October has been such an AMAMZING month..and it's not even over!!

So far this month has been a great one! We had the opportunity to have Panks and Payten come for a visit! It was so much fun watching the kids play...well Payson pick on Payten and have a good time together! We decided to take the kids out for some pictures just for fun! Here are a few of Payson!

While they were here we ventured up to The North Pole and got to ride all sorts of rides and feel like we were in Christmas land in October!!!

I barely fit in this ride!!

Payson loved the chair lift!

The Candy Cane super slide!

Panks was a good sport to ride the spinny rides with the kids while I closed my eyes and took pictures!!

Getting ready for the roller coaster!! Payson squealed with excitement the whole time! He is soo is Dad's kid!

Bathtime for the babies!!

After the girl went home, the next day Melissa came back to play!! We got to go to an apple orchard and pick apples and of course take adorable pictures of this sweet little boy who always seems to be following me around!

He looks sad in this but I still love it!

Picking apples with Mommy!

Way to capture the moment! Thanks "Issa"

Payson was the same size as the box!

Some of the yummy apples that we picked and then brought home and baked!

After the apple orchard we drove up to The Royal Gorge and took a sweet train ride around the rim!

Payson waiting to board the train!

Our conductor and some of our view!

Holding my hair down from the wind. That is the Royal Gorge bridge behind us! Shayne and I are going to ride the Sky Coaster over it when he comes home!!

We had such a great time and stopped and ate at a 50's diner on the way home and had some fried pickles! We were supposed to go to a pumpkin patch the next day but Payson got very sick. :( He is doing lots better now and we are preparing for our end of the month fun in AZ!!!

Oh Happy Day!!

About a month ago I sent a small tape recorder to Shayne so he could record some songs for Payson so he could "help me" sing him to sleep at night. He recorded all of the songs and had a Soldier who was coming home for R&R and sent the package with him to mail to us when he got back to the states. Well this morning the Soldier showed up at our house to hand deliver the package. He wanted to make sure it got to us safely! I knew immediately what is was and was very excited to open it!! I opened it up and turned it on and Payson's whole face lit up like it was Christmas!! He was very excitedly chanting "Papa Papa!" I handed him the recorder and he refused to give it back!! He was so excited!! I am so excited to have Shayne's beautiful voice back in our home! What a great day!!

Apparently Colorado Has A Fall Frosty Freeze!!

I know this picture has nothing to do with a frosty freeze but I just had to post it! He was looking so handsome for church today!! I cannot wait for his Papa to come home and see what a big boy he is in his suit!!! I love this kid so much!!

These on the other hand, are very frosty pictures!!! We woke up to what looked like snow but upon closer evaluation we realized it was ice! SOLID ICE! No snow about it! Some of the pictures look like there is snow in the background, but I promise it is all ice. WARNING!!: You may want to put on a coat before looking at these pictures because I guarantee they will make you cold just seeing them!!!

These are the rocks in my front yard...they were so slick that I had to sit in them rather than squat on them to take a picture because I kept falling!!


This is what WAS my beautiful green grass...now it is beautiful white grass!

Shayne's car had about 1/2 an inch thick of ice on the whole thing!! Thank goodness my car was in the garage so we did not have to do any scraping before church!

Here are some of my Fall decorations...

This was a spiderweb!!! I thought that looked so cool!

Yesterday before we realized how cold it was, Panks had a swell idea to go for a walk!!! The kids were less than thrilled to put on giant coats...as you can tell!!! They definitely were not complaining once we were outside though!!!

I am hoping for some warmer weather this week so I can take Payson out to take some nice pictures!! This morning everything was so icy and slick that after I was done being a crazy woman walking outside, I tried to walk back up my driveway but it was too slippery!! I couldn't even crawl! I had to walk all the way around to the back to get into my house! It was pretty funny but I was so frozen that I could hardly move my mouth to talk!!! We got a good laugh out of that!!