This weekend, we went up to Utah for a couple reasons. We aren't going to be able to make it up for Thanksgiving, I wanted to relive my high school days by going to see my high school's production of Phantom of the Opera, and Kenadee turned the big 16 today. I was anxious about our drive. Seven hours in the car with an almost 2 year old just didn't sound like fun to me. But Sawyer left me speechless, we hardly heard a peep out of him the whole drive. He played with his cars, my iPad, read books, took a nap, and played with my phone. Seriously, he was wonderful. He had his first happy meal on our way up. I about had a mini heart attack feeding my child this, but he loved it and it made him happy, so I let him eat up! We hit a big snowstorm on our way up, and after we got there, it snowed for the next two days! I loved seeing the snow, it got me so excited for the holidays.


Sawyer was so excited about the "no" and thanks to grandma Beck for saving all the little snow clothes, he got to go play in it! Aunt Dee was nice enough to take him out. He mostly just ate the snow. If you know my boy at all, you know he is obsessed with ice. He loves it, and begs me for a cup of ice all day. So naturally, he loved to eat the snow!








I loved the fall trees with the snow on them. I have been craving my fall trees, and these hit the spot!





And here are a few with the great grandma's and grandma Beck!








Of course the weekend went by too fast, and not enough pictures were taken. But we were spoiled, and loved, and so welcomed, we couldn't help but soak it in stand not worry about pictures! We celebrated Kenadee and all of her 16 year old self and found ourselves chatting around the kitchen bar swapping stories and memories and It filled my heart. Something about those little moments fills me up. I'm so grateful for such a supportive and loving family! Cant wait for our next visit!!

My superheros

It's kind of ridiculous how in love I am with these two boys.




Halloween was just what I needed it to be this year. I made my white chicken chili, my boys got all dressed up and we went trick-or-treating in the most festive neighborhood I've ever seen. My little Clark Kent walked right up to every house, held his bag out and said "peese."(please). The moon was full and perfectly scary, sawyer made out like a bandit with some mini almond snickers... Which I quickly claimed, and my heart was happy.








My sweet, sweet boy how is it that he is almost two? I wish I had superhero powers of my own and could stop the hands of time for a little bit.
(sorry for the horrible lighting in the pictures!)

Monday mornings

On Monday mornings the garbage truck comes. And my boy sits patiently on the porch step awaiting its arrival! He gets so excited when it pulls up and the driver gives my boy the rock star treatment by waving and honking the horn a few times.





And yes, I'll post a picture of myself in my pjs with my boy...proof that I too am excited to wait for the garbage truck. Excited because my mama heart is so happy to watch the excitement in my little boy's eyes.


We are in love with Mondays at the Leavitt household!

Goal Accomplished!

I have been wanting to run a half marathon for a while, and I finally decided to just sign up and train for it! I couldn't have chosen a more beautiful location, the whole race was overlooking lake mead, and i swear the race flew by because I was so overcome by the beauty of it all! I've been training for the past 6 weeks, and I felt prepared. I was so happy with my time: 1:51:02. I was so excited to see the finish line and see Dixon and Sawyer there cheerin me on. I was also so touched to see my boss there... She drove all the way out there with her son and made me a cute poster to cheer me on. And I had the support of our family! I couldn't have done it without their encouraging words! I had a blast, and am now toying with the idea of a full marathon. We'll see. For now I'll leave you with a few pictures... Notice the view of the lake in the background!








This is our cousin Kiersten, she was the one that motivated me to sign up! Love her and am so proud of her for accomplishing this big goal!


And this is the world's best boss, and the cute sign she made me. I feel so blessed to work for her!

This definately is the first of many half marathons! I seriously had a blast!

Daddy brrrmmmm

He can't wait till daddy comes home, he claps his hands and shouts for joy and climbs up on his knee, and takes the wheel! Sometimes we wait outside patiently waiting for daddy's arrival so that he can drive the car into the garage. It's a privileged life he lives.







He loves his dad's car... or as he calls it, daddy brrrmmmm. He points out every Hyundai that we see and says daddy brrrrmmmm. And he is seriously offended when we take my car instead of daddy's. We're talkin full on crocodile tears when we put him in my car and not dad's.

Punkins

October has been hot this year. I have been patiently waiting fall's arrival. And though our weather teased us last week with a little taste of fall, we are back to the high eighties. I have been trying to wait until I could feel fall's arrival to purchase our pumpkins, but I gave in today and purchased some. Sawyer chose a little pumpkin... just his size. He held it so nicely at the grocery store, and held it so nicely for pictures on our front porch, and then threw it so nicely and split it open. At least I got a few pictures first. I can't blame him, it looks kind of like a basketball all round and orange and screaming to be thrown.

Sawyer loves fire trucks. And by love, I mean he makes the fire truck sound randomly throughout the day. All day. Every day. So you bet I was so excited when the fire station next door put a sign up announcing an open house happening this past Saturday! Unfortunately I had to work, so it was a boys only outing. Dixon said he was so excited he didn't quite know what to do. I imagine the words "Holy Smokes" may have been running through his mind.

Here's the little firefighter enjoying the tour. Makes my heart so happy that they gave him a fireman hat.