Backhoe repaired

History: Tucker's backhoe was broken a month or so ago while we were babysitting. Tucker was very upset. a couple days later Dusty packaged up the backhoe and shipped it to Grandpa Raybould for repair.

Grandma and Grandpa Raybould came to visit this weekend while they were up this way for a conference.

Grandpa brought Tucker back the repaired backhoe..... it looks amazing.

An original back wheel

The repaired back wheel

The original hub was cracked and broken so Grandpa had to make a new one.

Thank you Grandpa for fixing Tucker's backhoe.

And thank you Grandma and Grandpa for visiting us. We love you.

More Halloween

After we got home from Joni's Halloween party we went to work on our pumpkins

We distracted Kimber from playing with sharp objects by giving her gummy worms.... but after a while that didn't work and she had to play on the floor.

She didn't mind.

 Tucker wanted a bull on his pumkin so Dad was in charge of figuring that one out. Tucker was very excited.

Kimber would come up every now and then to see what was going on.

 Tucker was a little less grossed out with the goo this year than last year. But this is why we keep dad's around: last year Tucker had clothes on when he got to this part.... dad decided to skip that mess and keep the clothes clean by setting them aside.

 Mom and Kimber working on the "girls" pumpkin

 The ward Party was supposed to be a Trunk or Treat.... well that was moved inside due to rain. There were other wards in the building so we each got a hall. It was very crowded.

 Tucker went bounding down the hall trick or treating by himself. I helped Kimber.... She didn't really care about the candy..... She found "kitty"... well actually they were dogs. But they were small like the kitty.

Don't ask me why there were dogs in the church... beats me....?

 Tucker found the boys and they all hung out and ate candy and cookies.

Max is on the left, Tucker center and Cody is on the right.

 We got SO much candy Trick or Treating. Mom and Dad helped with the eating of the candy. :)

Kimber and Tucker by their pumkins after we got home for the ward party

Kimber's pumkin

Tucker's Pumkin

Halloween

Our family had several halloween parties to go to this year. We went to the play group party on Friday. We skipped the hospital party so we could go buy a camera photograph Halloween this year. And Saturday morning we went to Joni's Halloween party.(co-worker)

Tucker and Kimber playing with toys while the other kids are arriving.

Kimber was such a cute little lady bug.

Tucker really wated to be "skeletor" (off of the 80s cartoon Heman)... a skeleton was close enough to make him happy. (He is already planning to be Bravestar next year)

Both my children for some reason were both really drawn to this tractor.... it must be in the DNA... and not my DNA.

Kimber had so many places to go... she never held still.

Joni had all sorts of games for the kids to play... this one is pin the nose on the jackolantern.

I don't think Tucker totally understood the point of the game because he totally missed put came over to me afterwards like he had just won a million bucks. It makes me smile trying to picture what must have been going through his mind.... (So I put this thing on so I can't see and I go put this paper on the wall... hmmm... weird.... but all the other kids seem excited about this.... I bet I can get this paper on the wall too)

Tucker feeling like a million bucks after getting the paper on the wall.

Kimber was just happy to have so much going on... she didn't even need any attention... she was just happy running around.

I just had to throw this picture in. She is just such a little bug... it's so cute. To give you an idea of just what a little bug she is... she will turn 1 in two weeks... she just started wearing 6-9 month clothes a few weeks ago.

But she is healthy... and just cute.

Just workin' here mom.

Tucker followed this little girl everywher... her name is Tireney, she's about 2.

I can't decide if he latched on to her because she is cute..... or if it was the fact that she was dressed like a cowgirl... she's not wearing her hat in this picture.

Tucker and the Boys plaed with the motor cycle down stairs. Tucker has no fear... I think these other boys are about 6 and 8.... but that didn't stop him from jumping in and playing too.

Boys playing on the hammock in the basement.

We don't have stairs at our house. So Kimber was facinated with them.... she would climb up to the top and then shout so I would come get her and bring her back down... and then she would climb up to the top again. She really needs to work on getting down.

My cute little bug.

After we got home I made Dusty some Carmel apples.... before we started on the pumpkins.

Your daily smile

Tucker keeps walking waround the house singing this:

Black sheep,

Black sheep

Ever you were...

Yes sir,

Yes sir 3 bags full...

One for my master

and one for his day,

One for the litte boy...

going away.

Hope we could make you smile today.

Play group this weeks was at the firestation for Seth's birthday (the son of the lady that does play group)

Tucker and I were so excited.

First they showed us the inside of the firehouse. Tucker was thrilled to see that the firemen had exercise equipment. ? I don't know why he thought that that was so fantastic.

Next we got to go outside and see all of the vehicles.

We got to see the ambulance first.

They opened up all the compartments on the ambulance and showed us what was in them. I had no idea that they kept firerighting gear on the ambulance just incase they come accross a fire or a wreck that suddenly bursts into flames.

Tucker called the firemen "Firehouse boys"... and I have no idea where he got that.

Well, one of the firehouse boys lined the kids up in a row while he talked to them about the ambulance.

I have never seen kids stand in line so still in my life. They were all glued to every word he was saying.

Then we got to go inside the ambulance and look around. The fireman set all the kids down on the gurney while he showed them what was in the ambulance.

The back of one of the seats in the ambulance pulls down and converts into a car seat. My thought: why aren't all cars equiped with this feature?

Ok, back out of the ambulance. And on to look at the old fire truck.

Well not that old. They said it was a 1985 or such, and they use it as their back up engine.

They brought out an ax, as tall as Tucker... so about 36-39 inches and asked if any  of the kids could pick it up. Well I guess it must be a heavy ax, either that or the other kids didn't try very hard. Tucker was watching the other kids try to lift the ax and he was getting so frustrated with them. He stood next to most of the kids and kept saying "come on, pick it up." Well after all the other kids had tried Tucker went over and said: "I Tucker Owen Clark, I strength of the bear, I pick it up." Well Tucker probably got it a foot off the ground and the fireman kept saying "ok, ok let's put it back down." Tucker gave him a funny look, I suppose Tucker was thinking ' what? put in down, you just told me to pick it up.'

At that point Kimber had had it with being held and I had to let her wander. She was very excited to check out the firetruck with the rest of the kids.

They let the kids climb on the firetruck.

Kimber, just happy she gets to touch the truck.

WHAT! Cody's here!

Cody showed up late, and while we were listening to the fireman talk Tucker could see Cody coming. Tucker went nuts and totally lost focus. "Cody's here!"

The two boys had to explore together, and Kimber tagged along.

Then we got to see the newer fireturck. It has a huge cab, and they let the kids climb inside.

Love my kids.

We had such a good morning.

Tucker, Kimber and the "firehouse boy".

I'll try to get the video of the firehouse to post later. not working so great right now.