Cereal

She did surprisingly well with her first taste of solids

No funny faces or gagging 

but 

we knew she would love food

Linder Farms

Last weekend, the sun was finally shinning and so we ventured out to Linder Farms, a local pumpkin patch. We were told to not expect much (especially coming from Vala's last year), but we were pleasantly surprised by the amount of things to do. There were bounce houses, a mechanical bull, a mini corn maze, homemade donuts and cider (delicious), but of course, our favorite part was the hayride and picking out our very own pumpkin.   

 taking a break during the mini corn maze

 I feel kind of bad, but it was hilarious 

Poor thing just tripped and landed spread eagle

 

What a delightful way to spend a Saturday afternoon

Little Squishy

Oh my goodness 

We sure love this delicious baby girl

Family Night

aka

Forced Family Fun

doesn't Sophie look thrilled...

Cousins

 Savannah and cousin Sorelle

Midway

We headed to UT a few weeks ago so Jayson could take a dental implant course in Heber. Before going to Heber, we were able to go through the temple with Andrew and see our dear friends the Richardsons. Jayson's dad graciously let us have 2 tickets to the BYU-Utah game that Saturday night. I was joking with Jay Dee, that if we went with him we had to stay the whole game (he is notorious for leaving at the end of the 3rd quarter, no matter what the score).  Things obviously weren't going well and I was the one begging to leave.

 This happy picture was taken during the 1st quarter

On Sunday we drove to Midway and were lucky enough to stay at my mom's condo with 2 of our friends from Omaha, the Boss and Ericksen families. The course was pretty intense and the dr's were gone from 7-5 every day and a few days they stayed until 8 pm (hence no pictures of them). The spouses (me. Liz and Targhee) had a great time going on walks- it was absolutely gorgeous with all of the fall leaves starting to turn colors, feeding the ducks, going to parks, outlet shopping and our favorite outing was to the Zermont. They have this charming little carousel that the little girls fell in love with. I think we went at least 4 times during the week.

 The Zermont also had baby goats that we were able to feed. 

Very exciting.

Squishy Sophie was just perfect.

Such a big girl riding in the stroller

Another fun activity was going to the Homestead for their 125th Anniversary. They had a hot air balloon, bounce houses, a live band, face painting, rock wall, and a breakfast.  Savannah loved the "big balloon" and kept asking to take a ride. If I wasn't afraid she would jump out, we might have tried it.

 This big girl held perfectly still so she could get her face painted.

She now walks around our house with an old eyeshadow case and brush and 

"paints" everyone a purple butterfly on their cheek

We loved having a little vacation with our dear friends. We have missed them so much after moving away. I am so sad we didn't get a picture with the whole group. Hopefully the next continuing education class will be held in Hawaii...

Utah State Rugby

A couple of weeks ago my baby brother Michael and the Utah State Rugby team came to Boise for a tournament. We showed up fashionably late thinking that we would only need to wrestle 2 wiggly girls for 30-40 minutes. Wrong. We watched 30-40 minutes of rugby with no appearance by my brother :(
Then he informed us that he only played in the first half of the first game but that he would start the 2nd game. Lucky us, we got to watch another game.  But it turned out great. We found some shade, Sophie slept, and Savannah found some floss to play with in my purse.  We even saw the try that Michael made! Go Mikey!!

 He Scores!

Tourney Champs!