October Fest

For the longest time, it has been a tradition in the Wilber home to have what is called an "October Fest" every year at this time. It is kind of like a harvest party I guess you could say. We start around 4 in the afternoon with relay races, sack races, and tug of war. Then we bob for apples and eat donuts on a string. When it the sun starts to go down, we eat chili and cornbread. Don't forget the homemade root beer for a drink!




Katleyn and Brayden didn't want to eat it off the string so they cheated a little. Donut anyone?



Brayden and Bryson are both the same age. Cute cousins!



We usually have a bonfire to get warm and roast marshmallows.



We also have a pinata for the kids to bust open. This year we had so many kids that we had to break open two pinatas for there would be enough candy for everyone.





Katelyn actually scalped the horse when she it it.



Now that your tummy is full and you have lots of candy, it's time for the hay ride!




There actually ended up being about 100 people there. My sister invited a family from her ward that adopted several children and many of their own. Their family brought 24 people with them! They were all so sweet and very well behaved. Many of them come from Haiti. We played soccer with them all when they first arrived. It was really neat to have them there because they made the tug of war really fun and all the kids sang primary song during the hay ride. It was really neat!

Sailing

A brother in our ward took the older scouts boating on a sailboat. Sean said there was plenty of room so the kids and I went with them. Brayden and Katelyn actually had a lot of fun. It was very relaxing to me. I felt like falling asleep the whole time.




Sean's driving!



The owner of the boat...



Don't fall in Kids!

Circus is in Town Again!

Every time there is a circus in town, I am reminded of President Monson's story of the father who always made it a point to take his kids to the circus. He reminds us from this example, that even though the circus comes around from time to time, childhood doesn't. That is so true! I try to make a point to spend time with my sweet little ones because they won't be little for long.





A lot of the acts were kids. This one was balancing...



This girl had 50 hoola hoops going at one time!

Hair cuts

Time to cut everyone's hair so have a seat!
Katelyn has the High School logo on her cheek because we had just gone to a family fair there...







Don't forget Daddy! He's got "hat hair" from work.

"Photoshoot"

Katelyn decided to pose for me one Sunday afternoon while Sean was gone home teaching and Brayden was napping. Some of these pictures are so cute!





She loves to make silly faces like this one!




I was trying to have her pretend to pray like the "Precious Moments" dolls.

Happy Birthday Brayden!

Thanks to all of our family, Brayden had a wonderful birthday! He is 2 now! He loves trucks, cars, airplanes, helicopters, fire engines, motorcycles, and most of all trains. I guess you could say, he is quite a little boy. We had a great time opening presents and eating cake.

His biggest gift was a train set. Ironically enough, he found it under our bed a week before his birthday and managed to open the box, remove all the tissue paper padding, and put together the train part of the set. He yelled, "Mommy, look a train!" I went in pretty surprised to see him and told him that we needed to put it back for his birthday. He wasn't too happy, but then finally agreed. He remembered that I told him it was for his birthday because every present he opened, he asked if it was the train. Each time, he would look at the present and throw it aside to open another one trying to find it. I thought it was cute how determined he was and how he had remembered from the week before that he would be getting a train for his birthday!





Thank you Miller family in Utah! He loved all the things you sent him! He tries to carry around all his new toys with him in whatever room he decides to play in everyday. I finally gave him a laundry basket to put everything in and carry around.





I made him his cake again this year. I thought he would like a train and he did!






This was his Birthday face! He was pretty serious the whole evening. I couldn't get him to smile at me for a good picture. I think he was so busy trying to open everything that he just wasn't interested in pictures! Notice the bruise... Gotta love that about little boys!



Brayden has been talking up a storm lately. He and Katelyn have been playing and getting along so much better now that he can communicate really well with her. They are so cute together! It is fun to just here them talking and playing with each other without them knowing that I am watching them. So Katelyn got a present too! Thank you Grandma Nancy! Katelyn's little thing lately is playing dress up. She loves to change outfits like three times a day. Looks like she decided to wear the Cinderella dress for Brayden's Birthday.



All the girl cousins got some comfortable foam pads to put on the hammock where they all hung out for the evening.