Fall Happiness

On Monday morning, these two kids and I spent 2.5 hrs in Wal-mart. I love Wal-mart but that was a long time as we waited for new tires on the Accord. We got our grocery shopping all done and then played in the toy section and then had lunch at Subway. I was feeling anxious to get home, but then decided to enjoy my lunch date with these two cuties. 

Tuesday: After gymnastics, we stopped by the park for a few minutes. It was windy so we didn't last long. We loved the fresh air and sunshine though!

The kids played for hours each day with these squishy balls. 

The weather on Wednesday was warm and I was afraid it was our last day of nice fall weather so we ran to the pumpkin patch after school. It wasn't crowded and we loved being outside. 

It was so cute because Eleanor kept saying, "Ride horse."

We went on the hayrack ride out to the pumpkin patch and the kids explored the field looking for pumpkins even though we didn't buy one. I always buy them at the grocery store because they're so much cheaper!

Eli was obsessed with the sports area and cheered when he got a ball through the hole!

We ended our trip with pumpkin donuts! 

More squishy balls. Austin asked if we could buy these plastic snakes for $1 that were at Wal-mart. He's great at using his imagination and being self-entertained so I said yes. 

Eli got out of school early on Thursday and came jumping off the bus eager to tell me about this award that he won. Truth is, I don't know much about this, but he said his teacher read his name for being the Visible Learner from his class! Go Eli!

On Friday, Eli didn't have school so we spent the morning at two parks! Oh how I love when I get to spend the entire day with my 3 kids.

Wendy flew in that evening and I picked her up from the airport! She stayed the night with us and we had a bonfire together and chatted the evening away. It's been awhile since Aaron and I have stayed up past midnight. haha. Wendy played games with the kids and read books to them. We all love Wendy!

Saturday afternoon we dropped Aaron off at the airport as he's working his reserve duty for the next two weeks. We miss him! I'm just glad he wasn't leaving for 6 months. 

Saturday evening was our trunk or treat. I love the idea of family costumes so much, but I also don't want to spend money when we have costumes we can already use. The boys were excited to dress like Bumblebee and the red Power Ranger. I quickly put together a vet costume and Eleanor was my little puppy.

Look at all these happy primary kids! 

I loved church today and the kids were so reverent in sacrament meeting. I texted Aaron and he told me that he prayed they'd behave. I'm also so grateful when he prays for us while we're apart and I feel like his prayers are answered!