Love this Kid

This is his "surprised" look, but at the time I was making him giggle too.

Is It Time Yet?

I've got my Christmas tree Wallflowers plugged in...

Some festive music playing...

A toasty fire roasting away...

And it's windy and chilly outside...

Don't you think I should just match it with all my Christmas decorations!

I think I shall...

Fall Fun

I can't believe how the time is flying by! I've been so excited for the holidays to get here...and they are already passing us by!

Brody is our such a little monkey, he climbs up and on everything!

We had to get a picture by my favorite tree before all the leaves turned brown and fell off.
Brody is not the greatest picture-taker. It's really hard to get him looking at the camera, and even harder smiling. So we just roll with it...as you can see he was so done!


This was when I was 25 weeks. It's going by WAY fast! And I'm sure the holidays are just going to make it go even faster!




And here is a quick video of Lance trying to teach Brody how to hit the ball. This was at the end of his little lesson, and I think they were both giving up. haha.

October 2010

Our October began with a trip to Apple Annie's!

I love going to this pumpkin patch, it's so pretty and fun!
We always have to get a picture in front of the beautiful sunflowers.

Brody exploring the sunflowers

Sitting on the pumpkins

Out to find the perfect pumpkins!

It got pretty warm, so after we picked our pumpkins, Brody rode in the wagon back.

For Halloween this year, we decided to go to Mesa and have fun with cousins! Lance had his deer hunt, so he missed out big time! This is at my parents ward Halloween party, Brody just wanted a "cone!"

Because I knew I was going to be bad at taking pictures, I wanted to get a couple before we went to Mesa...

Our little cowboy had so much fun trick-or-treating. He loved running from house to house asking for candy, and saying thank you, and then asking for more candy! I'm so grateful he had a fun time with his cousins and his aunts! As for me, I'm feeling great and 25 weeks along with this next boy! I can't believe how easy this pregnancy has been (after 16 weeks)- I probably shouldn't jinx myself. After not having any names to even think about, I looked through a list and now have 19 names to sort through. It's so hard! But I'm sure Lance will narrow that list a bunch! We had a great Halloween and are so excited for upcoming events: Elder Standage gets home in one week, Thanksgiving, and then Christmas!

San Fran

We had quite the time in San Francisco, I must say it's SO much different than Arizona...
There were SO many homeless people and street performers, on Fisherman's Wharf.

My pictures are all out of order, but this is just below Ghiradelli Square. Where we ate some delicious chocolate!

After a while we got really sick of the stinky fish smell at Fisherman's Wharf (and we love fish), but this was a place where they bring the crab and lobsters from off the ships.

Here's me at 20 weeks pregnant...yes I'm finally showing, for all those who didn't believe I was even pregnant.

Just outside of the Trolley station

Fashion heaven= Union Square

Unfortunately I had to limit my shopping, because I have a husbands who hates shopping with a passion...

We found this pizza shop that was SO good, we could have each eaten at least 5 more of these massive pieces.

Pier 39 was so fun to walk around, and this picture was for Brody who loves mac n cheese.

This is on our way to Alcatraz (I kept calling it Azkaban...yes from HP...there same thing anyway right?)

On our bay cruise around the golden gate bridge.

All in all we had a great time, it was a much needed getaway. Would I ever go to San Fran again...nope. It's a pretty dirty place. Yes there was a parade and yes there were naked men. yuck. The food wasn't as great as I was hoping. China town- disgusting. haha. But honestly, Lance and I had a great time laughing our heads off at everything.

...Later...

Lance and I are off to San Francisco in the morning! Great shopping and yummy food, don't be too jealous...

And it's a...

I know you all want to know so bad! And I was so excited when I found out! This baby is SO cute. It wasn't super active, which the tech was happy about. But it kept putting it's little hands together and crossing it's fingers. And it's little nose and mouth were so cute. I was so worried I wouldn't get to see but we sure did! Are you getting annoyed yet? ok ok...

It's a...

BOY!!!

I know, I'm just as shocked as everyone else. Like I said this pregnancy has been completely different from Brody. But I'm not gonna lie, I really really wanted a boy. How often do you get what you want!?

Well, have a great day, because I sure am!