Hartford Temple

They day after we flew back from San Jose, Axel threw up all day... So he spent all day in this position. So glad he wasn't throwing up on the plane...

We had to postpone our trip to the Hartford Temple Open House by a couple of days due to sickness, but luckily there were still tickets available!

We ran into Sister Vassau at the Temple, who was assigned to our ward for about 6 months. That was her first area, and the Hartford Temple was her last!

That face. Haha!

There was an awesome mini golf place across the street from the temple, and they were setting up for Halloween! So fun! Also, it ended up being SO HOT that day, and we were dressed way too warmly!

Then we picked out our pumpkins at the pumpkin patch.

And wandered around the apple orchard, even though there were no more apples to pick.

"Axel, do a fun pose!"

Axel:

Not too bad for a three-year-old photographer. (You should see the 50 that are just us from the waist down, haha!)

San Jose/Fallon Trip

Axel and I flew from Las Vegas to San Jose for a trip with my family.

Grandma and I took Axel to an open gym place, and he LOVED the foam pit! He told his gymnastics teachers about it when we got back to NY.

 We hauled the whole clan over to Fallon to see the cousins, and bless baby Peter.

Axel and Adeline playing fishing.

We went to a haymaze at the dairy. We went through it twice, taking an hour total (we let the kids decide which way to turn)

ALL THREE KIDS ARE SMILING! Amazing!

Axel got to sit in the tractor with Everett's uncle.

We got to tour the dairy barn.

Axel was fascinated with watching the suction milkers going on the udders.

Baby cows!

Brennen could get around the dairy pretty well!

Strong boy!

We went to a nice restaurant for Brennen's birthday dinner.

The lighting at the hotel pool was terrible, but here are some pictures. (Also, did you know that diapers can explode? Because I sure didn't... Next time Addie can just go commando in the pool if we don't have swim diapers.)

At Peter's baby blessing.

Axel apparently fell out of his chair asleep during singing time, and didn't wake up when it was time to go to class, so he got brought to me! Poor tired boy!

We had a fun time in California and Nevada! Love you family!