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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!
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!
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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!
I asked Owen... " Who do you want to come to your birthday party this year"? Owen replies, "my mom and my dad". I hope that is the answer I get every year. We had a small family party including Jared's parents who flew in from Utah for a weekend visit. All day we tried to do everything Owen wanted to do. Of course opening presents was number one the list, grilled cheese for breakfast, nuggets for lunch, and riding around on his first two wheeler "gear bike" he had been requesting for months, just to name a few. Grandma and Papa let Owen pick out his own birthday this year which ended up being this really awesome power tool set that sounds like real power tools! Who doesn't love the sound of power tools in the morning? :) Now Owen is four. How did that happen so fast?
