It feels like winter

We went up to Pocatello today for Owens game.  His poor body is pretty broken though and he didn't play.  He went in to start, but they pulled him after that.  He was not a happy guy at all.  I had bought tickets to a corn maze in Idaho Falls for after the game. I shouldn't have pre bought the tickets, because it was a freezing cold, rainy day, but we had to go so I didn't lose my money.  We had a fun time in the mud and cold, but we didn't last too long.  

I have to take about 50 pictures of these 2 to finally get a good one, but they are an awfully cute pair.  

Owen is losing so much weight, these football workouts are insane.

Rosy cheeks and a frozen nose, but still beautiful.  

Kylee and Kin climbed up to go down the slides, but I think Kylee got a little nervous remembering her broken tailbone from going down the slide at the Burly Straw Maze last December.  

You really can't tell it's Gator up there to go down the zipline, but look at the cool sky.  It was sure cold, but a beautiful night.  

Gator and Davis had a race up the climbing wall.  I don't know how they were even able to climb with their fingers so frozen.  

We were going to go out to eat, but wait times were insane everywhere so we just went back to Owen and Kylee's and ordered pizza, watched Ghost Adventures, and played with the dogs.  100% my perfect day spent with my family.  

Willow turns 1

Even though I didn't necessarily want another dog, Willow is here to stay, and we celebrated her first birthday this weekend.  Her and Gator are best friends, I tolerate her, and the boys love to tease her.  She is very hyper and loves to play with Steele and Joey, and a very very aggressive chewer.  And in case it isn't implied, she is extremely spoiled.  

Football Game

Gator and I got up early at the hotel, went and sprang Willow from the kennel, and went to Pocatello for Owens football game. We've never gone through Logan before to get to Pocatello and it was a pretty drive with all the leaves. 

Davis, Kin, Dave, and Sheila met us in Pocatello for the game today.  We were going to go for a fall drive, but Dave and Sheila wanted to take us out to dinner, so we all went to Sizzler after the game. It was still a fun evening just being together.  

Hard to tell in this picture, but all the hair is gone.  After years of having long hair, Davis decided he was done with it and cut it all off.  

 

Fall Break

 Fall Break is always a welcome long weekend.  Only thing is we plan fun for weeks ahead of time and then all the sudden it is just over and we are faced with going back to school/work with Thanksgiving break weeks away.  We drove up to Logan, and it was so pretty seeing the leaves and all the fall colors.  We met Josh & Rachelle at the American Heritage West Center where we threw axes, fed bison, went for a tractor ride, went to a magic show, saw lots of animals, ate junk food, and enjoyed the company and the beautiful fall day.  We went to our hotel and the kids all swam for a couple hours then we went back to Heritage Center for the corn maze and so Blake, Gator, and Ty could go in the haunted forest.  After dinner, I was exhausted, but Gator, Blake, and Tyler went swimming again.  

Fall Things

There is so much to do in the fall, it makes for a very busy September and October.  Good thing Gator has friends and cousins who will go to haunted houses with her because I am not going to join in on that fall activity.  

Gator and I went to get pumpkins.  Not at our usual place, they had a "new location" sign up, but no address was given. We made due with this other patch, but I crashed my rear bumper, so that was a bummer.  

Active Pages, dinner, a scary movie, and hanging out with Josh's family tonight.  

Another corn maze with Lainee, Zoie, and Brady.  Scariest moment of our lives tonight as we lost Zoie in the corn maze.  She was just playing hide and seek, thing is, none of us knew.  

Fall Afternoon

 We drove up to Colin's property for lunch today.  It was a beautiful drive.  The leaves are changing and despite the drought, the colors were still bright.  It is a less dramatic fall for sure, but still very pretty.  The fall is always my favorite, but an afternoon with family in the fall is perfection.  

A broken nose

I never really felt a broken nose was an injury I should be worried about with football.  Well at the game Saturday was was taken out of the game with a broken helmet that resulted in a broken nose.  The team played awesome though, it was an exciting game.  They were right in there against the #2 team in the nation, but ended up a touch down short.  Owen had an amazing game, well until the broken nose.  

After the game, we went to Owen & Kylee's for dinner then they took Gator to a haunted house.  No thank you, I will stay back and dog sit.  

Treatment for his injury.