Im feeling Crafty

I am totally not the "crafty" type of person, but have been seeing all these adorable crafts all over so I figured why not? These pumpkins are my first crafts of the season (I know all you crafty gals are thinking um these are SO easy haha and yes they were), and it made me VERY excited to do more! 

OCTOBER

Ok, Im a slacker yet again! We have had so many fun things and I am just BARELY blogging about them!
We got a book called "Amelia Bedelias first Apple Pie", and at the end there was a recipe on how to make apple pies. Josh asked if we could please please please make some, I thought What the heck why not. It took SO long (I don't have an apple peeler) I made my own crust and everything, and of course I can't just follow the recipe exactly, but FINALLY we finished around 8:30 that night!! The boys had a blast and really loved making the pies but especially loved EATING the pies!

My first try at homemade apple pies!!

The boys were such good helpers with the crust

Say "Apple PIE"

This was prebaked-They turned out SO great and tasted pretty good I thought :)!

Giveaway!!

There is a great giveaway for a countdown to Halloween, it is so cute!! It is from Craes creations. Check it out and Hurry, it ends tonight!!
http://craescreations.blogspot.com/

Zack has WHAT?

This cute, adorable and HUGE kid was born 4 weeks early, and still a whoppin 9 lbs 1 ounce, with his lungs not quite developed all the way. We knew that there would be a chance that he may have problems later but I never thought it would entail all that has happened. When Zack gets sick, it turns bad really fast and lasts REALLY long! We fought it last year from October until almost March and had to get a nebulizer and start on breathing treatments, and still he ended up getting pneumonia. So I knew that we would have to watch him closely this year but wasn't ready for it yet!! He got sick on Wednesday and by Thursday night he was really struggling to breathe. Willey is taking the EMT course and they had just happened to learn about respiratory system and could tell he was not doing good, so off to the ER they went. His oxygen levels were right on the border of being really bad, so they gave him steroids to help clear his lungs and after a few hours he came home. I had to take him into the DR Friday morning to have him tested for asthma and sure enough he's got asthma. So we have to head over to Tucson to the Pulimnary DR to see if we can't get it all under control. It is really miserable but he is such a trooper and sits through all of his breathing treatments as long as he gets to watch Caillou no matter what time of day or night it is.

Josh's first field trip

Josh had his first field trip this last Friday, and he was SO excited!! He kept asking me everyday how many days he had left. I had volunteered to help out and I was so glad I did! I got to have 6 kids in our group and they were all so cute and excited! I only got to take a few pics before Josh took over the camera. He took lots and lots of pics, I will just post a few. We got to pick apples at Angle Orhcard, I have never been there before and it was awesome! We will definitely be going back!!

Willits

We had an unexpected last minute visit to Willits last week. Willey's step-brother passed away, so we got on the first flight we could and headed out there to be with his parents. We were only able to take Zack with us on such short notice, but he had his cousins from Alaska there to keep him entertained. It was a sad time but was so good to be able to see everyone. We haven't seen Willey's brother and sis-in-law for 6 years so that was great to get to know them!! I love that the coast is so close to Willey's home town, it was such a peaceful place to be reminded of the great beauty Heavenly Father made for us.