Hanna's Baptism

Hanna turned 8 on November 30th and then got baptised on December 1st. She was so excited and made a count down chart 100 days before. She was lucky enough to be baptised at the same time as her cousin Mallori who is 8 days older than her. She went shopping for her dress with Grandma Carter and then shopping for special jewelry with Grandma Karen. Grandma Melling braided both girls hair and it was perfect because it looked just as great after the baptism as it did when we got to the church. The kids all sang "When I am baptised" and they sounded great. After the baptism we had a dinner at the church. When we got to the church and started taking pictures we realized that the memory card was home in the computer, so we had my sister bring it. By the time she got there we only took the important pictures and I forgot to get any with her siblings. Oh well, it was an amazing day.

One of my ancestors on my moms side is William Maddison Wall and there is a statue of him in Heber, UT. My parents wanted the whole family to see the statue and learn about him. His life was amazing. We stood around the statue and read some of his stories for about 10 minutes and then we headed over to the "fun slide" where we tried to get as many grandkids in a train as possible.

Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving my parents took the whole family (which is now 37 people -24 grandkids) to the Homestead by Park City. It was so much fun and the food was amazing. Scott had mostly crab legs for dinner. Hanna said, "mom I love this place!". I think that was when she was headed to the dessert table.

Carter said he didn't want dinner, just root beer. And he brought a string cheese from our room. String cheese/crab legs its a tough decision for a two year old.
These two look like they've eaten their fair share!
Everyone I could grab for a picture as we were leaving.

After Valley of Fire we went for an ice cream cone and played at Grandma's house. Hanna and Sara got some fun new jump ropes that play music so you can jump to the beat. Sunday morning we went to church and saw some of Scotts friends from high school and then we headed home. It was such a fun weekend!

We went down to Logandale, NV for the weekend to stay with Scott's Grandma. Saturday afternoon we went out to Valley of Fire with Marijeanne.

Allie and Carter spend a lot of time jumping on the trampoline when Hanna and Sara are at school.


Allie, Carter, and their cousin Kaden love to hang out and eat apples.

We had a combined family night with Wayne, Joe, and Susan's families raking up leaves for my Grandpa. Everyone had fun and grandpa was so happy!

Halloween

We had a blast for Halloween this year. Hanna went as a surgeon, Sara as a witch, Allie as a rainbow fairy, and carter as a bee. Scott dressed up as a hippie and then made fun of me for loaning out my witch costume. So I dug through the basement and found a little something from highschool. I figured with pigtails it could be a costume.




Allie went to the dentist that afternoon and half of her mouth was still asleep. I love this picture and the excitement on her face!

Scott and I haven't travelled much in the past nine years. But we feel like we are making up for it this year. We have left our kids a couple of times and taken our kids a couple of times. Scott had a conference in San Francisco on August 18th and I went with him for the weekend. We did all of the usual tourist things. Cable Cars...

Fisherman's Wharf where we loved watching these sea lions...

Lombard Street...

The aquarium full of sharks and eel, etc...

And just had a blast hanging out! Sometimes its fun to remember what life was like before we had kids, but then we miss them too much and can't wait to get home to them.

Cute Allie - She is 4 now and starting preschool next week. She still loves to play dress-ups, but now she spends more time with the kitties and painting.


Sara is so funny and loves to put on a show. She was dancing and singing and making me laugh so hard I had to take a picture.

Hanna is practicing her photography skills and loves to take pictures. As you can see I am happier about posing than Carter is.

The first day of school. Sara is going in to 1st grade and so excited about staying at school through lunch time. She picked out this favorite outift and was really excited about the matching shoes and head-band.

Hanna is a seasoned 2nd grader, not as nervous or excited. She is really excited about her new backpack that hangs over one shoulder.

Well, I am not a cat person and neither is Scott, but that doesn't matter because we now have 7 cats living in our garage. Our kids are crazy about them and we hate to admit it, but we think they are pretty cute. On July 24, 2007 Syrup had 5 kittens and we have a 9 month old kitten named Waffles. We will definately give them away when they are 8 weeks old, but they are really fun for now.
This is oatmeal and Syrup.
This is Coco and Allie

This is scrambled eggs, burnt bacon, and french toast.
Scrambled eggs loves to climb.

3 Cute Girls

Carter-Main-Man

Allie loves the kitties we have "syrup" and "waffles". We used to have "pancakes" but she got ran over.