Happy Thanksgiving!

Catch up!

It's been awhile and a lot has happened over here in the last couple of months.  We had Halloween, the Luke's came to visit and Olivia had her 1st birthday (which I'll cover in another post).  I'll try not to make this too terribly long!

HALLOWEEN

Since Halloween was on a Sunday this year our stake did a trunk or treat.  Since my family was going to be in town we decided to decorate the trunk in a pirate theme and have mom, dad, Danny and I dress as pirates.  Mom brought down most of the trunk decorations and the costumes.  I LOVED my pirate costume.  She found the leather coat I wore for $0.99 at a second hand store!! (Why can't I ever find deals like that?)  Then she dyed the coat dark brown, only the decorative braiding didn't take the dye so it remained the lighter color.  It turned out really cool! 

I didn't get very many pictures of the kids in their costumes unfortunately.  I still don't have a picture of Olivia in her costume.  It was a bit chilly at the trunk or treat so we kept her bundled up in the stroller.  And the fairy wings just don't work too when you're sitting back in the stroller!  I do have a picture of her in her flower hat that I took a few months back.  So just imagine her with fairy wings on and there you have it.  Shailey was also a fairy (Rosetta, to be precise), Eli went as a pirate, and Isaac went as Super Mario.

THE LUKES VISIT

We had a visit from the Lukes and, as usual, had so much fun with them here!  We played games, visited Disneyland, ate candy, and went to the beach.  Here are a few highlights...

The hair that Hyrum was sporting regularly with reckless abandon.  I love that kid!

DISNEYLAND

I didn't take many pictures at Disneyland but here are a few of my favorites.

 Livvy's first Disneyland trip!

I love this picture!

And what trip to Disneyland would be complete without a few pictures of Main Street?

We look forward to our trip up to Oregon to visit the Lukes next month!

On the move!

Olivia is offically on the move!  She started crawling at 10 months and she hasn't stopped yet.  Before she started crawling she did this funny "swimming" thing.  It was so funny that I just had to capture it on video.  The video shows her doing "the swim" at the very beginning.  And somewhere I have a video of  her crawling.  When I find it I'll post it, too.  Now I'll have to get her latest trick on camera: pulling herself up to stand along the furniture.  Now that's she's crawling I have to really keep my eye on her.  And you can tell that she's very pleased with her newfound skills! ♥ 

When daddy's away, the kids will play!

Just a few pictures I took of the kids while Danny was at the Priesthood session of General Conference. If you think some of these are silly just know that I chose the tamer ones. :o)

♥ I love these kids! ♥