We enjoyed a long weekend in Rocky Mountain National Park in early October - the perfect time to see the aspen changing and hear the elk bugling. You can see more on Danny's blog http://www.griffisfamilyoutdoors.blogspot.com/, but here are a few of highlights from the trip. We spent time...
exploring...
relaxing...
horseback riding...
Our church has been blessed by a baby boom over the past year (5 babies in 12 months is pretty good!) so they decided it was time to schedule a baby dedication service. It was a really sweet time for our church and a blessing for our family.
Our family of five...
and our sweet baby boy!
Colter with his first fish...
Danny covers the emergency room one weekend each month. Some weekends it's pretty slow and he's home most of the time, but other weekends it is really busy. The idea of putting all three boys to bed by myself for three nights in a row is a little exhausting, so my parents offered to use those call weekends as a time to give Wyatt and Colter some individual attention. This weekend Colter got to spend two nights at Noni and Papa's house in Lubbock and Wyatt got to stay home and help me with Zane. The next call weekend it will be Wyatt's turn to go to Lubbock and Colter will get to help with Zane. 
Wyatt and Colter had lots of fun giving Zane his first music lesson. It got pretty loud, but Zane didn't seem to mind!
It all started Saturday morning with a parade downtown. Wyatt and Colter both thought the sirens were a little too loud, but they enjoyed collecting all of the candy and toys that everyone threw from the floats. That's where the beads came from - just in case you were wondering!
Wyatt participated in the "junior tractor pull" again this year. Colter really wanted to do the "ta-ta pull", and was sad to hear that he would have to wait until he is a little older.
The boys liked going with Papa to look at the petting zoo. When you live in the middle of livestock country it's not hard to find animals for this kind of thing!
Colter's favorite part of the day was "milking" the cow...
and Wyatt's favorite part was sliding down the big slide. What can I say - they are small town boys!
Even though is was pouring, Colter just couldn't resist playing in the rain this afternoon. After only a few minutes outside he was soaked - and loving every minute of it!
I pick Wyatt and Colter up from preschool at 11:30 and then we head home to fix lunch. They usually play outside while I fix their sandwiches. The other day Colter came running in and said "Picnic, Mommy!" He and Wyatt had found a perfect picnic spot under their slide and they wanted to eat lunch outside. They had lots of fun eating and talking in their cozy hiding place.
We finally broke down and bought a new camera and I just had to try it out on two of my favorite subjects!
The wheels are always turning...
feeding the ducks,
playing on the "roller" slide,
exploring all of the trees,
and of course climbing!
and just enjoying our family!
