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Last weekend, we met up with our friends to see the dinosaurs at the zoo. It's a special exhibit they have going on right now and it was really cool, although Fox kept getting more and more scared as we passed the huge dinosaurs, so we quickly moved on to the regular part of the zoo. Brushing off dinosaurs fossils We've had a zoo membership for almost three years now and never fed the giraffes. Not entirely sure why, but it was definitely not our last time, because Fox loved it.  Always having a blast together! Bringing this wagon to the zoo was one of the worst decisions of man kind. Fox wanted Jake to sit in the wagon with him, Jake was only interested in pulling the wagon. And by pulling, I mean running with it. There was a lot of patience needed for both Mamas and a lot of pouting going on from both boys. Whew...! And even though it was a semi stressful morning for us, we had such a great time. But next time, the wagon will stay home! :) ...

Just a few pictures from before Halloween that I need to get into my next Blog Book! :) Katie loves to carve pumpkins, it's the only Halloween tradition she insists on and is really passionate about. I'm not a fan and neither is Fox. He didn't like it when he was one year old and still thinks it's the grossest thing he's ever seen. We basically had to beg him to help open the pumpkin before he told us he was all done and continued with his game of throwing rocks in the front yard. Needless to say, Katie had to finish the job by herself and had the time of her life doing so!

October is easily my favorite month of the year. Granted, I love Christmas time, but December also comes with a lot of stress, while October is just fun!  We started out the month with a birthday party with friends at the Little Gym. Fox absolutely loved it and ran around like a crazy kid the entire two hours we were there. It was such a great party and I had fun catching up with my friends while he played with his. One night after work, we went to the Arizona State Fair Preview. Because of some work connections, we always get invited to the preview night before the fair opens and usually it's pretty lame, but they had a dragon exhibit and we thought it would be fun for Fox to check it out.  He was a little scared at first, but then loved it, but after checking out all the dragons, we quickly left because there wasn't anything else to do. Over a year later and we finally got our picture wall up. Hallelujah! I thought this project would never end. Katie wa...

Alright, this is seriously the last pumpkin patch of the season...ha!  Kristy and I made plans to go up north to visit a pumpkin patch we had never been to, but when the kids got sick, we rescheduled and ended up going the last weekend of October.  It was supposed to take us an hour and 15 minutes to get there, but with traffic and pee stops for the boys, it took us two hours. Luckily the boys were such great passengers. I seriously love this picture below! The farm had a lot of fun activities, but once again, it was hot as hell. We thought it was going to be much cooler, since we were going up north, we even brought sweaters and pants "just in case", but it felt just as hot as Phoenix.  Making corn angels The boys spent like 30 minutes on this tractor and the only reason they came down was because we told them to...they would've stayed up there all day long. Petting some chickens ...