Catch up!

It's been awhile and a lot has happened over here in the last couple of months.  We had Halloween, the Luke's came to visit and Olivia had her 1st birthday (which I'll cover in another post).  I'll try not to make this too terribly long!

HALLOWEEN

Since Halloween was on a Sunday this year our stake did a trunk or treat.  Since my family was going to be in town we decided to decorate the trunk in a pirate theme and have mom, dad, Danny and I dress as pirates.  Mom brought down most of the trunk decorations and the costumes.  I LOVED my pirate costume.  She found the leather coat I wore for $0.99 at a second hand store!! (Why can't I ever find deals like that?)  Then she dyed the coat dark brown, only the decorative braiding didn't take the dye so it remained the lighter color.  It turned out really cool! 

I didn't get very many pictures of the kids in their costumes unfortunately.  I still don't have a picture of Olivia in her costume.  It was a bit chilly at the trunk or treat so we kept her bundled up in the stroller.  And the fairy wings just don't work too when you're sitting back in the stroller!  I do have a picture of her in her flower hat that I took a few months back.  So just imagine her with fairy wings on and there you have it.  Shailey was also a fairy (Rosetta, to be precise), Eli went as a pirate, and Isaac went as Super Mario.

THE LUKES VISIT

We had a visit from the Lukes and, as usual, had so much fun with them here!  We played games, visited Disneyland, ate candy, and went to the beach.  Here are a few highlights...

The hair that Hyrum was sporting regularly with reckless abandon.  I love that kid!

DISNEYLAND

I didn't take many pictures at Disneyland but here are a few of my favorites.

 Livvy's first Disneyland trip!

I love this picture!

And what trip to Disneyland would be complete without a few pictures of Main Street?

We look forward to our trip up to Oregon to visit the Lukes next month!

the lukes visit!

My family came to visit a couple of weeks ago. I'm always surprised by how few pictures I end up taking when we have family visiting. I need to work on that. I didn't even get any pictures of my parents, my sister, or my little brother. Sorry Mom, Dad, Kara and Hyrum! And there were no pictures at Disneyland! What's wrong with me??

I hope you took more pictures than I did, Mom!

Here are a few of the pictures I did take.

The kids were very excited to see their uncles!

I think the uncles were excited to see the kids, too. :o)

I guess I did get a couple of pictures at Disneyland. Here's McKay on the guitar during the instrument presentation in the Innoventions building.

Mom and I decided to go visit the shops in Disneyland while the big kids went on rides. We took Isaac along since he can't do most of the big rides yet. Either shopping is really boring, or he was tired from a long day at Disneyland. He lasted all of three minutes. :o)

Isaac loved hanging out with Ammon. I love this picture of him watching Ammon play his game.

The kids thought it would be funny to make it look like Jesse fell asleep with a teddy bear puzzle. Sorry Jesse! :o)

Having fun at the beach! Nice smile, Ammon. :o)


The boys burying the kids in the sand.

Eli wasn't so sure about being buried ...

Here's Shailey buried up to her neck (yuck!). If you'll notice she lost her first front tooth. I forgot to take a regular picture of that milestone. Oops!

Eli finally let the boys bury him, too.

And Isaac was more than willing to be buried. :o)

We miss you all already! We can't wait to visit you all in December!! :o)