Last Friday we headed to the North Logan Pumpkin Walk. Always a good time. Here are a few of the highlights. Kids in cutouts, pumpkins made to look like all sorts of stuff, and some pretty good cookies and cheese sticks.
It was kind of short, but we did have fall this year. Here are the kids with a buddy enjoying the leaves. It is crazy how much fun can be had in a pile of leaves.
I came in to the living room from doing breakfast dishes and found this:
every dragon needs a baby right? I think he mostly agreed to be her baby because that is the seat he usually sits in when he watches morning cartoons. If she would not move that is as close as he could get. If you look close you can see her hand rubbing his head. So sweet.
Mid September we got to go down to Salt Lake to see The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. They call it "the greatest show on earth". I have to admit it was a lot of fun, but that is quite a claim to make:) We all had a great time but unfortunately the camera did not work so well for the actual show because it was so dark. The kids ate tons of candy and watched all sorts of animals and acrobats. A good time was had by all.
This is Bryan finishing up the Top of Utah Half Marathon, which he ran on August 29th. As a side note we had our 8-year anniversary on August 16th, but we didn't take any pictures. It was fun though and we spent much of the night trying to figure out how 8 years has already passed. Bryan's report on running the 13.1 mile race is as follows. The first 7-8 miles were great, miles 8-11 sucked, and miles 11-13.1 were okay. He wants to run a half marathon again and a full marathon someday too, but he has not committed to when either of those will happen. Here are some other pictures from after the race too.
The county fair was in town last weekend. It is a block and a half from our house so there really is no way around going. It turns out we are sure glad we did. Bry had to work at a Wells Fargo booth Thursday and Saturday night, so Friday night it was. A cold front moved through so it we started out in short sleeves and I ended up making a trip home to grab coats. So nice. We are excited about the new kiddo on the way, but it was such a simple evening with no diaper bags, strollers, or bedtime worries. The camera was the only thing in hand beside each others hands. The first ride Jake went on Kate just wanted to watch, but after that she was ready to go on everything he did. They went from ride to ride with smiles the whole night. We made a pit stop by all the food and ended up with churros and a shared bag of cotton candy. I think the fact that we had spent the week before apart made being together seem that much better. Just our little family, having a great time, in the nice weather, in our little town. It was like all was right with the world. We finally walked the few blocks home at 10:30 and the kids crashed, sleeping until after 9:30 the next morning. I have to say, for me anyway, it was a night to remember.
Can you tell it's a boy? A bit too much info?
Though Bryan says this is spooky, the arrow is pointing to his upper lip. To the left of that is his nose and to the right is his bottom lip.
Feet. They could end up size 15.
The upper left picture is his little bum.
Now if we could agree on a name. It is hard enough between Bryan and I to agree, not to mention the fact that Jake has quite an opinion about it. Hopefully we will get this one named before he is born.
Caitlin came home from Oregon with us and stayed for a few days. It was like old times, except she didn't do laundry when she was here. It was so great to have her here. We did not take pictures of anything but here is Kate wearing her sunglasses that she forgot.
The last week in July my parents came out, from Oregon, for my brother and his wife's graduation, and we were lucky enough to snag them for a few days before they headed up to Rexburg. One of the days we made it down to Thanksgiving point and the kids LOVED it again. Kate even made it all the way through the IMAX movie this time.
Since I have done next to no blogging this summer I thought it was about time to let you all know what we have been up to. The sad thing is that we were not always so great with the picture taking, so some of it you will just have to take my word for it.
The end of June and the first part of July we spent a week in Washington and got to see Bryan's whole family, at one time or another, as well as some good friends. We got to relax, go to parks, ride bikes, swim at Jan and Jim's, eat dinner with someone different almost every night, play some games, watch fireworks on the 3rd, have a big barbecue on the 4th, and relax some more. We all had such a great time. Once again, it is to bad we have so few pictures. Here is a slide show of a very few things that we did.
These are some cool glasses I found in a box when I was sorting things for our yard sale and Kate loves them. They look great, don't they?
On of the last few weekends in July we got together with two other families and had a yard sale. I love getting rid of stuff! We opened pretty early so we could get closed down early as well. We all made a decent amount cash, cleaned up, and headed to Bear Lake. We haven't got to spend much time up there because of the traveling and other stuff we have had going on. We were so excited to go and the lake did not disappoint. Sun, warmish water, bbq hot dogs(minus the buns, sorry again guys), and relaxing. Definitely one of the funnest things to do in the summer.
