Preschool holiday field trip!

Trying to smile for a picture but mesmerized by a Train!

Happy to be by the Train!

Owen with his class!

Owen's pre school took a field trip to the Belagio Gardens Christmas display. The boys had a great time obsessing over the train. I forced Owen to look at the Christmas ornaments and other displays so I could get a picture. He was mad and pouty until we went back to the train!

Green Family Picture

We took this while in Utah for our Thanksgiving trip. We had not had a  family pic for  about 5 years! 4 new grandkids and a sister in law have been added since. It was great to spend time with everyone especially Jared's brother Adam who left for his year tour in Afghanistan just after our visit. 

Santa Train

Owen and Caleb both love trains more like obsessed with trains! This was the perfect activity, mixing something they love with something they are afraid of, SANTA! Last year they freaked when we tried to get them get a pic with Santa, this year was a little better!
If you live in Vegas the Santa Train is only $4! It was really fun!

Thanksgiving

We took our annual Thanksgiving trip to Utah and had a great time visiting with family, friends and playing in the snow!

One of many Bass Pro shops trips

Happy Halloween

I am so happy Owen wanted to be a spider and not a Spiderman or some other man type costume. I had two cute cuddly creatures and nothing scary or grown up looking. I just want them to be my cute little boys forever.

On Friday night the boys and I had a fun at the trunk or treat and came away with tons of candy. Owen impatiently waited for the trunk or treat to begin, I tried to hold them off with some of the games and yummy scones offered but that was no match for wanting to get candy. Caleb soon realized how fun it was to hold out a plastic jack o lantern and have people put candy inside of it. He wanted to open every piece of candy as it was handed to him!

On Halloween night we had a great time handing out candy to the kids who came to trick or treat at our house. Penny barking, Caleb screaming and Owen running to the door every time the bell rang, it was fun. I took Owen to our neighborhood party early in the evening and then Jared took him down the street to a few houses in the neighborhood.

Too much candy and a lot of fun this Halloween weekend!

Preschool Party

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Caleb and I helped out at Owens’s preschool Halloween party. The kids wore Halloween colors, had fun painting and decorating cookies amongst many other fun activities. He may look serious in these pictures but he was having a great time, smiling and laughing until of course I tried to take a picture! Love my Owen!

pumpkin patch

A pumpkin patch in Vegas is a place where you can purchase pumpkins for an outrageous price or take advantage of the fun rides and petting zoo. Owen and Jared climbed and slid down the giant slide, Owen LOVED it. Both boys bounced as long as we would let them in the bouncy house and Owen rode on a big swing ride. Caleb's favorite was the petting zoo and could not stop saying "animals, animals". Owen chased around some chickens and kept putting wood chips on one of the chickens back. Eventually one of the chickens turned around and pecked his hand! LOL!

Oregon visit.

Took the boys on a plane from Vegas to Portland, without Jared to help. I was really nervous about the flight, they both did great. I am proud of all of us. We visited our friends the Henderson's, minus the husbands who were fishing in Utah. We both have two boys, Owen and Alec are the same age, then Caleb 19mo. and Miles 8mo. Caleb desperately wanted to do everything the big boys did and he did everything he could to keep up. We had a great time catching up and keeping the boys entertained with various outings around Eugene. The day we flew in was Owens’s actual birthday, Meagan had party decorations and cupcakes waiting for Owen, it was nice. The pumpkin patch was by far my favorite and we picked out a cute little pumpkin to bring home on the plane with us. Most of the trip the boys were easily entertained just hanging out playing with toys at the house. We loved the cooler weather, I thought we would freeze but it was a breath of fresh air. Back home Owen began cursing the sun. He said he wanted to shoot it out of the sky, told it to go away numerous times and said quit burning my eyes sun! We walked out of the store and both boys put their heads down and closed their eyes. Caleb said owe eyes, eyes. Oh and yesterday, the sun came out and ruined our rain, according to Owen. I guess the boys both loved the extra cloud cover of the Northwest!