Turtles in a half shell...

We were going to go all out as a family for Halloween and have all 3 boys be ninja turtles and I would be april o'neil (if you are unfamiliar with these characters then you really missed out on great 90's cartoons) however I ran out of time finishing mine and David's costumes...it was plenty of work to make two little turtles...anyway, Ben was a very uncooperative Rafael, and Ethan was Leonardo...their full costumes stayed on about 2 seconds but they were darn cute! 

fuzzy, but still cute, he was just too wiggly

The fakest smile ever but still cute! pumpkin carving was much too serious to take a break for a picture!

So he mostly looked concerned and ordered David around the whole time we carved pumpkins...apparently there is a very distinct way it must be done...he ensured that it was done just so, otherwise screeching ensued

Aren't they cute! Love my TMNTurtles

Our ward Young Women had a Halloween Carnival for the primary kids, and Ethan was so delighted to play a game and win a treat...well who wouldn't be right?

I think if I were to cut and paste all of my pictures together I could find a picture of each boy looking at the camera and smiling, but as it stands we are lucky to get anything at all...hence the fact that they are all fuzzy and unfocused! This is what you get when you have two VERY busy boys! We love them and had a blast taking Ethan to a couple of neighbors houses...his phrase of the night..." Mo cheet" (more treats)

 and he promptly sorted out all the suckers once we got home

It's Autumn Time!

So it is autumn time...it feels like the dead of winter now though. Thank goodness we took some walks and played hard in the leaves before the pretty part of autumn came and went seemingly overnight. It warms my heart to see my two boys learning to play together. Typically Ethan is "experimenting" on Ben, but good natured Ben just smiles and laughs...love my two boys, so different but so incredible! Here are some of our adventures of the last couple of weeks!

Playing in the leaves in our backyard

For some reason the best game was to see how many tiny crumbles of leaves he could get to stay on Ben's head...poor Ben

This is the day we went to the pumpkin patch! It was so much fun...so glad we went because the weather took a cold turn two days later and hasn't come back yet! Ethan was delighted and therefore so were we...he was having so much fun it pained him to try and look at the camera for mom at all!

Thanks Dave for being the only one to cooperate lol

the perfect pumpkin for pie!

Ethan was on a mission...he just kept wanting to pick up pumpkins...he could have wandered through the patch all day

still looking

He loved following me around and jabbering

Ethan is my little buddy...loves to be with his momma...such a recent development for being such a daddy's boy!

What could be more fun than a giant...CORN box...much cleaner and more festive than sand...the boys LOVED it! Ben thought it was dinner

waiting in line for the haystack slide...another HUGE hit with Ethan

Nothing like finishing off a great night with some snuggles and bedtime stories...this is what chilly nights were made for!