2 Cute Boys

My sister got a new lens for her camera, so we took some pictures of Ethan and Austin a few weeks ago while the leaves were still beautiful. They turned out sooooo cute, thanks Kristin!!

Friendship Feast

Ethan's preschool class had their Thanksgiving celebration today which they called the "Friendship Feast." The kids had made cute Indian headbands and turkey nametags, and they'd all been given Indian names by Miss Kerry (Ethan's was "Sly Fox" which is probably pretty appropriate for him). After their snack they sang some cute songs and read a Thanksgiving story. So cute; I can't wait for their Christmas party!

Ethan was so excited to see Austin when we came into his class, he ran over and they hugged.

Here they're singing everyone's favorite song, Boots, and jumping around

The Holy War

Adam's dad was able to get Adam and I tickets to the big rivalry game last night, BYU vs Utah. For those who don't know, Utah was undefeated and BYU had only 1 loss going into last night's game. The BYU vs. Utah game is always exciting, even if both teams have losing records, so last night's game was more exciting than usual. Unfortunately, just as BYU had their chance to pull into the lead at the end of the 2nd quarter, Max Hall threw an interception and that was just the beginning of many interceptions he threw that night. Very disappointing. And of course, to make things worse, we had all sorts of obnoxious Ute fans around us all night. Nothing gets me more angry than obnoxious Utah fans, so I spent much of the night very annoyed. We had one guy yell at us, "I hope you die!!!!!" Adam and I hadn't said ANYTHING to him... who says something like that?? Who else, an insaneUte fan. Another Utah fan was arrested near us. Despite the craziness, it was still a lot of fun, and really exciting, at least for the first half.

Photo 102, Week 1

I'm taking my second photo class from the talented Nicole Hill. Here classes are amazing, but unfortunately she is moving in January, and this is the last month that she'll be teaching here in Utah. The first class I took focused on learning to use the manual settings on your camera instead of automatic. We mainly took pictures of people. The advanced class is more about creativity and still life photography (so for me, creative=very hard). For one of our assignments we had to pick a random item out of a bag and shoot 6 unique creative pictures using that object (I picked a deck of cards). And for our other assignment we had to try different types of window lighting. So here's a few highlights from this week:

Snow Boys

We had our first big snow of the year last night, and Ethan couldn't wait to get outside and play in his new snow clothes. Ethan had a great time, but Austin spent a lot of his time crying because

1. He HATES wearing coats of any kind, let alone big fluffy snow coat and pants, and

2. He REFUSED to wear his hat, which meant....

3. His head was freezing!!!

He finally calmed down and had some fun and eventually cried when we had to go inside.

Halloween Fun

Halloween was a lot of fun this year. Ethan has always enjoyed Halloween in the past, but this year he started getting excited about it starting back in August or September. We had our annual Winn Family Halloween party the Sunday before Halloween at Adam's Grandma's house, which was fun as always. Ethan broke the pinata at the party, and was so excited. He went around telling everyone he saw, "I broke it! I am so strong. I am such a big boy!"

We also had our annual church "Trunk-or-Treat" where the boys got tons of candy.

Ethan and his buddy Noah had the same costume.

And on Halloween Ethan's preschool class had a costume parade and party, which was so cute.

On Halloween night we went to my in-law's house in Mapleton to trick-or-treat with the boys' cousin, Nicholas. They got SOOO much candy and, although they all had fun, Austin absolutely LOVED trick-or-treating! He ran up to each door step with so much enthusiasm and when the door would open, he'd yell, "Tick or Teat!!!!!!!!!!!!!" After getting his candy, he'd yell, "TANK YOU!!!!" and take off for the next house. When we got home that night, he cried and cried at the door, wanting to trick-or-treat some more. When kids would come knock on the door at my in-laws, Austin would be there waiting to help hand out candy, and when they'd leave, he would say, "Bye bye! See ya! Come again!" He's such a cute, funny boy.