October and Halloween

My little sweety fell asleep one evening while I was making dinner. He was happily jumping away and then it got really quiet all the sudden.

Getting some walls up:)

My big helper! He was helping me can applesauce. His job was to squish down the apples, he thought the apple sauce maker was really cool! This is our first year that we've had it and have used it.

Tuckered out after a fun day in the park. We met up with 3 of my old roommates in Pocatello and spent the afternoon letting the kids play and catching up. It was so fun to see them all! Plus we found THE coolest park in Pocatello that I didn't even know was there, it made me sad knowing that I'd lived there for a year and a half and didn't know about it, Tytyn would have loved going there! Itleast we know about it now.

Branding day! This is always a very fun and exciting day for us! I called my brother Jacob to see if he wanted to come and help. He was a great help and tagged for us. Tyrel and I switched jobs this year. He vaccinated and I did all the branding.

Tytyn doesn't have any problem self entertaining. We were blessed with a gorgeous day to work on our calves.

Our house started to really take shape.

I looked out the window to see Tytyn burying the dogs in leaves. I had to snap a picture, it was just too cute.

Tytyn's eyes when I use the flash ha ha. He designed the face on the pumpkin and Daddy carved it.

Little buddies.

Both of my boys starting sitting up on their own basically the day they turned 5 months old. Here is Halter balancing himself  well enough for me to get some pictures.

Tytyn's facial expression cracks me up in this one!

Handsome cowboy.

Cutest pumpkin ever!

I LOVE this picture of my cute boys! The face drawings are compliments of their Nani (Tyrel's Mom.)

More of September and Mom's Visit

Halter's first time in the jumper. He loves his brother SO much!

The poor cooktop after a 14 hour day of canning.

Kindra, Karissa and I decided to do our canning together one day. We did pears, peaches and nectarines all in one day. Karissa and I did the salsa a few days before that. It was a LONG day!

Tytyn's cucumber boat he made at scouts with the Webelos that I'm over.

Someone found their toes.

First bath together. Tytyn was so excited!

Tytyn was SO excited to feed Halter cereal for the first time.

As you can tell he is thrilled. Poor little buddy wasn't feeling good after all his shots, but Tytyn had been so excited to try and feed him cereal we though we'd give it a shot anyway.

My Mom came to visit us in September and got some cute pictures of my boys and I.  We went to the temple and did the scavenger hunt that they hand out to the kids at the visitor's center. Tytyn has done it many times and has it mastered, but still thinks it's really fun to do. 

My sweet, happy angel.

Could my boys seriously be any cuter!!!

Here we are standing in what will be our garage. This is how far along our house was when my Mom came to visit. 

Grandma and her buddy Tytyn.

One of Tytyn's other favorite things to do at the Visitor's center is to listen to Jesus. 

My siblings and I all had a picture of the temple in our rooms growing up that said this on it. It's the best goal to aspire too. It makes me so happy that one of Tytyn's favorite things to do is go walk around the temple grounds. The spirit is so strong there and I know that he feels that.

First day of school and the Eastern Idaho State Fair (September)

Tytyn's first day of school. Tyrel's Aunt Connie is the pre-school teacher at the elementary school where Tytyn will go to school this year. She does a pre-school for kids with speech problems, autism, down syndrome, etc. Every fall and winter they accept 2 peer models that join the pre-school with the other children. Throughout the school year their hope is that the peer models will be positive role models to the other children on all sorts of different levels; attention spans, listening skills, speech and socially acceptable behavior in general. Tytyn LOVED school and learned SO much. I had to drive him to school Monday-Thursday and would just wait for him since it was only a little over 2 hours long. Halter and I walked for a good portion of the time until it got too cold to do so. We would run errands or sit in the car and read and play. They actually invited Tytyn to come back in the winter too because all the teachers and kids loved him so much. I almost immediately agreed, but figured I should think about it a little bit first. After a lot of thought and prayer I decided to not send him back for a lot of different reasons. He loved it and was learning so much, but the biggest reason was I realized that this was my last time to have him home with me ever! And it will be the only time I'll have my 2 boys at home together with me. Once he starts kindergarten he will always be in school and I know I will miss having my babies home with me once they are gone. This thought always came to me every time I prayed about it so I just needed to follow what the Spirit was telling me to do, which was to keep him home. It was actually a really hard decision. I know I could have sent him back to school and had many positive results that way too, but it's been really nice having him home with us again. It helped ease me into the waters too of having a child in school. I've been really nervous about sending him to kindergarten. They started doing full day kindergarten here so I won't even have a year of half days to get me used to it. So we will enjoy the time we have together now, it goes so fast!

"I'm snuggling with my brother Mom, take a picture!"

My cute little fuzz head.

We went to the fair 2 days this year. We haven't been to the fair since we've had Tytyn, so it's been a few years! He had so much fun!

Here's Tytyn feeding the goats, I think he did this itleast 3 times.

Milking a cow.

Playing in a box of corn kernels. 

The drumline asked for volunteers in the crowd to come and play with them. Tytyn raised his hand of course and got to go play on the drums, he thought that was pretty awesome!

Halter was at the fair too, he just spent most of his time in the shade of the stroller.

This is called a "Bull's Eye burger. It a burger on donuts if you can't tell. It didn't tempt me at all, but Tyrel wanted to try it. He said it was ok. It looks like a stomach ache waiting to happen!

We went to the horse races both of the days we went to the fair. Our favorite races are the Indian relay races. If you haven't heard of them you should youtube it, but they are so much more fun to watch in person. Each tribe has a team of one rider and 3 horses. There are 3 laps and the rider rides bareback. He starts out on one horse and when that lap is finished he just jumps off and hops onto the next one that a team member has ready for him. They are just so crazy to watch because there are always crazy wrecks and very talented riders. If you ever want to come and watch them the Eastern Idaho State Fair always starts the first weekend in September and lasts the whole week.