Linder Farm

We are loving Boise. We took the kids out to a local farm "Linder Farm". Every Halloween they have a corn maze, corn box, "slide", hay ride, pumpkin patch, etc. It was a blast! The kids really enjoyed it and I was very proud of how well behaved they were. You have to pay admission into the farm that allows access to a few things. If you want to ride the ponies, go on the carnival rides and such you have to pay extra. We decided when the kids are a little older if we are still here next year we may get the all day pass that allows you to do everything. But this year they are small enough that it was just fine. ANYWAY! back to why I was proud of them. We've been struggling with the "I wanna"'s lately. You know what I'm talking about. The I wanna ride this! I wanna do this! I wanna buy this! I want it NOW! But last night when they would ask to do something that wasn't part of the price of admission we would simply say, "No, you have to have tokens to ride/do that and we are not doing that this time". There was no whining, no begging, nothing! It was AMAZING! AND they were sooo grateful. Savannah even said, "Thanks for spending all this money for us to have fun tonight". They do listen occasionally ;)

Here are the pictures from the night. Some are a little blurry because they were so excited they were moving too fast!

 This was a tube thing they had place on a bunch of hay bales and created a slide

This is a "Corn Box" It is literal hard corn in a box that they have set up for kids to play in like the ball pit at McDonalds!

Two years later...

So life has been insane and my blog has been badly neglected! Oops! In the last 2 years we have moved twice (currently in Boise while Chris gets his MBA at BSU), had a baby, lost my dad, started a few new jobs, etc! You get the idea we've been busy!!

Introducing Cohen Kyle born October 11th (Named after my Dad, Kyle Sellers who passed away in Sept)

My sister Kristin and her family moved back to Utah! Now that she is closer I will be able to see her more often! SOOO excited! She came up and visited a few weekends ago. We had a blast. Shopping, movies, parks, and more!

Kite flying

Savannah is a big Dora fan. In one of the Dora episodes Boots gets carried away by a kite. Ever since then EVERYTHING has turned into a kite. I took the sun visor off the umbrella stroller because she was pulling it down all the way and putting her feet in it and frankly it was just annoying. I left it on the kitchen table in our haste to get out the door to go to the zoo with my mom. When we got home she discovered the visor sitting on the table and began running around the apartment holding it above her head while shouting "You's flying a tite!" (translation: I'm flying a kite!)
A few days later I got new bedding for the baby and Savannah used the "wall decor" as a kite. And anything else she could get her hands on that she felt was kite worthy would be flown around the apartment.
SOOO Chris decided we needed to take her to fly a "real" kite. She loved it, but didn't understand what the tail was and kept trying to fly it by the tail. (And the wind wasn't strong enough to keep it up very long...) But we still had fun!