Trunk or Treat

For Halloween this year we all decided to be dinosaurs.  Our ward trunk or treat was Saturday, we had a great time and Riley got a ton of candy.  He keeps trying to trick or treat to me, but stopped after I gave him a cucumber, apparently vegetables are bad treats.

Sorry he's sideways

We carved pumpkins for FHE last night.  Riley really didn't like the insides of the pumpkins, but he survived.  Riley only wanted happy pumpkins, so these are the ones we did.  Andrew's is the one with teeth.

What's in a Name?

I am no good at naming things. All my stuffed animals were named Lindsay, creative right?  I actually did branch out once and named my guinea pig Kathryn, my middle name.  So either as a child I was terribly conceited, or my ability to think up names was lacking.  I'd like to think the later is true because I'm having that problem again.

With "New Baby" only 7 weeks away from making his presence into the world we are again at a loss at what to name him, and the name Lindsay isn't being considered.  Believe it or not in middle school I didn't write a special list of baby names and lovingly preserved it in my hope chest.   Riley didn't have a name until he was a day old.  Ideally we will have some idea for a name before this next one is born, but who knows.

Now I know what you're thinking, well maybe I don't, but I imagine you are thinking, "I know the perfect name!  I should tell these helpless parents and all their problems will be solved".  Thanks, but no thanks.  We figured out how to get this baby here, we can figure out what to name him.  It might just be a while. . .

Pumpkin "Patch"

We went to a pumpkin "patch" last weekend, but actually it was just a parking lot in the middle of no where.  It was pretty good, I was just expecting better so I was slightly disappointed.  I guess you get what you pay for and this one was free.  Riley had a good time, so I guess that's what matters most.

Cowboy Andrew

Riley loved driving the tractors

More dry corn, his favorite!

Balloon Fiesta

Balloon Fiesta is one probably the greatest thing that happens in Albuquerque.  People come from all over to fly their balloons, or to watch them.  It's nine days long.  We went to the park the first day.  We rode the bus to get there, and that was probably Riley's favorite part of the whole day.  It was so fun!  Also it's a little hard to take bad pictures of hot air balloons.

Riley's favorite balloon

He was tired and slept through the first session of general conference

Riley and I drove over by the park on Friday and saw a lot of balloons.

Andrew and Riley went the second to last day, they didn't see a lot of balloons, but they had fun together

So who wants to visit us next year?

Riley Helps

Riley loves to help!  He is even starting to get helpful when he helps.  He will be a good big brother.  All of these were done under supervision, and he wanted to do all of it!

Making breakfast

Cleaning the mirror

Cleaning the Toilet

Washing the car

Blowing the leaves

Doing the Dishes

Vacuuming

Putting the ladder away

Taking out the garbage

Mowing the Lawn

Cleaning the wall

Mowing the lawn again

Doing the Laundry

Taking out the Recycling