Pumpkins!!

The kids were so excited for our annual trip to the pumpkin patch!! Now that they are a little older, they had even more fun than last time! We played in the corn pit, played in the hay maze, and climbed the hay tower! We even looked at the (stinky) animals! We found some pretty good pumpkins and were happy to bring them home!

I sat with the kids at the computer and let them pick what they wanted on their pumpkins. They helped scoop out the guts and watched as Lucas and I carved. Our final product ended up being a hit with the trick-or-treaters!!

We were a family of pirates this year! The kids had a lot of fun trick-or-treating and Madilyn really got the concept of it this year! She had even more fun passing out candy though!!

Halloween quesadillas!

"Look, Mom!!" 

Our Anniversary Weekend

This year was Lucas's turn to plan our Anniversary. He told me to pack an over-night bag and to be ready to go. In the morning he brought us home Kneaders french toast for breakfast! It was delicious, as always! We packed up and headed out. We went into the mountains and ended up in Park City. We went ahead and made it a family weekend by bringing the kids along since we don't have their grandparents around to watch them overnight. Lucas booked us a room at the Park City Mountainside Resort. It was so nice and very family friendly! Our room was more like a condo and had a view of the alpine slide and coaster.

We enjoyed walking around Main Street and exploring all the little shops. We had dinner reservations at the Wild Horse and had no idea what a fancy restaurant it really was. It was delicious, by the way! 

When we returned to the resort we went for a night swim. The pool area was amazing! They had pretty lights all over and there were at least 5 different hot tubs with waterfalls and color-changing lights in the water.

The next morning we went to get brunch at a place called Squatters and headed home. We took a scenic drive on the way home to see all the fall leaves. It was beautiful!

A Ballerina's Beginning

Madilyn loves to dance! She will watch Dancing With the Stars with me and dance along in front of the TV. Although she has declared to me many times that she simply cannot dance in pants, she must have a skirt or dress!Now that she is old enough, I signed her up for a dance class. She LOVED it! She thinks it is so fun to wear her pretty dance clothes and learn moves to the music. Her teacher used all Disney music, which made it even better! It was only a 6 week class and she has been begging me to find another class ever since it ended. She has a new one starting next month!

Madilyn Turns 3

She is growing up way too fast!! On August 15th Madilyn turned 3! She Was so excited to celebrate! We told her she could pick anywhere she wanted for us to go to dinner. She chose the Olive Garden. After enjoying her plate of spaghetti, they brought out a yummy dessert and sang to her. She thought that was the coolest thing!

How have we never had these before? SO GOOD!

Earlier in the day we took her to the store and she picked out a Rapunzel dress and Rapunzel shoes. She wore them all day and would have never taken them off is we didn't make her.

Madilyn wanted to have a Rapunzel birthday party (shocking, right?)

I designed her invitations and she helped me deliver them. I made cupcakes and decorated them like a long braid.  I put yellow streamers all around to look like Rapunzel's hair everywhere. I even made lanterns with the sun symbol to hang, but then completely forgot to hang them up and found them after the party was over. (Mom fail!) We had a BBQ with some of her friends and their families.

Tangled up in Rapunzel's hair!!