Halloween Wreath

I've been dying to make this Halloween wreath ever since I saw it last year, so I finally did!  I love the way it turned out! So cute!  We may use it for my ward's Super Saturday craft day coming up in September.

 

Captain America

We've been trying to get Caden to practice writing his letters, so for a little motivation I decorated a jar that Caden gets to put a marble in each time that he writes a good letter.  When the jar is full he gets to pick out a prize.  He finally filled the jar, and he picked this Captain America costume for his prize.  He actually ended up wearing it for two days including to bed.  He was very happy with his prize!

 

We went to my parents house and Caden was Captain America while my mom and Grandma Shobe were the princesses.  It was too funny!

Lowe's Build and Grow Clinic

We went to the Lowe's Build and Grow Clinic on Saturday, and Caden made this cute Dusty airplane from the new Disney movie Planes. (Actually Matt mostly made it :)).  We went to see the movie on Friday too since Caden saw the commercial and kept asking to see it.  It was really cute, and made this project especially fun!

Camping

We went on our annual camping trip up to the Mogollon Rim near Woods Canyon Lake with my parents.  It was awesome weather! So nice and cool.  I could almost forget what it was going to be like when we went back home!  We did exceed my one night limit, and we stayed for two nights.  It was fun, but I was definitely glad to come home and take a shower!

 

We spent a fair amount of time sitting around the camp fire and making smores. Yum!

We used Mikey's canoe to paddle around the lake a little.  Caden was not really a big fan of the canoe because he was scared that we were going to tip over.  I will admit that our rowing technique could use a little bit of improvement, and we did almost collide with a couple of other boats. (maybe we did actually collide with one of them . . .)

Caden thought that he would prefer this method of canoeing, but it was still a little too unstable for his liking. 

We waded around in the lake a bit. 

 We hiked a little bit. (and tried to balance on fallen tree trunks.) 

 



We also visited the Tonto Creek Fish Hatchery where we saw trout in various stages of development.  Eventually they are released into the lakes around Arizona.  We paid for the privilege of feeding the fish.  

Go Dbacks! (again!)

Caden's dentist had patient appreciation day on Friday, and everyone got free tickets to the Diamondbacks game!  Best dentist ever right, plus he is also our Bishop!  The Diamondbacks killed the other team 10 to nothing, but we had to stay the whole time because there were fireworks at the end!

 

Being silly.

Jumpstreet

We met up with my friend Cassie and her two kids Reagan and Kade at Jumpstreet last week.  We hadn't been there in ages, and Caden loved it.  I think that he definitely falls in the intended age range.