The Big Boy Train
Marshal and I took our friends Julianna and Jared Coulam to Provo to see the big boy train.
We thought it would be easy to find but we weren't able to do so until we got some directions from the guy at the train yard. We almost looked at the trains in the train yard and said it was good enough. I'm glad we didn't though because it was a fun adventure to go see the old stream engine!
Soccer
Marshal has really enjoyed playing soccer this fall. He asks if he has soccer regularly and gets excited whenever we drive past the fields he plays on or practiced on. I think he will always enjoy athletics!
Cort still loves playing soccer and I think he really enjoys being the goalie! His team's chemistry is awesome. They enjoy one another and encourage one another to be their best. One of the things I enjoy is the parents do a tunnel at the end of every game.
The kids love to run through as we cheer for them!
Conference Fun
For general conference we made sugar cookies and put together puzzles. They announced a new young women's theme and I really love the changes they have made. Last month I was called to young women's as the 1st councilor and I am very excited to help bring the new program to these girls!
Rio Tinto Overlook
In between the sessions of conference we needed to get out of the house so we went for a drive to look at leaves. I decided it might be fun to head west instead of east and see what leaves were like in those canyons. While we were up there we went to the Rio Tinto overlook and enjoyed the amazing sight of seeing the mine.
In between the sessions of conference we needed to get out of the house so we went for a drive to look at leaves. I decided it might be fun to head west instead of east and see what leaves were like in those canyons. While we were up there we went to the Rio Tinto overlook and enjoyed the amazing sight of seeing the mine.
It's hard to see that teeny tiny loader in the red circle of the top left picture but those giant dump trucks made a regular sized loader look like a child's toy!
My boys hamming it up!
We had such beautiful scenic views from up there.
Drive Up Butterfield Canyon
I didn't miss the large pines of Big Cottonwood Canyon but
I did enjoy the coziness of the smaller canyon roads!
The leaves were some I grabbed as we drove by since Cort wanted to start a collection!
Marshal's Speech Preschool
Marshal started speech preschool this month. I was really happy to see these pictures his teacher posted of him enjoying his experiences. He really loves to learn!
Elk Ridge Chalk Art
Elk Ridge had a chalk art festival and we stopped by to take a look.
Family's Coming to Town!
We were so excited about Erik coming to visit that we spent a lot of time tracking his plane so we could watch it come in. It was a lot of fun watching it fly by. We would have gone to the airport but it was just late enough when they landed that we needed to get kids to sleep for school the next day.
Braxton's Fall Concert
The night we planned to go to the cabin we had Braxton's choir concert.
We enjoyed watching him sing and then ran home to load up and
take off to the cabin with the Kunz family!
SilverCrest Lodge in TollGate Canyon
Family!
I can't say enough about the joy we found up at SilverCrest Lodge. Having these two girls together was priceless joy! They are both such delightful little girls!
Before going to the lodge we did a dog pile on grandpa at his house.
You might notice there are a lot of pictures of these two little girls.
Everyone enjoyed watching them!
Kylie and Ashlyn were about as close in age as these two so they had to take a pic with them!
In honor of the last picture I took under Erik and Levi's elbows we decided we needed another with Erik and Aaron. Maybe when Levi gets back I'll have to take one with all three of them.
See that face on the bottom left? That is not a sunburn. That is what my face did after I ate spicy green chilies in Erik and Liesel's enchiladas we had for dinner.
I told you everyone enjoyed those babies!
We found all kinds of quirky things that Marshal did. Like pulling the trucks out of the snow in the sandbox so they didn't get wet and placing the pool balls in the Foosball table to stacking up the pool balls in one pocket until they couldn't fit anymore. On our way home from the cabin we caught up to Cheryl and Erik so we had to take some pictures of them and they took a picture of their own of us!
Deer
One of the highlights of this trip was all the opportunities to go see animals.
We enjoyed seeing the deer...
Wild Turkey
...and the wild turkeys.
Elk
We even enjoyed seeing a couple of elk herds.
Moose
What we REALLY enjoyed seeing was the beautiful moose!
I think we could have sat and watched these guys all day long!
They were amazing!
I even stole some pictures from Liesel.
Scenery
I loved taking pictures of the scenery up there. There was SO much beauty!
Even the snow was beautiful!
Pumpkins and Parks
We had a good time with the boys at Petersen Farms.
Marshal on a tractor.
The skies that night were amazing!
We also enjoyed going to the new park by the Veridian.
Cub Scout Pack Meeting
& Awards
Cort was able to receive his Wolf award in Cub Scouts this month. He was very happy to receive it. He was also selected by his peers as a great problem solver which we missed seeing him awarded at school because we were at the cabin that day. I am so proud of this kid and all he accomplishes with the gifts God has given him.
Halloween
Marshal decided to again be Marshall from Paw Patrol this year.
He enjoyed attending both of his preschool parties!
Cort was a praying mantis and Braxton chose to use his wolf costume again
when he was invited to a friends house at the last minute.
Kent was kind enough to play along when I decided to be a purple person and
make him into the one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater.
We found some funny filters on my messenger app and decided to have some fun.
Life
The funny things Mashal says!
Marshal sure cracks us up! Top Left: He really enjoyed the leaves this fall! Top Middle: I actually have no idea what he was doing...watching bugs??? Top Right: Marshal was so excited about going to the cabin that he even tried to write "time to go to the cabin" on the board. Bottom Left: I asked Marshal if I could have a fruit snack and as he was bringing me one he asked "Mom are they gluten free?" The last three photos are just fun shots of Marshal being Marshal.
I had a little fun with selfies. Also when the Utes played California Marshal saw the red and the blue on the screen and told us the Utes were playing the cougars. lol The glow sticks were us setting up glow-in-the-dark nine square for young women's. The top right picture is a comparison of the Levi picture and the Aaron picture.
Top Left and Bottom Right: Some puzzles we did for conference. Middle: Cort enjoyed turning his bearded dragon into a lion with the scrunchie Julia Jones made. Bottom Left: Cort had a painting done at the ward party that made me laugh because I swear it looked like a marijuana leaf. It was supposed to be a dragonfly. Bottom Middle on the left: The light from outside was hitting Kent and my wedding picture just right and I had to take a picture of it.
Beautiful October
It's been such a beautiful month!
