with her, my cousin Ashley, and another friend. It was so nice and thoughtful of her to think of me and I had such a fun time with them! It was nice to get away and have some girl time, even if I did miss my boys. I drove up on a Friday afternoon and arrived at Teens' house. We finished up getting "beautified" and then headed to dinner at Chilis. After dinner we headed to the play, it was SO great! I had Mary Poppins songs in my head for a week afterwards! We got home really late that night, but stayed up even later playing some rook, visiting, and laughing. The next morning Teens took us to Kneaders for breakfast. She said I had to try the french toast. HOLY COW! It was amazing! We then headed to the mall for a quick shopping trip and then stopped by my Grandpa and Grandma Kendall's house for a little visit. After almost getting killed on the way back to Teens' house (another story for another time) I showered and packed up my stuff quick and went to Grandma Larsen's for a visit. I really don't know if I've ever visited with Grandma Larsen one on one like that, and if I have it hasn't been for a long time. It was the BEST visit ever. I am SO blessed to have such great grandparents. We talked nonstop for about 2 hours. I didn't mean to stay that long and ended up leaving right at rush hour, but I didn't even care. I will cherish the visit I had with Grandma my whole life. She is such a wonderful example to me! I wished I lived closer and could go visit her all the time! It was nice to get home to my boys, that was the first time being away from Tytyn for a long period of time. Thanks again Aunt Teens and Ashley for such a fun weekend!!!