New Pictures!!

Here are some new pictures of the kids. I just love getting pictures taken.

I can't believe Paige has enough hair for pigtails at only 7 months! She is sitting up now as you can see. She is really a very good-natured baby and stays happy most of the time although we couldn't get her to smile that day. She is eating food now and even though she is my smallest baby she is making up for it by being such a good eater!
Dylan is looking so grown-up in these pictures. He thinks he is grown up too and wants to do everything himself! If only his independent streak extended to wanting to go potty himself. Ah well--someday.
Here is Courtney in her first official school picture. We tried to put curls in her hair that day and it only partly worked. She was happy with it though so I guess that is what counts. She is loving school and feels like such a big girl.

It's pumpkin patch time!

Ok so this is my favorite time of year. Some other ladies in the ward and I decided to take a trip to EZ Orchards so that the kids could pick out a pumpkin. It was so much fun! I know I look ridiculous in this picture but it is the only one with Paige in it and the kids look good anyway. We took a hayride out to the pumpkin patch. They were allowed to pick any pumpkin they could lift by themselves. It was a muddy day, but it never rained!Dylan LOVED the tractor. Then we went out to the apple orchard to pick an apple--they were huge! After that we went through the corn maze. There was a slide in the middle and all the kids got dirty sliding down. They had a few farm animals for the kids to see at the end. Courtney even enjoyed looking at the animals there since they had baby piglets. In her mind only baby animals are not to be feared. She thought they looked just like Wilbur from Charlotte's Web. We were given hot cider and a donut to finish things off. It was difficult to get them to leave so we could make it back home for Courtney's bus. Later we drew pictures on our pumpkins. Courtney's is a princess of course and Dylan's is Batman. Please excuse my lack of artistic skill.