November!

We headed over to the park to get some fall leave fun in! And to try out our new camera!

Sadie

It took Samantha a little bit to warm up to the idea!

Jake got an amazing opportunity to head to Egypt for 2 weeks for work! We were thrilled for him, but not up for the 2 week single parenting challenge, so the girls and I packed up last minute and headed for Utah!

While we were there Sadie Janie got a haircut!! I had a hard time deciding if we should do it, but her hair was really turning into a mullet! So we did it, and are so glad we did! She of course looks adorable and her hair looks so much healthier! She was so cute about it, she kept worrying that her haircut was going to blow away when we were out in the wind!!

We headed up to Bear Lake for an overnight stay with some of my family! This was probably the first time the girls had been out in the snow for the season. This is Samantha!

Sadie

The group of us up at the cabin

Checking out the beautiful scenery!

A dip in the hot tub!

They put on quite the performance for us! The fireplace was the perfect stage!

Ooops...More November!

Here a few more pictures I wanted to add to November!

We were so glad that we were able to go over and spend some time with my Grandpa Reed and Grandma Eunice.

Here are the cousins on Thanksgiving making Turkeys!

Here is Samantha showing hers off!


My parents have this fun swing in their backyard. Thank goodness the girls know how to hold on tight!

Sadie

Samantha

We had a great idea to do a photo shoot of our little Utah Cheerleaders for Jake's parents for Christmas, we tried first at Target and were unsuccessful so we tried again and got these cute photos!

You should see how many we had to take to get this one with them all smiling and actually looking at the camera!!

Cutie Girls!

Go Utes!

Halloween!

We did a fun Halloween dinner at our house, complete with a Jack-O-Lantern pizza, Witches Brew, and Halloween Jello Jigglers. Too bad Sadie felt the need to show off her belly in this picture!

Our Utah Cheerleaders!!

Sadie left, Samantha right

This was hilarious! This was the first house they went to and Sam comes waddling back from the porch like this!! Oops...looks like the tights might be a little small! We all got a great laugh from it though!

I don't know who had more fun, the girls or Jake and I witnessing their first Trick Or Treating experience! They were ecstatic! They ran from house to house, knocking relentlessly, and then they would announce and rave about the treat that they were given! Also randomly yelling out Go Utes! The houses that had dogs got quite a reaction as well!

We went out with our fun friends the Knickerbocker's. This is their cute little "Dorothy"!

And this was the best....the girls couldn't even hold their little pumpkin buckets by the end of their route! They were so full! So they came home and organized all their loot! What a fun memory this night was!

Pumpkin Patch!

We took the girls to a fun Farm/Pumpkin Patch. They had fun activities for the girls, a corn maze, and then we took the wagon ride out to the pumpkin patch to pick the perfect pumpkins!

Fun Times in KC with my Family!

I finally posted all of September!! There are 4 different posts, so scroll down if you want!

These are the fun things we did while they were in town!

We went to a Royals Game!

Here is Samantha going completely ballistic at the attempt of a picture with Slugger! I wish I could upload the video of Sadie running away at even the sight of him!

Samantha

Another trip to the farm! The girls have been telling Grandma and Grandpa all summer about their trips to the farm, so we had to go show them all the fun!

We went to a park to cook tinfoil dinners and marshmallows, and lucked out with this beautiful sunset!

Marshmallows! The girls are a lot more interested in cooking the mallows than eating them!!

I love tinfoil dinners! These were especially delicious, probably because my Mom prepared them! I have such fun memories of going up in the canyon and having these growing up!

Per Jake's suggestion (he is all about our guests experiencing Kansas City's finest attractions) we visited the Federal Reserve. It actually was pretty interesting, I have to admit.

One of the girls other favorite activities is riding the carousel at the mall. So we brought the crew to experience that as well! Sam always picks the zebra, and we are proud of Sadie that she will finally ride her very own horse.

Baby Briggs!

It was so fun to have everyone come out! Can't wait for your next visit!

Nauvoo!

This is a bit backwards...we stopped at Carthage Jail on our way back. This is one of my favorite of the spots we went to. It is truly amazing to realize all that has happened at these sites so long ago! We were so glad we got to make the trip!

My parents and my sister Melodie and her cute little guy Briggs came for a visit to Kansas City and we went on a roadtrip up to visit the church sites in Nauvoo!

The Sunset over the Mississippi was Amazing!

Samantha

Sadie

The Circus!!

We took our first family trip to the Circus! I absolutely love how excited the girls get about things now! That must be Samantha's excited face below!!

Daddy and Samantha

Sam doing another crazy face, and Sadie in front!