pumpkin carving

We've been ready for weeks to carve our pumpkins!

It was finally time and it didn't take much for both of the boys to dive right in.


Kaden knew EXACTLY how he wanted his, so he and Kyle got right to work.


Bosten thought it was all good until we started carving. He cried and kept trying to stick the pieces back in!


All in all, a successful family event.

the birthday party

We decided to have a party with my family on Sunday for both Kyle and Bosten. I made Mickey Mouse cupcakes (Bosten LOVES Mickey Mouse!).

Here's some of his cousins waiting for the fun to begin!


Bosten needed a little help with his first gift, but figured it out really quick!

He was pretty excited and even kissed his new pull a long puppy!


We'd been practicing how to blow out candles, but when it was time he needed some help.


Here's the other birthday boy and his helper.


This is as messy as it got (which I didn't think was too bad).
Mmmm....chocolate cupcakes are the best!

We had planned to go to Gardner Village to see the witches and then out to dinner for his birthday, but Kaden and I got really sick. Bummer! Its a good thing we had our party a little early!

already?

I can't believe that this little monkey is two today! He's not a baby any more.


Here's some fun stuff about Bosten:

-he can sing his ABC's
-he can count to 10
-he knows the days of the week (but doesn't always say them in the right order!)
-he can sing most of the BYU fight song
-he knows who the Beavers are, and anytime we're watching football he yells, "GO BEAVERS!" (whether its them or not!)
-he LOVES trains and Mickey Mouse
-his favorite phrases right now are "no, no, no" and "what?"
-he loves playing with Kaden
-he gives the best hugs (which always include him patting you on the back)

We love this little boy and are so thankful he's in our family!

Happy Birthday Bosten!

my pumpkins at the patch

Friday night we decided to hit the pumpkin patch before it decided to rain. We've gone every year since we've been in Utah, and the boys have been dying to go.

First, we decided to check out the hay maze and the big slides.
They were so super fun!


We played on the toys, made some music, and made corn angels.


Next it was off to the corn mazes! We did the children's maze and the Bella maze (this year's theme was Twilight...)


Kaden thought it was fun to have his own map and try to figure out which way to go. He also liked finding old corn cobs and marking where we'd been with corn kernels (in case you were wondering, Curious George does the same thing!) Bosten d ecided he'd better do it too...but one corn cob wasn't enough. In fact, the more the merrier!


We checked out all of the animals.

We rode the tractor ride a million times (and could have gone a million more). Seriously, both of the boys LOVED it.

We had tons of fun, and are so glad we got to go! Definitely a fun family tradition!

let's. play. HOCKEY!

Last night for Kyle's birthday we went to Red Robin and to the hockey game.

Its been a couple of years since we've been, and Kaden was really excited to go. Bosten kept yelling "hockey" all day, but he had no idea what he was in for.


Red Robin was really good, and the boys could hardly wait to get to the game. We were early enough to watch warm-ups. I asked Kaden if he wanted to go down to the glass, so that he could get a front row seat .

He, of course, said "YES!"

The highlight of his whole life (according to him) was when they flipped one of the practice pucks over the glass to him.


It was too loud for the boys when they scored a goal, but otherwise we had a great time!