Halloween Pumpkin Carving

Well we have now carved our first real family Jack-O-Lantern. Logan and Ashley helped by doing the design and I acted as the contractor and did as I was told by the designers. I think that it turned pretty good but I am a little byas.

Logan was pretty excited to do the pumpkin carving but not to touch the "guts" of the pumpkin.

Yeah for All Hallows Eve

What we've been up to

Logan turned 3 on September 30th. We had a party fo rhim with family the following Sunday. Logan was so excited for his presents and couldn't believe they were all for him. He was very polite and gave a very enthusiastic "Thank You!!" to everyone.

Logan is putting on his brand new pajamas

Daddy shared the Mike and Ike with Logan. Logan tried to fit as many as he could in his mouth before the box was taken away again!

Lyla has 7 teeth and each one is a sweet tooth. She loved the peach shakes we made with fresh peaches from great grandma's tree. She was very upset when it was all gone.

Our pretty girl learning to walk. She sees all the other kids running around and can't wait to join them. It makes her so happy to be up and "walking" around with the big kids.

Lyla loves to play patty cake. Also notice the baggie of gummi bears at her feet. She was trying to eat the gummi bears through the plastic bag and we had to play patty cake to distract her long enough to get the gummis away.

Visit From Friends

Our Friends Brian, Melanie, and Ben came to Utah to visit and attend conference. We had lots of fun catching up. We miss them already and can't wait to see them again!
We went to Cabella's to see the guns and other "manly stuff." The boys were good and didn't purchase anything. Logan and Lyla loved the animals and all the fish in the big tanks. The big Polar Bear scared Logan, though.

In the car for the long drive down south.

A sign of good friendship...we took them to the BYU campus so they could reminisce and get some stuff from the bookstore. This is the classroom where their love story began! Awww, how sweet!

Our Fun Kids

Little Lady

Just like daddy. Logan informed me that he needed to fix his car and ran to get his tools. Can you tell he pays attention to his daddy?

Relaxing ouside

Logan is learning to ride his scooter and doing really well. Thanks Brian and Melanie!!

Those of us born and raised in Utah have a saying about the weather here... If you don't like the weather, wait 20 minutes. 20 minutes before this picture was taken, the sky was dark, it was a down pour, and there was lots of thunder and lightning.

What is a childhood without being able to run outside and splash in the puddles after a rain storm.

I like to look for Rainbows

We have had so much rain these past few weeks, we were all wondering if summer would ever get here. This particular rainstorm occured while I was playing an outdoor concert with the Taylorsville orchestra. Luckily, we were under a tent so we were able to finish playing before we scattered to our cars and headed home. I saw some pretty amazing lightning on my way back to my parents' house. Shortly after arriving, the sun poked through the clouds in the west and gave us this beautiful rainbow. It was a rare, complete double rainbow.

Our Little Utah Girl

Logan and Lyla love to be together. Logan can make Lyla laugh harder than anyone else can. I can only hope that they still love to play together this much in the coming years!

Making cookies

MMMMmmmmmm!

Easter Morning

Easter Egg Hunt

"I FOUND ONE!"

Uncle Tyler helping Logan see the tricky eggs.

Look at all the eggs we found!

There's a car in my egg! Thanks Grandma!

Cousins

Logan and Jaleigh paying on the couch. They like to copy each other.


Elena, pretending to be a dog, crawled out to the family room with the laundry basket on top of her. Logan saw that basket and said, Hey, that looks like a good place to sit! And he did! Luckily, Elena played along and had fun with the game.

Sweet Sleeping Liam. Aren't they precious when they're sound asleep?

Elena, Logan, Lyla

Elena wanted to share the flowers with Lyla and helped her hold them. Lyla is very happy to have the attention. She watches the big kids play and can't wait to jump up and join them.