Chili Cook-Off

My mom has been up for the past few days...yippee for Gram Time! We had a great time shopping, getting the boys stuff for winter (snowsuits, boots, etc), and spending time together. Ryan especially liked being able to earn a dollar for every book he read to Gram. I think she stopped at about 20 and went for other forms of motivation.

On Saturday night we went to our ward's annual Chili Cook-Off that the local hot-spot...the Shaw's Barn (okay, it's just a regular old barn, but a few times a year it becomes the ward hot spot because we use it for our activities). There were a few buffalo in the pen with the cows and you would've thought they were wild buffalo the way the kids oogled over them. We ate chili (plenty of it), salads, yummy desserts, and frozen bananas. Ryan spent most of his time roping the cow until the head fell off the bail of hay and he couldn't get it back on. We even went for a sunset hayride behind the tractor and say all the the leaf colors, they were amazing. The picture of the four of us on the hayride isn't great, but we do thank Nicole for taking it as she is just 12 years old:) We truly live in the most beautiful area where we get to see deer, elk, buffalo (in a corral), leaves changing colors, fruit on trees, and we get to feel the crisp air before most of the rest of the state.