Happy Birthday Jared!

Well since Jared's birthday falls a week after the October deadline, it seems we are always doing something fun for his birthday. The last two year we were at Disneyland, but this year we stayed a little closer to home. We went to Missoula for a Griz game. Actually Jared had to work. He went to some tax thing put on by the U of M Law School all day Friday and Saturday morning. We got to do some birthday shopping Thursday night, had birthday dinner with the Gage clan Friday night, and of course the Griz game Saturday afternoon. Friday while Jared was in class, the boys, Grandma and Grandpa Gage, and I went to the Children's Museum. The boys had a blast engineering water fountains and pipelines, digging for dinosaur bones, and creating paper projects. I did get a few pictures at the museum before the battery on my camera died, but I haven't got them off my camera yet. Since we hadn't had any cake or anything in Missoula,I made a pumpkin roll for Jared on Sunday. It was a fun weekend. It's always good when busy season ends and we get to spend more time with Dad! We love him so much and hope he had a very happy birthday!

"Good Time" Prayers

I love listening to my kids say prayers. It is such an insight into the way their minds are working and what is important to them. Carter usually asks that we can have a good time at least 3 times if not 4 or 5 or 6 times in his prayers. Whether it's for everyone in general, or for Pason at school, or dad at work, or Eli, Mom, and him at home, he always blesses us to have a good time. I sometimes wish that I could go back to being 4 1/2 years old when the most important thing you had to worry about was having a good time!

More Pumpkins

For Family Home Evening tonight we made these super easy pumpkins. The boys were so excited that they got to make their very own Halloween/Harvest decorations.

Pumpkin Fun

Carter's Perfect Pumpkin



















Isn't that the saddest pumpkin you've ever seen.



















The 3 amigos Owen, Carter, and Gage.














We got smart after freezing our rear ends off at the pumpkin patch last year and decide to go a little earlier this time around. So this year we were sweating in 80 degree temps as we followed a bunch of 3, 4, and 5 year olds through the corn maze. Luckily they had a good sense of direction and we made it through pretty quickly. We also actually got to pick our pumpkins out of the patch rather than the barn this year because we haven't had a freeze yet. Carter had a good time trying to find the perfect pumpkin. Eli just liked any pumpkin he was close to and tried to pick them up like the big kids.