family, fall, food, & fun

Well we been here in SLC for a little over two weeks now and have been enjoying spending time with family, the fall festivities, eating out at our favorite food joints (and cooking our own food), and just having fun. No offense Montana but I'm really loving that Utah has SO MUCH MORE to do, see and eat here. Keith's sister Catherine came last weekend with her fiance and we all went to Gardner Village to see the WITCHFEST. Gardner Village is the cutest place ever! It's all decked out for fall with Witches and fall garb. It has the cutest little shops complete with fudge!

family and fall:

strutting their stuff- Catherine, Aunt Janae, Keith, Kolton

cutest little village

the witches were out!

they even had animals!

trying on halloween costumes in some of the shops

Carson loved this witch's mole

Later that day we went to City Creek Mall in downtown SLC. Holy cow what a sweet MALL! We had fun trying on silly outfits while the boys watched.

 family and fun:

Yesterday Keith's Aunt Charie invited Carson and I to go to the Hogle Zoo with her and some of her daycare kids. We had never been there before so I was super excited! It was so fun and the perfect weather for October. Couldn't have been a better day. Thanks again Charie!

family and fun:

some ball thing with water the kids loved!

monkeys

Kiera--the cutest lil' girl ever!

rhino

bald eagles

The kids playing in a huge log!

Seals

Polar Bear

Grizzly Bear!

Tiger!

Riding the Carousel

Since we've been in Utah we've also got to go on several dates. It's been almost six months or so since we've gone on one since we were in Montana for so long. We've been loving the help of Keith's family, they're so willing to babysit Carson so we can go out. We've been able to go to some of our favorite food joints and try new ones. In and Out, Kneaders, and Zupas are some of our favs here in SLC.

food and fun:

I'm so excited for this weekend for two reasons---

1. General Conference

                                                        2. I get to go to General Conference with my sister!! So excited!

farewell montanny, birthdays, slc

Monday brought the best news ever---we were assigned to leave Montana and go to SLC for a few weeks!!! After four months I thought this day would never come. I was so happy and really excited to go to SLC. Montana is beautiful but eating out every day gets old after awhile, you start to miss going to your own ward, miss seeing people you know and staying in a hotel really isn't all that after four months. So we are here in SLC now staying with Keith's Grandma and loving it. I'm excited for In and Out, Ikea, friends, family, conference, Temple Square and just being able to do more things and be around people I know. Tuesday (the day we left Montana) was my little sister Misti's birthday. I told Keith that we should just go to Rexburg and stay the night there then head to SLC on Wednesday because the trip would be shorter by about five hours if we did that instead of go home to Boise then SLC. Besides the trip being shorter that way I also wanted to surprise Misti for her b-day by showing up at her apartment and taking her out. I told her that I had a delivery for her coming that day and she needed to be home for it. So when we arrived we had Kolton (Catherine's finance) take Carson to Misti's door and tell her he had a delivery for her. Misti was confused at first and had no idea who Kolton was and why he was holding Carson, it was funny, then we all popped out too and surprised her! She was so excited and totally surprised because she didn't think we were coming. We took her out to Craigos (yes, it's Craigos to me and not Pizza Pie Cafe) for her b-day dinner and had a such a fun time. I can't believe she's 23!! I turned 23 when I was pregnant with Carson, seriously it does not feel that long ago. I'm getting too old!! I'm so happy we got to be there for Misti on her birthday! I hope it was a good one Misti! We love you. We are now here in SLC, Keith is working during the day and Carson and I hang out with Grandma. We're having fun here and excited for fun things ahead.

fall oh fall

So it's been a little while since I've updated this thing. We are still here in Montana and hoping we get to go home soon. We've been to Billings, Kalispell, Missoula, and Helena all within just over a week. It's been a lot of traveling but we've been having fun as a family experiencing it together. Keith's sister and her fiance came to visit us and we went to Glacier Nat'l Park again and this time saw two bears! Keith was pretty excited about that. We have pretty much eaten at every place in every town we've been-- man we're ready for a good home cooked meal. I can say though if you're undecided on what to order for the 2 for $20 at Applebees-- I love the fiesta lime chicken, Keith loves the shrimp pasta and we always get the honey bbq chicken wings.

I'm loving that it's fall time and everything pumpkin and halloween are hitting the stores, I gotta go shopping for Carson's Halloween costume and think of one for me. One good thing about a season ending (besides another one beginning) is the clearence sections! I've done some summer clearence shopping loading up on clothes for Carson for next year and for baby shower gifts, oh man do I love clearence sales! Seriously, go check out Target, Shopko, Macy's, K-Mart, and JcP I've gotten some stellar deals at these places within the past few weeks. Can I just say how excited I am for the cool weather, changing leaves, Halloween, pumpkins, carmel apples, corn mazes, haunted houses, Halloween movies, trick-or-treating with the lil' buddy, trunk-or-treats, and Halloween PARTAYYS!!! Oh I love love love the fall!! My absolute favorite season ever! Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and can I just say how excited I am for football season too! BSU plays BYU next week and you better believe I'm rootin' for my hometown!!!!