Fall Catch Up

I realize it has been way to long since I have blogged, I've been quite busy though with taking pictures (which you can see on my website) and then editing them all and then turning them into lovely little photo books :) And with all of that my motivation to write has been pretty low every day and therefore I have just not done it. So here's what we have been up to this fall!

We have been raking leaves, jumping in leaves, and then my favorite part...burning them!

Kylie has been in her first adorable pre-school fall program in which she was dressed like a farmer :) She helped me pick out what she would wear the night before and was so excited that she almost slept in her overalls and red handkerchief. She also went and found my cowboy hat and said she needed to where it because farmers where hats, I just giggled and said, oh OK. As you can see in the pictures, she looked adorable :) I was mostly impressed that she stood in one place for half an hour singing and doing all the motions of the songs with a big smile on her face the whole time!

We also got to go to a farm and watch one of their last days of harvesting. Kylie and I rode in the big semi which hauls the corn and also the swather (no idea how to spell this) which was really cool, I could fallen asleep with the whole rhythmic movement of that amazing piece of machinery. Owen also rode in the semi but was just flat out terrified of the swather when it got close to us, even though whenever we drove by one this fall he would start pointing and in his own language try to tell me how excited he was to see this large wheeled thing rolling through a big field. It is pretty loud though up close though, so maybe next year.

CORN!!
Kylie inside the swather

We somewhat carved a pumpkin for Halloween, Kylie dressed up as a ballerina and Owen was a giraffe, I think. I got his costume at a garage sale thinking is was a horse, but once he had the costume on and I took a good look at him thought to myself, horses don't have antler things on their heads, so we took a vote and decided he was a short necked giraffe. We had an unbelievably warm night for trick or treating, which meant loads of candy. Which Owen held in his little paws so tight that if you even tried to help him put the candy in his bag he would scream bloody murder at you. He would wait till we got to the next house, got as close as possible to the candy bowl and then put his candy from the previous house on the ground and grab TWO more fistfuls of candy. I would every time tell him, "no Owen just one piece" (after I had snatched up the candy he put on the ground and put it into his bag) but because he's just so stinking cute the people giving out the candy would stop me and say "oh, no it's OK, let him take two" and I would oblige because it was one more battle I didn't have to fight.

I also managed to find a working treadmill at a garage sale this fall and has been quite wonderful for nearly the whole family since it has started turning nasty winter cold out already. I have managed to train Jake to walk on the treadmill, but Sienna won't have anything to do with it, she act's like she going to catch fire if she goes anywhere near it. Both Kylie and Owen love to walk on it and I think it's a great way to burn off some energy on days it's to cold to go outside!