Gardner Village & some camera time.

I think it's safe to say that it's a tradition to go to Gardner Village's Witchfest with the girls every year. I went a few times when I was younger then we started it back up last year after Beckett was born. It was a bit harder this year because Beckett is one energetic boy, but we still had a good time. They have these big, hilarious witches set up all over and Beckett did not like them one bit. We finished with dinner at Archibalds, delish.

 

We also took some family pictorials the other day. I wanted to catch Beckett at this cute age. We were lucky to get a few where he would sit still....for half a second. On our way back to the car Beckett decided to check out the railing.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Hahahaha, this kid makes me laugh so hard everyday, I love it. Here are some others....

Red Butte's Garden After Dark

This Halloween season we checked out Garden After Dark at Red Butte. They had a lot of stuff set up for kids, tons of arts & crafts, a maze, a haunted forest, pumpkin painting, face painting, etc. It was pretty cold outside but we walked around and checked it all out. Beckett painted his own pumpkin all by himself. Beckett was a little too young for most of it but I think he still had fun. As long as this kid is outside he is having fun!

 

Pumpkified

We have filled our month of October with everything pumpkin. It's been awesome, especially for Josh, the king of pumpkin lovin'. We went to the Petersen Family Farm in South Jordan this year to pick our pumpkins. I've never been to a pumpkin patch before so i'm glad I finally got to do it. We got some fabo pumpkins, Beckett got a cute one plus 2 tiny pumpkins that he loves throwing around the house. Boys. I have also been conjuring up some pumpkin recipes to satisfy Josh's cravings, the latest was Pumpkin Croissants that we enjoyed while watching conference. Cheers to the holidays:)

September Latelies

Oh, I love fall. I can't say i'm excited for winter but the cooler weather is a welcome change. This is definitely Josh's favorite time of year.....football season. Needless to say we have been watching a whole lot of football!! We have also....

 

Gone to Oktoberfest in Sandy

 

I made homemade fruit leather (simple & easy recipe). It's delish.

 Celebrated our 3rd anniversary

 and the best of all....played and watched my beautiful little boy grow. He is such a cute little man, I love him so much :) He is a total boy and attention seeker. He loves animals and can identify his animal sounds now. He loves his baths....and climbing on the kitchen table. He is getting super smart and follows simple directions. Oooh I love him!

 B playin' at Grandma/Gpa Stape's

3 Year Anniversary

Josh & I celebrated our 3 year anniversary yesterday, it was a low-key but a fun day. Our anniversary landed on a Tuesday night in the middle of the work week so we got a sitter for B and went out to dinner to The Cheesecake Factory downtown. We also walked around Temple Square and took our traditional anniversary pic. I got spoiled by Josh....he got me a nice, new camera :)

Half Marathon

This weekend Josh competed in his first half marathon. It was in Spanish Fork so we had to get up at the crack of dawn & leave (5:30am). Beckett was such a trooper, he didn't whine or cry at all. He didn't even fall back asleep in the car. Josh ended up doing FANTASTIC! He didn't even get to train that much but he got a great time, 1 hr 45 min. He got 2nd place in his age division...woop woop! His parents were able to come and watch him run across the finish line, it all turned out great.

 My little sister, Bree, stayed this weekend too while my parents were enjoying the sunny beaches of Florida. We had some fun, painted nails, shopped, and she did a whole lot of playing with Beckett & Romeo.

Labor Day Fun

Oh, how wonderful it is to get a day off of work to play! You bet that we used that day to it's fullest. We got up and went right over to the Tracy Aviary. Beckett loved looking at all the birds, he loves animals! After our fun there we grabbed lunch and went back to the park. After we were eating Beckett started running around the grass and playing like a boy should when all of a sudden he let out a blood curdling scream. I ran over and he had a hornet stuck in his little finger. I had to pull the stinger out of his finger, it was so sad. Beckett cried in pain and kept grabbing his swollen finger for a couple of hours after that. Luckily, he fell asleep and when he woke up he had forgotten about it. That night we had a neighborhood BBQ....they went all out. They had a helicopter land in the field and a couple demonstrations from the police dogs-fun for B to see. He is growing up so fast I can't believe it! He gets smarter everyday and continually amazes us at how much of a little boy he is now. Love that little guy.