Vacation Time!

Wooo-whoo! It's that time of year! Yeah the holidays are coming and that means vacation time for us! We're headed out to New Jersey for a little while to spend Thanksgiving with Keith's family. I'm so excited to relax, spend time with family, and maybe go out and do some fun things the East Coast has to offer. And we all know Thanksgiving brings Christmas! I've already started decorating and listening to the Christmas music on Lite 108. We'll be spending Christmas with Keith's family too in Utah since his sister is getting married in SLC. Can't wait! Bring on the Holidays!! Now we just need some snow.....

 

Fall Family Photos!

Fall is the perfect time for family pictures (I think so at least). The colors just make the pictures really stand out. So Monday, I called Shae up last minute and we did a quick photo shoot. We got some good pics for only shooting about an hour and with a wild boy. Thanks again Shae they turned out so good! I think we’re gonna take our family pictures every fall!

 

 

 

 

Happy Halloween!

 

 

Happy Halloween! My little Penguin and I are going trick-or-treating tonight with my sister Shae and her husband and their daughter Brielle. Harrison Blvd. is the popular spot in Boise to trick-or-treat, last year they got over 5,000 trick-or-treaters! So we're gonna go check it out and a few other places. Keith unfortunately had to leave for Montana today so that's a bummer but he will be back this weekend! Hope you all have a fun and safe Halloween!!!

 

 

 

I love the side profile. I fell in love with this costume! He doesn't like it too much though.

Fall Festivities!

Oh I just love fall! Everything about the Autumn season makes me so happy; the carmel apples, the changing leaves, the crisp air, Halloween, corn mazes, pumpkin patches, haunted houses, cozy clothes, costumes, apple cider, pumpkin flavored everything...and everything else that says FALL. Saturday was our family Halloween party! I found Carson the cutest lil' penguin costume and was so excited for him to wear it to the party. We had fun eating nachos, frosting cookies and cupcakes, and playing games. Here's a few pics....

Decortaing cookies and cupcakes

                          

"trick or treating"

Here are some more pics of what we've been up to this week.......

Hanging out with my buddy...he put my boots on all by himself.

Pumpkin carving!!

Making Caramel Apples......yummm my fav

those spiky things are reeses and kit kat haha

We finally got our headboard up after being gone so long! I loooove it!! We also got my entertainment center up finally too pics of that later when I have it all decorated.

Halloween is in a week from tomorrow! Crazy! Hope you all have a Happy Halloween!

One year older.....

So yesterday was the big 25! Yikes! I used to get so excited for my birthday growing up and would look forward to it every year, the years seemed to go by slow. Now a birthday means a year older and I don't look forward to being older for some reason and the years seem to fly by! Why is that?

Well I had a wonderful birthday because of my sweet husband. He always makes everything a surprise and makes sure the day is special. He worked the night before so Carson and I got up together in the morning and made blueberry muffins and I was surprised with roses on the table, then little C and I hung out for awhile until Keith got up. We dropped Carson off at Keith's aunt's house here in SLC then he took me to see TAKEN 2 which we loved by the way. Afterwards we picked Carson up and met my friend Kathryn at IKEA so Keith could buy my birthday present--a new media/entertainment center. Kathryn is driving it up to Boise for me in her van...such a good friend. I was so stoked about this present because I've been looking for a new entertainment center for over a year now and haven't been able to find one I love for the price. We came to IKEA the other week and I fell in love with one there but they don't have an IKEA in Boise so it's perfect timing that Kathryn is going there this week.

After IKEA we went out to dinner at Cafe Rio and then skipped over to Leatherby's Ice Cream shop (the cutest place ever) to have ice cream with all of Keith's extended family here in SLC. It was a perfect day and I'm glad I was able to spend it with people I love.



my flowers match my shirt!




Waiting for the movie to start. I know I know I look scary pale in comparison to Keith but it was the flash I swear!




We were the only ones in the theater so we were goofing off



Excited for TAKEN 2!

enjoying the pork barbacoa burrito....my favorite



excited to try the pork barbacoa salad




Everyone at Leatherby's...Janae was the only one who noticed the camera



smile!



he only wanted to play with the camera



Maegan's ice cream looked delish!

soo did mine and Keith's...the cookie concoction



Carson sure loved it too



And last but not least.....my beautiful birthday present. Well it's similar to this one, it doesn't have the glass doors it's just open like a bookshelf and it doesn't have the connecting bridge at the top to it but it's the exact color and style (couldn't find a pick exactly of mine.)



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!