October

October started with Kade reaching 3 months! He started smiling and sleeping more. He loves watching his brother and thinks dad is the funniest. But mostly he just wants his mom to hold him. ALL. DAY. LONG.

Nate had some red Gatorade Spencer spilled one morning so I took his shirt off and he promptly spilled it all over his undies. This was the result.

We went to the Birds of Prey fall flights and saw the great horned owl, the "bald seagull", the falcons, hawks, and all the other birds.

Nate did lots of hiking in Sun Valley trying to get his elk, but after 3 years of successful hunting, his percentage is now 75%. One of the weekends he was gone I took the boys to the Farmstead to go through the monster. It was crowded and waaaay overpriced and Spencer got scared so I mostly drug him through it. After that we made the most of it and it ended up being kinda fun. But next year we're sticking to Linder Farms.

He was so cold he stole my jacket (how many times can a mom remind her kid to wear/bring a jacket?!) and also so upset it was time to go!

Speaking of Linder Farms, we made a trip there with our friends too! It was lots of fun and the kids did the pony ride, fed all the animals, rode the train, and played and played in the cornbox (that I just about fell into).

making good use of the ergo.

Kade woke up for the hayride.

cute best buddies!

Nate and I did a virtual 5k (yep, that's a real thing) and got matching shirts and medals! We also celebrated 5 years of marriage by going go-karting at Fast Lane and then downtown to Bardenay which was delicious!! Nate ordered the best pork chop and I got a really good salmon! The funniest part was when the couple right next to us (my only 2 complaints with the the place, no hostess so you seat yourselves, and the tables are reeeeally close together) ordered the exact same entrees as us. 

Bekah, Codi and I had one last girls night before Bekah moved to Weiser and ended up at Blaze Pizza and Sodalicious! We missed Jourdan but sure had fun and laughs!

We did LOTS of trick-or-treating with our Hookfang dragon and baby pumpkin. We scored by getting tooons of candy at Oma's office. They always go all out there and this year was no different! Spencer's favorite part was the section decorated like Jurassic Park. We walked through at least 3 times! Oma's section did Will Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and she was Augustus Gloop. we also trick-or-treated at the nursing home in Eagle and at the ward trunk-or-treat and then with dad on Halloween! Spencer had SO. MUCH. CANDY!

this is Spencer and his buddy Tate at the ward trunk-or-treat. I wish I had snapped a picture of Tate in his ADORABLE homemade bulldozer costume. It was amazing!!

We went through the Meridian temple open house and it was really beautiful and crowded! We even ran into our wards' sister missionaries who are the cutest and we just love them! They are so sweet with our boys and we think they've done more for our ward than all the previous elders combined!

I had to include this comparison. We all got a kick out of it. Those bug-eyes and double chin sure do remind us of Uncle Fester!

And some Spencer funnies:

October 6

Spencer: I love fruit snacks, they're my favorite food...except bacon.

October 24

I'd been binging on a new podcast and the beginning she says, "I'm Jody Moore and you're listening to bold new mom." So we're in the car and the podcast picks up where I left off in the middle of an episode and after a few minutes Spencer asks, "is this Jody Moore?"

October 30

Spencer caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror and said, "Hey! What's my bro doin' in here?!"

and just a cute picture of a big brother having a serious talk with his baby brother.

Oh, and in October I won tickets through a Facebook contest to Bill Engvall at the Morrison Center in January! I don't think I've ever won anything before!!

September

September started with the Boise Balloon Classic bright and early! I love this tradition. We ran into some extended family, Brandon and Tangi, they were part of the Star Wars crew (he was one of the storm troopers). And then I even ran into my friend Melissa from high school! It was so fun to chat with her, meet her not-so-new baby, AND we learned her daughter even loves dinosaurs!

Don't you think Nate is rocking the baby carrier??

We made a trip to the zoo with our BFFs and thankfully their moms are really good at taking pictures!

My mom and I decided to join my sister last minute and do a triathlon. Even though I was the slowest of the 3 of us, I won for my age group! Haha. And for 10 weeks postpartum I was pleased with how I did. The biking was significantly harder than I was prepared for and I wouldn't recommend a 1 speed.

We hiked up to Table Rock with my dad and Kade did  awesome for his first time in the ergo, sleeping most of the way. Spencer also did awesome and hiked the whole way up and down by himself. When we got to the top her yelled, "I can see everything from us here, even the ocean!" We didn't have the heart to tell him it wasn't the ocean after he worked so hard to get there.

