Fall in Oregon

Fall is a stunning time of year in Oregon. Actually I'm pretty sure that I say that about every season here. Oregon is just beautiful year round, okay?

 Foot shot on a morning that I happened to take the kids out for a run (I only run about four times a year so it seemed a picture worthy moment).

Playing in the leaves

Playing with our neighbor Maddie

Making leaf angels

General Conference was a great time and I tried to make it fun for the kids. With each apostle's talk Nayeli could open a grab bag with a toy or craft in it. It was a hit.

Family selfies! Since Ben is spending nearly all his free time studying for the GMAT, most of our recent pictures don't include him. It's nice to have these of our whole family having fun. 

We took a nice day to go to the Portland Zoo. The kids had a great time.

Nayeli has also had a recent obsession with ballet. It's so fun. She wears her tutu all the time- I can hardly get it off her to wash it.

Such concentration

Spinning

We harvested the seeds from our sunflower! We weren't able to roast them, but we've saved them to give to some neighbors and plant next year.

As the weather gets colder, we spend more days at the library. Story time is once a week and we love it.

Sundays are our day for walks. We've been playing hide-and-seek in the park lately.

Father and Son

One Saturday I had a Relief Society activity so Ben took the kids and went hiking with a picnic lunch. He took this picture while they were eating. They are the cutest.

Teddy has never met a puddle that he didn't like

Ballet in the park

Ben had a business trip around the state of Oregon at the end of the month. His company was filming a promotional video and he went to shoot photography. Last minute, he was asked to be an actor in a survivalist scene and ended up cutting himself with a machete. Poor guy- he hates to see his own blood. Luckily his boss was there to drive him to the ER.

He cut into the joint capsule of his pointer finger so it's been a rough road of healing.

He sent me these pictures from the ER. Eight stitches later he was fixed up, although he still can't make a closed fist and will have to follow up with a hand surgeon.

Dad brought home hats! We always love having Dad come home from a business trip.