Visitors and Evan's Orchard

 We love that the Laura and Jay Baker family live within three hours of us so we can see them more.  We knew they liked pumpkin patches so we finally went as a family to Evan's Orchard.

 Everyone on the big slide.

 Uncle Jay won Rachel's heart with a pony ride.

 The "hay" ride.

 The whole group.

 We were cheap and went out to the cars to eat lunch.  This nice guy asked us if we wanted to use his truck bed to eat.  The kids thought that was pretty awesome and wanted to take a picture.  

We also squeezed in conference.  I printed off one big conference packet and the kids did a great job filling it in.  I was especially impressed with Lincoln's determination to write down what every apostle talked about.  I bribed them with a dollar store toy.  Most of those have already made their way to the trash:).

31!

  My real birthday started off with a great breakfast in bed but when down hill after that.  It included cleaning up Hannah's diarrhea at Joe's work party so all these pictures are of my make-up birthday the Sunday after.

 Yummy lasagna

 Cute picture of Hannah

 Holy Cow Cake.  Mmmmm

Joe customized his presents to me.  I told him I wanted money towards the house budget instead of flowers.  His real present was watching the kids while I went shopping when my sisters were visiting.  My kids were very good to try and make the day special for me with many creations.

Student of the Month

Lincoln was pretty excited to earn student of the month from his class.  His teacher came up to me and told me he had been campaigning for it:).