Costa Rica

This was my 3rd time to costa rica and by far the best!! We stayed in Jaco the first three days in a really nice marriot resort. While we were there we drove to Manuel Antonio to visit the national park where we saw monkeys, sloths, raccoons, and snorkeled a bit. Then we drove to Dominical which is pretty deep into the jungle (the prettiest jungle i've seen in costa) and stayed in kind of a ghetto bungalo that was right on the beach and had the most happening disco techa party around. We went on the most awesome zipline tour (including tarzan swing)...then we took a boat ride out to cano island for some crazy snorkeling (swam with reef sharks, turtles, and the most fish i have ever seen!) It was seriously so fun (not really relaxing and kind of intense) but really fun.

Jack the Pumpkin king

We went to Disneyland over thanksgiving and this was kelty's highlight of the trip! if you don't know kelty very well,... lets just say she is drawn to somewhat morbid ideals. I try to instill a love for princesses and such but her favorite things are monsters, bugs, villains, and secret agent stuff. For example: while we are watching sleeping beauty, I tell her that my favorite part is coming up (when rose is singing in the forest and her prince comes to sing with her) kelty then says, "that's not my favorite part, my favorite part is when she touches the spindle!"
So last christmas kelty made us watch The Nightmare before Christmas like every day (even christmas eve) until i had to lay down the law and told her that we cannot watch the show until next christmas! Needless to say, kelty loved the ride at disneyland and she loved talking to Jack the pumpkin king (she also told me that she will be naming her children Jack and Sally).

St. George girls trip

The first week in november i went to st. george with some friends to scrapbook. I got a lot done and it is always fun to get away from the kids for a bit. i never get any good pics of us girls...probably because i don't want to scrapbook it.

My favorite fall

We rode our bikes to Bridalveil falls before it got too cold outside...its a tradition i feel like we must do! It was beautiful and peaceful and it reminded me of when i was little riding up with my parents and buying a snack, back when Bridalveil was more of a happening place.



These are pictures of the kids playing in the neighbors yard. Kelty has a new bestest friend named Brighton (sort of a cousin i guess). The Millers moved in down the street while we were gone this summer and we just love having more kids in the hood! Kelty asks me all day long "when is brighton going to be home from school?"
I just love the colors of fall, the smell, the crisp air, the sound of crunchy leaves....I could never live anywhere else because i love the seasons so much.

Ghouls Night Out

Halloween was long but fun... Kelty had a little parade at her pre-school friday morning then we had our ward party and trunk-or-treat on friday night then we had a party at our house on saturday. Kelty was insistent on being a blood sucking vampire this year despite my begging for her to be strawberry shortcake or Wednesday from adam's family. She did play the part very well and in her mind she was scary enough to frighten everyone at the ward Halloween party... She would walk up to strangers and scream BOO! everyone would give a courtesy jump and then she would laugh with pure satisfaction as the person was looking for the owner of the overly confident little vampire (lucky me). As for walker, he was spiderman so naturally fights would break out throughout the night and walker was found trying his superhero kung fu on the other kids in the ward (i'm half joking)....my kids are too cute and i love'em!

Monster baby shower

I threw a baby shower for my little cuz Brookie! I wanted to do the monster theme cause the graphics i found online were so cute (and it is almost halloween). ANd BTW the little marshmallow monsters are actually really tasty, i will be making a scarier version of them for our halloween party (in case you want to try them:)!

Big red barn

We picked our pumpkins at the Big Red Barn in Santaquin this year again...it is well worth the drive. The farm reminds me of my favorite farm in philly and the barn is full of fresh fruit, veggies, home made doughnuts, ice cream, apple cider, and did i mention the yummiest apples ever!

Bad to the BOne!

Matt and i rarely take pictures of just us, and i rarely post them on my blog...matt always gets upset that i never take pics of myself or us together so here we are...thanks to the amazing camera on my iphone, we can take pics on the fly. So, we took a little date on the alpine loop and the scenery was amazing (plus matt looked kinda smoldering in leather and his handlebar mustache).

a BERRY special birthday!

We had kelty's 4year birthday last weekend. She asked me about her birthday every day for the past month..."Is my birthday going to be after my nap?" because of so much waiting and anticipation she did not believe me when i told her it was actually her birthday...."is it really my birthday mom, are you just kidding?...i'm not really 4, your just joking," she said this all morning until it was her birthday party.
Kelty loves lots of attention and is such the social butterfly, so i couldn't help but throw her a party with all her friends. She would list all the people that she wanted to invite (it included all of her 2nd cousins, Ellie's grandma, and kids she barely knew) it was hard to condense her list of people she wanted to come but honestly she has too many friends for a 4 yr old!... it's because anyone she meets she becomes best buddies with (especially people who look like a grandma). Kelty had the time of her life at the party and is now asking frequently about when her next birthday party will be (hopefully this will die out quickly). Oh, how I love that yummy little strawberry!

Back to scrapbooking

Went scrapbooking over conference weekend and although I am a bit rusty I got a lot done! Some of them are kinda repetitive (one for kelty's book and one for walk's book) but i need a digital copy posted of my favorites. (not digital scrapbooking BTW, i just take pics of the pages)