1st Snow

I'm pretty sure Oliver is young enough that he has no previous memories of snow. His reactions to today's snow storm validate this theory. So, with the first real snow of the season today, Oliver had (another) first snow experience. So fun. When I first held him up to the window to check it out he looked at me like what in the world is that stuff. I explained that it was snow. The rest of the day he parroted "snow falling, snow falling" (most of the time without the s though).

He was quite keen on getting bundled up.

First in his big coat:

Later in his monster hat & gloves:

He was surprisingly good at keeping his gloves on. It was so freezing outside that I think he understood the value of being bundled. That and he really didn't like the snow on his face and I think he was glad the coats/hats were keeping it off the rest of him.

My personal opinion is that it is at least a few weeks too early for snow, and it is way too cold. But the snow is pretty and peaceful, it makes the world a bit quieter, which I appreciate.

Pumpkin Patch

Hooray! It's Halloween time!

Last night we went to this great little pumpkin patch out in South Jordan (I think) - it was pretty clost to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple (which I hadn't seen yet and is beautiful, so that was fun too). We didn't get there until about 7:00, so it was pretty dark, but still way fun.

One of the first rows of pumpkins we came to was called "Oliver Way" so we made sure Oliver picked his pumpkin from there. He (with Nathan's help) found a perfect little pumpkin, which he was quite proud of.

They had rows and rows of pumpkins that Oliver loved running (and crashing) through!

They had cute little wheel barrows for kids. Nate tried to show Oliver how to push it, but it didn't last long. Still cute though.

Oliver also enjoyed (for brief moments before urgently asking to get off) sitting on the tractors. He liked looking at them better than being on them.

When we got home we carved our pumpkins. Well I carved Olivers and made yummy apple cobbler, didn't quite get to my own pumpkin though, but that's ok with me. Oliver picked circle eyes and a square nose.

It was a fun, fun night!

Oliver's 1st Kids Birthday Party Experience

My friend Missy's little girl Avary had an awesome birthday party at the Little Gym for her 2nd birthday. This is the first party with tons of kids that Oliver has been to. He was a little intimidated at first but ended up having a ton of fun.

Thanks for inviting us Missy & Avary!

Climbing around!


Missy & Avary ---- Lucy, Nicco, Oliver, India

(I'm sad this one's blurry) ------- (A cute group of kids!)