Fall Festival

We went to the Fall Festival hosted at IU North Hospital on Saturday. It was fun to spend the afternoon with Ginny, the Horstmans, the Humes, and the Heads. 

Austin and Tyler were well dressed in their trooper Halloween costumes.

We started out in the bounce house after we got our pumpkins.

Cadence was Joey's special buddy.  She has always been to kind and caring with him and was careful to help him stay with the rest of the kids

 It was fun to watch Misha line up the kiddos and have them walk in a single line from activity to activity.  She did a great job of keeping us all together.

The karate booth was surprisingly super fun.  The kids got to break boards and spar with some karate kids. After they broke their board they got to keep them.

Joey was IN LOVE with his board.

It was so great to have Grand Ginny with us.  We are glad she could come join us for the fun.

The pony rides were also very fun.  A few of the kids even had their pony neigh very loudly during their ride.

Then we all went to the firetruck to sit in the driver seat and climb through the cabin.

The inside passenger area looks a lot more intense than I would have guessed.  Firefighters have some serious equipment even for their seats.

Misha really did a great job.  She had the kids to various movements and kept their attention as we moved along.  It kept the stress down for us adults and the kids happy to be entertained.

At the very end the kids got some airbrush tatoos.  James got a red bat with green sparkles and Joey got a blue airplane.  I did my best to convince them that they actually wanted a really cool looking shark but they had preferences of their own.  At church the next day they after to have their shirt sleeves rolled up so they could show all their buddies. It was very cute. We had a great time.

Fall Family Pics 2012

We decided to take pics this fall already despite our baby Lindsay not being here yet.  We figured by the time she arrives it will be too cold for her to be outside any way.  We love these pics and are glad to have the tradition to take pics with Adam and Lindsay's family each year.  Lindsay and I aren't pros but the price is right and we can do a pretty good job for each other. Thanks Lindsay for being such a great sister!

Holt Reunion -Yellowstone

We rolled into Rexburg very late on Wednesday night and woke up early the next day ready to get the party started! Grandpa rented a huge passenger van and we all crammed in there for the relatively short drive up to Yellowstone Park.

 Hiram sat between the boys in the row behind me.  I think those three had a great time together.  I sat in the row in front of them with Jace and Becca.

 

 I love how this dude perfectly photobombed us!

 Sometimes it smelled funny but all our walks to see the features were a blast.

 If Amy looks a bit put off in this picture its because Hiram had a talent for taking a picture of her while she would take a picture.  I suppose it would be frustrating to have all of your pictures of Hiram with a camera in his face.

James likes to be with kids and have fun running around but also enjoys his alone time.  I think after the car ride he enjoyed sitting by himself with some elbow room for lunch. Plus that stump was just asking for a little boy to sit on it.

 Joe was running around a bit the dust after lunch.  Lucky for him Grandpa was more than willing to be a snuggle buddy until he felt better and was ready to play again.

 James and Joey loved having their own sun glasses during the trip.  They even did a good job of not loosing them.  Their dad... not so much.  We are still looking for where we put his down.

 To conclude our visit to the park Grandpa took us to Old Faithful  First we went inside to get ice cream cones then went outside to the benches to wait for the geyser to go off. The boys look alright in these pictures but were pretty worn out by this point.  Once again I had to help Joe with his ice cream.  It was a tough job but somebody had to do it!

 It was pretty hot there and the sun was beating down on us very strongly.  I thought we would be alright without much sunblock but I was wrong.  Joe's poor head was warm on the way home and he was really fussy.

This was the closet we came to any animals in the park.  Luckily later in the week we went to bear world!

   He slept just a bit in the car but when we got home I ran to the store to get some children's Advil then put him to bed.  He was glad to go down after so much fun and sun. They loved the trip though.