We had a great Halloween this year and the boys loaded up on tons of candy. By the end of the night Nick was dragging his bag because it was so heavy for him (Yikes, that's way to much candy for a 3 year old). I tried to get some pictures in before we headed out, but we all know how that goes.

Drillbit Taylor (trey), Yoda (nick), Darth Vader (jordan)

Here it little Yoda running to beat the boys to the doorbell, I think that was his favorite part of trick-or-treating. Trey was so helpful with Nick he made sure that Nick held is bag up each and every time, he kept Nick from ringing the doorbells more than once, and he didn't even laugh when the old guy he almost fell over when handing out candy (he saved it for when we walked down the street).

Bucket of treats for J's 3rd grade class



These popcorn hands were such a hit at Jordan's class party, we made a few extra so Nick could take some to his daycare.

Jordan played flag football this year and I am so glad we decided to do flag football instead of pop-warner (ya know that whole broken arm thing). Jordan's flag football team was the Patriots and the season went by so fast. Since the season started football is all Jordan could and still thinks about; he watches football with Willie, plays football at recess, draws pictures about football, would wear his football jersey everyday if I let him, looks and organizes his football cards, and his teacher says she thinks he day dreams about football.

What a fun weekend

We spent the day here, at Horton Creek !!!

A couple of weekends ago we spent the day at the Horton Creek and at the Tonto Fish Hatchery. This was suppose to be the last of the warm days so we really wanted to get out and do something before the weather really changed. The boys loved feeding the fish at the hatchery and racing each other to all of the different pools of fish. After the fish hatchery we drove to Horton Creek picnic area and had lunch. After lunch we all went down to the creek, of course Jordan brought his football and the boys played monkey in the middle with their dad. The game consisted of Trey standing on a rock in the middle of the creek and Willie on one side of the creek and Jordan on the other side of the creek. The game proceeds with the person in the middle trying to catch the football as it is thrown over their head, if the ball does get caught by the person in the middle (on the rock in the middle of the creek) then they trade places with the person you on the side of the creek.
As with many of the games played by my boys it got a little rough and lots of wrestling over the football took place. They boys loved it when the ball fell into the water and they had to race each other for the ball. While the boys did this Nick and I went exploring looking for bugs. Nick was so cute while we were walking through some tall dried grass he started repeating the words from one of his favorite books "were going on a bear hunt, we're not afraid".
Uh-uh! Grass!Long wavey grass.We can't go over it.We can't go under it.Oh no!We've got to go through it!

swishy swashy!

swishy swashy!

swishy swashy!

I love the picture of Jordan completely soaked from the waist down, the water was so freezing cold. We had so much fun here, I am hoping that we can make it up here and test out the Hortain Trail before it snows.