California for Thanksgiving

We had such a nice trip to California to see Grandma and Grandpa Cook and family for Thanksgiving.  Adam and Kyle did well during both car rides witch was a blessing. another blessing is that the weather cooperated for all of our fun plans.

 

 1. Kyle had so much fun every day that he would fall asleep in funny places

 2. Adam swinging at "castle park" he had a blast chasing his uncle and aunts, playing tag, and being a crazy little monkey in general.

 3. Kyle enjoyed the attention a lot, he also enjoyed being able to participate or at least see what was going on from the view of his bumbo

 4. Mama and sleepy Kyle in the morning sun

 5. the sign says it all (the lowest sign silly)

 6. couldn't pass up splashing through a big puddle!

 7. mom, grandma, and Kyle at Sutter's mill where gold was discovered, starting the California gold rush

 8. Emma, Dad, and Jared checking out the mill

9. Aunt Milla dancing, we did a lot of this

10. we even helped decorate the Christmas tree after Thanksgiving

We missed Aunt Brianne and Uncle Dustin but we are looking forward to them coming to Utah for Christmas!

Juice :)

we love juice, and we love teaching our boys at a young age how to make said juice, this last week it was Kyles turn!

Snow!

the first real snow storm this week and we got over a foot!  Adam refused to wear gloves and Kyle was pretty content to watch from inside :) so much fun! daddy had to go into work even though it was a Saturday so we are so happy that he spent time with us in the morning playing in the snow!

 so deep!

 daddy's snow angel

Halloween!

Because of Adam's aversion to the train we needed a back up. Our friend were good enough to lone us a couple costumes and Adam felt most comfortable wit the frog, he made a pretty cute frog too!

 We don't typically let him eat a lot of candy, but as you can see, because people were just handing him candy he made good use of the opportunity

 yes the wrapper is still on that tootsie roll, yes he bit into it and yes he continued to eat the whole thing with the wrapper still on, I think he may have been afraid that we would take away the candy.

 Kyle enjoyed gumming on the starburst too.

Adam helped scoop out the pumpkin

 he was pretty excited about it

 sometimes simple is all you need to make a  good impression

who knew frogs have fangs, that is such a creepy picture of him.  A picture of Nathaniel's and my costume to come.

Corn Bellys

Nathaniel had never been to a corn maze... until this week, and what an event it was.  We decided to go to Thanksgiving Point's Corn Belly's maze and we sure had a blast. Between the Maze, the Cow train, rubber ducky races, hay to climb and enormous slides, the whole family enjoyed our time there.

 We made it through the maze and Adam waked the whole time (he just didn't want to stand still for the picture)

 Adam found a lot of corn "swords"

 Adam went, mommy and Kyle followed. 

 "kum-pins!"

 our littlest pumpkin Kyle enjoyed the whole time strapped to mama in the moby wrap, he even slept for a good part of it.

enough said.