October Festivities!

So this last week was the Buck Family Annual Halloween Party! We decided to do it a little different this year. It is SO hard to coordinate schedules so we decided to do it early this year, we also decided to do it without our husbands! They are such good sports and always come, but they don't really enjoy it, so we decided to spare them and make it an all day event!

We started off going to Barnyard Boo at Thanksgiving Point! The kids had a ball!
Here is Jaden and Libby..This is how Jaden felt about pictures that day....

Jaden was SO excited about the horses, we live with them all around us but actually getting to ride one made his day! He only wanted to ride the "baby" ones though and held my finger the entire time, so when I let go to take a picture...there was no way I was going to get a smile!

Jaden is ALL BOY and other than pirates, right now he is VERY into monsters, so he was VERY excited to win his prize!

He refused to get his face painted but let me put a "witch" tattoo on his cheek!

Playing a game

After Barnyard Boo we headed to Rachels to meet my parents and have some soup and then we headed to the pumpkin patch for the kids to get their pumpkins! Amy was a trooper and hauled all the kids in a wheel barrel!

After the pumpkin patch we headed back to Rachels and painted the pumpkins and decorated sugar cookies. By the end of the night the kids were exhausted! They had such a great time and it was so great to spend time with family, not living close sure makes you appreciate it more!


When Jaden and I head to Ogden for my dr apts, I try to make a fun day of it, well I have heard so much about the Treehouse Museum, we decided to go after my last apt, and I'm so glad we did! What a fun place!!! I ended up getting a pass so that we can go back a lot this winter! There is room for Jaden to run around and they have so many things that he loves there!

Here he is driving the fire truck

Milking a cow...

Riding a bull (we spent most of our time here!)

We had so much fun playing, I didn't get a chance to take as many pictures as I would have liked!

It really is such a great place, so if you haven't gone, you should! Call us and we will even come meet you!

As Of Late

Well its been a little while since our last post and although we haven't been on any super cool adventures or done anything too exciting, I thought I'd just update you on life here in Eden.

Shawn has been coaching 3 soccer teams this fall so every Saturday is full of soccer games and Jaden loves it! Shawn also introduced him to the Adidas sign on his warm up suit the other day...now he refuses to wear anything without it on it...but we're getting through that I hope! :) Thanks daddy! The other day J and I were doing laundry and he was going through dad's soccer bag and found a spare pair of shin guards and a whistle, he thought he was pretty stinkin cool!

I've been trying to come up with funlittle things for us to do together while we have our one on one time, so this last week we made sugar cookies, it was a lot of fun but all I had were easter shapes so we had to pretend the eggs were footballs...don't worry I added halloween cookie cutters to the grocery list and we will try again in the next few weeks!

Another think that Jaden is REALLY into is tools! last christmas he got a little tool set and he always wants to fix EVERYTHING! If I say its broken Jaden automatically says "I fix it" and runs off to find his tool box, its pretty cute! When I ask him if he needs help he always responds, "No, Big Boy Mom" this has become his most commonly used phrase! The sad thing is that it's true, he's getting so big and independent! Well the other day I was doing dishes and I turned around to find this....

Apparently Jaden decided that HE was broken and needed to be fixed! I laughed pretty hard and he thought he was pretty funny!

Jaden is also VERY into pirates!!! He loves to walk around saying "Arg" and "yo ho ho" My mom picked him up a pirate hat and sword and a few other things at the costume shop and we end up playing pirates just about every day!

I'm enjoying every moment I have with me and my "big boy"! He is growing up so fast and talking up a storm, he likes to "write" his name, look for "neighs" and "moos" whenever we go for a drive, play in baby sisters room, read books and run around as a dinosaur monster or pirate! I can't believe how much he is learning every day and how his imagination is growing too! I'm lucky to be his mommy!

Other than soccer, Shawn has just been working and going to school. He's busy all the time but enjoys what he does and boy oh boy does that make a difference! He will be finished with school in March and I can't wait!

As for me, I'm just along for the ride! :) I'm adjusting more and more to being alone up here, and loving it more and more. It's a much slower pace, but its good for me! We are just trying to get everything ready for baby girl and the holidays coming up! The next few months should be quite the learning experience! Well thats the latest with us!