Trunk or Treat at our new ward!

We did Trunk or Treat at our new ward. John and I were both a little apprehensive going when we didn't really know many people, but we did for our kids sake, and I'm sure glad we did because we ended up having fun!

Clara was Harry Potter and Edie is a Ballerina. I can't believe how grown up my little ballerina looks!

And Sam was a Bat. (Thank you to Mimi for the Bat costume!)

Some people decorated the backs of their cars really nice. We'll remember that next year:)

CANDY!!!

Our Bat fell asleep on the way over to the Ward. A little sad he didn't get to see the excitement, but it did make it alot easier for us.

After collecting their loot they sat in the back of the car and looked at all the costumes the kids had on.

The girls ripping into their candy!

Summer 2011

So obvioiusly Summer 2011 is long gone. But since I am hoping to print out our blog and look back on it as our "family journal", I figured I would re-cap June through August. It was a wild couple of months :)

Clara finished up pre-school at the U of U CFDC program. At the end of the year they had a party at the park to celebrate.

Good times

I started out the summer looking like this.

(Carlye too...)

And just two weeks after that picture was taken at the pre-school party- out came this! My absolute favorite "event" of the Summer.

We bought this... in Washington.

We blessed Sam

My family was in town

And my little brother Parker left on his mission to Mexico city!

John graduated from school

Sam screamed through out most of it...

We spent a great deal of the summer in the front yard. The girls ran around in their swimsuits and played with the hose while John and I sat on the porch and watched. It was really nice. I'm going to really miss that porch :(

Edie should be scared for her life.It was a wild summer. But definitely a good one.

John's Birthday

John turned 28 on October 27th. I'd like to say it was a fabulous day, but it wasn't. It really kind of stunk. I had gone into Tri-Cities to pick up food from Olive Garden. (Its a 45 minute drive-one way and around $25 of gas in my car). So I figured I'd go to Costco,Winco and the bank while I was in town. We'll with three kids it was a nightmare. Edie missed her nap- as did Sam and they were not happy campers. Right as John was supposed to get off a last minute patient came in and John got stuck with him and he suspected the patient had renal failure- so John didn't end up coming home until well past 9:00 PM. So eventually I had to put the girls to bed because they were rather hysterical, and they didn't end up getting to sing to Daddy or watch him open his presents. But we had Olive Garden and I had made John's favorite birthday trifle cake- so we laid on the couch and pigged out. Next year will be awesome though- I'm sure of it.

Washington

We have arrived alive! It has been a huge adjustment, but so far so good. It has almost been four weeks but we just got internet less than a week ago. I had no idea how much I missed it until I got it back! We really miss Salt Lake, but we are trying to be positive. I won't even get into how many things broke in our house the week we moved in... But one great thing is our yard. It is AMAZING! Huge and beautiful. Maggie is in doggie heaven and the girls are loving it....When it isn't raining atleast.

Clara trying out her mad soccer skills

It has a cool in laid brick deck thing that I find quite enjoyable. We have decided come spring we'll have to invest in some decent outdoor furniture.

Maggie is still a stinker. She sees or hears a chipmunk or kitty rustling in the bushes and she's off! Doesn't matter who is in her way. I didn't even realize I got this shot until after I was looking through all the photo's I'd taken. John and I had a pretty good laugh.

This is our souvenir from the move up here. It's hard to tell in the picture- but we got hit pretty hard. We were in Ogden headed up to Washington, when an unfortunate series of events took place. A semi blew a flat and the pieces of tire were all over the freeway- huge giant pieces. There was a big truck pulling a trailer, who braked hard in an effort not to hit the tire. This of course caused their trailer to jack knife and the woman in the lane next to them flipped out and swerved two lanes over and smashed into the side of my car. She hit the back door (right where my sweet little Sam was sleeping in his car seat!), front door and front panel and it caused the front end bumper to crack. After she hit me she took off. Utah Highway Patrol found her though and brought her back. She claimed that she was just going to get off on the next exit and come back. Liar. She never apologized, even when she saw I had three small children in the back of my car. She just told me if the trailer had hit her passenger side she could have gotten hurt. Yup- so could have my tiny children when you flew across two lanes and smashed into me. But we are all okay and that is what matters most! It slowed down our journey by about three hours- but we made it in the end:) I took my car into the shop to get an estimate (her insurance is taking care of it, thank heavens) and they informed me it would probably be around $6900 dollars worth of damage. I'm just so thankful we were all okay!