The Cordners: October

October was a fantastic month! So much happened. These past few months have been really hard on me and Kyle. But towards the end of October things started changing for the first time in a long time. All I can say is that I am so grateful for him. I'm grateful for our relationship. Even when we struggle, and every relationship struggles, there is so much strength. We are are so different, and sometimes those differences don't work well together. But our commitment to one another and our deep love for each other and for the beautiful life we are building means everything to us! We have had to work hard, and we will continue to work hard but things are getting better. I am so grateful for him. This life I am living is incredible and I wouldn't have it without a loving Heavenly Father and a husband willing to work so hard to give it to me.

Sorry for all the mushy but I want to remember the struggles as I post all of these beautiful pictures from the month October. I am so blessed!

We love this piano. It has already brought so much joy into our home!

We went to a really fun movie night at the park. Our friends have this screen and projector and they played a bunch of kid halloween movies. It was a great night! Jules kept standing up right in front of the screen blocking everyone's view and jumping around flapping her arms totally oblivious to anyone else! We kept yelling her name and she was so engrossed in the movie she couldn't hear us. I had to keep going up and making her sit back down again. She cracks us up.

We all got our teeth checked by the best dentist in town! So fun to see daddy at work. He is seriously rocking it. October was a fantastic month for him!

We made halloween sugar cookies. Jane was a big fan. I love this little girl.

We went to the pumpkin patch with my family. It was a perfect night. The weather cooled off that evening so it wasn't totally miserable to be outside finally! We went to Schnepf farms for the first time and we all loved it. They had a petting zoo, rides, and a spooky train. We paid the little extra to ride the "spooky train" after dark. My mom had done it the year before with Jason and Sarah and said it wasn't too scary. Well they had upped the scary factor. It was super scary! Jules and Abby kept their heads in everyones laps the whole time. I was even a little spooked! We all had a good laugh. I would ride it again! Just maybe without kids. Ha ha.

I love painting their nails! They always pick the funniest combinations. Jules had a different color for her right hand and left hand. And then two more colors for each of her feet!

I've let Abby split a meal with me a couple times at restaurants and she thinks it is the coolest thing ever. I love sharing things with her. Its so fun!

We went to the pumpkin patch by our house to get our pumpkins to carve! Watching Jane carry around that tiny pumpkin was a highlight of the Halloween season.

This is the only picture I got of the trunk or treat! It was so much fun! Our jumping spider broke so our trunk wasn't as cool as we wanted it to be. So that was a bummer. Our ward put on a good party. Lots of food and music and candy! I dressed up as bell wearing her blue dress. Our theme was princess.

These pictures are from the beginning of the month. I made bread on conference saturday! I might have to make that a tradition. It was super yummy and the whole house smelled like fresh bread.

Changed in fairy wings dancing to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Conference was amazing!

I love this girl and her imagination. It is the best. There is always an amazing creation when she is playing.

We watched Saturday afternoon conference in the tent! Also a fun tradition.

Abby and I colored together during the Sunday sessions.

I love her. Jane turned 18 months old this month!!! I'll write a whole post dedicated to that. But seriously why must she insist on growing up?

Look at these gorgeous flowers I picked from our backyard? So beautiful!

We love our daddy!

My grandpa is the best! Our ice maker was broken on our fridge. It was the worst! I need ice. So we kept buying it from McDonalds and Sonic. The bags took up so much space in the freezer and it was such a pain to get the ice out of the bags. We had put the ice in the dispenser but then it got jammed. We had someone come to look at it and said it was going to be SOO expensive to fix and that it would be a huge, huge pain. I was so bummed out about it. I mentioned it to my Grandpa who is a super handyman. He used to own an appliance store so he came over to look at it. He ordered the new ice maker and installed it. And changed out all the filters. I didn't even know where the filters were. He showed me some awesome stuff to keep the fridge maintained and running nice. Now we have ice! And it works like a dream. Juliet held the flashlight for him. It was pretty dang cute. I'll always cherish this picture. Its so fun to see my girls get to have such awesome relationships with their great grandparents! They are lucky girls.

Crazy hair day. This is the best picture I could get. If she isn't in the mood for a picture you aren't getting a picture.

We discovered a kids yoga channel on youtube. Super fun!

We took a trip to the "Fishy store". It is soo far away!!!! But it was fun to go there again. We miss some of our fun things from Colorado.

I've been major training for my race in November!! I've been feeling so good. I never though in a million years I would ever break past a ten minute mile! And now I've done it. It feels amazing to progress like that.

I love this picture of Jane chilling during the movie at the park.

At the beginning of October we had a "spooky dinner" and watched "The Nightmare Before Christmas". We had chowder in bread bowls and I love how the decorations turned out!

Kyle worked all of fall break. My dad was gone so he worked extra long hours. The girls and I still tried to do some fun stuff that week! We went to the mall to get halloween costumes and got pretzels for lunch. So fun! It made me very excited for future girls trips.

Trying on the costumes!

More pictures from our family trip to Scheps Farm.

Jules loves best friend Mema!

I convinced Abby that Kyle's favorite animal is a pegacorn. She keeps tracing/drawing them for him.

This picture is proof that we survived stake conference. Stake conference and little kids is the WORST! But the little snippets we caught were amazing. I am so grateful for the gospel. It brings us so much peace and joy.