October Fun

We were so excited when October came with lots of warm temperatures. But then, it got cold and rainy. Which is ok, I guess. It's fun to snuggle in and drink hot chocolate and eat soup sometimes. Or, if you're Parker, you like to warm up in the.... dryer???

Tanner planned our date last Friday night and it was fantastic! We had such a great time! I was really proud of him for pulling off such an awesome date! First of all, we ate at the most delicious pizza place! Pizzeria 712 is amazing. Go there. After our delicious meal we attended BYU's Homecoming Spectacular! Since Tanner "lives" at school he had seen advertisements for this show all over campus and decided it would be a fun date. It was so wonderful seeing many of BYU's performing groups live! And Bryan Stokes Mitchell did not disappoint! I loved listening to the BYU philharmonic- they were excellent. Good times!

I've been trying to squeeze in as many fun, festive Halloween activities as possible with Parker. Saturday we went to Hee Haw Farms. It was lame at first. It smelled heinous and and it was all muddy from the rain. Many of the attractions were wet or shut down. I was disappointed.

I told Parker to make a face like a farmer.....

So much taller than last year!!!

Since there wasn't much to do we decided to check out the corn maze.

I'm not usually too into corn mazes. Who wants to get lost? But we made it fun.

Child of the corn

He was so excited when he found our way out!

After the corn maze the sun started to shine and the place really started to wake up!

Parker enjoyed going down this huge slide about 42 times.

And had a blast on the "animal train"...

And climbing on the tractors...

And, playing in.... corn???

This was his "scary face"

We ended our afternoon with a pony ride. :-)

This is us being scared of all the creepy decorations.

A couple weeks ago I got some free tickets to the Piccadilly Circus that was performing at UVU. There was NO way I was missing out on some good, old fashioned circus fun! We got seats right smack dab in the front. It was awesome!

Parker LOVED the motorcycle guys who rode in this metal cage. I always knew the kid from "Wild Hearts Can't be Broken" like invented this thing, but I'd never seen one in real life! It was cool!

And this chick who hit the bulls-eye with a bow and arrow using only her feet... Totally Katniss.

And, MY favorite part of the show- the elephants! They were seriously RIGHT in front of us. We could have reached out and touched them!

The clowns and jugglers and boxing kangaroo were all fabulous! We had a great time!

The next night Parker and I headed up to Sundance to ride the lift during the full moon!

Here's a view of Timp right now. Yep, all snow capped.

We got there a little early so Parker got a lollipop and we walked around a little bit. I got a hot chocolate and we bundled up before jumping on the lift.

(The flash was too bright!)

The moon was sooooo bright!

I had so much fun riding the lift with Parker- just snuggling together and talking. I told him stories and he told me about komodo dragons. Oh man. He's such a cutie.

For mutual this week we took the kids to Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving Point! The kids all had a blast and I had fun exploring and playing around the Parker. We definitely want to go back!

Some of the kids from the ward...

Parker jumping on a huge balloon thingy...

And playing in more.... corn???

We started getting REALLY tired....

We had doughnuts and hot chocolate before we left- Parker thoroughly enjoyed his.

I've got the BEST girls! They are so sweet to play with Parker and tolerate the fact that he has to be with me to nearly every activity.

October has been so fun- I can't wait for Halloween!