Pumpkin Walk

We went to the pumpkin walk last weekend. It was a fun little family outing, and the good news is that it was free. The whole concept of the pumpkin walk is to walk around and look at the neat little pumpkin displays that people have put together. Here is a picture of Tanner and Lexi in front of the Noah's Ark display. There was a lot of people there so I wasn't able to get a very good picture because people were waiting behind us, waiting for us to keep moving.

I didn't get a picture of it, but my favorite display was a hospital doctor scene. A pumpkin was having surgery and it's guts were hanging out. Another person was bent over with its pants down getting a shot in its little pumpkin bum. The kids talked about that the rest of the night, they thought that was pretty funny. Here are a few pictures of us strolling through the pumpkin walk.



After we were done seeing all the pumpkin displays the kids wanted to have their picture taken in these Disney character cut outs. Here are a few of those pictures.

Jeff makes a beautiful Cinderella, don't you think.

I don't know star wars at all so I have no idea who this is, but this was my favorite picture of Tanner.

Don't I make the perfect mermaid.

Nope I was wrong, Lexi definitely makes a perfect mermaid.

There's my little pooh bear. Isn't he the cutest little boy ever!!



Finally we got the kids away from all those things ( I don't really know what to call them) and went home. The kids and I had a great time at the pumpkin walk, and Jeff....well at least he came.

Trip to St. George

We went to St. George last weekend. It was UEA weekend so Jeff was out of school, and we had planned to go there with the Barlow family, and stay in the condo. We just recently bought a rhino so I was really looking forward to go down there and ride in the nice weather.

The kids loved playing in the pool, and going on rhino rides. Right by the condo was a bunch of trails. So on Friday we rode those trails and played at the pool. On Saturday we went to Sand Hollow sand dunes. This was a blast! The kids loved playing in the sand, climbing on the rocks, and looking for lizards. Jeff had a lot of fun playing around on the rocks with the rhino.

Tanner said his favorite part of the trip was playing on the rocks.

Lexi has got a mind of her own. She wanted to be in the rhino and then she didn't. She wanted to ride with grandma on the 4-wheeler, and then she would want to be in the rhino. She ended up having a lot of fun though. She said her favorite part of the trip was swimming in the pool.

I love this picture of Jeff and Lexi.

Nixon loved being outside. He never made a peep while he was in the rhino. I can't say that though for the first night we stayed in the condo. We ended up getting to St. George late Thursday night around 11:30 P.M. and Nixon had been asleep in the car for about 3 hours. So when he got woken up he wasn't tired or ready to back to bed. To make it even harder to get him to go to sleep I didn't have any milk to give him (he normally still goes to sleep with a bottle of milk). Anyway, he didn't go to sleep until 1: 30 a.m. Yea, that was fun. Oh well that happens when you go vacations with kids. On Sunday we drove home. I wish we would of had a few more days to stay and play. I would of loved to go to the sand dunes another day, and had more time to play in the pool. The ride home was okay. We dropped the rhino off in SLC to its new owner. Yep that's right its new owner. A few days before we left for St. George Jeff listed it on the KSL classifieds at like 10:00 at night, and 20 minutes later. We got an offer. We thought it would take a while before it would sell. I was sad because I was so excited to go riding down in St. George. So Jeff just told the guys who were buying it that we had a trip planned with it, and he was cool with us just dropping it off on our way home. The rhino was really fun to have. I'm sad to see it go, but maybe we'll get another one someday.

Nixon turns 1

Nixon had his first birthday back on Sept. 28th. So for his birthday we had grandma and grandpa Low, and grandma and grandpa Barlow over for dinner. Then of course we had cake and ice cream. Then it was present time!

Unfortunately Nixon wasn't a very happy boy on his birthday. He wasn't interested in his presents at all. So Tanner and Lexi pretty much opened his presents, and then played with them too. I got Nixon this little lawn mower that played music and did a few other things. I thought that it was so cute, and it would be a good toy that he could push around and help him learn to walk. However, there was these little balls that would pop around when it was being pushed. That popping noise was so loud and annoying. You couldn't even hear the music that it would play. So I ended up taking it back to the store. And I'm a terrible mom I haven't replaced his present with another one yet. I'll probably use the money to get him something he will need like pants or something really fun like that.

Nixon is my sweet little buddy. He isn't walking yet or even very interested in walking yet. He walks around the couches, but when I try to walk with him he lifts up his feet or just tries to go down to his knees. I'm not to worried about it though. I know he'll walk when he wants to. Nixon doesn't say to much either. I'll hear him say an occasional mama when he is whining. And a few times I've heard him say hello with a phone up to his ear, but that's about it. Here are a few pictures I took of him one day since I didn't get very many pictures of him on his birthday.