Happy Halloween!

Halloween was fun times around here! I love Halloween and this year was the first year that Ivan actually shared in the joy with me:) He was our master pumpkin carver this year. Ivan loves gutting them (because that means he gets to eat the seeds later), but Tyson wanted no part in it.

Carving with Daddy. Tyson thought it was fun to put the triangles back in the holes and have us pop them out over and over again:).

Tyson really did love the jack o' lantern, he was just mad that we were taking a picture because he couldn't look at it. Sorry bud.

Tyson was a lion for Halloween. If you asked him what he was being, he would say "lion and a tiger" because the whole week before I kept asking him which one he wanted to be, but he couldn't choose. So Ivan finally did. Tyson was pretty dang excited to go Trick or Treating. He mostly just loved his bucket. He did not let go of it all night, especially when it was filled with candy.

For the first round of trick-or-treating we went with Tyson's friend and our neighbor across the way, David. They have so much fun together. Tyson just loves David!

Tyson thought it was necessary to take the candy from the people and put it in his bucket himself.

For the second round of trick-or-treating we went over to Ivan's parents house. Tyson was pretty excited to go with them and kept saying how fun it was that we were going "all together!" The goods. The book is much more interesting apparently.

Tyson didn't want to wear the hood all night, but we had to get at least one picture with it, and this is what we got. The angry lion. The tradition continues (last year it was the angry elephant).

After some book reading, we finally got this one. Happy Halloween!

Happy Birthday to Me!

I had the most AWESOME birthday this year! Ivan didn't get to take labor day off because of busy season, so he had a few days that he could take off. He used one on my birthday and we got to party all day! It was seriously so much fun. I could not have asked for a better birthday from my boys! We slept in (as long as Tyson would let us) and Ivan insisted that we have birthday donuts (because we weren't having cake that night) so he went and got us some donuts for breakfast. So yummy! Then we went to Bishops Pumpkin Farm. So fun!

We got to take a hay ride out to the patch and then we got to choose our own pumpkin. Tyson wanted to walk around the whole patch. He had a blast!

He found The One!

A fellow maternity ward patient:) Hopefully I don't get that big!

Petting the pony.

Brushing the goats

Feeding the goats.

We got to go on a little train ride around the whole farm. It was really fun. Tyson's breakdown when we were getting off will attest to that.

We went home and got some lunch and took Tyson over to Sister Wunderli's house so we could go on a little date. We went to Petroglyph. It is a ceramics place right down the street from our house. We painted a cake plate together.

Don't mess up Ivan!

We were pretty pleased with the finished product!

We stayed home for dinner and had lasagna. My favorite dinner and the one I always choose on my birthday. Then we finished it off with a delicious pumpkin pie milkshake. Seriously delicious! It was definitely one of those times that you wish it was your birthday every day of the year! So fun! Thank you for the wonderful day my boys!