Happy Birthday To You

Packer's 1st Birthday!!

Benson helping Pack-Pack Unwrap his pressents.

Yea! It's Blocks!

Packer eating his yummy chocolate cake all by himself!

Delicious!

Hogle Zoo

Since it was such great weather on Packer's birthday -- and since it was Fall Break for Ben -- we went to the zoo!

Riding around in the stroller...

Sliding down a Snake...

Climbing on a Spider...

Pretending to be a Turtle...

Seeing the Animals, playing on the statues...

Climbing on Rocks...

Riding on Daddy's shoulders...

And riding on the Zoofari Express

made the day totally worth it!

Pumpkin Patchin'

Benson loved helping out in the garden this year. He was always excited to come home with fresh picked tomatoes, onions, corn, and squash. Now that it's October already, we went to the garden and picked out some pumpkins to carve. Here's Benson & Pack-Pack picking out some pumpkins, and a family picture of our haul.

Benson was so proud of his pumpkin!

Sidewalk Artist

I bought Benson some sidewalk chalk that was for sale, so on this beautiful, sunny, warm September day I let Benson & Packer decorate our driveway. Benson enjoyed drawing scribbles and lines from one end to the other, and Packer liked following him around. I thought these pictures turned out so cute of Packer!

TIMBER!!

This Winter we will be using our new woodburning stove to keep us cozy. In order to do this of course we're going to need some wood. So here we are up at Nebo Loop cutting down wood to bring home. It was a perfect weather and a perfect morning for it. However, on the way home Ben ate some bad Elder Berries and threw up every five minutes all the way home and then some. 14 times in 2 hours. I guess now he'll have a little more sympathy for my morning sickness during pregnancies. Definitely an adventurous day!
As you can tell from the pictures, Benson had a great time.

A Couple of Farmers!

Here is Benson and Ben doing some tractor work. Benson loves helping with farm work -- especially if it involves getting to ride on the tractor.

Yes, that is Benson in the bucket of the Tractor -- if he can't push the buttons on the tractor, then he might as well play in the dirt on the tractor!

This is better than rides at the carnival!

Dirty Work

I definitely have 2 "ALL-BOY" boys! They both love to be outdoors, eat rocks & dirt, and get filthy dirty! Here is Benson and Packer outside playing together while me and Ben work on our sprinkler system. Hopefully next year we will have less dirt in our clothes, shoes, tummy's, and on our faces!