Halloween!

Last night was our ward's Trunk or Treat. It started off with a yummy Soup and Pie cook-off (we won the prize for the best pie...Recipe coming soon to Smithalicious). After eating, everyone went outside to Trick or treat at each car. We all had a great time. Here are the pictures of our costumes. If you look closely at my costume you will see the announcement we made last night.

Here is Deker as our cute little White Tiger. He wasn't a huge fan of the hood and kept taking it off.
Here is Keagan as "Mr. Giraffe". Last night, we put Keagan's costume on and then I said "Keagan, go upstairs and get some socks". He said "I'm Mr. Giraffe". I then had to say "Mr. Giraffe, go upstairs and get some socks". To which he then said "O.K." It was like that with everything.

Here is Andrew all dressed up as Spaghetti & Meatballs and ready to give out Candy to the Trunk or Treater's.

Here is a picture of the whole family.

All in a Day

Today we had the privilege of having Daddy home all morning and afternoon (he had to go into work tonight at 7:00 to drive truck all night). First thing this morning Andrew went out and mowed our lawn. We bundled Keagan up with his coat, hat & gloves, but since Deker has a little cold, we decided it best if he stayed inside. He sat in our window seat and watched Daddy out the window the ENTIRE time he was out there. At one point I even tried to get him dressed but he went straight from the window in our room to the window in the dinning room. Then when Andrew went to the front lawn, he was pretty sad until I opened the front window blinds and showed him where Daddy was.
Keagan has loved to "play" the piano for quite some time. He puts his songbook up on the piano, turns pages and plays and sings songs. He even sometimes makes up his own songs. Deker has recently discovered the joy the playing the piano as well. Usually, he would just stand on one side of the bench and play, this afternoon he insisted on getting up on the bench with Keagan. It was a cute moment that I just had to capture.

Deker

Cleaning
Deker has decided that he likes to clean the floor. In the past week or so, I have seen him using anything from his socks to rags. Tonight after dinner, I was cleaning up the kitchen and wiping down the countertops. I put my rag down for a minute to put something away and when I went to grab it again, I couldn't find it. I started looking around and Deker had taken off the counter and was wiping the floors. He then spent the next 10 minutes or so, going to different places and "wiping" the floor.

Deker's First Haircut

The boys have been needing their hair cut for a while now, so tonight we actually got around to it. This normally would be anything blog worthy, but today was Deker's first haircut so I wanted to make sure it was documented. He didn't think to much of it, but we got it done in the end.

Trip to Salt Lake

Two weekends ago, we went to Salt Lake to be with my sister, Jeanette & her husband Jeff for the blessing of their twin girls. We had a great time visiting with my family that weekend. On Saturday, we went to Wheeler Farm and fun feeding the ducks, looking at all the animals, going on a tractor pulled hay ride, went throughout the corn/hay maze (much better for kids than adults) and we each picked a pumpkin.

That that my sister-in-law Matti threw an amazing Fall party. She had pumpkin shaped bread bowls, yummy soup and homemade rootbeer. After eating, we ate doughnuts from a string and bobbed for apples. The night was completed with yummy dessert and singing Happy Birthday to Andrew because his birthday was in a couple of days.

We had a great time visiting with family and Keagan and Deker really enjoyed playing with their cousins.

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Preschool!

Keagan started Preschool last week and LOVES it. We are doing a co-op preschool this year where each of the Mom's take turns teaching. On Monday we were ready to go about 10 minutes too early (I just had to walk him down the street a few houses) and he kept saying to me "Now I go to preschool Mom" over and over. I am glad that he gets to go, but Deker and I miss him while he's gone. When I tell Deker it is time to go get Keagan, he gets very excited.

In other news....Have you ever seen a white boy with an Afro? One morning this week, I was in my room getting ready for the day and Keagan came into my bathroom and wanted to comb his hair with my pick. He then insisted on taking a picture of him with the pick in his hair. So, here is a picture of Keagan with his lovely Afro.

To the Zoo

This past Friday, Andrew was driving truck for the company he works for (they are helping him get is CDL so that he can start driving full time). Because he was going to be gone all morning & afternoon, I decided to take the boys to the Zoo. We haven't been in a really long time and both boys really enjoyed it. We walked around for a while, then sat and ate the lunch that we brought with us and then finished seeing all the animals. For the fun of it, we wandered into the gift shop at the end and Keagan kept asking if he could have different stuffed animals. The one that has the hardest to say no to was when he picked up the Penquin and said "This Penquin needs to come home with me!".

We had a lot of fun being outside and looking at all the animals. Because Keagan has been into Giraffe's lately, that was his favorite part. Deker's favorite part was anytime I took him out of the stroller and he could try out his new walking skills. Keagan has so much fun, that on Saturday morning when we asked him what he wanted to do that day, he said "Go to the Zoo!".

I haven't yet figured out how to take pictures when I am on outings with the boys. Any tips on keeping both boys together, getting the camera out and getting them to look at you all at the same time would be greatly appreciated. Here are the few that I got of them looking at the camera.