Josh, Jenn, Ashton, Emmy and Ethan…

Josh took Ashton to the Fathers and Sons Camp Out last weekend, MINUS the camping this time.  They went up, hung out for dinner, S’mores and, I’m sure, some good stories and farting around the campfire, then came home.

This looks so yummy to me….Josh and Mark Jarman made Peach Cobbler in a dutch oven.  Josh just confirmed that it was delicious.

Roasting marshmallows….

I dressed Ashton in the same BRIGHT ORANGE hoodie last year for the camp out, to make sure he was easily seen by his dad.  Next year I will have to find a glow-in-the-dark hoodie.  Ashton was playing with his friends all night, climbing on rocks, throwing rocks in the river, playing on the playground, having a blast.  At 10PM he went up to Josh and told him he wanted to go home.  So Josh started packing everything up and when he was ready to go to the car, Ashton was gone.  He thought he must have gone back to play with his friends so he took the stuff to the car.  After loading the car, he went to the kids and asked if they had seen Ashton.  They hadn’t.  Josh checked EVERYWHERE.  He went to the playground, to the river (oh yes, I was freaking out when Josh told me this story), and checked in EVERY tent.  It had been about 15 minutes since Josh started searching and he says that he was 2 seconds away from full-on panicking and organizing a search party.  He decided to check the car one more time.  Welp, our perfect little boy was sitting in his car seat, all buckled up, just waiting and waiting.  He was even in there before Josh got to the car the first time.  PHEW!!!!

The other day Josh had to run to the grocery store for something.  On his way out, I decided that I needed to add “some kind of CHOCOLATE” to his short list. He said, “What should I get?”  I didn’t know, I just needed something chocolatey, you know how it is.

I found this on the counter when I came to inspect his purchases…

I knew he would get a Milky Way Dark (I LOOOOVE them) but the rest was a surprise.  What a cutie!  Either he’s the sweetest husband in the world OOOOR he’s completely afraid of me….probably both.

Saturday morning, after almost two weeks of being stuck in the house with unsuccessful potty training and having a very sick little girl, I was wiped out and very grumpy.   Josh saved the day, for everyone in our house, by insisting that I go take a nap while he and the kids went on an adventure.  THAT sounded fun and I really wanted to go, but recognized my desperate need for sleep.

While I was snoozing, those guys went all over the place!  Josh took them to Dakota’s where they fed her HUGE pigs and tiny goats.  They went to a park to play.  Then they went to another park to feed the ducks and played at ANOTHER playground.  AND THEEEEEN Josh took them to McDonald’s.

Josh is the best.  I woke up much happier, I cleaned the house a TINY bit, and then wandered around not knowing what to do with myself.

Jason invited us to his TV/Movie Themed Halloween Party.  Here are Josh and Cari preparing their costumes….

Kris and Josh BEDAZZLING like crazy!

Josh was Richard Simmons

Kris, Cari and I were the Chipettes

Jason’s party was DA BOOOOMB!

We took the kids (and Kris ) to the Red Barn in Santaquin last Saturday.  We had a good ol’ time and I ate approximately 6 pumpkin donuts, two scoops of apple pie ice cream, an apple slushie WITH ice cream and a whole bunch of candy.  The next day I felt WAY guilty (not really) as I taught the Laurels about taking care of our physical bodies.

Here is Ashton taking care of his perfect pumpkin

Emmy was in her usual silly mood as she ate her ice cream cone