halloween

october is an awesome month. chase LOVES halloween, so he can't WAIT

to get out all the halloween decorations. (i love it that chase loves halloween 

and grant loves christmas.) chase was super excited to help me hang everything up.

(even though he doesn't look like it in this picture)

we have fun together during the days, and he really wanted to paint a pumpkin white,

so here we are painting in the garage one rainy day. he sort of got distracted from the pumpkin...

some super cool bug masks grandpa and grandma sent!

our ward trunk or treat was 2 weeks before halloween, so at this point

chase decided he was a scary green monster. he LOVES painting his face and 

getting dressed up. (he'd often do it during the day when we weren't going

anywhere but the grocery store.)

everyone kept asking him if he was the hulk and he'd say "whose the hulk?"

then he'd yell loudly in their face. he's going to have tons of friends.

grant was a dragon (big surprise). grandma and grandpa sent us the hat, and i made

the wings and tail. grant chose the colors, hence why nothing matches. he didn't care though.

he loved it. and he loves dragons. and we love him. :)

the wings were a beast to make, so i was glad to see them getting used a lot.

chase is ALWAYS acting like a vampire, werewolf, monster, etc. you can see the scary

faces and growling extends even to dinner time. (even now, into november, he's still wearing a 

black cape to the grocery store and the park.)

making halloween cookies...

a few days leading up to halloween it rained like CRAZY. the boys loved it, and we needed it,

but thank goodness it stopped a few hours before trick or treating. 

it was really coming down.

our pumpkins! i love carving pumpkins. the boys think it's so gross. it amazes me every year

how boys that eat boogers and handle worms and bugs think a pumpkin inside is gross.

chase really doesn't want to put his hand in there, but he knows if he doesn't,
he won't get to carve one. and he really wants to have a say on what goes on his. 

he finally gets a sock on his arm and finishes (his only nice pair of church socks of course!)

jason carved a dragon for grant....

and the adams family hand for chase.....

halloween dinner!

our pumpkins! with jason being spooky....

on halloween night chase wanted to be a green skeleton.

candy!

demolition derby!

every year in october we go to the demolition derby in brenham, tx. 

it's always a lot of fun. the boys have a blast. i love that it's a small derby,

so you can see all the action. the boys enjoy eating hot dogs and popcorn, staying

up late, and of course watching the cars wreck and throw dirt on us. 

we always have a fabulous time!

fall...

i love fall. i love it when it finally gets cool in houston. 

don't get me wrong, i love summer. love the sun and heat.

but it's so great when the cooler weather finally comes.

here's us cooking. again. i know we do this. a lot. 

BUT... i don't want to forget how fun this was when the boys

are taller than me and much too cool to cook with me.

and their faces kill me.

for conference weekend we had a fire and cooked hot dogs. 

jason was the awesome dad of the year and took the boys to the forest, on their bikes,

to get some wood since we thought we had wood and/or charcoal, but had neither.

the boys had SUCH a fun day. 

and a family picture of us in our front yard...