Pumpkin patch, pots and pans, Moab

The leaves are down

One big wind storm and the trees are ready for winter! The "forever" greens, as Colter calls them, now stand out on the mountainside. It has been a busy week or so and I am tired. We went to Moab last weekend and enjoyed 60 degree weather while it snowed and blowed back home. Some time at our favorite music park, some nice walks around town and some great yard time. Trevor went on a long motorcycle ride and Colter went with him for a four wheeler ride the next day. It was nice to get away and cold when we came home. The rest of this week has been sunny and mild (atleast in the middle of the day) and we have been soaking it up. Our new addiction around here???? FACEBOOK. Geez, I just figured out this blogging thing and then we gave in to those relentless Friend requests from Facebook. Now, Trevor and I are sitting next to each other on the couch, each with our computers looking up old friends from high school and checking in on people that we still see around town. Nice social life eh?
Dylan is getting to be such a little person. He still climbs and runs and jumps and twists and moves and moves and moves.....now he is starting to communicate a bit more and is asserting himself even more with other children. Was that a nice way of saying that he is stealing other kids toys and running? Colter is full of action and funny comments. Trevor's parents arrived last night and he proceeded to tell story after story at the dinner table including hand gestures, sound effects and appropriate punch lines. He decided tonight that he wants to go to Iceland like Aunt Ruth and ride in the boats that have wheels, we were looking at pictures on Facebook---- and then he asked "hey mom, where's Frog?" (Prague is where Ruth lives) Tonight after a discussion about borrowing another of Roark's toys and me telling him that he can only borrow one at a time, we came home to get the toy and go back and trade, he says "mom I want to borrow all of the cars, oh wait mom, my brain is talking to me" What is it saying Colter? "It is saying "only one car at a time, only one car at a time."" They can be taught! More from the land of off season later...

Beautiful day in the park

The first three pictures were from our adventure to Town Park today. We met up with friends Annika and her 6 month old Rider and also Sarah who is expecting Baby Stogner any day now. It was one of those amazing sunny, warm fall days that makes me love the season so much. We floated leaves down the river, made giant piles of leaves and jumped in them and took some great pictures! The fourth pic is from the window of my car as we were driving up valley near Illium and the last picture is from our deck! That is the view from our living room right now. I love it! Colter and Dylan loved playing in the fallen leaves and throwing them up in the air and at each other- a classic childhood comfort memory! Dylan is sliding down the hill in his picture, he truly has no fear these days. He is in constant motion and is starting to really get his big brother's attention- good and bad. Dylan loves everything Colter does and imitates as much as possible. For instance, Dylan watched Colter climb up in our tall barstools today to get something off of the chest height bar and then figured it out for himself and did it ten more times! Colter did have a good time teaching Dylan how to spin around in circles until they both fell over dizzy.

Last weekend we went to a birthday party and Oktoberfest. Both fun, but the weather was not ideal and luckily we were expecting a lot more snow than we actually received. Good news for me.

Thought I would add two more pictures to this post of me and the boys--

Photo from my phone

I'm trying out my new "crackberry" phone. Soon these phones will take over the world! Hopefully, there will be a beautiful picture of the aspen trees that Colter and I took from the gondola.