Settling In

So we're back in Utah, back into the swing of things. Picking right up where we left off almost three years ago. It's really good to be back, doesn't really feel like we've been gone actually.

I'm so happy we came back in time for fall! My favorite season in Utah...

One of the fun fall activities I decided to do with the kids was to decorate our pumpkins with vinyl stickers cut from a Cricut machine. My mom grew a bunch of pumpkins in all shapes and sizes so we had lots to work with! I think they turned out cute!
Winter made a brief appearance right before Halloween and gave us snow!
Owen loved it!
Something just doesn't look right here...
All the white stuff melted in time for trick or treating, but we did get some rain that night. The day of we carved our pumpkins, it's funny to live in the "Land of Mormons" again---everyone trick or treated on Saturday the 30th in observance of keeping the Sabbath day special.

Here's Brayden's creation, he did it all by himself from start to finish!
Here's the final finished product, awesome photography, I know. The rain didn't stop our fab four--the older two went off on their own with two different sets of cousins, and Don and I took the younger two with even more cousins.

The kids are enjoying school and church and long play dates with cousins. With our large extended family, there isn't a shortage of cousins in the area--we feel so blessed to be near them and have our kids grow up with them.
Owen and Jace

The boys have been hitting plenty of BYU football, basketball and RSL soccer games. This is one tradition I dearly missed while living in Kansas; sending my boys off to games while us girls have some retail therapy. That's what fall feels like to me!

Here's Brayden with Noah, Sam and Jake at a BYU basketball game. These crazy guys never miss an opportunity to hang out together, and that usually happens a few times a week.

Speaking of hanging out...Owen is getting tons of one on one time with mom and dad.
That will end soon as dad starts his new job this week,
and mom is going to send him to preschool asap.

I can almost taste the sweetness of kid-free time!!

Life in Utah just keeps getting better...