First full week of October

Here are some highlights from the first full week of October. 

The boys have been working hard in their marital arts classes and earned their next belt color.  Nyles is now a Red belt and Carter is a blue belt.  Awesome work boys!!!

Carter took a field trip up to the Leonardo downtown SLC.

Steve and Hudson went to the Butterfly museum.  Hudson loves to "hold" the butterflies.

Silly Piper wanting to get a belly scratch.  Hudson trying on "Harry Potter" glasses.  Hudson found a little lady bug and was just content letting it crawl on his fingers.

Nyles lost his final baby tooth at school, besides his wisdom teeth.  He also got a cool shirt for being on the Student Council this year.  On Friday, the whole student council went to another Elementary School for some leadership development.  One activity he did was to put pictures on a poster of what he likes such as nature.  Nyles is growing so much and applying himself.  We are so proud of him! 

Saturday afternoon Steve, Nyles and Carter went out to go duck hunting (the official opener for the regular season).  Rob and Cameron went as well.

They had a great time and Nyles shot, and retrieved, his first duck!  Good work Nyles!

Steve and Nyles shooting.

Nyles and Steve shooting.

While they were out hunting, Hudson and I went to the park and library.  

Pretty sunset getting off the water.

On Sunday, we made Halloween sugar cookies and decorated them w/ Kool-Aid orange frosting, candy corn and sprinkles (my mom's family tradition).  Afterwards we went for a nature walk.  There were lots of pretty fall colors to see.

We haven't gone on this hike for at least a year, so it was fun to go again.  It's a hike made for kids, so there were lots of fun things to see and do.  Hudson scratched his knee, so he thought he needed to hold up his shorts to make it feel better.

Fun logs to climb over.  Pretty colors.

Family pictures.

Hudson wanted Steve to carry him the last minute since his knee was hurting :)  More pretty colors on the hillside.  When we got home we decorated our pumpkins.  We don't carve them since Steve is allergic to the insides.

Great quotes.