More of October 2013

Because my real camera died and I have been using my phone, I am so disorganized!  I can't find my pictures of Noah's birthday.  I will find them and I post them later.  So as  I might have mentioned last year, the fall in Las Vegas isn't really the same as in Utah.  Its still pretty warm and there aren't a lot of leaves on the ground.  In spite of that, I was determined to make it feel like fall.  So we went to the pumpkin patch!  Lucky for us there is a huge orchard very close to our house that produces lots of wonderful fruits and vegetables.  We were able to go with the Parson's and pick out a couple of pumpkins for carving.  It was pretty fun.  Later that month I was able to help out in Ellie's class for her Halloween party.  She had a great room mom that put on fantastic parties!  It was a lot of fun.

I have become one of those

I have become one of those people, you know the ones who give up on their blog and leave it for years without updating it!  Yes, I have!  I need to get back in the swing of things because I need this blog to use as a journal for the family.  I am still determined to print out each year and have it as a keepsake.  Now I am so far behind that I really don't know where to start again.  I think these photos are the next ones, because I am pretty sure we went to Utah in October last year.  These photos are from this is the place park in Salt Lake.  One of my very favorite places to visit!  It was so beautiful too with all the fall leaves coming off the trees!  We took a train ride and saw some of the old buildings.  A lot of it was shut down for the season, but the animals were still out.  The kids liked the goats until one tried to eat a button off of Joslyn's sweater, that scared us both.  Looking at these pictures I can't believe how much the kids have grown!  I am so glad to have pictures like these to remember all of these fun times.   I hope to catch up a little more on here, wish me luck!           

Lots of pictures of Ellie at Disneyland!

I haven't posted anything in so long, I forgot where I left off.  Things were so busy and crazy for the holidays that this kind of stuff gets pushed to the back of my priority list.  I do want to catch up with what is happening with our family so I will try and keep posting!  I feel like I am the only mom with a regular old blog anymore.  Oh well, I do it mostly for our family and to make a book at the end of the year.  Otherwise I wouldn't have much of a journal.  These pictures are of our little Ellie Sheree at Disneyland with my parents.  Have I told you that my parents are awesome, for many reasons, one being that when each grandchild turns 8 they take them to Disneyland by themselves!!  I always get so jealous!  Take me!  Ellie had been looking forward to it for so long, and she had a great time.  As you can see they let her eat ice cream for every meal, bought her a princess dress, and let her ride anything she wanted.  Who wouldn't have fun.  In fact I really wish I were there right now!

On my parents camera...

I mentioned that I had my parents camera for a few days.  When I went to transfer the pictures I had taken onto my computer, I looked through all the pictures that were saved on it.  I have to say that they made me laugh!  There were so many random ones!  I wanted to share some, mostly for my family, cause we love to laugh at ourselves.  I will try to explain them, but some of them I have no idea about. 

This is a picture of a picture taken in 1995, I think?  It is of me and my sister and girl that my mom couldn't identify.  I didn't remember either,  it was from a trip to Idaho we took to visit my grandparents.  We got to take  a limo to the mall and thought we were pretty special.  That is also the summer I had mono and weighed 105 lbs.  That was the best diet ever! 

A picture of the girls in their school uniforms, they are so cute!

My lovely mother doing a puzzle.

 

I don't even know who these people are.

I am guessing this is the puzzle my mom was working on.

My cute niece relaxing in front of the TV.

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My favorite brother Matthew

A foot and what looks like Andrew's head.

Brett and Oliver.

Another picture of a picture, My cousins Chris and Josh, with Matt.

A picture of the chair my mom bought.

Cortney