My 25th Birthday

Yes, it's true, I'm old. My 25th birthday was yesterday. My day started off with getting woken up by David and Allyson with presents (yay!) and then for dinner David cooked us a yummy crab dinner with veggies and potatoes and then we had some family over for a cake and ice cream party. It was a good day, minus the one year older part :).





Allyson fell asleep on my lap after we got home from church. She looked so cute we had to take a picture. And no, we don't beat our child, she fell down the stairs at Grandma and Grandpa's house on Saturday and hit her eye. My poor baby :(.

Playing Dress Up

These are some pictures of Allyson playing dress up. Doesn't she look cute?! She picked out everything and dressed herself in this outfit and then came to find us to show off how cute she looked.

Hanging out with the Porters

On Friday we hung out with our long lost friends, James, Sandra, Kari, and Hayden. We went out to eat at Olive Garden and then we all came back to our house to watch a movie and hang out. When it came time for the kids to go to sleep we pulled out Allyson's Dora couch that folds out into a bed for Kari to sleep on, but they both insisted on sleeping on it together. They were so cute we had to take pictures. Ends up the sleepover didn't last long because Allyson sleeps with the door shut and no night light and Kari sleeps with the door open and a night light. Allyson was pretty sad to lose her room mate and was too upset to go to sleep after that, so the kids stayed up with us (except for Hayden, he was cozy asleep in the pack and play). We had a late night of eating candy and watching a movie until about 2:00 a.m. It was lots of fun. And Sandra if you're reading this, we need to hang out again soon!

Halloween Day!

Allyson had so much fun trick or treating. This was the third day in a row she got dressed up. She wanted to dress up the first 2 days, but on Halloween she didn't want to until I told her she had to get dressed up if she wanted to get candy. Then she was all about it!

Trunk or Treat

Today we went to a trunk or treat in our neighborhood. We ate hot chocolate and donuts and then all of the kids played and went trunk or treating.

Halloween Party

Yesterday Allyson and I went to a mom's group halloween party. All the kids and some of the moms dressed up. Allyson is the most beautiful ballerina! At the party we decorated cookies, decorated paper pumpkins, made ghosts out of suckers and trick or treated around the house. It was lots of fun!

Curly Hair

When Allyson woke up from her nap a couple of days ago, her hair was so curly! This picture doesn't really do it justice, but she still looks so cute!

Pumpkin Painting

For family home evening this week, we painted pumpkins together!

Utah State Fair

Yesterday we took Allyson to the Utah State Fair. It was a really fun day (minus having to pay $10 for parking). They had a really cute exhibit where kids could go through and pretend to be farmers. Allyson went through and she picked fruits and vegetables, rode a tractor, brushed a lamb, milked a cow, fed a cow, etc. At the end of doing all of that she went to the fake market to "sell" the things she collected in her basket (really they just organize everything into all the little bins they belong in) and then the workers there gave her fake money which she paid to the the cashier at the end of the exhibit and they gave her a bag of cookies. She loved it!! Kudos to whoever was clever enough to come up with that exhibit cause it was so stinking cute!
They had a giant slide that David rode on with her. I was afraid she would be too scared to go down once she got to the top, but David said she kept wanting to go down by herself! Of course that wasn't aloud, so she finally gave in to sitting on Daddy's lap.
They had tons of animals there that you could look at and pet. Allyson's favorite were the goats. If we hadn't pulled her away she might still be there petting them right now. We all had a really great time.

LaVerne and Randy's Birthday

David's mom, LaVerne, and our brother in law, Randy, both share the same birthday (September 3rd). So yesterday the family all got together for a cake and ice cream party at David's parents house.