Halloween Etc.

We had a fun time celebrating Halloween! We tried to get the girls to say "Trick-or-Treat", but we ended up settling for a "Boo" instead! These first pictures are from a fun party they held at Jake's work, they went all out! There were fun little crafts to make, cookie decorating, balloon animals, a spiderweb catch (aka fish pond), good food and a huge trick or treating set up!

Our Little Fairies!

Sadie left, Samantha right

Sadie and Daddy making their pumpkin craft!

They had great decorations!

Mom and Samantha

Samantha

Sam Left, Sadie Right

Sadie

Samantha

We also hit up our old ward's trunk or treat! It was so great to see all of our good friends!

Aren't our little friends costumes so cute?! Elsie is a giraffe and Amelia a chicken! To be honest...I can't tell which twin that is?! Oops!

Samantha

Okay this is bad.....I have not mixed them up in a long time! I really thought this was Sadie and now all the sudden I think it might be Samantha?! I promise in real life I can always tell them apart!!!

Okay, this one I'm sure! Sam left, Sadie right

We met up with some friends at the Deanna Rose Farmstead, it is a fun little farm where you can check out the animals and if you are brave (which I am not) then you can get in and pet the animals and feed the lambs bottles etc. We will have to bring Jake along next time, he is brave!

Sam left, Sadie right

I just thought this one was too cute to not share!! Samantha left, Sadie right

They are geting so good at saying "Cheese" for the camera!

Here is a video clip of us trying to get the girls to show off!!

Our Latest Adventures!!

Well, I hate to admit this but back in February Jake and I signed up to run the Kansas City 1/2 Marathon (with the hope of losing some pounds) and for some crazy reason we forgot to train for it!!!!! We are sad, but now looking back we are thinking it would have made more sense to expect us to be more disciplined with our training when we are not living out of the country and here there and everywhere! This most likely is just an excuse to make us feel better, but since we had already paid for it, we decided to atleast try to run the 5K! We are so glad we did! We had such a great time doing it together! It was a bit comical since we really weren't even able to run the entire time, but it was just so much fun to be downtown and chatting with each other along the way! It is amazing how many people show up for these events, it makes it so exciting! We are determined to keep up the tradition and try to do one together every year! And hopefully it will kick us in gear to really get working out so all the Grandmas and Grandpas and little kiddies don't pass us up next time!! Here are a few of the pictures......

Here we are at the Starting Line....Super Bright and Early!!

Jake in Action!! It was so fun, they had bands playing to pump you up along the way!

Here we are in front of the New Sprint Center, start of Mile 2!

What a Stud!!

Another fun thing the girls and I did recently was visit a cool little Dairy Farm with some of our super fun friends!! We got to taste test all of their yummy flavored milks, see how they bottle it, see baby cows, and see how they milk them! It was all very interesting! It was pretty funny though, it was just us and a whole elementary school class. The owner did part of the tour, he was a really cool guy, but the best part was while we were in checking out the baby cows he came up to us and said "You guys must really be bored today??!!" But honestly, we were thoroughly entertained! It is just fun to get out and switch up the scenery, ya know!!

Thank Goodness the tour was stroller friendly!!

Our next adventure is a bit of a re-run! I know we already posted about visiting the Louisburg Cider Mill, but we got the chance to head out there again with some friends so we couldn't resist more pumpkin pictures of the girls!!

Love this picture of Samantha's cheese! (left)

Our attempt at a group picture!

Baby Evie, Mason, Sadie, Samantha

Watching the yummy doughnuts being made!

Sadie, stopping to smell the flowers!

Samantha Dawn!

We had a great time, definetly worth 2 visits!

A Trip To The Louisburg Cider Mill.......

It was so much fun, a couple weeks ago Jake and I took the girls up to The Louisburg Cider Mill for the Pumpkin Fest! It is the cutest place, you can walk through and see how they press all the apples to make delicious cider and they also make really yummy cider doughnuts. For the Pumpkin Fest they had a Pancake Breakfast, which any of you that know Jake and his love of the pancake, will realize that was probably most of his motivation in going!!! We got a few cute pictures of the girls with the pumpkins, Sadie for some reason was afraid of them, which seems to be the new trend, she is really pretty apprehensive about anything new these days!!

