Autumn: Leaves and Snow

The last two weekends in a row, we've had cousins over! It's been fun to play with the Killpacks and the Gerrards.  With the Killpacks it was still warm enough to go to the park and play.  The following weekend, when the Gerrards stayed over, there was more than enough snow to build a snowman! Gotta love fall in Wyoming!

It was a beautiful fall day!

Two peas in a pod!

All the girls had matching hair! So fun!

And the next weekend, we had the Gerrard kids stay with us Friday and Saturday, and we had lots of fun! We built a snowman, went to the Halloween Walk at the State Historical Site at Fort Bridger (super fun!!), and played lots of games and made good memories! The Halloween Walk was SO cute, it was at night, and they had you walk all around the fort, into several of the houses and buildings, and at different stops they would "spook" you, and then you could trick or treat at some stops.  We dressed up all the kids in their snow clothes because there was still lots of snow on the ground, and they stayed nice and warm.  I wish I could have taken some pictures, but it was way too dark.  At the end, they took us into the stockade where there was a nice warm campfire and hot chocolate and apple cider to drink.  Then they gave us a hayride back to our car.  It was really cute and fun for the kiddos, although some of them got a little scared of the spooky parts (mostly Claire and Evie, and Kynslee a little bit). 

I tell you what, it is not easy to build a snowman with seven children all 6 and under! Luckily Shaelyn took a nap in the car during the snow fun, so it was really only six kids, but still, difficult.  The kids had a blast though! A few snow pics:

Carsten making a snow angel

Evie trying to make a snow angel

Claire making a pouty face.

Look at that beautiful girl!

Taylor missing her front teeth!

Kynslee--mostly just toddling around.

Our very short snowman.  When there's only one adult, it goes a lot slower.  And all the toddlers were saying they had to go potty and they wanted lunch, so our snowman was shorter than expected.  Ah, well. It was still fun to play in the snow.

Since we don't have a yard right now, we built it in Grandma and Papa's yard.

 And a few other autumn pictures:

I always try to do homemade costumes, and so this year we have a ghost, a witch, and a BYU cheerleader.  This was the day I made Hallie's costume and gathered up all the materials for the other girls' costumes.  Of course they wanted to try them on right away. 

Claire had to do a pumpkin book report in which she had to decorate a pumpkin like the head of the main character in her book.  We read a Curious George book, and this is the best I could do for Curious George.  Although I think he kinda looks more like Winnie the Pooh.  What can I say? My artistic skills are mediocre at best.

First snow of the season! The girls all bundled up waiting for the bus. 

 I love fall! So many fun things to do together!