October

October was busy! So. Much. Halloween!

We went to the Discovery Center Halloween party which was a madhouse, but still fun. We ran into a guy I used to work for who let us in on a little secret, that our pass to DCI got us in free to other science museums around the country, including some great dinosaur ones in Utah. We started planning our Christmas drive to Tucson right then!

a cute little dino riding in the chair at the DC

One Saturday when Nate was most likely hunting, I took Spencer to the World Center for Birds of Prey because my dad was taking his scouts. I don't think I had ever been and I was super impressed. Spencer really loved the "bald seagulls" and watching the birds fly right over the crowd during the show was pretty cool. One of the falcons even went rogue and wouldn't come back for like 20 minutes. They said she'd never done that before. I even ran into a friends from high school with his wife and kids which was fun.

We got invited to Nate's Halloween work luncheon, it was lots of fun and his coworkers LOVED Spencer. We ate lots of good food and hung out for a while.

I also threw a "Pumpkin Party" (thanks to Madison for the idea) with my good friend Jourdan, well she did most of the work, but it was so fun and we had such a good turnout! We made soup and had guests bring their favorite pumpkin treat!

We did lots of other fun Halloween things closer to the actual day. I think the weekend before we hit up 3 different events. Spencer went to a Halloween fair at the local St. Als clinic where we ran into lots of friends from our ward and Spencer would only eat the frosting off cupcakes from the cake walk. Then we went to the City of Meridian's halloween block party, it was crazy and there were soooo many people!! Spencer made out like a bandit. We also went to Nampa's downtown trick or treating at local businesses which was really fun and not as crazy, and we met up with Mike, Jourdan, and Markley later on which was perfect! Again, we got lots of candy but Spencer's favorite part was the bounce houses, even with a million kids on them! Lastly, and this was probably my favorite thing we did this year, was we got tickets to go trick or treating at a nursing home, there was only 100 tickets so I was lucky to get us one! It was very low key and they just gave residents a bag of candy to give out, it was warm, quiet, and the residents were so cute and sweet! But, they also had Krispy Kreme donuts there for the parents and that was the real treat!

Also in October, Nate and I celebrated out 4th wedding anniversary! That seems so crazy to me, like it's been that long and also it's only been that long?! at the same time :) For our anniversary this year we got the best surprise that we'd been waiting MONTHS for! This is what I sent Nate that morning

Quote of the month from Spencer 10/02/16
"I don't like ice cream, it's making me cold...and gassy!"