South Dakota!!

Tanner loves to plan trips. He can look at travel books and maps all day long and he has already planned a trip with him and his dad to China when he is 16 and for Egypt as well. He will be a well travelled kid.

Domestically, he loves South Dakota...not sure how that happened (other then a 30 second Veggie-Tales blurb on the state). Anyway at school they are starting to talk about Flat Stanley. Flat Tanner decided to go to South Dakota and send us this postcard. I love the Mount Rushmore.

The Pumpkin Patch

This weekend, Carmel had a little (well actually it was big) Pumpkin Patch festival. It had a train ride, food, candy, games, the Colts, the obligatory realtor sponsorship balloons, etc., so it was a fun time. At the end everyone got to pick a pumpkin to take home. The pumpkins were not really anything special, but Tanner and Charlie were very excited and Tanner continues to live up to his standard of having to be in front of the camera with his little Fall Harvest pose here. The hat (which is a bat) on his head makes him just a little harder to take serious...but hey that is Tanner.

General Conference

Tanner was drawing during General Conference and he noticed that the coloring page that had the latest prophets did not have Thomas S. Monson on it. So he decided to draw his own.

The end result was a 223 year old "Tomas F. Smith --remember the F." Hopefully President Monson won't mind the name change, but he looks pretty good for a 223 year-old man.

Pepper Market

This weekend was the opening of the Pepper Market for Tanner Inc. He picked all the peppers out of the garden and did his initial sale to mom and then dad injected $1 of change capital and then Shawn decided to go in as a partner and then shop was open.

Tanner and Shawn cleared $11 dollars and some change (not bad at a $.25 a piece on the pepper) so we sold a lot and we had a lot of folks give nice tips. One guy came and bought all that we had left. Tanner didn't quite understand that this is a good thing and tried to stop the sell. He eventually figured it out and then he was also comforted by the fact that we still had at least a dozen more peppers he could pick.