Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Odds and Ends

This post is comprised of a bunch of pictures of various events from the past couple months that I've forgotten to post about.  It's rather eclectic-sorry!

On Columbus Day Caleb had the day off so we hiked to the top of Ensign Peak.
The view is amazing!  (Caysja is being her goofy self!)
Caysja with Gracie and Millie, the girls I baby-sit every week.  
We love these girls!
Crewser and Aunt Chalise 
We love it when she comes to visit!
The Bountiful Library put on a fire safety day and we got to take a tour of the fire truck.
Here is Serah (the other little girl I baby-sit) with Caysja and Crew posing in their new hats.



This is Capri's new "cheesy" smile.  I just love that she knows how to pose for the camera now!
Caysja's good friend from AZ, Halle, came to visit and we had so much fun with them.
Caleb celebrated his 29th Birthday on October 22nd!
We were able to go home for a quick visit at the end of October.  
While we were there Uncle Jacob helped us make scarecrows.  
Here we are at the park stuffing them full of leaves.
The finished product
(ha, ha...do you think the necks are a little out of proportion maybe?)
The main purpose of our trip home was so that Caysja and Mariah could go on a special daddy-daughter motorcycle ride (an all day event). 
They had a great time!  Such brave, adventurous girls!
Caleb and I were able to go on a triple date with two of his brothers and their wives.  We went and walked around the newly remodeled grounds of the IF temple.
Standing by the beautiful new fountain
Caysja loves her two cousins Mariah and Nelah so much and it's always a sad day to leave them.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Skeletons, Princesses, and Halloween, Oh My!

When my sister and I were little we often wore matching outfits.  I guess that's partly why I think it's so cute to dress my girls identically now and then.  It worked out well that I found this tiny little Snow White costume at Kid to Kid after Caysja told me that's what she wanted to be for Halloween too.  Crew had been talking about Skeletons forever so that was a given.  I took these pictures at our ward Halloween party.  Caleb had to work late that night (he was on call) so with was just the kids and me.    


Playing BINGO
Caysja and her good friend, Millie



On Halloween night, I made this for dinner...
...while my sister Chalise (who was visiting from Chicago) helped the kids make these...

And then we went trick-or-treating...
...as a family because Caleb got home in time!!
Good job on the pumpkins, Aunt Chalise!!  They're just about perfect!
Poor Crew was starting to feel a little sick as you can see, so he rode in the stroller quite a bit of the time.
Showing the spoils to Aunt Chalise.
Priesie enjoying her first sucker--YUM!
Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween too!

Pumpkin Patches and Field Trips

Caysja was so lucky to go to not one, but TWO pumpkin patches this fall.  The first was Pack's Pumpkin Patch in Farmington with her Girl Scout troup.  They needed volunteers to drive so Crew, Capri and I got to go along too.

(Caysja's on the left)
Group Shot at beginning
Crew loved getting to go along.  He begs me all the time to be in girl scouts too.

We found the perfect pumpkins, Mom!
Group shot at the end with the leaders, Veronica and Anabel
My three beautiful kiddos
Caysja's second pumpkin patch excursion was her first field trip with her Kindergarten class to Black Island Farms in Syracuse, Ut.  I was lucky enough to be a volunteer for this event too.  It was Caysja's first time to ride a school bus and she was soooo excited for that.

Here we are about to leave the school.  I was in charge of these four cute girls!
Caysja and her friend Kera on the bus

Besides picking out a pumpkin, this place had LOTS to do:  bounce houses, slides, corn box...


On the hay ride about to pick out pumpkins
Perfect pumpkin #2!
We ended the day by watching a pig race.  It was pretty funny!
The weather was sooo nice and her first field trip was pretty awesome!