Marion Playing

Marion is almost two years old, so here is a collection of pictures from the last few months of Marion playing. She is quite the fiery little personality, very sure of what she wants, and NOT happy when she does not get her way...

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Moqui Cave

The kids have been asking for months to stop at Moqui Cave (a little museum on the way to Kanab), so we finally decided to take them on Labor Day since Chris got the day off work. Oliver calls it Monkey Cave. Elora spent the...

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Kidlets

This is a random post of different kid pictures that we took this summer… Oliver loves this t-shirt he got from his cousin, as well as his “treasure hunting hat”. And I don’t know why he was making that...

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Elora’s Frog Friend

This August we had TONS of rain. It seemed like it rained every day. One night Chris went outside and found a HUGE frog hopping around in our driveway. I have never seen a frog at our house and have no clue where this one came...

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Oktoberfest at Brianhead

We read about an Oktoberfest celebration in Brianhead in September, so we dressed the kids in their Austrian clothing and took them up there. As soon as they got out of the car, they ran out into the meadow to play with the...

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New Toys!

This summer I found a kitchen set complete with dishes at a yard sale for $5 so I bought it for the kids. They were SO EXCITED! It is fun to watch them all play with it together. Oliver found a broken rolling pin, and...

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Karen’s Very Pregnant Birthday

Chris made me an amazing chocolate cake for my birthday, so I posed for it with my huge pregnant belly. Elora was so excited about celebrating my birthday. She informed Chris that Mommy likes chocolate cake, and he really did a...

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Elora’s First Day of School

Elora’s first day of school was in August, and it felt so early to me! I cannot believe how fast the summer went. Even more, I can’t believe that it is already mid-October… Oliver was awake to see his sister...

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Canning

Let me explain that I have not gotten pictures off my camera for at least six months, so I finally decided to put them on the computer, and now there are a lot of random pictures I have taken this year that were fun to look at...

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Science Museum

We love the Science Museum near my parents house. We always make a trip there when we are visiting. This time the main floor had lots of hands on experiments dealing with types of motion. Elora liked this one where you got to...

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