The Larsen's Carving Party

For the past few years the Larsen's have got together for a pumpkin carving party and it is actually quite fun. Everyone brings a yummy treat and we carve pumpkins with the cousins all night long. Kade loves playing with MeyRick, Maddi, Sammy, and Adri. They could play all night without any fights.....its so nice!

This is Kade amazed at the witches brew that Grandma Laurie cooked up

Family Picture with all of our carved pumpkins

Who do those cute boys belong to? Oh yeah.......ME!

What a silly kid!

All of the grand kids eating up the witches brew routine (look at Tyce on the end)

Thank goodness our flu bug was only 24 hours....we have to hunt!

So Kyle works literally ALL of the time. It seems like we never get to see him. Its not just every day, it's every day at least 12 hours a day. Not knowing that he would be working all of the time, we both bought elk tags. Rifle for me (which ends on Thursday) and muzzle loader for Kyle (which starts in Nov). Right when Kyle finally had a few days off, me and the kids got a 24 hour flu bug. I have never been that sick (I lost 7 lbs in 24 hours). Thank goodness the flu only lasted 24 hours because I needed to get out and hunt. We went up East Mountain, but ended up never seeing any elk. Hopefully Kyle can score another day off so that we can go hunting again before Thursday.

Here are some pictures from our drive up East Mountain (we have some great hunting partners don't we)

Some quality lunch: canned soup warmed up in the fire

When there's nothing else to do.....

Go play at the farm! I remember in the summers Jasa and I would ride our bikes down to the farm and play for hours. We would play in the canal, we would shoot the birds with our sling shots, make puppies out of sticks, build play houses throughout the willows along the water bank, and we would climb in and out of the calf shoot. We never got bored at the farm. Now, it is the same with my kids. When we start getting bored at home we head to the farm for an adventure. Today my boys loved climbing in the stack yard, running throughout the corrals, climbing the gates, throwing rocks in "swifty" (the fast part of the canal), and swinging in the tire swing. We are so lucky to have our little get away. There is always an adventure at the farm.