October happened in a big way

 October came and went, but not without leaving us with a month JAM PACKED with awesome adventures. We kicked off this month with General Conference. Listening to the words of our Prophet and leaders is definitely one of the best ways to begin a month. From that point on we were just rolling into one activity after another. At the first of the month I was able to participate in another Red Rock Relay. This one was in Park City, UT and fall was alive and well in those beautiful mountains. It was a gorgeous race! My team was so much fun and we had a blast but it wouldn't have been possible without awesome dads like these two. Most of the dads were able to stay home and watch their kiddos. But these two fellas got suckered into following their wives around Utah valley with two kids attached to them at all times. Pretty exhausting Im sure, but it made for a great picture. So thankful for Ace for always letting me join whatever crazy activity I find I have time to do. He is so supportive of me and my hobbies and is willing to work hard at work and at home so that I can still pursue my own interests. Love him!

One evening we took the boys to the Bayfield Elementary Fall Carnival. We had a great time and the boys looked super cute! There were games, candy and rides. Earlier that day we had gone trick-or-treating in Durango. This cute little neighborhood near the hospital has a huge Halloween Party the Saturday before Halloween so we started our candy stash early (actually I used the candy Garret and Reid got to give to the kids at our wards trunk-or-treat and to the kids who came knocking on our door Halloween night. Shhhhhhh....don't tell the boys, especially Ace)

 The above picture is the cake walk that we did 4 times in order to get Garret the cupcakes he wanted.

 Every Halloween the Rec Center in Ignacio does what they call a Pumpkin Splash. It is actually quite simple. The kids can come to the pool, pick out a pumpkin to keep and they get to swim with it. Again simple, but so fun! First of all Garret loves swimming and then it was fun for him to see his pumpkin float and to be able to push it off things and have it pop right back up. This was kind of a last minute decision. I wasn't thinking clearly and so I only grabbed a swimsuit for Garret. It was also like 5x too big so I had to use my hair-tie to keep them up, but that didn't slow him down.

 Reid didn't get to swim, but to make up for it we let him crawl around with all the pumpkins.

And last but not least, this year we got to ride the train to the Pumpkin Patch. Garret loves trains so this was a really special treat.

"I've got a golden ticket"

 Going through the Hay Maze

 Turns out Garret REALLY loves Bounce Houses

 Taking a tractor ride. Have I mentioned how beautiful fall is. Such a great time of year.

 We went trick-or-treating 3 times on Halloween and then Garret excitedly came home and passed out candy at our door for another hour. Basically every evening of October we all looked like Reid in the above picture. We've been busy and having fun but thankfully we have all been sleeping great too!