Enjoying Utah's Fall

We have been soaking up Utah's fall (which I truly missed every year living in AZ)!!  It was gorgeous and unusually warm, and I think that was a special blessing especially for us!  We tried to keep busy, since we were all dealing with the move and house selling/buying stress.  That and the fact that we are living in our parent's basement with only the essentials - keeping busy was a must!

Las Vegas

On the way to Utah in August, we spent a night in Las Vegas since the kids had never been there.  It wasn't as magical or enjoyable as I anticipated, but we still had a fun time at the hotel (walking anywhere was a little overwhelming not knowing how long it would take or what interesting pictures we would encounter).  The most memorable part was making the kids walk forever to Shake Shack in the rain, but it was SO worth it!  Yummy!

Luxor's Pool

Soccer

We put the kids in soccer and the season went by fast since they had games twice a week.  Both kids did better than we expected and were much more aggressive than they'd been in previous years.  There's hope!  Andrew had both good and bad games (one game he scored 8 goals vs. another where he pouted the whole time).  His team had a wide range of ages, so when he was with the kids his own age, he did better.  Rachel did quite well and although she did not love our tips or advice to help her improve, she was always happy to go to soccer, tried her best and showed us her athletic side.  

Springville Reservoir

Rachel & 2nd cousin, Allie

Kendall loves Aunt Katherine!!

Sego Lily Carnival

With the Worthen's!

Cowabunga Bay 

We were a little cold!  We only like to swim when it's over 100 degrees!

Hogle Zoo 

Cousins are the best!! 

Riverwoods Chalk Art 

 UVU Family Fun Carnival

The kids put their names in a drawing for some bikes and scooters and Andrew & Kendall both won!  Ha!  It was a teaching moment for Rachel that I could not have paid money for.  She has some jealous tendencies, but she persevered and tried to be happy for them!  Success!  Also, this is some of the best face painting I've ever seen!  

Hiked the Y 

Fall Colors

BYU Football Games

Lego Display at BYU

Utahn's dig swig

Garth Brooks concert with the Flanagan's - what?!  Such an amazing concert!

"Halloween", part 2

So .... this happened.  It wasn't technically Halloween yet, but the weekend before, my Aunt Jamie had a totally rad 80's dance party to celebrate her 40th and we decked out for the occasion!  Clearly.

Happy Halloween 2015

We jam packed Halloween Weekend!  This was the first year that Rachel has been able to wear a costume to school and participate in a costume parade.  I helped in Rachel's class with her party and we did a candy corn relay and Halloween charades at my station.  We did trick-or-treating at Brandon's work and the kids got a haul of candy without much effort.  On Saturday, we started with breakfast at Chrissy & Jonathan Olsen's in Draper and the kids played wonderfully together.  It is so fun that they live here!  Then we had a Mr. Boogedy 2 party at my mom's house with my family (the adults watched a childhood Disney movie that we would always watch near Halloween - it is still too scary for our kids).  In the evening, we trick-or-treated in Chris & Kacie's neighborhood with cousins.  So fun!

The half hour before trick-or-treating involved Rachel in hysterics in her room because she couldn't decide what shoes to wear with her sleeper pajamas.  We told her that she could choose whether she wore shoes or no shoes and made plenty of suggestions, but everything we'd say she would shoot down.  Once we met up with Kennedy, it was an easy decision when Rachel found out that Kennedy was going with no shoes.  She quickly changed her idea to no shoes.  So glad we got those shoes in her picture (it represents a half hour tantrum)!  I also had to paint on Kendall's nose a few times since she kept rubbing it off and do two different hair do's because she pulled out the elastics on the first one.  She was also starving and grumpy since she didn't eat what was offered for breakfast or lunch.  Andrew was playing it cool since the girls were freaking out.  Good call on his part!