September Celebration

Sunday we celebrated our September birthdays. McKay was our first September birthday. He turned 9 this year...crazy!!!

Next came Tanner and he turned 12, now that is super crazy. They are all growing up SO fast!!

Ryan was our last September birthday. Some fun news about Ryan...he is on the BYU Rugby team and he is going to be a daddy in May!!! Looks like 2009 is going to be a busy year for Ry.

All the younger kids went outside to play but we kept Seth inside with us. I can't believe how big he is getting. And I can't believe that I have forgotten to mention that Seth is going to be a big brother around the 1st of February!! I'm sure that Seth will teach his baby brother lots of fun things and Amy and Dave will have fun chasing the two around. :) (I think those two announcements just made this post a little more interesting, don't you?)

I had to document this...for some reason Seth gets a little scared of Uncle Ryan, so when he started playing and interacting with Ryan I had to take a picture. Aren't they just SO cute?

Snowbird tram

Well, this information is now a week old, but better late then never -- right? Monday (9/22) afternoon Candice called me and told me that she got a call from KJZZ wanting her to come up for a family interview as they were interviewing Justin from Iraq. So, Monday night we did a little shopping so they could look really cute on TV and then I took Tuesday off to go with her and give moral support. (It was also a great "mental health" day for me, so it worked out well.) The interview was short and sweet and aired on the KJZZ cafe Friday (9/26). Here's Candice and Abigail after the interview. Abigail is saying "cheese."

Since we were already in Salt Lake we decided to go up Little Cottonwood Canyon again to see how things were progressing and if it looked better without rain. There was some snow high up from the rain we had over the weekend. We found a few pretty shots of the canyon, that I am posting.

Then we decided to take the tram to see the view from the top. So, this was the temperature at the top. Surprisingly it didn't feel that cold, which was a really good thing because I was not prepared for SUPER cold weather.

Here are a few pictures of the different valleys that you could see from the top. It was a nice day but not the clearest day. The view was still beautiful, though.

Here we are up at the top, the mountains really are so pretty especially with the little bit of snow on them.

Candice and Abigail were dressed a little warmer then I was but we both had flip flops on, so we documented it. Abigail is showing her shoes, too.

Here I am with only a t-shirt and flip flops, but like I said it didn't feel that cold up there, so the 30 minutes on top were fun.

These next pictures are kind of funny. I have a fear of heights. I was totally cool on the tram because we were enclosed. We took pictures of how close each of us got to the edge. Here is Abigail (Candice took the picture of course.) I was entertaining Abigail as Candice was taking pictures of one of the valleys. And I finally had to tell Candice to come watch Abigail because she was freaking me out with how close to the edge she was getting.

See, Candice has NO problems being right on the edge...

...and this is how close I would get to the edge. I took this one, which to me I thought I was pretty dang close.

Candice took this one...it does look like a long way from the edge but trust me, it wasn't.

Here are a few random shots that we took from the tram on the way down. They aren't the best pictures because of the glare but that's where a lot of the pretty colors were. I think you can still get an idea of what the mountain side looked like, in places.

These next 2 make me laugh. All that day we kept saying how pretty the colors looked through our sunglasses. So, Candice took off her sunglasses and took a picture through them. I think they turned out pretty good.

And what would a post be without a few "self-portrait" pictures? We are starting Abigail young with the "self-portraits." Since I am into making collages, I made one of almost all of the self-portraits we took together.

Little Cottonwood Canyon

Yesterday Candice and I decided to go and check out Oktoberfest at Snowbird up Little Cottonwood Canyon. We had rain and sun off and on while we were there, which was a lot of fun, honestly. We were able to see some of the pretty fall colors. Not a lot has changed yet but what has changed was really pretty. Here are the few pictures that we took of the Canyon with the colors. (Remember that is was gloomy and raining.) Oktoberfest was pretty good, we really just went to go and check it out. I did get a great deal on two HOT new pairs of sunglasses. In this collage "One of these things is not like the other things." Not a super great look at my new sunglasses but I couldn't take off the hat, I had hat hair.

We had a little fun with my camera taking some self-portraits, and I have to say that yesterday we did good. Here are a couple of the good ones. (I just have to point out that for some reason my eyes were really blue yesterday.)

Candice spotted this pretty area with waterfall on the way, so we stopped on the way down. It had just stopped raining, which was great because we were able to get a couple of pictures. This is the kind of nature that I can handle...you get out of your car and take a few pictures and then get back in your car, where it is warm and dry. :)

India Fest

It is festival time around here and yesterday there was an India Fest in Spanish Fork. Candice, Abigail and I decided to go and check it out. It was really cool. We went in the temple but it was so crowded in there it was hard to really check it all out. We hear that they do give tours, so we will have to go back and really check it out. But the building is beautiful. They did have a buffet but the line was SOOO long and we were kind of pressed for time that we had to pass. so we decided to do something else (which you see in my other collage.) Here are some pictures of Candice, Abigail and I and the temple.

They also had some dancers perform. It was really interesting to watch. They had some of the dancers come in from LA for the festival. Abigail loved watching the dancers and listening to the music. She was SO cute, she would watch them and then try do what they were doing. We only got one picture of her dancing because we were standing behind her watching her most of the time. Unfortunately we weren't able to stay longer to see all the dancing but what we did see was really cool.

As we were walking into the festival we saw a couple of different booths set up for henna tattoos. Well, in the end we couldn't resist getting a henna. Candice went first and got the moon and stars. Abigail got a glitter tattoo of a blue star, and then I got a turtle (I love turtles.) We got some glitter on the paste to have it be pretty. But the paste and the glitter eventually came off and in the other pictures you can see how it turned out. I like it and think it's fun! I think my turtle is SO cute! And Candice's henna totally fits her, too. It was a really fun couple of hours, we were a little sad that we couldn't stay longer but now we know for next year.

Hanging out with the Girls....

Last weekend I chilled with some best girls. Candice, Diane and I hung out with Becky at her house for a while. And we had some yummy dessert from Buca di Beppo. We all had a great time just talking and hanging out. I did remember to take a few pictures from the night, so we have Candice, Diane and Becky.

Saturday Candice, Abigail and I decided to check out the Brazilian Festival that was held at the Gateway this year. It was different from other years, a few too many people for the space they had for it. So, we didn't stay very long.

And in this picture Abigail really is trying to pose and smile for the picture. But I still thought it was cute. And then we went to go get some Brazilian food and were a little disappointed in the new place we tried, it was very, very blah for Brazilian food. Honestly, Saturday was kind of a disappointing day...but thank goodness for fun friends who kept it interesting.