Not too bad...if I say so myself

Well, as you can see from the title of our Blog, we had some family pictures taken. We had a gal that Kris works with come up and take them in our backyard. She sent us this one and another one and will put the rest on a disk for us, so we can make them up as we want to. But I think they turned out pretty fabulous! If I do say so myself!
Can you believe how big our kids are and how stinkin cute they are???

Its the most wonderful time of the year....

For those of you that know our family, you know that Halloween is one of our most favorite times of the year. We go all out decorating and dressing up. Things are bit more subdued this year due to moving, but we are getting in the mood.
The kids were out of school Thursday and Friday for fall break and so we did a bit of playing. Caitlyn and her friend Ciera came with my mom and I to Gardner Village in Salt Lake. We went down to see the witches on display and to have some spookey girl fun!
The theme of this turned out to be "hats", we found hats everywhere and of course the girls wanted their pictures taken in all of them.
Here are a few pictures of Caitlyn and Ciera modeling the hats






These are some of the great witches we ran into while we were at Gardner Village






All in all we had a ton of fun and the girls had a blast. Caitlyn decided after seeing all the great decor there that she wants to do her room all black and white. I think it will be elegant and fun!

Then last night we ventured out to a haunted corn maze. We went to pumpkinaze up in West Haven. It is not as expensive and we went there last year and loved it. We made sure to go when the haunted spooks were in the maze waiting for us. These are a few of the ones we ran into






And a here are a few of us, just goofing around!
Nick and Caitlyn

Kris, Cheryl and Nate



And last but not least
Caitlyn with her flashing mouth, Kris and the boys in the maze and me sporting my corn husk crown!




We hope your holidays are going great and that you are enjoying FALL!

Let it snow, let it snow, LET IT SNOW!

Well, I was just thinking the other day, that I was ready for the hot days of summer to come to a close and for the crispness of the fall air to start. I love the blue sky of autumn, the leaves changing colors and falling and getting ready for Halloween, Thanksgiving and then Christmas! But Mother Nature seems to have her own plans yet again this year! But this is Utah, and the weather can change dramatically this time of year!
Last night Kris and I had taken Nate up to his friends house, and then Caitlyn wanted to look at some supplies for her Birthday Party coming up (yeah, her birthday is in September,but she always has an october party...) So we were driving up the hill going home and it was starting to snow. I made Caitlyn take some pictures of the yard with the dusting of white.
This is the bridge in the backyard around 7pm

And a dusting of snow on the rose bushes (that need to be pruned....argg)

AND THIS.... is what we woke up to this morning. It is truely magnificent and beautiful!
WOW




So as you can see, we are enjoying the early visit of snow. It may be gone in a day or two, but I love the first snow of the season. It is cleansing and pure and blankets us with a world of frosty white!