A Beautiful October Day

It has been the UEA  (Utah Education Association) holiday the past two days.  

Everybody that goes to school, teachers included, get a fall vacation.

I decided that since I am a hard working teacher, I would give myself a holiday.

Perhaps teachers actually go to training or something during this time,
I am not really sure.

We declared it a holiday at our house and decided to head up the canyon for what 

may be one of the last perfect days of the year.

And it was PERFECT!  

We had lunch at Vivian Park and there was a playground that we couldn't keep the kids from.

 Actually we didn't try very hard to stop them.

 William discovered how to climb the rope ladder.  Oh hurray - NOT!

 I was just watching him and visions of all of his future medical bills flashed through my head.

It was not a fun vision.

Then I watched this little monkey and visions of past medical bills flashed through my mind.

It must be getting close to Halloween because I keep seeing lots of frightening things.

This is frightening to me for an entirely different reason that I won't go into!

But for those of you who keep asking if we are going to have three children...
I already have three!

The "kids" just couldn't leave the train tracks alone.

 I am pretty sure that this both illegal and stupid.

Sometimes fun trumps illegal and stupid.

Where there are train tracks you are bound to find a train, or at the very least an empty boxcar.

 

You can't go past a beautiful, peaceful, flowing river without throwing some rocks into it.

 Isabelle picked very cute dainty little rocks.

William opted for the more manly boulder versions.

He threw at least 10 rocks this size in.

If they still employ strong men at the circus I bet he would qualify.

The leaves were so beautiful and brought a needed sense of calm into my mind. 

I don't know how old this tree is, but it had an old soul to it...
you know, for a tree.

Since it was a holiday we decided to do a slumber party in the family room.

We don't do sleepovers, so this is probably as close as our kids will get to one.

We watched a double feature, played some Halloween Bingo (which I won for once, usually Isabelle beats me senseless!) and shoved popcorn into our mouths as fast as our hands could shove.

See???

 

The three "kids" slept on a mattress on the floor.  

And the boring non-risk taking adult had dibs on the big couch.

Amazingly, we all slept like babies and the kids even slept in until 8:30 this morning.

I am thinking this should become a monthly family tradition.

I can just picture me with my teenage kids having a blast at the family slumber party. 

They won't get too cool for that will they?