Leaves

Yesterday Luke and I took advantage of the last nice day before the snow and played outside. We raked the leaves into piles and Luke had a blast throwing the leaves, sliding into them and his favorite, jumping into them! Too bad Fall is over. I had so much fun watching him, we laughed and laughed. I love this boy.

Pumpkin Patch

Last week we went to the pumpkin patch with some friends. Luke has been talking about it ever since. We started off by playing in the hay bale maze. And then ventured out into the pumpkin patch to check out all the pumpkins. It was fun to get out and do a fun fall activity!

Steph, Luke and Olivia getting ready to go find Cameron

Cam running away from them
Luke and Jack checking out the huge pumpkins

I took about ten shots of this picture and not one of them was good so I decided to put one in where none of them are looking

Jack, Olivia, Luke, Sophie and Cam

Luke and Jack going for a ride through the pumpkin patch

Megg giving them a pull

Cam and Olivia giving Sophie a pull

California

We went to California for a week with Barrett's family and had a lot of fun. Barrett's brother Lincoln just got home from his mission so it was fun to all be together again. Barrett's other brother Clayton got married the day before we left so he and his wife Katie met up with us after a couple of days. We did LegoLand, SeaWorld and spend a lot of time just hanging out on the beach.

Barrett and all of his siblings

All of us (minus Kylie who is taking the picture) hanging out

Barrett explaining all about boogie boarding to Luke

Luke catching his first wave

Wendy and her sand castle masterpiece

love this picture of Luke, he looks like a super hero

Dinner at Ruby's on the pier

Legoland

Luke loved this ride

SeaWorld

Luke thought this was Bruce from Finding Nemo

More Bruce

He loved every minute of SeaWorld

Luke LOVED the dolphins, he could have sat and watched them all day

Barrett catching a wave

We had quite a scare while we were there. Barrett and I ran to get a smoothie and while we were gone Luke pushed out the screen on the window and fell about 10 feet down to the next. Getting that phone call was the scariest moment of being a parent for sure. It ended up that Luke was just fine after some crying and motrin. He actually started limping a day or two ago so we took him to get x-rays just to make sure everything is okay. Nothing is broken, the doctor thinks his hip and leg are just bruised and sore. We are sure grateful that Luke is okay and nothing serious happened to him, it makes me sick to think about what could have happened. We definitely count it as a miracle. Below is a picture of the window he fell out of and where he landed on the deck.

Luke's favorite activity was playing buckets in this sand box. He was out there anytime he could get someone to play with him.

Fun times!