Samantha Dawn

Sadie Jane

Sam left, Sadie right

I actually got more smiley pictures at home before we left! I am slowly realizing that no matter how long I stand there and hoop and holler and say "Cheese" I am not going to ever get a perfect shot of them both at the same time anymore!

Sadie

Samantha

Samantha left, Sadie right

Daddy's Girls!!

Sadie left, Sam right

Today it rained and rained in the morning so I decided to put the girls in their adorable galoshes and raincoats, by the time we left the house it had pretty much stopped, so they were all dolled up and all we did is go to Wal-Mart!! It really does feel like playing dolls somedays!! I only wish I had as much fun getting myself dressed as I do them!!

Samantha left, Sadie right

This is a funny background for a picture, but I love it! This is in our garage, there is the tiniest little cement ledge that the girls discovered and love to sit on! I promise they do have jean skirts on under there! It looks a little questionable??!!

Go UTES!!

Just wanted to post some fun pictures we took at the Utah vs. Air Force game last weekend! Since it was only an 8 hour drive we decided to make the road trip! It was so much fun to meet up with some of Jake's Buddies, and just to see how much it meant to Jake to be there made it totally worth the drive! Thank Goodness the Utes won the game, that was an added bonus!! Here are the pics!

Jake and his Buddies!

Samantha left, Sadie Right

Sadie left, Sam right

I know you can't see us very well, but this is a rest stop along the way home, I loved this big Sunflower, Just in case you didn't know it is the Kansas State Flower!!

On Sunday before we headed back we got to meet up with my great friend Kari in Castle Rock and had lunch! It was so great to see her, we should have taken a picture!

Okay so we all know that I have been a HORRIBLE BLOGGER! So of course I have all kinds of catch up pictures to post! Here are just a few.....and as always I hope to be posting more often!

This is one of my favorite spots in Kansas City, it is a really cool fountain down at the Country Club Plaza! Sadie left, Samantha right

Love this pic of Sadie!

We took these when our great friends Kristen and Jeremy and their cute daughter Emerson came out to visit us! It was so much fun to have them here!

Samantha's New Trick!!

Sadie doing Patty Cake on her cute Cheeks!

Sadie left, Sam right

Thank Goodness for these precious sister moments!! It helps me get through the boxing matches that seem to be happening a little more often these days!

Oh and by the way.......Sadie and Samantha are starting their own band!!

There's No Place Like Home!

We made it back to good old Kansas City! We have been busy trying to get our life put back together, and I promise to finally post pictures of our townhome when I finally get it decorated one of these days! It truly has been great to be back and see all of our fun Kansas friends! We really do feel so lucky and blessed to have had the chance to have this European Adventure and the girls and I for our fun time in Utah! Thanks to everyone who made the last 7 months so totally fabulous for us all!
This is a fun video clip of the girls on our LONG Roadtrip home! A HUGE Thanks to Jake's totally awesome parents for letting us borrow their truck to get here!! Overall it wasn't so bad, but oh how fun it was to finally get here!!




We got right back into the Kansas City Scene by attending a Royals Game for Friday
Night Fireworks!

Sadie Loving Some Baseball Game Nachos!

This Cup Is As Big As Samantha Is!

And I just have to say....I was dreading the humidity and it really hasn't been too bad!

We just found a little tikes climber/slide on Craigs List, it is already worth every penny we payed for it! The girls love it to death!!

Sadie....after a spontaneous run through the sprinklers!

Samantha Dawn

Sam left, Sadie right

Another new thing they love is spinning around in this chair!

Sadie left, Samantha right

And to end I just have to put this cute video clip of the girls playing in our closet! They get such a big kick out of it! I love it! Sadie is in the yellow, Samantha pink.