October at our House

Here's a taste of last months happenings at the Ballantyne residence. What a fun crazy busy month. We are looking forward to the holidays and Spencer being home more now that football is over. (Although he has to start his administration internship for his masters so he will still be gone a lot.) We are going to be gone almost every weekend in November so hopefully we survive and our house doesn't deteriorate from the inside out with no Saturday cleaning sprees!



And of course no Mommy blog would be complete without the Halloween Costume Pictures!
We had a really fun Halloween. We all ran a 5K that morning, (Which I have no pictures of. . . What the heck?) including Mason. It was really fun. We really want to make running a fun thing our family can all do together. Then we all took a nap, went to our ward's trunk-or-treat, trick-or-treated a little more in the neighborhood, and came home to watch the Utah football game. Carter didn't understand exactly what was going on, but he would not let go of his bucket, so I think he at least grasped the fact that it was full of treats! Mason wasn't as into it as he has been before and now we know it's because he wasn't feeling well! He's been sick ever since. (We are sick of being sick!!) All in all, it was a fun day and we have a sack of candy that should last us quite some time! Happy Halloween!!

Halloween, Carter Laughing, etc. etc. etc.

Mason and Carter were a hot dog and bottle of ketchup for Halloween. It was so much fun. Today Dora was talking about different careers you can have and she said, "What do YOU want to be when you grow up?" Mason answered back, "A bottle of ketchup!!" I got a kick out of it!


The boys cuddled up on the couch. They sure love eachother! And we kindof like them too. . .



Mason had a RIOT trick-or-treating with his new friends Gary and Liv. THANKS for the fun night Tami and Todd!!


What a happy hotdog!


Carter is growing way to fast. We had to take him to the doc last week for an eye infection and they weighed him. . . He is almost 15 lbs! crazy. Anyway, he is cooing and laughing all of the time now. We think he is pretty dang cute.