My favorite part about this season!

Those of you who know me know I am not a big fan of this season. I don't like being cold and I don't like snow! Unfortunately it gets cold here, really cold! Since there is not much I can do about this I have decided to look on the bright side! The bright side is that when it gets cold I get to bring out the Hot Chocolate maker!!! I love the hot chocolate maker. It is an awesome appliance, one of my favorite appliances in fact (it ranks right up there with the Kitchen Aid, and that says a lot)! The other day we plugged it in and used up the last of our hot chocolate mix from last year! Lucas loved it! Hot Chocolate, yum!

No Nap!

This is what you do when your child doesn't take a nap and you can't handle it that he will not take a nap!


Sidenote: We're not sure how this happened, but Lucas knows how to turn on the TV and cable with the remote. Lucas sometimes watches Sesame Street or Yo Jabba Jabba in the morning while we're getting ready for the day, but that is about the extent of his TV watching, so we're not sure when or how he learned this new trick. Not sure if we like it.

Library

This may not seem very amazing, but to me this was an awesome moment that needed to be documented, when I felt that I was an alright parent! Lucas is a very energetic, busy child. When other mothers go to the library to let there children play in the designated play area (it has a train track, a wood house, puzzles, and other fun toys), they can sit and relax. I am the mother that is chasing after my child as he aimlessly wanders the library and at times tries to escape from the children's area into the main library. I have been taking Lucas to story time at the library once a week. Last week we went to story time and I let Lucas play after. Brace yourselves, here comes the amazing part.... Lucas stayed in the designated area, he even played with the train for several minutes! I got to be like all the other mothers that sat and talked! It was Amazing!!!

Fall!

We have a pretty big tree in front of our apartment, and its leaves have been changing colors. The other day Lucas and I ran an errand and we came back and our yard was covered with leaves, from the tree. I had not taken any pictures of Lucas and the leaves so I thought this was the perfect moment.

Our annual Halloween Dinner!

For Halloween I made Lucas a festive tie to wear to church, he looked very handsome and very festive! I was pretty proud, the tie turned out better than I had expected (which was relief since it took me several hours to make the day before).

We also had our annual Halloween Dinner! Which is dinner in a pumpkin and of course our pumpkin caramel cheesecake, which was excellent! This was Lucas first dinner in a pumpkin and he thoroughly enjoyed it! We also had our new neighbors, the Van O's over for dinner.

Trick or Treating Week

This Halloween Lucas was a Monkey, a very cute monkey!!! There was so much going on throughout the week that I figured I would take a vantage of these opportunities and took my monkey all around town! At the beginning of the week we went to a grocery store, where they had games set up throughout the store. For Lucas being so small he did pretty well at the games. He put the rings around the witches hat and put the Halloween eraser in the bucket.

The next day we went trick or treating at the Athletic Museum on campus. Throughout the museum there were both athletes with treats! At first Lucas struggled with the concept of trick or treating. He wanted to eat the treat right away, and kept trying to reach into his bucket and pull the candy out, but by the end (after I had opened a sucker for him) he was happily putting treats in his bucket. They also had games, which Lucas didn't really get care about, but we attempted. We had a picture taken by the mascot, as you can see Lucas was not sure about this!

The Athletic Museum was a good practice round for the really deal, which came a couple of days later when Lucas went trick treating around the neighborhood. Lucas loved this! He took advantage of being so cute. When he was told he could pick two treats, Lucas would stick his hand in and come out with five, people thought this was so cute! Lucas enjoyed this so much he even outlasted the older kids we were with, they got tired and cold and were ready to head home, but not Lucas he kept going and going. I was amazed; he walked the majority of the time. He was such a trooper!

Last but not least, the following day we took Lucas to the ward's trunk or treat at the church. Lucas was really excited to going trunk or treating, by now he was a pro! He got to the point where he didn't want to be handed a treat, he wanted to pick out his own treat (or with Lucas it was treats)! It was a crazy week with lots of trick or treating, but Lucas had a blast!

Gettysburg

About the second week of October, I left Craig and Lucas at home and took a trip with some women in the ward to Gettysburg. We were lucky enough to have our own personal tour guide, who was very knowledgeable about the Civil War and Gettysburg. This was very fascinating to visit such a huge part of history. To hear the different stories and experiences that occurred during this battle.