17 fun things in October!

This month we were so busy! it was a lot of playdates and parties so by the end of the night i usually crashed instead of trying to blog! anyways here is a bit of what the last month was like:

1. During FHE last night I tried to get one simple point across, that We are Children Of God. Locke tried summing it up at the end like this:
Locke: "Mommy is a child of God, Daddy and Locker is children of God, and Jones is God."
Close enough buddy. close enough.

2. Locke, stone-faced, from the backseat of the car: "Mom, watch out the Zombies don't swipe our car." Pretty sure this comment was influenced by Dora and the iphone game Plants vs Zombies.

Breakfast.

We had a hoot raking leaves for an older lady
in our ward. yay for service! 

3. Mom: Locke you can't pee on the sidewalk anymore, the water hose is turned off for the winter.
    Locke: But we have lots of milk!

true.....

Getting his first Rookies lesson (free once a
month government preschool.) He was awesome
on letters, numbers, and colors. But lacked in
anykind of motor skills! haha! 

4. Peony and Plum is still steady, I recently did the Holly Fair with Mandy Parsons. She sells maxi skirts and leggings for kids and adults. It was kindof perfect because everyone would get a pair of leggings with a matching headband! It worked great and i went home with only 8 headbands left!!

here is Locke helping me paint the backdrop the night before...

Here are some cute sneak peeks from the last month that we've shared on our facebook page:

6. Halloween!! Locke was a firefighter, "so I can save ppl mom". So cute. and Jones....well i kinda forgot about his costume till the week before, but i Tai pulled through for me with an old costume she had! It was a super cute monster and fit him great! We started off the night by spending a couple of hours at the school carnival, then headed to Vicki's! She is so much fun and dresses up every year!

Seriously the only pic I got of him...

7. The boys want to hang out with Lane 24/7 even if that just means playing around on old tires...

8. The boys and I had tons of fun carving pumkins with the Mechams this year, Jones met a real pig for the first time and they spent the whole time playing in Anna Mechams super fun yard! 

9. This was the month for parties?? seriously. I even went to Tai's Mary Kay party where we tried on some super swag red lipstick.

10. Nicole and her husbands family invited us to spend the day with them at the Corn Maze up in Bluebell, and oh my heck. We had a blast. We picked out some pumpkins....

played in a "corn pit"....

Rode in a homemade 4 wheeler "train"....

went down this homemade pipe slide a million times....

and actually went through a huge corn maze! haha Jones was so scared of it though, he screamed the whole time! and they had the best homemade kettle corn, yum....There were also goats you could feed and pet, and a kids cornmaze with a huge homemade irrigation pipe slide at the end. Haha it was so farm ghetto i loved it! and the kids had an absalute blast. 

11. Nicole basically did our activity this last month, which was 72 hour kits. Holy wow it was a lot of work! but we had TONS of ppl sign up for it, so it was worth it. And we won't be able to use a canner from the church anymore because apparently they are closing down the church self-canneries? sad day. 

Halloween goodies for the night:

12. Baby Stetson got blessed, i love 2 month old babies! they look like little old men. 

Kids with their grub:

13. Fall arrived. And our kitty is full-grown and still nameless. I asked Locke if he had thought of a name, and he said to call her "Three". hmmm...not sure if it will catch on...But now we have somehow adopted a three-legged dog that wandered up to our house one day and he is nameless too....haha we are so boring...

I want a plaid blanket to go on my bed. and Lockes. and Jones. Fall = plaid = coziness....don't you think? 

Kennedy i'm serious. Lets do this. 

13. Opened my printer to scan a paper and found this: 

Boys boys boys. 

14. These guys have finally been learning how to get along without fighting ALL the time, and they really are besties! 

15. Jones ruined a ton of my MAC eyeshadow....sigh....

haha he was fascinated by it! 

16. The kitty may be nameless, but he has no shortage of love from Locke. It can take quite a beating! Locke loves manhandling it! 

17. We were also invited to a super fun halloween party Tai and her mom did for their family. It was super fun! we didn't know the other kids but as soon as they all started running around Locke became their best friend. 

Tai is super creative so of course the whole thing was pinterest-worthy! 

Dinner in a pumpkin! 

The boys tried so hard to help me calm Tai's baby Sawyer! 

It was so crazy a lot of my pictures didn't turn out, but Tai's girls are just so darling it doesn't matter. Haha and Claire below cracks me up! She is the queen of "wild eyes!"