This was my first adventure out with the new baby and all the kids without Jared.  I just wanted to celebrate Halloween a little.  I love Halloween.  I also hadn't seen Natalie's baby yet and she hadn't seen mine.  So we decided on a Saturday, of all days, to meet at Gardner Village to see the witches festival, as you can see in the background.  Sam and Aubri took a couple of rides on the ponies (McKenzie didn't want to), made witches hats and Aubri wanted her face painted.  The babies did great and slept the whole time until it was time for them to get in the car and drive home of course.  It was so great to see  Nat and her kids and of course baby Paige.

I couldn't resist posting this picture.  She is finally home and obviously not very photogenic.  We will have to change that real quick, because mom got a new camera and loves to use it.  Hopefully the desire to take lots of pictures will continue.  What a cutie patutie!

This is our sweet little Hadley Ruth.  She was born September 30 in the morning.  I would like to say that is why I haven't blogged, but it isn't, I am just very slow.  We are so grateful to have her here with us finally.  The labor and delivery was pretty miserable.  When they finally gave me the epidural and the patosin I went from about a 2 to delivered in 45 minutes with the epidural only working on half of my body, ouch!  But it is all over, hurray!

gymnastics

Sam has been taking gymnastics for the last couple of years and she loves it. This is the first time she has been able to perform in front of a real audience. They were asked to perform for the half time of the BYU vs. U of U meet. She had so much. We got lucky with one action shot of her warming up in line. Her aunt Chelsie was nice enough to come and do her hair for the big event, isn't it cute! Good job Sammers!

Snowy Days

Aubriana

McKenzie

Samantha

This has been a record year for the amount of snow and cold weather we have had here in Utah, I don't know if that is fact but it sure has felt like it. I swear cold weather follows us. We were living in Boston when they had their record year of snow as well. At least the kids love it. There is a fun sledding hill right next to our house and the girls had a blast!

Okay so I am still learning how to Blog, and how to make this post in the order that I want them so just bare with me. Here are the rest of the cruis pics and the introduction to this post is down below. Hahahaha, I have to laugh otherwise I get frustrated and stop blogging.

cruisin

In January Jared and I went on a cruise with some of our friends, Chase and Amber Purles; Jim and Sara Rowberry; Mike and Shelly Livingston; and Tom and Krista Lewis and her parents. It was so much fun. The guys entered a dodge ball tournament on the ship and killed the royal carribean employee team, who claimed they had never lost a game in seven years. Yeah, thats right our guys killed them. Our favorite island was St. Johns where we went to Turtle Bay and the guys played a little ball. They are always looking for a ball. It was so fun and relaxing.