Fall Funness

I was surprised that we didn't have this picture up here yet. This is the harvest of the carrots that we grew at our Epic garden this year. Sadly they only lasted about a month or so with our kiddos eating them up the way they did.

Right before our trip out to Minot, ND we went raspberry picking. Here is Wesley getting some goods. He really enjoyed this so much that he insisted we go back a second time and bring some along for the Minot grandparents.

This is near the start of our hunt for the juicy ones.

Kairi was starting to get grumpy since she couldn't pick any raspberries herself. This was our final product of our first trip. Chris turned the berries into a delicious pie for all of us.



Enjoy some raspberry picking fun!

See I told you we went to Minot. We got to do loads of things like visit relatives and parks and clean houses etc. Here you can see Wesley and Brie getting ready for a family reunion picnic lunch.

I bet you can't guess where this picture was taken! If I am correct it was at the Scandinavian Heritage park. We are standing under a giant painted horse. I am holding Katelyn. Kairi is on the stroller and Wesley is flying.

Speaking of Wesley the boy is absolutely obsessed with trains. They are his best friends, so we engaged in a train hunt with him in Minot. Here is a good shot of the girls and him and dad on a train bridge just before we caught a train passing underneath it. Let me tell you moving trains are some cool things.

As part of our vacation in Minot, Chris and I escaped one night on a date. We ate at Royal Fork, and went mini-golfing at some peoples backyard. That was one hard course! Then we went bowling and then came back in time to still put the girls to bed. Grandma seemed a little surprised, but I guess we are just fast at playing games and stuff.

Here are some goofs riding on a banana at the new office building section at that one work place.

Can you find the sleeping bear in this picture? This is at the Milwaukee Zoo. We really came here for the train ride, but the animals are cool too.

The train ride! Wesley says boom and wow, if you can't tell. I love the little jump.

Um. This is a picture of me. I may have finished writing a story that I started back in high school and published it. However, me being me, I still don't know if I like it. I go back and forth most of the time trying to decide if it's good or not. Chris says it's good. I do like the cover though. I took that picture myself!

Wesley insited on me making him a castle for his trains one day. He kept telling me that I hadn't made it for him yet until I finally got around to it. Here is what I made. Half the things I do with art projects are made out of our many diaper boxes. Ah. Diapers. Enjoy the classic Wesley smile.

Kate on the left and Kairi on the right are holding up their heads and almost crawling! So exciting, except that now it is a little old news. They are getting everywhere these days and it's tricky to keep them out of Wesley's legos (pictured somewhere below). They love walking and are getting close to doing that on their own. My fingers are crossed. Perhaps Santa will have them walking for Christmas then I wouldn't have to get climbed on so much. :)

All aboard! And tickets please. Three kids get a custom homemade train ride (practically every day) in diaper boxes.

Here we go! This has spurred Wesley's lego making creativity. One day he grabbed the bucket of legos which he used to only use for the cars we'd made him and started tinkering. For hours I heard that kid telling me "I'm making toodles!" Here is the finished product. He had to show "toodles" off for a few days afterwards.

Here are some of his recent makings. You can see on the left a train station with train tracks in the front. There are two trains and a hopper car and a windmill and a smoke stack...

Kairi here is giving you all a musical concert.

For our Halloween fun this year we went back to the pumpkin patch and rode the barrel train ride.

We played in a hay maze. Wesley loved that part.

And we floated some ducks down the ramps. This was another favorite.

You've got to love this smile face he puts on. :) Here he is playing in some corn kernels at the back of the maze.

This year he did such a good job of picking a pumpkin that did not have a pokey stem.

I signed Chris up to make a pie for our ward Fall Festival. He made a cool banana cream pie. It was the best decorated one out there. Sadly it did not win first place although I don't know why. It was tasty!

Ta Dah! People have been asking me for a picture of our halloween costumes. I sewed up some towel ducks for the twins to match one that Wesley already had and boom; instant costume. It was a little hard to keep the hoods on the girls head though. Oh and before anyone asks, Chris always does something random to his face around this time of year.
In my spare time, ha ha, in the time I took to be spare time, I made some office decorations for Chris since his place had only white walls. They're a little random and all of them feature hidden diaper boxes. Well except for the toilet paper roll flowers. :)

The End! I hope you enjoyed the quick post for our last two months of living.