i am 26.

i celebrated my 26th birthday with my 3 favorite people in the world: cam, jade & sis.

we went shopping went out to dinner, and came home and ate delish birthday cake.

it was an awesome day, and i felt super special.

i love my family.

the zarm.

it's not a zoo... basically a farm, so i now call it a zarm. the good part is, on Monday's you get in free. that is awesome. so we hit it up, to say hello to all the animals a couple weeks ago!

sissy's awesome new cheesy smile

yes, jade fed the donkey that stick, and yes it ate the entire thing

it was quite hilarious

it's fall at the park.

other than the fact that it is getting SO stinking cold, AND we have already had our first snow now (more on that later) i absolutely love the fall. the colors, the smells, the clothes... mmmm! i just love it all. we were headed out to the park one afternoon, and i decided to grab my camera so i could snap a couple shots of my sweet babes playing... so glad i did.

Halloween Festivities!

trick-or-treating = best day of their lives.

we made halloween magnets: ghosts, pumpkins & we put our faces on different costumes... the kids thought this was so hilarious!

we made little mummies...

which sissy thought were SOOOOO cuuuuute!!

and vampire mouths...

and we made halloween cookies

it was a great week!!

trick-or-treating at school!!

jade's class did a trick-or-treat day, and let all the kids were there costumes, they said Sissy & I could join, and she was thrilled! here they are in their costumes!

sissy was a "nice witch"

and jade was buzz lightyear!

they went across the street to an assisted living home, and brought a gift for each of the sweet grandma's and grandpa's (we had sent candy over to all of these people so they could give candy to the kids as well) the kids loved it, it was such a neat idea, because it wasn't about greedy halloween at all. most of the people wanted the kids to come in and talk about their costumes and such. the grandma's and grandpa's liked it just as much as the kids.

i just have to say how much i LOVE their sweet little school. they are learning so much, both school type things and about jesus. i love it.

a visit from mom.

my mom came in for about 24 hours a couple weeks ago. it was a great, short visit! she watched the kids while cam & i watched some cowboys football, then the next day while the kids were at school & cam was at work we went thrifting... it was so fun. so nice to have my sweet momma here to shop with... we found quite a few cute little things... this incredible frame being one of them, after we picked up jade from school (sissy was still there) we played with it a little, and got some silly pictures together! :)

thanks for coming mom! love you!

Pumpkin Carving!!

We carved pumpkins the during halloween week, the kids were totally stoked about it! Until Sis realized what it was... that we were touching totally gross pumpkin guts...

she tried to think it was cool...

but Jade dug right in

she finally got used to the idea, and decided it was fun, and was so stinking proud of herself for touching those disgusting pumpkin guts! So proud, she needed a picture for proof! ;)

awesome pumpkins right?! I am pretty sure me and cam like carving pumpkins even more than they do! :)

October Utah Trip {Part 2}

Taylor's homecoming day!!

At the airport we met up with both of my grandparents. Gma & Gpa had never met Kennedy, and hadn't seen Jade in almost 3 years!

We just saw Grandma Judy & Grandpa Ritchie a couple months ago, and it was so good to see them again!

Jade & Tanner

Taylor coming down the escalator, he's the first missionary (blue tie)

seeing the kids for the first time in 2 years...

so happy to see him :)

me & jade being silly, with balloons in our hair

somehow after Tay got home we didn't take another single picture.

it was a great week!