Corn Maze

We had fun taking the kids to a Corn Maze. They had a lot of fun running through the maze!

Heading to the maze!

Which way should we go kids?

There was a fun play area before the maze started.

Shelly is posing in some strange way that makes sense to her... I just took the shot she asked me too.

There were several of these, but it was harder than it should have been to get all three kids looking out at the same time.



Peek-a-Boo Shelly! (as a bat)

And again as a ghost...

Jason the cat

Two of the three! Jason is doing his best to see how Emily looks. Pretty sure he never really saw.

Can you see Shelly trying to peek her head through the top?

Hi Emmie Sue!

We were over these by then, but Shelly still wanted another picture. I probably should have had her be the bride, and not the groom... :)


The kids walking through the corn maze. Shelly is holding out her hand so she can follow the wall that her hand would be touching. It's a trick I learned from my dad that has all but ruined mazes for me... Shelly seemed to enjoy it though!

At the end of the maze there was a great play area! The kids had lots of fun here!

Shelly and Emily


This was great! Shelly was talking to the animals and I'm just glad I got it on video...

There was even a room of crazy mirrors


Jason had a lot of fun with the mirrors.

Awesome huge Jack-o-Lantern!

Shelly is peeking out, not that you can tell... Or is that Jason??


Jason read a book in Talking Time about a pumpkin who said 'boo boo'. He loves to tell you what a pumpkin says.

Emily in the 'tunnel.' She loved this toy!

Visit to Cedar for the Homecoming Parade

We went to Cedar for a visit and it happened to be on Homecoming Weekend. The kids had lots of fun playing with all of Aunt Grandma's toys in her awesome house.

Balls!

Aunt Grandma making the kids chocolate milk. She quickly became the favorite in the house.


Aunt Grandma was supposed to be in the parade that SUU puts on, and she invited the kids to join her.
On the 'float' (it was a trailer pulled by a tractor)

Wave! Emily got it.

Shelly catches on

Apparently it was such a long wait to get started that Shelly lost it and started to get grumpy. She opted to walk until they caught up with us - almost at the end of the route.

Jason and Emily were fine hanging out with complete strangers (I'm sure Cindy knew who they were and trusted them with the kids, but the kids had no idea who those people were)

Katie, Mark and I had headed off before the parade started to see some of the other floats, and then we were hungry, so we walked back to Katie's place to find food. Then back to the parade route to see everything in action (and apparently find Shelly) and then we followed Cindy's float to the end of the parade so we could catch a ride on the tractor back to the starting point, but it never stopped and we missed it. We had to walk back. Cindy had taken my phone so we could call if either of us needed anything, but without telling us she had gone home and switched phones before the parade... We tried calling her to see what the plan was, but for some reason she never answered my phone - which she had left at the house when she picked up hers... I think all in all we walked a few miles that day. For Shelly's sake (or mine...) we stopped in the shade on the way back for a while just to catch out breath. Shelly found a map on campus that she wanted to read to see how to get back. We let her lead us, mostly because it was straight up the road for several blocks before turning onto Cindy's street. It was good to get back to a house with water and a comfy place to sit! All things considered it was a rather fun day.

Mark's joining the Guard

It's official. Mark heads up to Salt Lake tomorrow morning to be sworn in. Hopefully we'll find out when he ships out for basic then too. That will be nice to know. We have heard that he will be an officer with a field artilary unit based in Filmore. That's just about everything we know so far. Oh, and that there's officer training sometime in January. Don't know when in January though, so we're not sure that basic will be done by then, but I guess we'll find all that out tomorrow.

Fall Canyon Colors Trip

We thought it would be fun to take a trip up the canyon to see the fall colors (we were a little bit to late for the best stuff, but it was still fun) and decided to turn it into an activity for the kids. They were on a mission to collect fall leaves to make a craft when they got home (I think they forgot about the 'craft' part by the time all was done, but it was a great way to keep them entertained while we were up there)

First stop - Squaw Peak to see the valley

Shelly was 'looking pretty for the camera'.
I don't get it.

Climbing up some dead trees

Jason had tons of fun throwing rocks into the stream

Emily just had fun being held

Hi Cutie-Sue!

More rocks...

Um....

Hey Shells


Shelly trying to climb the tree. Jason wanted up too.

Emily wanted a turn in the tree

She was way too little to climb, but that didn't stop her from trying

This is a much better climbing tree.