Near the end of the month we ran in the YMCAs Race for Steaks. Nate did the 15k and me, my sister, and brother in law did the 5k. It was my favorite run to date and mostly because they fed us a catered steak dinner at the end, and a little because I beat my brother in law;). There was also a kids race before the adult race so Spence ran with his cousins and it was pretty darn cute!
Nate choked on the steak which was for sure my least favorite part.

Not my most flattering pic, but proof I did it

Allison and Dallin came to visit to keep up with their every-two-week visit. They actually came to run a race but it was fun seeing so much of them this summer! They both did awesome and it was fun to go cheer them on with their kids! Allison actually won the half marathon which was fun to be there for! And Dallin got (I think) 9th in the marathon (they're nuts)!

Afterward we stopped at my parents to let the runners cool off in the pool. And even though we forgot the kids' swimsuits it didn;t stop them!

Nate entertaining the big kids 

(I can't fine my pic of the babies in the stroller)

who needs swimsuits?!

me and Lizzy twinning!

Nate and I were also video interviewed by one of the cute youth from our ward in PA, though I guess she's not a youth anymore, she's a young adult at BYU-I! She interviewed us about our relationship for a class and it was so fun to see her and her brother, and I hope we gave her some good material but I'm not positive we did that .;)

no pix of this, so here's one of his first baby smiles

Funny things Spencer said in September (at least the one I remembered to write down):
September 7: Spencer at the dinner table: mmmm, this is good! Thanks for making dinner, Linds!

the big 2 month old, sneezing during his photo shoot!

August

August 2 our baby was 1 month old!! Time with him has just flown and I want him to stay my sweet little baby a while longer! But at the same time we are loving watching him grow and change. And watching him and Spencer interact more is adorable. They already love each other and I am convinced they were best buddies in heaven and are so excited to be reunited! Kade loves when Spencer plays next to or on top of him, he will smile the whole time and watch him until he's out of sight.

When Kade was 7 weeks old we blessed him in church. Uncle Brayden flew in from SC for the week (we missed Madison!), grandma and grandpa from Tucson came up, Jake and Emily came in from Rexburg, Allison and Dallin came down from Pullman, and even Aaron and Alyssa (who luckily happened to be in Utah) came up! It was so fun to have so much family here and to celebrate Kade! We had lots of fun going to the Western Idaho Fair, eating out, hiking Adelmann mine, swimming and BBQ-ing, and cramming everyone into our little house :)

While everyone was here they went hiking and had a pool party, it was so fun to have so many people we love here!

Naturally, Nate gave our boy the sweetest blessing and Kade was lucky to have so many men who love him standing in the circle around him. He was blessed to be strong and listen to the spirit, to have strength to withstand trials, blessed to be a pillar of strength, he was blessed to see light and truth in this world, and to seek to serve the Lord. We sure love this baby and feel so blessed that he picked us to be his family!

The Monday following the blessing was another big day, August 21, the solar eclipse! Nate took the day off work so we woke up early and drove up to Garden Valley to view it in totality. I was a little hesitant to go but I'm so glad I did! Boise/Nampa was supposed to see 99% totality which I thought would be good enough, but it's amazing what difference that 1% makes! Seeing totality was worth it, and I'm SO glad Nate talked me into going, even if it did take us twice as long to get home.

On Kade's one month birthday, I left him with Nate for the first time to have a girl's night to celebrate Bekah's birthday! It was so fun to get have dinner and frosties with the girls and Kade, Nate and Spencer did great! 

We spent lots of time playing outside, trying to catch up on summer after spending a week or so inside after Kade was born.

We went to Smoky the Bear's birthday party and played in the splash pad

My cousin Jake got married. 

They released doves. 

When Spencer saw them he yelled, "Look, marry birds!"

We went on lots of walks to lunch at the park with our friends! 

We even spent some REALLY hot days at jump time!

We love summer!

And here's some funny moments from the month of August:
August 17
Spencer: It stinks in here, it smells like dad!

August 28
For 2 weeks Nate and I have been backing our car out of the garage, stopping, and getting out to close it using the key pad because when pressed, the garage door opener in the car would just cause the light in the garage to blink a bunch. We thought the battery died and we just hadn't had time to replace it. So today I bought new batteries only to find out it wasn't the batteries at all. The opener on the wall in the garage has a "lock" button that had been pressed. All I had to do was push it again to unlock it.

August 31
Trying to teach Spencer "guess what? chicken butt!"
Me: guess what?
Spencer: what?
Me: chicken butt! Guess who?
Spencer: who?
Me: chicken poo! Guess why?
Spencer: why?
Me: chicken thigh!
Spencer: mom guess what?
Me: what?
Spencer: tiger bum.