Family Pictures

The biggest problem with family pictures is knowing which one to pick! These were a few of my favorites!

Lagoon trail

If you have not been to Lagoon trail, you better get out there. It is beautiful. Not to mention we had this adorable horse to keep us company. It was lovely. Happy Fall!

East Canyon!

Mitch's family has a condo up at east canyon that we love to go up to. The week is full of fishing trips, boating and swimming. Oh, and a whole bunch of crazy grandkids.

Here is Larry, Dax, and Chase. Chase fell into peer pressure this year when he was dared to eat a fishing worm. All for $20 lousy bucks. It was one of the highlights of the year. He gave it a few chews then started gagging profusely. Then all 8 adults around him started throwing up or gagging as well. It sounds awful, but I have not laughed that hard in a LONG time.

 We love cousins. They make the best babysitters! :)

 Grandpa loves fishing and i'm glad. That way, I can just sit on the beach while he takes all the kids out in the fishing boat! :)

 I adore this picture. Making memories are the best.

 Elise and Meg making muddy memories.

 We got Grandma Sherrill on a wave runner and gave her a great ride. What a trooper!

Bridger is the explorer and he found this tiny snake and brought it into the condo. It was the only living creature in this 'zoo'.

 Here again, is grandpa showing the kids how to fish. They caught one fish then they would leave it on the fish for someone else to reel in. It was the fish that keeps on giving.

Once again, the giving fish. The kids were so proud!

A FALL Smatering

Today i'm posting a fall smattering of pictures. It's kinda random but then again, most of our life is! This year fall has been so lovely, the weather has been extra warm which makes everything better. We enjoyed carving pumpkins, dressing up, and everything that has to do with halloween!

 Here are Max and Pyper. If he ever holds her it's usually in this awkward fashion.

 Ellie is growing up and starting to get really creative. Her teacher from preschool sent me this picture of her building a tower. She was pretty impressed with her creativity.

 This is Pyper's 'go-to' smile. She's usually looking at us with this somber smile on. She is not way smily but not really frowny. She's a go with the flow kinda girl. However, she does have some major seperation anxiety right now and screams if anyone other than myself holds her. Which I love and despise at the same time.

 Here is cousin Kate holding Pyper. The dress Pyper has on was originally Kates, then Ellie wore it, now Pyper is! Hurrah for hand me downs!

 This adorable little boy is often overlooked. He is pleasant 90% of the time. He's very quiet and incredibly kind and sweet. He aims to please and is very traumatized if he ever gets sent to time out. However, don't come near his binkies. This boy has a serious binki addiction that is hard to crack!

 I took this picture of Ellie while we were riding on the flying aces at Lagoon. She was giggling and laughing so hard that my soul felt like it would burst with happiness

These two sisters are meant to be best friends. I just love this picture to pieces.

 Here are all of our pumpkins. Max wanted something 'scary' (top left) and ellie took an IKEA kids plastic knife and jabbed away at her pumpkin for an hour. I was impressed how it turned out! (upper right).

 Mitch's work (fusion IO or Sandisk) does a great trick or treat day where they load you up with full size candy bars and other yummies. Ellie was, of course, ELSA and Max was 'a scary Tiger'. Pyper obviously, was a ladybug.

 Ellie is in this phase of her doing her own hair. I agreed that she can do it herself once a week. This was a particularly good day of hair doing.

 While Ellie is at school, Max and I get to have some special alone time. Here he is sitting in the garbage can helping me smash down the weeds. He is as sweet as they come!

We went to the zoo with some cousins which was great. Unfortunatly Grandma Sherrill fell walking down the hill and really hurt her face that hit the pavement. So we spent most of the time on this Lion until Mitch could come from work to drive her home. We are glad that she recovered quickly and is back to canning all 200 jars of grape juice. Happy Harvest!

ALOHA!

You may have seen pictures of me doing things like this lately. Let me tell you, it was as wonderful as it looks. Grandma Murray wanted to go to Hawaii to swim with dolphins for her 90th birthday. So we left all the kids at home and all the moms went and we had an amazing time!

One night we went to Germains Luau. Grandma was thrilled when they called her name and had her stand up in front of everyone to be sang to. She just waved and waved her hand about. Then this crazy chinese kid came up and yelled, "I thought you was 80!"

 How could we go to Hawaii and not visit the swap meet?! Olivia came along with her mom and posed with all the lovely purses!

 What would a visit be with out a trip to the Hukilau Cafe?! It was delicious! We went and did sealings at the temple then stopped off here, it was heaven.

 Grandma just thought everything was LOVELY! She was all smiles, everyday. Here she is with auntie Kristen.

 Kate and Olivia were the only kids to join us. We were so glad to have some young spunk among us!

 Here we are at the Sealife park waiting for our turn to ride the dolphins.  It was so fun, and worth every penny.

 We also visited the PCC which I loved. My only regret is that I could not stay there longer.

Aunt Kristen was the snorkel queen. She was always snorkeling or asking us to go. It was so much fun to hang out with my aunts and get to know them better. The whole trip was completly relaxing and it was so nice to sleep through the night without a baby to feed. Pyper was 6 months at the time and we had plenty of leftover milk for her for the week. Mitch did great with all the kids and I just enjoyed every minute of my getaway. Sigh. I wish I could gift a getaway for everyone because I think we could all use it! ALOHA!

Nakie Bum!

Our summer has been pretty crazy. Between scouting, Alaska, and buisness we didn't see Mitch for more than 1 day throughout July. Booooo! I'm looking forward to school starting and getting back on a schedule to say the least. With that being said, we did have a great summer as we enjoyed every bit of warm weather.

Here are our new neighbors, Maddie and Layla. They moved in across the street. These four have been inseparable from day one.

 Here we are picking cherries at Grandpas office. We picked for 2 hours only to find out that almost everyone had a cute little worm in it! Darn it.

 Look at this cute little Nakie bum. I found Max like this the other day. He is flexing for the picture. He turned around to smile but I told him this way was  better. :) Let's be honest we all want to walk half naked with rain boots on sometimes. :)

And here are the two little ladies of the house. Growing growing. I took this picture a month ago and Pyper already looks so different! Man how time flies!

Summer Visitors

This summer we had the opportunity to host Mitch's brother Kirks family. We had such a great time having them here. Not to mention they all absolutely adorable and really good with my kids. While they were here our day's were filled with fun filled activities like parades, bbq's, day's at the park, etc. etc. etc.
    We were especially excited that Elena decided to celebrate her birthday a month early. She LOVES frozen so we headed to the ICE rink and Leann did her thing. Which was AMAZING.  I admit that I would be a little embarrassed if she saw one of my birthday parties because she is really a wonder.

 Here is a terrible picture of all the grandkids skating. Thank heavens for those little walkers. I was there with 3 kids 4 and under and I was sure we were going to leave with stitches.

 Max was adorable at skating. He took these tiny choppy steps that made him go flying down the ice. He was totally impressive.

 Here is cute Ellie with her OLAF recreation. He didn't last long as she gobbled him up.

Little Max loved the Zamboni. What little kid doesn't love a giant piece of machinery?  Ellie has 3 girl cousins her age. Elena, Elise, and her. How did I possibly miss a picture of these 3 cuties?!