November

November 1, Spencer and I went to our dentist for his annual candy buy back! We had gone earlier in October for a regularly scheduled checkup and Nate and Kade made the flier for the candy buyback! Wish I took a picture of it!

At 6 months, Garrett started standing and trying to walk holding on to furniture. We thought hs was crazy but getting him to move like that started making him happier and sleep better. I also started him on a sleep schedule where if he napped for too long I would wake him up which was the worst feeling ever!!

Spencer turned 6 years old in November!!! I can't hardly believe he's getting so old right before my eyes! He is such a good big brother and he and Kade are developing the sweetest best friendship. I always tell them their brothers are their best friends but the fact that it's coming to fruition makes my heart so happy!

Spencer has always been our dinosaur loving boy. His love has at times transferred to other creatures, but dinosaurs have always been number one and I hope that never changes. But close second is reptiles so for his birthday we had a reptile rescue come with some of her animals. Spencer was in heaven! I'll admit it was pretty awesome too! But I also didn't realize how many people were creeped out by reptiles, I think they're kinda cool!

At Thanksgiving I ran the Turkey Trot with Laila and her friend, it was cold but I didn't puke.

Laila, my mom and I went to the Festival of Trees and watched one of my YW do Irish Dance, it was fun to see and I always love seeing all the decorated trees.

my favorite tree

We spent Thanksgiving in Boise and enjoyed Spencer having a week off school. Spencer started going skiing almost every weekend and is getting pretty good! He's outgrowing his stuff like crazy and he's getting so tall!

how we got things done with Nate was out of town for work

October

Nate and I ran another year of Race for the Steaks. He did the 10k and I did the 5k. Again, I didn't do as well as I wanted because I got sick and puked right near the end. Ugh.

Spencer had a fall carnival at school that we attended as a family. It was a fun time with lots of food, lots of games, we met some of his little buddies and their parents, and Spencer even won a goldfish that has miraculously lived for 6+ months!

Nate and I celebrated 7 years of marriage! Couldn't have asked for a better best friend to get to raise 3 fun boys with! And I guess we didn't take any pictures of the occasion.

fed the baby lots of solids and prunes trying to help him feel better!

I had lofty goals for Halloween this year. I was going to make sea themed costumes for everyone in our family but Nate and I were in full blown survival mode and we were doing the bare minimum to scrape by so that went out the window and luckily the big boys were more than pleased with their minimalist jellyfish and turtle costumes. We made it to a few fun Halloween activities and then Nate won dad of the year taking them trick-or-treating all over which was a hit. They had so much loot!