The Stephens Fam: November 2011

Monday, November 7, 2011

Brystol and the Bear

Brystol and Jakes Bear

Brystol showing the bear whos boss

Halloween is such a fun Holiday for the kids!! This year the kids went downtown and went trick or treating!! They loved it and had so much fun. Kate was a cat, Tagg was a bat, Brystol was a lady bug, Kash was superman, Kali was bat woman, and Kori was a bunny!!! After downtown we went to the Merritts and had soup and bean dip and waited for the 5 trick or treaters that came to get candy!!

Kate Brystol Kash Kori Kali

Kate and Brystol

Kori Kash Kate Kali Little Sunny Brystol Tagg

Carving pumpkins

We love carving pumpkins!! Tagg got to carve pumpkins in twice this year. First was at his preschool. He made a bat pumpkin! They drew pictures of their pumpkins and guessed if a pumpkin seed would sink of float in water and drew what the insides of their pumpkins looked liked!!

Then we got to carve them at home too with Dad. The kids had a fun time picking out different shapes for the pumpkins. Mom did a spider, kate did a dog, Tagg and dad did a vampire and little Brystol did a silly pumpkin face!!

Kali with her pumpkin

Tagg with his pumpkin

Sunny and Kali

Kate helping Brystol with her pumpkin

Tagg cleaning out his pumpkin

Brystol just had fun with the stem of the pumpkin

Our big gut pile, Tagg and Dad

George Farm

Our neighbors have a huge dairy farm and they invited us to go visit and check it out!! Tagg and his friend Sam went and had so much fun!!

We started off by having lunch and waiting until the rain stopped! The rain finally let up so we headed out to the farm. When we got there our friend Grant showed us all around the farm. We first went into where they milk the cows and saw all the big machines they use and the huge tank they store the milk in. Then we headed to see the chickens and gather some eggs!! One of the chickens scared Sam when he went in there!!

Then after the chickens we saw a bunch of huge tractors and trucks that they use on their farm! Then we went to see the baby cows that had just been born!!! The boys got to climb right into the pen! Then we went to pick some corn to eat out of their field!! We had such a fun time and loved to learn about the farm!!

Tagg learning about milking cows

Sam Berry

Tagg in front of the huge tractor wheel

Tagg and Sam in with the baby cow

Sam picking corn

Tagg picking corn

Tagg climbing out of the cows pen

The eggs we got from the chickens

Camping with the Merritts!

Over the first weekend in September we went camping with our good friends the Merritts. We went to Star Valley and it was beautiful! We always have such a good time with them!! Luckily we did not go on any death marches and Randy got to keep his limbs!! Ha! We went looking for fish in the river saw lots of animals and even celebrated Jakes birthday in the process!

We wanted to get out one more time before it got way to cold!! Randys parents joined us too camping and were really awesome to camp with. They even hauled up the trailer before we got there so me and sunny and the little ones would have a warm place to sleep!!

On the way back home through Yellowstone there was a huge fire. It was a beautifully chilling sight!