Grandma's visit

My mom came to visit for a while and we had a blast, it is so much easier to do fun things when you have an extra pair of hands to help out. we also got a lot done around the house and even stripped and re-stained our kitchen table. here is just a bunch of pictures for her stay.

We went on the heber valley railroad for the first time. It was so beautiful up there. Tyson was really scared at first and wanted to get off but once it started moving he was good, it was really cold so we kept switching between the inside car and the outside car.

This is our group shot in front of a train

and here was our family shot.
They boys now make the (trying hard) smile whenever I ask them to smile for a picture.

This is us in the inside car. it was nice and toasty in there.

Gavin loved the whole thing he is just too funny
some shots from the trip both train ride and the car ride through the canyon




Ok we also went to the zoo it was on salt lakes UEA which we didnt know so it was crazy. but what we also didnt know is you got a discount that day so it was a lot cheaper for all of us.

Ok to start this off I have to show you the "maps" wow these were much more exciting that any zoo animal. the whole time both boys had a map and at every animal they would sit with one of us and owen would say " ok we are (here) and we want to go (here), so we need to go this way." They were so excited to be in control.

here are the boys on the carousel, Tyson wasn't to thrilled with it but he isn't much of an adventure seeker, but owen loved it.

the zoo has tons of babies right now. this is zuri the elephant. The boys loved her.






We are just too cool for the zoo

we also went to the park. the boys always enjoy that, these are just a few pictures of that.

Photography and fire fighters

I'm homeschooling the boys this year for their 3 year old preschool. My sister teaches preschool and gave me lots of her material she also let me know that orem city was doing a fire safety day at the fire station so we went. we learned a lot and also got hats, whistles ,Cotton candy and popcorn it was a lot fun, my phone was being weird and not letting me take pictures so I didn't get all the ones I wanted but here are some of the ones I got.

This fire got much much much bigger and then the firefighters came out in all there gear and put it out. it was so hot I was up on the hill and I could fill my leg hairs burning off.

Each boy got a few turns shooting the fire hose. the fire fighters were all really nice. this is Ty.
Heres owen he was a little more shy about it.
we were there to see the helicopter land. the boys loved that but it was really loud and windy the closer it got so they got a little scared, they were able to look in side and everything.

Here is them in front of the fire truck they were amazed with all the buttons on the fire truck and how big its wheels were.




Oh this is the little car we found at the DI it is tiny much smaller then the normal size red ones it is funny to watch them ride in it. It will be perfect for gav when he gets a little older.

this is a picture clint took for his class. he took it between provo and heber there will be more about that trip in the next post. Im almost all caught up just one more post to go.

Halloween

Halloween was a lot of fun this year. We went to Jay and Staceys this year to do some trick or treating with our cousins. We also had Falawn and Jake and their baby, James, come with us as well. The boys had a lot of fun. Tyson and Owen were SO excited to be Mario and Luigi they could hardly stand it. Gavin seemed to enjoy the bumblebee outfit, although he spent most of the time chewing on the little bee on chest. Here are some pictures of the boys. We didn't get too many as they were too excited for candy to sit still for very long.

The Mario brothers, with bumblebee.

Luigi. The mustaches were makeup that we put on. Owen kept rubbing his nose, so he only had half of his mustache left.
Mario Tyson. He did a little better with the mustache, but both of them had a lot of their sleeves by the end of the night.

Gavin only walked around for a little while. He ran around thinking he was pretty funny. He soon got tired and wanted carried. He stayed happy most of the time, except when we tried to take away the bee he was chewing on.
We hope everyone had a happy halloween!