Quick Update

I have been really bad about staying updated on the family, so here is a "quick" update. I've been sharing a lot of creations lately but I should do family updates more regularly to avoid LONG ones like this - I really should be in bed! David was out of town all last week and then again this week so after the kids are in bed at nights, I've been spending my free time creating. I've got so much done - workshops, Christmas gifts, pages, cards - it's been fun! The girls are starting basketball next week, Kaylee has her first piano recital, Halloween is coming up, and then Kaylee's baptism is in exactly one month, so I'll have a lot more to share in the next few weeks, so stay tuned!

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Last month we went up to Sinks Canyon as a family for a quick afternoon outing.

This picture is blurry but it's the best we could do.

The girls love to feed the fish - they are huge!

On Saturday, in between General Conference sessions, we got some fall clean-up done around the house - the pumpkins finally came out of the garden, the sprinkler lines were cleared, the swamp cooler was drained, stuffed, and covered, and some of the leaves and flowers got cleaned up...just in time for it to start snowing on Sunday! It had completely melted off the front lawn by this afternoon but tonight it started snowing again, so we'll see what we wake up to in the morning.

Look how big those pumpkins are! We've never grown any this big before and so I've never had to worry about turning them for even color and shape, so they are not the most beautiful things, but they sure are big! At least I'll know better for next year!

Brailee had fun snuggling, posing with, and climbing on the pumpkins ;-)

Sunday morning - Brailee couldn't wait to go outside and catch the first snowflakes of the season on her tongue!

Monday morning - look at my smashed raspberries - they are usually as high as the fence! This was such a heavy, wet snow - lots of downed tree limbs and power outages around town with this storm, but luckily it wasn't that bad for us.

She couldn't wait to go out and build her snowman with T on Monday morning!

And make snow angels!

Brianna FINALLY lost her first tooth tonight! It's been bugging her for a while and when I went to tuck her in and give her kisses, she was sitting up in bed just wiggling with excitement as she finally got it out. Luckily it was AFTER school pictures instead of before, like Kaylee's was last year ;-)

Trysten is a true boy - he is fascinated with balls and cars and trucks (or anything with wheels) already! He always knows where to go to get the cars.

Tell me what doesn't belong in the following picture...we find one in there multiple times a day - it must be some sort of trade ;-)

Oh, and he LOVES my pumpkin cookies - can ya tell? Oh, and how do you like his hair - he woke up from his nap that way and I just couldn't get it to lie down for the life of me! We should call him Alfalfa!

Today was picture day and I just couldn't resist getting a picture of Kaylee - the morning light was just perfect and she looked so pretty! I will probably use this picture in Kaylee's baptism invites - I can't believe it's coming up next month! She is so excited, and I am so proud of the sweet, kind, tender hearted girl she has become. She sure is growing up fast!

Here is Kaylee practicing the piano - Trysten loves to help! Kaylee decided not to do dance this year and is taking piano lessons instead - she LOVES it! Before she started lessons she wanted to learn 'I Am A Child of God' so I taught it to her and she had it down in less than a week! At her first lesson, her teacher asked her if she could play any songs and Kaylee played it for her and she was very impressed that she had memorized such a long song. She's been taking lessons for almost a month and she has her first piano recital coming up at the end of this month - she learned her first recital song so quickly that she's been given a second one and she already has it down, too - she just needs to work on her counting a little.

Whew! So there's my "quick" update - I hope you're all having a great week - take care!