Carving Pumpkins

The Monday before Halloween, we decided to carve pumpkins for Halloween.  Tean was really excited to carve them.  I helped him cut a hole in the top.

 He got all of the guts out from the inside.  He wasn't to excited about that part at first, but once he started doing it, he liked it.

 After tean picked his face, he wanted to carve it himself, so I started it and then he finished it.  He didn't do too bad staying on the lines.

 This is my pumpkin that I carved while Tean was carving his pumpkin.

 Ziah even wanted to join in the fun.

 Tean and his finished pumpkin.  He wanted it to be a scary pumpkin.

 After carving the pumpkins, Tean wanted to paint his pumpkin that he got at Swore Farms.

 He had a great time painting and carving his pumpkin!

Swore Farms Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch

For our preschool field trip in October, we went to Swore Farms and did their corn maze and went on a wagon ride and picked out pumpkins.  Tean had a fun time playing with the activities they had before they went in the corn maze.

 In the corn maze, there were questions and they had two different ways to go depending on the answer.  If you got it right, you found another clue.  If you didn't, you ran into a dead end.

 Tean had fun running around in the corn maze with his friends.

 After going through the corn maze, we went on a wagon ride out to their pumpkin patch.  You can tell that Ziah was really excited.

 Tean had fun looking around for the perfect pumpkin.

 Tean finally found the perfect pumpkin that he wanted.

 We found one for Ziah, too.

 We had fun coming back from the pumpkin patch and were excited to bring home our pumpkins to paint them.

Ziah On His 4 Wheeler

Ziah loved getting on Tean's 4 wheeler and ridding around.

 He thought he was such a big boy to be able to ride around on it.

Isn't he a cutie?

Ziah's First Birthday!

On October 12, Ziah had his first birthday!  Unfortunately we were in Utah attending a BYU game, so we waited until the 14th to celebrate it.  That afternoon, during Ziah's nap I worked on his cake.  I found this really cute idea on Pinterest, so I copied it a bit and improvised on some of the stuff.

 I thought that it turned out really cute.

 We invited all of Jake's family that was in town over for dinner and cake and ice cream.  It was also Jake's sister's little girl's birthday the day before, so we celebrated her birthday as well.

 Ziah was very interested in the candle and wanted to touch it.

 He wouldn't blow on the candle, so with a little help from daddy, he got the candle blown out.

 At first he was a little hesitant about eating the cupcake.

 Soon he hugged it to his body so no one would take it.

 He loved the frosting on the cake.

 That was about all he ate, but he loved it!

 After cake and ice cream, we opened presents.

 After realizing what he was supposed to do, he did a great job opening the presents.

 He loved all the attention that he was getting.

I am so thankful for Ziah and that he came to our family.  We waited a long time for him, and we love having his happy smiling face around.  He is a really happy baby.  He scoots on his bum a lot, and the last month or two has started to crawl normal as well.  He loves to cruise around on furniture, but hasn't gotten adventurous to try to walk.  We are so happy to have Ziah as part of our family.  Happy Birthday, Ziah!!

Tean's First BYU Game

On October 12, we took Tean to his first BYU game of the season.  He had a great time.  His cousin was there also, so he had lots of fun before the game playing tackle football with him.

 He loved the game and even was cheering and trying to understand what was going on.

We had a great time!

Big Boys

Ziah so sad that he couldn't go outside with the big boys.

Sometimes being little is hard.

My Kids

This is the happy face that I usually see when Ziah is up from his nap or in the morning.

 Ziah got his first sucker from the bank.  I wasn't going to give him one, but he saw them and had to have one.  He had a death grip on it and got mad when I took the stick away when he was all done.

 I had some helpers when I was putting away groceries.

 You can tell how much help they were!

 They had a lot of fun, though.

Surprise!

We are super excited!

Ziah's First Haircut

At the end of September, Ziah got his first haircut!

 He did pretty good at standing there and not being scared of the clippers.  He didn't need a whole lot cut off, he just had a few wisps of hair on the top that were really long.

I sure do love that smile of his!

Tean's First Primary Program

Tean is getting too old.  I can't believe he is already old enough to be in a primary program!  He was so ready for the program, had his part memorized.

 He was the very first one to get up and speak.  I think he got a little nervous, because he ended up needing a little help.  He did great in the program.  He did get a little distracted by little feet that were taped to the floor where he was supposed to stand, but he sang and did awesome on his part.

I'm so proud of my little boy, who isn't so little any more!