Halloween Activities

I said it before, fall is a busy time full of occasions and excuses to drag the camera along.  In less than a week we got to go to both Thanksgiving Point's Farmland and Vineyard's Pumpkinland.  I love this season, but in Utah it's way too short!

First was Thanksgiving point with G-ma and G-pa B, Great G-ma S, Jake and Liz.

Mei's first time on a pony!  She claims she got the bumpy one.

Feedin' the goose.

Never miss an opportunity for face paint!

Mei's always nervous about it.

Daddy gettin' down and dirty with the girls in the human-size ant tunnel.

Hands on activity, making goop in Frankenstein's lab.

Spooooky graveyard!

Then we got to go to Pumpkinland with aunt Roo and G-ma A!

($1 off with a costume, a witch, a kitten, and a pirate, yarg!)

Giant Pumpkins with g-ma!

"Look at this one!"

I think we took a picture at every corner of the maze!

A perfect sized maze for kids (and moms!) but a little bright!

This picture describes the outing, "Mom, what does this sign say?" and Meili just off dancing around doing her own thing!

This naughty cow took a bite of Sofie's cape!

Mom and baby, awwww.

Snuggled in the harness, baby-carrier thingy.

The girls had so much fun in the bounce houses and on the playground. 

Really, it's the best place for kids, I totally recommend it if you live in the area!

(and it's not ridiculously crowded like cornbelly's)

Last picture of the day, and you can see by Sofie's face, it was one too many!  

They had a great time!

Ollie's photoshoot

My grandma is so talented!  She has taken up the hobby of photography and I couldn't be more grateful.  When Ollie was 10 days old she held a photoshoot for him.  

I LOVE THESE!

Fall Highlights

I'm a bit behind on blogging the millions of pictures I have.  Fall is such a busy time of year for occasions and excuses to bring a camera along.  So here's a picture dump of September and part of October!  More in the days to come.  Here ya go!

Dear baby boy, about a month old was really angry at these beautiful flowers.  Cracked me up!

Cray-zay 2 year old!

My mom, sister and I canned our brains out this fall.  We did about 100 jars of peaches, about 100 jars of pears, and over 50 jars of apple sauce.  I also got in a few batched of jalepeno pepper jelly, and 10 quarts of frozen tomatoes.  It's been hard work, and we'll enjoy every bite!  I'm forever indebted to my sister and mom for helping out while I spent most of my time with babes.

As Ollie's eye sight slowly continued to develop in the first month or two his favorite thing to stare at was my wall art. :)

Playing with baby brother.  Ollie LOVES this swing and it was probably the best $20 I have ever spent.

Sofie had pneumonia in September and missed quite a bit of school.  Jungle fever and bored out of her mind, I had a hard time keeping her busy.  Here's the cake she decorated, I think it's a snowman.

Lots of this.  Not complaining.

We have had some really beautiful skies!

Ollie's 2nd favorite toy.

Derek, the kiddos and I got to take the Halloween Heber Creeper train.  The girls had a blast (even if the show was actually REALLY lacking...)

The haunted spooky train car

Sitting on the Heber Creeper train. 

 I'm sooooo grateful to be unpregnant, unsick, and finally out doing things!

Meimei and Daddy enjoying the train.

Ollie is growing and growing and growing.

Still not sleeping much at night...

It's REALLY hard to get a picture of this kid smiling, but he's really good at it now and it's darling!!

In this blurry picture you can almost see his dimple.

Also, the runny nose, poor little guy has been sick for a while, just like the rest of the fam. :(

The 5th Birthday!

The Birthday Girl!

I couldn't ask for a sweeter, more beautiful, and more brilliant little girl!

She was soooo psyched about getting Polly Pocket!

It ended up being a really great gift.  I don't think I've ever given her something that she has used so much!

We had our traditional party at Wines Park.

In line for the Pinata.

The Pinata!

My dad and Noah enjoyed teasing the Pinata-ers a little toooo much!

Some of the party-ers!

It was such a nice day!

Sofie wanted an Ariel birthday.  I was shocked that the grocery store actually had an Ariel cake.  She's not as popular as she used to be!

Twinners!  Kind of freaks me out.

Ollie's little toes poking out of the nursing cover. Only 2 weeks old!

 So precious! :)

This is where I spent most of my time, nursing Lil' Ollie.  Derek was home with sick Meili.  I wouldn't have been able to throw it all together without everyone else's help, thank you so much!!

These two turkeys...

Sofie told me, "We were being boys." Hahahaha!