I know it has been a long time....I would make excuses that I have been so busy, but, really, they are just excuses! :) This is a quick update! Some highlights from Oct. I was going to include Nov, but this has already taken me 1/2 an hour, so it's just Oct. Hopefully you will get Nov before Dec is over! Haha!
So, at the beginning of Oct, Oct 7th, to be exact, the kids woke up freezing....they came out of their rooms like this:
I couldn't stop laughing because this was the temp outside....
yes, that says 64'....yes, 64'. SO COOOOOOLLLLDDD!! Haha! Definitely Arizona babies! Notice how that is at 6:45 in the am. It still got up to 90' that day, and within 2 days we were back in the upper 90's and 100's.
My Mom invited me and my kids on a last minute UT trip during Fall break, so we jumped in the car and headed to UT!!
We made it!!!
We started in Ogden, to visit my brother, Nate, and his adorable wife, Abby. We only stayed one night at their place, then we headed down to Salt Lake City and spend the day there! We went on a tour of the conference center, then took the kids to the Temple grounds. BEAUTIFUL!!
I'm so glad they got to touch the temple!!
We also went to the visitors center and saw the Christus
We also went on top of the Church office building, to the Beehive House and the Tabernacle. I'm so glad they got to experience all of that!!
Before leaving SLC, we decided to go find Hatch Family Chocolates. It is a Chocolate show on TLC about little people who do AMAZING creations out of chocolate. Yeah, we found it....
Yeah, I got pics with the owners, Katie and Steve...
And, we bought chocolates. They were pretty good! My kids loved the chocolate covered gummy worms! haha!!
After the chocolates, we went to the SLC Cemetery. If you have never been there, GO!! It was amazing! They have a little map of many different people buried there, including President Hinckley
Pres. McKay, Woodruff, etc. Also, Orwin Porter Rockwell, other members of the quorum of the 12, and important women and men in the church! We spent 1 hour there, but I would have loved to spend 2 more hours! They also have a special memorial for people who have miscarried, or had a pre-term baby who died.
It is pretty touching.
After SLC we went down to Provo to visit my friend, Heidi and her family. We had LOTS of fun! We went to the dead animal museum
It's on the BYU campus. Bean museum?? It was really fun!
Then we went up the Sundance Canyon and hiked in to Stewart Falls.
Can we say BEAUTIFUL!!!!
It was great weather (still chilly) but the kids stripped down to their swimsuits and didn't really play in the water, but played on the hill by the water. It was CHILLY!!
Isn't it gorgeous!
Thanks, Heidi for letting us stay at your house, and entertaining us for the day!
After Provo, we headed down to Price to visit my sister, Katie. She had 2 volleyball games, so we were cheering her on! We stayed with cousins, and the kids had a great time! The weather was beautiful so we stayed outside most of the time and enjoyed playing outside!
Unfortunately, I only got a few pictures at the volleyball game.!
Here is the fan club...see the painted faces?? That was Allison's idea! Love it!
Go CEU!!
Unfortunately, this is as much playing as Katie did!
Oh well, we still love Katie!! Woohoo!!
On the way home, we went by the dinosaur tracks on the Reservation. Who knows if they are real, but the kids thought they were cool!
While we were gone, our Guinea pig, Cinnamon, had a baby. Yes, this is the baby at 3 days old!! They have their eyes open, they run, and they eat real food within a day! It's like giving birth to a toddler! Unfortunately, 2 died at birth, but this little guy, Little Bear, survived! The kids LOVE him!
Then came Halloween!! We carved pumpkins....
I had to adorable candy corn witches and a scary ghost with chains. Payton really wanted to be something with blood and guts and scary, but we compromised with this. He thought it was great. Do you love Lexi's trick-or-treat bucket?? I made it!
We had a GREAT Oct and I hope the kids loved the memories we made.
We had an amazing Nov...and that is to come.....sometime!
