Vegas Times 2!

I was lucky enough to go to on two separate trips to Vegas and St. George, just a few short weeks apart from each other. The first trip was with Matt's entire family, adults only, and we had such a fun time! My In-laws are awesome and they treated us to such a fun trip! We got to see "O" from the third row and it was amazing!! This is pretty much the only picture I had but we shopped and ate and saw a movie and a show .... it was awesome!

My Mom takes my sisters and I on a girl's trip each year and about two weeks after I got home from the first trip I left on this one! We had a blast and shopped WAY too much, ate WAY too much food, and saw The Little Mermaid at Tuachan .... it was such a great trip!!

Getting ready to leave .... Jack knew something was going on and wouldn't let go

At dinner after shopping for about 12 hours straight!

Pizza Factory before the play

It was so good, I just wish Liv was there that night .... she would have loved it!

I made Jen get pictures with Ariel and Prince Eric for Liv ....

The Magical Land of Cornbelly's

One of our most favorite things about fall is the Cornbelly's Corn Maze down at Thanksgiving Point. A few weeks ago we went down with our good friends the Munk's and had such a great time! The kids run and run and play and run and have the time of their lives. I think we are even headed back again this weekend to wear the kids out even more:)

Oh my little Mister

Crazy Liv .... now there are not many pictures of her because honestly all she did was run around with her good buddies Zack and Max .... and the last thing she wanted was to hold still

We caught her favorite, the pumpkin princess, leaving right as we got there so we were able to grab a quick picture!

crazy boy

Driving the train

Loving the big slide

The boys with some of the kiddos

Our fam .... nice closed eyes Liv :)

Haha I love this .... Jack wasn't so sure about riding the horse with his sister ... can you blame him?

Loving it here

He was so worn out after that he could have cared less about the hat over his eye ..... love it!

A Big Day

I have SO many things to post about and I am so behind, but first things first ..... yesterday was a big day in our house!! It was Liv's first primary program and Jack's first day of nursery!! It is true that Jack didn't quite make it to nursery since it is about 2 hours after his bedtime and he turned into a little monster man the second we got to church .... but I got a picture to try and document it! AND Liv .... oh Liv .... she thought the program was ALL about her ..... seriously she put on quite the show for everyone .... it was quite the production. But at least Jack can now GO to nursery and Liv provided LOTS of comic relief .... at least that's what I am telling myself :)

The Fair

Oh how we LOVE the State Fair!! Lots of animals, The big yellow slide, FUNNEL CAKE!, all the crazy people, roller coasters, ah so much fun! Our kids just loved everything about it and made it even more fun. Liv is quite the daredevil and went on every crazy ride Matt and I wanted to take her on ... and loved every second of it!

The Big Yellow Slide

The Baby Slide

This girl's LOVES her pony rides

Lovin the carousel

And my favorite ... the treats!

And I just had to throw this in .... even tho Matt will kill me .... but seriously this kid cracks me up .... Liv runs around in dress ups about 95% of the day and he has caught on ....

I will never forget

I was sitting in AP English and will never forget a teacher running in and yelling that a plane had just hit one of the twin towers and to turn the television on. And my English teacher made us continue our work like nothing happened .... a couple minutes later another teacher ran in and turned our television on .... right as the second plane hit ..... I will never forget those horrible images I saw of people jumping out of the towers, of the towers falling, of those grieving for loved ones. I will never forget how happy I was to see my Mom that day, I will never, ever forget the faces of the children that were born that year without a father, and I will never forget the heroism of those men and women that saved lives and lost their own. I will never forget.

Wishing

So today has been a dousy .... like I am ready for bedtime and to start fresh tomorrow ..... broken furniture, coloring on walls, MANY meltdowns, Daddy home way past bedtime tonight, and to make things worse I went to lunch with one of my best friends and her adorable little girl .... and my kids turned into crazy monsters ..... no joke ..... screaming, hitting, crying, running, throwing everything ..... nightmare ..... I think we scared my friend too death .... seriously, and she is like 8 months pregnant with her second ..... So during nap time I am on the computer to try and take a breather and look at all the Fall lovelies. Have I mention how much I love the Fall ... the activities, the food, the cooler weather, and the clothes, oh the clothes! Here are some of my favorite things right now .....

- I would die for these boots in saddle, but when I saw the price tag I about died

- Cozy sweater

- Perfect bracelet

- This fun skirt

- Stripes!

- Delicate necklace

- Love these shoes too

First Day of Preschool

I have been not doing so good with this blog lately so I don't know if anyone reads this anymore and probably not, but in any case I had to document Olivia's first day of preschool!! I seriously am dying she is this old! We have had a count down going on for a month now and Liv has been beyond excited to go! She did SO good and I am really proud of my little girl!!

I love this picture of them .... Jack saw a bird .... or food and is all excited and Liv wouldn't stop smiling

Love this picture too!

Liv and I

Liv has her good friend Tanner in her class .... they are so cute!!

Getting into their classroom .... Liv was copying Tanner :)