End of October

 Wow, I am so behind on the blog front.  Hopefully one of these days I will get it together and become an amazing blogger.

Headstands against the wall have been a fun little contest for the kids. 

Rowing the boat with daddy:)

Holland is very interested in what her brother and sister are doing.  She climbs on them and tries to take their toys.  This picture was captured because I thought it was funny how the kids realized that Holland wouldn't leave them alone.  So they moved to the couch.

Got Mastitis for the fourth time.  Wayne stayed home and took care of me.  Luckily I caught it early so it didn't get too bad.  I have a new love/hate relationship with breastfeeding.

This just makes me laugh. 

I had a fun plan for Halloween.  We were all going to be super heroes.  Well Presleigh made other plans as soon as she saw the rapunzel pattern at Hobby Lobby.  I tried to talk her out of it and even told her that I couldn't make it because it looked way too advanced for my skills.  So when we were in Utah, she asked Grandma Patsy to make it for her.  So Grandma whipped this up for her one day.  We brought it home and I embellished it and made the braid.  She was so excited about it:)

Holland loves the stairs.  She seems so determined to climb them and makes her way over there too often.  My favorite is when I realize that she is over there and I say "Holland."  She jumps and then gets all excited like she knows she is doing something she shouldn't be.  I've actually been impressed with her balance on them.  We now have the gate up:)

We went to a local farm and picked up these beauties. The kids were excited to have them carved but obviously couldn't help much with the carving.  They did pick out the patterns.  Presleigh picked Rapunzel (surprise) and Noah picked Phineas.

Presleigh participated in her first Primary program at church.  She was so excited for it and did really well. 

Presleigh has started carrying Holland.  Still not sure how I feel about this.  

It took us two nights to finish these.  Wayne did most of it:)

Halloween night.  We went to the Lewis' neighborhood first.  Then we went to our Ward trunk or treat.  Then we headed out around our neighborhood.  It was perfect trick or treat weather. 

Standing like a big girl

My chairs!!!! I had been looking for two chairs ever since we moved in to our new house.  I even had a friend on the hunt for some too.  I really needed them to be small scaled and barrel.  After months of looking I finally found these for $25 on Craigslist...Score!!!!

Utah Vacation part 2

The kids with their couisn Laila.  They absolutely love this girl.  They were so excited to see her and play with her.  They had fun running around with her. 

It was so cute to watch Presleigh with Laila.  I was able to see how she is going to be when Holland gets a little older and is able to tag along.

Of course Presleigh is always super excited to see Grandma Patsy.  We are so grateful that we get to see her quite often. 

Another favorite of Holland with her Grandma.  I love the way she focuses on people.  She reminds me so much of Presleigh when Presleigh was a baby.  She will stare at people and wait for them to see her and then will flash a big smile. 

Pres and Noah were in Heaven at the Disney store.  They wanted everything, but were surprisingly really well behaved. I didn't buy a single thing there and my kiddos didn't throw a fit:)

Presleigh loved the castle and tried one of the dresses on.  I think this is when she decided that she wanted to be rapunzel for Halloween.

Our kids mastered the monkey bars while we were there.  They were so excited and proud of themselves.  It was pretty impressive.

So after our visit with Wayne's family we met up with my family a little bit further south in Eagle Mountain at Julie and Paul's.  My mom, dad and grandma were there visiting so we got to spend time with all of them.  We went to Gardner village and walked around.  We did some shopping and played lots of cards:) It is always so fun to visit Julie and Paul but we enjoyed the bonus of having the other fam there too. 

Utah Vacation

At the beginning of October we were able to take a family trip down to Salt Lake.  Wayne's brother Paul was getting married so we decided to make a little vacation out of it and stayed 10 days.

On our way.  The kids started the trip with naps.  They were pretty good the whole way:)

Ashley and Paul on their big day.  Presleigh and Noah were super confused about Paul getting married because their other uncle Paul is already married to Aunt Juju.  They also kept asking who Paul's friend was.  We had to keep reminding them that her name was Ashley and that she is their new Aunt:)

Watching conference in Grandma and Grandpa's basement.  Presleigh and Holland were having fun wrestling around.  Holland loves her big sis.

I love this picture of Holland with Grandma Taylor.  Our kids enjoyed her so much, and got lots of books read to them:)

Presleigh, Noah and the Nevers children watching a movie.  I thought it was cute how they all lined up on the couch to watch.

Playing outside with cousins

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Holland was such a happy baby while we were there.  She kept herself very busy with toys and exploring her new surroundings. 

We took the kids to This is the Place monument.  We walked around and talked to them about the pioneers.  They were a little more interested in the boxelder bugs that covered the monument. 

Holland loves to climb on her daddy.  She also loves to growl at him:)

Noah loves to take pictures

The next day we were there we went to Temple Square.  We explored the history museum.  They had some really great stuff for the kids.  We could have painted on these computers for hours. 

They also had some really fun dress up for the kids. 

There were a few mirror all around the dress up stuff so the kids could check themselves out.  I was trying to get them to dance, but Presleigh wasn't having it.

We had our picnic lunch out on a bench in Temple Square. 

And then the Peterson family joined us.

The kids were having so much fun running around together. 

The next day we decided to take Trax down to City Creek.  We told the kids that we were going to ride a train.  They were super excited.

Here we are on Trax.  The kids loved to look out the window and see how fast we were going.  This might have been their favorite part of the trip.  Presleigh said to me, "Why doesn't this train go choo choo?"

More wrestling.

We spent the first week with Wayne's parents.  We tried to do something every day.  We went shopping, explored temple square, this is the place, and city creek.  We enjoyed spending so much time with Grandma and Grandpa.