September

Cute Lila had a rough start to September with an ear infection. She woke up one morning sobbing and grabbing her ear. She wouldn't let me set her down for hours.  Luckily antibiotics cleared it up pretty fast and she returned to her busy little self.

Hudson and Richie are really two peas in a pod. I love seeing those two together- it always looks like this. Their sweet 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Evans, lost her husband suddenly over labor day weekend. I took these boys, plus Chase over to visit her with cards and a gift. These two basically had a wrestling match on her couch and she seemed to just enjoy their silliness. I figure she had them in her class for a whole year...she knows how they are! The boys made her the sweetest cards though and have been praying for her ever since.

Davis is officially done napping. I was sad for this, but also it was time. He was really resisting naps and I didn't want to fight that battle- and bedtimes were just getting later and later. So now, once Lila is down for her nap, I do story time with Davis and then he gets to watch his shows. I don't let him watch shows at all during the day, except during Lila's nap, so it keeps his attention really well. The downside is he frequently falls asleep at like 5 pm...
 

We had a fun end of summer swim on Labor Day! These two cousins are the cutest!

Except for maybe these two cousins! They sat and ate together so sweetly, although Rosie did keep directing Lila to eat her own food instead of Rose's. 

I sent this photo of Lila on the group text with the caption "When you are super girly but have three older brothers you wear pink bows and push around your baby stroller while wearing a superhero cape."

Halie quickly responded: This picture made me cry and I don't know why. I just love her so much! She IS a superhero!"

Davis was getting his costume on (which is normal). I asked him what he was doing, his reply "I'm off to save the day!"

More of Davis sleeping in random places...

I went to take a picture of Will and me in our respective college shirts before the rivalry game, and these two saw the camera and just lined up and smiled like this! They know what to do for a camera, and assume any camera must be there to photograph their cute little faces.

Definitely to note- BYU finally won the rivalry game! They haven't won that game since Ben and I attended there! We stayed up until midnight watching- it was worth it.

Davis started doing Upstart- a free online preschool. He does it 15 minutes a day and we are trying for 7 days a week (although only 5 are required). He's doing really well! I can already see progress!

The boys worked so hard all summer to sell produce! They made a lot of money, which meant I had to actually follow through with my promise to them- if they could earn enough for a day pass to Lagoon that I would take them!

And so one Saturday in September we found ourselves at Lagoon! I hadn't been there in about 20 years and can't say I missed it at all. But the boys had such a blast and it was actually a really, really fun day. We met up with Joseph's there first thing in the morning (they have season passes) which made it extra fun. These boys were fearless and rode EVERYTHING! They started the day with Cannibal (the craziest, scariest roller coaster in the park). Hudson was pretty rattled, but I think so proud of himself that he did it. Chase wasn't scared of ANYTHING. The faster and bigger, the better for him!

We were there for Frightmares- so everytime I tried to take a picture Hudson acted like a zombie. I swear we had perfect luck that day- we breezed through lines all day and shortly after we'd get off the ride it would suddenly have a super long line. So in the first 5 hours we were there we hit up the majority of the park!

Megan and I accidentally twinned!

Joseph's went home around 2:00 but my boys were still game, so we kept going! The lines had really picked up by then, but we had fun anyway, just at a much slower pace. Maybe the funniest moment of the day was when Hudson REALLY wanted to do a haunted house, which Chase really didn't want to do. Chase was super brave anyway and we all went. I will say, haunted houses really aren't my thing, but Hudson made it hilarious. It was full of creepy clowns and Hudson would just point at each one and yell "YOU!" It had me laughing and definitely lightened the whole thing up a lot!

One of the sweetest moments of the day was right at the end when we were going to do the Ferris Wheel- something Chase wanted to do (it's really tall). Hudson is scared of heights and started to freak out a little. Chase quickly back-pedaled and said, "I want Hudson to have fun on our last ride of the day, let's go do the Bat again!" Hudson was relieved and we went and rode that roller coaster again, which everyone loved. I loved seeing him look out for and sacrifice for his brother. We stayed for 10 hours and had so much fun! (And also I wouldn't mind not going back for another 10 years or so).

Davis is just the cutest. I love him so much. On this day he was so tired he was sleeping on the garage floor. If you look closely you can see he's actually wearing two layers of costumes- spider-man with ironman on top.

Lila now steals my purse and my shoes regularly. She's such a girl!

We are loving the Peloton would bought over the summer, and the boys love it too! Hudson was so funny doing this ride. The coach said "just work out all the stress from your life and job" and Hudson yelled back at the screen "I don't have a job! I'm not even ten!"