Bouldering in Little Cottonwood

Umm... it's really cold in the shade in the morning.  Just ask my freezing body this last Saturday when we went bouldering in Little Cottonwood.

Here's my whiney body trying to do star jumps (aka jumping jacks) to warm up by command of my hubby.  

As soon as the sun came up over the mountain the hills sang, though!  And so did my body since I could finally defrost.  :)  It was a great day and so fun to pull on some real rock!  Man, it felt good.  I was sore in muscles I'd forgotten I have. 

Go Amy!! 

Cutest little face. 

Cute freezing baby

Quiz - what's different about this pic from the next one?

Answer - look at Van's tongue.  This is totally worth enlarging the picture, people. 

Halloween 2012

Halloween was so fun this year!  Both of the kids really knew what was going on and both knew exactly what they wanted to be!  Here are some of the festivities we participated in!

Pumpkin patch with Chelsey and Diesel!!

With the best hay ride we've ever been on!

Super fun pumpkin patch in Lehi with Bek and kids!  So fun!!  They LOVED this place.  We will for sure go back next year!

Family Halloween party at the Rust's.  And Izzy in a pumpkin!

Oh!  All done!

Trick-or-treating with Chelsey and Diesel!

A little pumpkin painting and some more Halloween crafts.

Dad and Izzy bug at the Ward Halloween Party

Emery the mermaid

Van-Van the Fireman

Halloween lunch

Emery and her little friend at school after their Preschool Halloween party

A spooky Halloween feast for dinner including, mummy dogs...

Monster teeth....

Pumpkin smash...

Thai coconut pumpkin chowder (for the adults)....

bones and blood....

and spider dip. 

And some snuggles from Grandma after trick or treating.

Kolob with the Irvins

The Irvins are some of what we miss most in Vegas.  It's so fun to have friends who love to do adventurous things and will push their kids to do them too. 

So we met in the middle for a quick adventure weekend.  Emery and Jayne were so happy to be together again.  I think Aaron and I miss Jayne as much as Em does.  Van and Jersey were hilarious.  They have grown up so much and it's so funny to see their cute little friendship.  

We decided to try and push the kids and they hiked 5.4 miles!  It was pretty chilly but we got all 8 kids in and out without any major drama.  The babies were carried and Van and Jersey probably both got carried for a mile, but everyone else was on their own.  It was awesome! 

I miss my friend!  :)

Irvin crew

Wilkinson gang

Mama Jamie reading to the girls at the end of the hike.  So cute.

It was Jocelyn's 1st birthday so we celebrated with cupcakes and her being perplexed by her candle. 

The kids picked up 3 bags of trash on the side of the freeway while I fed Izzy.  My cute little environmentalists!

We stopped and toured Cove Fort on the way back.  I froze, but it was fun!