FINALLY!

I found my usb cable and was finally able to upload pictures. I put them in a few different posts since there are so many of them. So keep scrolling down. :)

Happy half way to me.

I have hit my 20 week mark. This was actually my 19 week belly shot, but it looks about the same now. :) I took these pictures about 5 minutes apart. I thought the difference between the 2 pictures was quite interesting. I guess it really is all about the angle.

Picture 1

Picture 2. Everything looks bigger in this one. I think I prefer picture 1. :)

When I went to my dr. appt. the OB nurse calculated my due date as the 24th of March. But when I saw my Dr. he calculated the 25th. That is what is on my charts. However, I am going with the 24th, since when I checked the OB wheel (same one they use at the dr. office) it said the 24th. And since my dr. doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in general (thus the reason I'm switching) I think the 24th is more accurate. I know you all are thinking "it's just one day". But believe me, one day is a long time when your in your last month and ready to pop. So, I'm sticking with the 24th!!!! :D

Oh yes, and just FYI, I find out on the 17th if this little one is a girl or a boy. :)

Halloween

We had a lot of fun things going on for Halloween. Unfortunately, I didn't get many pictures of all the activities. We decided to have a party. The kids got to do some crafts and frost cookies and then they got to have a go at this pinata.

I made Travis wait until very last to have his turn, because I knew once he went it would be all over. I was right. He took one swing and it cracked right open. In fact all the goodies went flying across the garden.

I couldn't resist snapping a picture of Jeff wearing Allayna's crown while he worked on her costume. I don't know what he is doing. Sewing I think?? Anyways, he wasn't too happy about having this picture taken.

In this picture Debbie is working on her costume and Lizzie was quite fascinated with it.

Before we went trick or treating we had some really yummy soup (made by Jolynn) in some really yummy bread bowls (made by my mom). There was also lots of other good food as well. Jolynn made a really good spinach dip and 7 layer dip among other things. Yum, yum, yum!

Then came trick or treating. This was the kids first time going and I think they had fun...for about 10 minutes. We only went down one street pretty much and before we were halfway done Jacob was ready to head back indoors. He sure enjoyed the candy he got though. Don't they make cute little bees?

Here they are with their cousin Spencer, waiting at a door.

Here is Kacey and Debbie. Didn't they have awesome costumes?! My camera was on a weird setting, so you can't see the details of Debs costume very well, but she was a jelly fish. I thought these girls both had very creative costumes.

Fall, Fall, Fall

We love fall. There are so many fun things to do. At Grandma's house, the kids were always wanting to go outside and play. Jacob could usually either be found on the trampoline, jumping away, or here on this bank playing in the dirt.
They loved playing in the leaves. You'll notice there are also lots of leaves on the trampoline. This picture was taken just after they finished jumping around in those leaves. They had a great time.

Jolynn invited us to go to the pumpkin patch with her and her family. We got to go on a hay ride and pick out pumpkins. Some of the kids were really looking forward to the little train ride they do, but the day we went, there just happened to be 2 big school groups show up. There were just to many kids waiting to ride, so we skipped it. They had fun anyways though.

Jacob was so excited to pick a pumpkin.

Here's Brea and Jacob scouting out pumpkins.

Lizzie wasn't all to thrilled when I made her pose with this pumpkin.

She was even less thrilled when I stuck her on the tractor for a picture. Jacob just flat out refused to get up on it. My poor, poor kids have been away from the country for way to long. lol.

Here is Jacob guarding our pumpkins.

I decided to teach Jacob some of our country ways. Here is is chewing on some straw. :)

Here is Jolynn and Dallin hanging out on the wagon with their pumpkin/squash stash.

This pumpkin patch trip cost me a total of $5 and that was for my 3 pumpkins we picked. I was totally impressed. Anywhere else ya go you are going to pay to get in, extra for the train ride (which was also free at this place) and then even more for your pumpkins. These people obviously weren't doing it for the money. We had a great time and if I'm there next year in the fall I will definitely be taking the kids there again. Only, hopefully this time there won't be so many school kids there.

The Zoo

The Wednesday after we got there, everyone headed to SLC for family pictures. We headed down (from Logan) early and met Kate at the Zoo. We had lots of fun and we enjoyed spending a little extra time with Kate and her family, since they weren't able to make it down to Richfield at all this month.

This was Jacob's favorite part. He loves lions and tigers and especially JAGUARS! He saw that cat and went running towards it yelling, "JAGUAR!!!!!!" I tried to tell him it was a leopard, not a jaguar, but he wasn't convinced.

Several of the animals were nice enough to poop for us. This one came right up to the window to do it just as I was taking a picture. Lovely.

Here is my cute niece Cambree smoochin' the gorilla statue.

And here is Lizzie smoochin' a real monkey.

This was a very entertaining monkey. The only reason it got this close is because there was a lady there that it seemed to be quite taken with. It followed her all the way around the display. In this picture she is behind the kids.

It was a fun trip and I'm glad we got to go to spend some time with Katie and her family. I'm sad we didn't get to see more of them.

On Our Way

Here are a few pictures from our flight to and first day in UT. Here's Jacob at the Cincinnati airport during our layover hanging out in the carry on sizer thing. He fits, so I guess he's good to go on the plane with us.


While Mike and Jacob went off to find us some food, Lizzie decided to help herself to the cookies while she waited.


They loved looking out the window when we landed. They thought the mountains were pretty cool. I don't blame them. I cried when I saw them.

This is the horrendous rental car we got stuck with. I don't miss it.


I missed these mountains so much. Now that I'm back, I'm missing them again. As soon as we got into Utah we drove up to Logan. Mike wanted to help Katie with their house building process. I shot these pictures on the way up there.

We had fun visiting with Katie and Cam and thier families while we were up there. Oh and Kacey too. :) Thanks guys for entertaining us for a few days.

Home Again

Well, all good things must come to an end. We are now back home and trying to settle back into the routine of things. We had a long miserable day of traveling yesterday. For some reason, Delta neglected to tell me our flight plans had changed. My itinerary said our flight was leaving at 11:30 am. So when we got there at 10am, expecting to have a little time to spare, only to find my flight was scheduled to leave at 10:55am, I was not happy. Then they told me that my suitcase was 5lbs over and would have to pay $90. The lady was like "would you like to take something out?" I'm thinking, first of all, I have no idea what I would take out, I kinda need everything in there and second, since I now have a lot less time until my flight leaves, I don't really have time to take things out and reweigh, ya know?! LAME!! So I paid the $90 and went on my way. We got to our gate, just in time to be the last ones to board.

The rest of the trip consisted of crying, screaming, kicking, spilling the coffee of the guy next to us, wanting to shoot myself and once again asking myself why I decided to put myself through such torture. We are VERY happy to have the whole ordeal over with.

I have yet to find the cord to upload pictures from my camera, so tomorrow I will use our old slow lap top (since our newer one is in the shop) to upload pictures from our time in UT and post. So, on that note...good night all. Until tomorrow. :)