Singing in the rain

Normally I don't do extreme actions on my pictures, but for some reason, I really feel like this helps capture the feeling of how much fun the boys were having in the rain.

 Our boys really don't have the opportunity for snow, so they've learned to play in the rain quite well.

 For some reason, little boys (at least mine) love puddles. They jumped into that puddle at least a dozen times in a few minute span.

Nothing like running around in the rain in order to have a great time. We went in after this and had some hot chocolate to warm up. Not quite the same as snow and sledding, but you take what you can get.

The start of the Irish Dancer

Adie started with Irish Dance this fall. Her first organized performance was at the Tucson Celtic Festival. 

 At least she's not like her dad and sticking her tongue out when she's focused.

Focused, isn't she?

Halloween

Yea, Halloween, I know, but at least it isn't Halloween 2014 yet.

 Chase was Jon Schmidt for Halloween. He loves listening to the Piano Guys. If you're not familiar with them you should be.

 Sabrina decided to make an actual costume this year, and be Minnie Mouse. Yea, look at her be crafty like that.

 Halloween night, on the way to pick up loot. Adie is Belle. Definite Disney theme this year. Her awesome aunt Kati made the dress for her for a princess tea party they did earlier this year.

 Parker loves being Mickey Mouse. He still refers to those shoes he's wearing in the picture as his Mickey shoes.

The night of the ward trunk or treat. Doesn't Adie look thrilled to be there? (I didn't think she would start getting an attitude until she was a teenager.)

Watch your kids, or else...

Or else they get into the fire pit and cover themselves in soot.

Here we go

We're catching up (I'm catching up since Sabrina has given up on the blog I think). Over the next couple weeks, I'll try to catch up on what we've been doing. Fortunately I've taken almost no pictures the last month or so. That will help. This will be pictures+commentary. Hopefully you're able to enjoy it.

This was at the Sahuarita Town party thing. Kids really liked getting face paint. 

Here's a sequence of the kids riding horses. For me, it's kind of fun, because I have a picture that looks very similar to this of me when I was between Parker and Chase's age. 

 

The boys love tractors/farm equipment. So of course they would want to take their picture in front of this.

Gilbert temple

We had the chance to go to the Gilbert temple open house today. It was enjoyable aside from the fact that our kids were cranky, Chase was getting sick, it was almost 90 degrees and we were outside for close to an hour. To be honest, it is a beautiful building, but we we shuffled through so quickly that we really didn't have a chance to enjoy being there. Anyway, here are a couple shots of the day. These are all shots from our phones, since we didn't bring the big camera along.

 

Line number two. We've made it through the first part where we watched an interesting movie about the temple and about the area.

 In the end, this about sums up the day.

 Yup. Definitely sums up the day.

  The temple was quite pretty though.

Hanging out in the Canyon Part 2

So, this is the grandma post section. If you don't feel the urge to peruse our children's pictures, we won't begrudge you, but they really are good pictures.