Cousins

Evelyn, Seth, Josh

 

Each of our babies have cousins their cousins their age... They've been really lucky so far.  Ada has 7 cousins her age and several close to her age.  Sam has 5 cousins his age. Evelyn has 4 her age and several within a year or so... And Seth has 2 his age and several within a year or so.  I wanted to get a picture of Seth with Susan because they were born about a month apart... but on their blessing day, she had a big blow out and we never got the picture, and last time we got together she was not happy to get a picture taken.  It was pretty funny, so I'm going to post it anyways.  I love cousins.

Ada's birthday party

Ada wanted a Frozen themed birthday party.  It was simple and fun... Jer had Scout camp, so I cleaned the house and decorated... hoping that he'd make it for the actual party.  He got there part way through.  I was glad he made it.  The kids played "Freeze" tag and "Do you want to build a snowman".

My "girlie" 7 year old princess... not afraid of worms.

School Fall Break

The advantage of having a Dad be a teacher, he gets Fall break at the same time as the kids.  Hankdy huh.  My parents had McKay's twins down for a sleepover and we took the kids to the new aquarium.  Other than Sam getting kind of lost several times and really lost once, it was fun.  Ada fell in love with a shark named Lola.  And Sam beamed that he got to pet the shark's fin.  Evelyn was nervous about petting the sting rays, but Grandpa helped her and she thought that was great.

Sam and Evelyn decided that they weren't having fun about half way through.  Sam got lost and I had to go look for him... that made him upset and he wouldn't cheer up for a very long time... And I left the kids with my parents, but I didn't stop to explain to Evelyn what I was doing... so she was upset and made me carry her for a while.

The only thing that made Sam feel better was letting him take pictures with my phone and camera for a while.

They loved the rope bridge in the Latin America area.

Two hands

It's amazing.  I was planning on spending most of the morning taking it easy, catching up on blogs and just hanging out with the kids... baby has been crying since 9am if he's not in my arms.  It's amazing how that changes the desire to blog with one hand instead of two... So we've been taking it easy and cuddling instead of blogging.  Well, now he's in bed screaming so that my arms and back can have a rest... Two hands are an amazing thing.

Jake

Ward Halloween party

She's got style

That's a doll dress...

Proof

See, there's proof that baby isn't always sad! He's actually really smiley when he's not sad.

Leaf drive

We caught the end of the leaves between Jer's many Sunday meetings yesterday.  It was a lot colder than we thought it would be... it's really too bad that we didn't bring coats.... But look at this lighting!  AND it was snowing in the top of the mountain.

Hey look... our first family picture with all 6 of us...yay!

I was trying to take the picture with the timer... climbing in a dress with a baby in your arms in 5 seconds didn't leave much time to sit down in a nice looking place.

Firsts

Guess who rolled over and slept through the night for the first time all on the same night.... Yay!

A week late

Conference weekend pictures....