Today we carved our pumpkins and roasted the seeds. It’s always a fun family tradition.
Preston turned six today. I can hardly believe he is this old. It seems like just yesterday he was born. We celebrated the day playing with some new toys and having Preston's favorite, hot dogs and pizza for dinner. The kids got to dress up and go to the High Desert Museum for a Hallows Eve party.
We love you Preston and life is just happier when you're around.
Preston got to go on his first field trip to the pumpkin patch with his kindergarten class. He had the greatest time and a week later is still taking about it.
Being Hunters 12th year this is a transitional year for him as he enters his teens, so we are trying to plan some memorable events for him. This weekend he and I went down to the Steens mountain area of southeastern Oregon. This is cowboy country so I thought it would be fun to go horse back riding while there. We went with Steens Mountain Guest Ranch. This is a working ranch where they heard 600 head of cattle. Tim and Susan (owners) do week long trail rides during the summer as they move cattle around. For us, it was just a 2 hour trail ride up to the Kiger Ridge area.
Being October the weather is starting to be more unsettled and in this wide open country it made for some great photos and lighting with storms and rain around.
Here are some pictures as we got ready to go on our trail ride at Steens Mountain Guest Ranch.
Pictures from the trail ride:
Short Video:
Couple other shots of where we stayed.
Great fun in late October!
Today, there was an end of the season cross country meet and 7 boys from each grade made it. Hunter was super excited to qualify. Out of 66, 6th grade runners, Hunter came in 28th place. We are very proud of the great season Hunter had. What a great group of kids and coaches. We look forward to watching and cheering him on next year. Go Diamondbacks!
Amazing sunrise colors out front of the house this morning in late October.
We love to decorate the front of the house for fall. New house this year but following our similar harvest format.
We were able to get away for a couple days for our 15th anniversary this October to Sisters Oregon. We had amazing fall weather. We stayed at the five pines resort with a cabin that backed up to the forest. At some great meals at a couple of places we have not been before that were excellent: The cottonwood cafe and the open door where we were able sit outside on a beauty fall day. Both places highly recommended!
We're pretty proud of these two! Hunter and Preston got the Initiative award at chapel this morning.
This morning like most mornings we were scrambling to get out the door in time for school. This morning for some reason we did it with a few minutes to spare. On our way down the driveway we ran into this beauty.
