Introducing........

our little jester!

We have had such a fun halloween this year going around in our costume! Kate LOVED her silly hat and would run up and down the hallway in our house singing the "silly hat" song from Barney. Ty's mom had an awesome Halloween party the week before Halloween that sort of kicked off the festivities and then we pretty much went non- stop from that point on!

Here is Kate doing the dancing game on the Wii. She is OBSESSED with "who let the dog's out?" and knows the whole dance by heart!

The whole crew from Alice in Wonderland. Jack was even the bunny with his clock. So Funny!

Helping dad carve pumpkins.....

All the cousins:

Becky went all out this year! Each kid got two pumpkins... one to carve and one to paint. Then everyone got to decorate their bottle of orange soda. Karen made these cute spider treats.

and she didn't even forget the bubbling cauldron! Karen almost fainted after inhaling all the dry ice since it took me so many tries to get this picture right!

Happy Halloween!

Family Pictures

we finally did it! I have been wanting to get our family pictures taken for awhile now and I am so happy with how they turned out. I was really stressed about who I was going to have take them since I have always had Bobby Whitney do it and she was taking some time off. But I got a few recommendations and after looking at her blog I decided to use Sara Bateman. She was fantastic and great to work with. Kate was even talking about her on our way home. Here are a few (or should I say alot) of my favorites:

Got our family pictures back today. Love them. Love her.

More to come.

Pumpkin Patch

One evening before we dropped Kate off at her Grandma's we decided to run to the pumpkin patch by her house. Kate picked out the perfect pumpkin for her and loves having it on the front porch. EVERY time we come home she has to point out mom, dad and Kate's pumpkin before we can go inside. Of course they had all their halloween decor up and there was this one scary guy Kate would not take her eyes off. You will notice every picture I took she would smile but her eyes would not leave the "scary guy"!

Can't wait for Halloween!

End of Summer Activities

Nothing quite finishes up summer like the State Fair. Can you tell by looking at Kate's swagger that she is happy to be there?

Trying out food she's never eaten.. no! not the chocolate covered deep fried bacon, just cotton candy that her beloved Grandma spoiled her with!

Is this not the cutest picture ever? You can just sense the pride in Ty's smile!

Of course it wouldn't be right if her daddy didn't win her a prize!

Our one and only rendition of "Rapper's Delight"

of course Ty didn't miss a single word and I didn't know a single word! Typical!

We had to squeek in a visit to Wheeler's Farm. This was my first time going back there since 7th grade when I went to a Haunted House! Kate loved all the animals and the big "choos choos" aka tractors!

And last but not least we headed up to This is the Place. The train was a hit! The park was practically empty so we rode the train over and over again!

Best Buds.

September 7, 2004

Four houses, two states, 3 jobs (Ty), 3 Universities (me), 2 bachelor degrees, 6 jobs (me), a beautiful daughter, gallons of tears (happy and sad) and hours of laughter later..... Ty and I celebrate our sixth year of marriage! If I said that the last six years have been pure bliss I would be lying. But I can say I couldn't think of anyone I would rather have spent those years and the rest of my life with other than Ty! He is the most hard working, optimistic, open minded, loving person I have ever met and I am so grateful I get to call him mine.

Ty was so cute and planned a fabulous getaway for the two of us. We first went on a hike up above Sundance to Stewart Falls where Ty proposed to me six years ago. Then we went to the Stein Erickson Lodge and indulged ourselves with a couples massage, an amazing dinner, and a good night sleep with nothing to wake us up the morning!

We had the most amazing view from our room!

Then Ty is off to work and we are back to the rat race we call life.... Thank you Ty for the 24 hrs of indulgence! I love you!

Sunset Pics

On our last day we decided to go take some pictures by the ocean with the sun setting. It was really windy that night so it was a little tricky but I think we got some okay ones....

I know my hair looks retarded, but this is the only picture of the three of us!

I had to post this one.... Look at Ty's face! Ha Ha!

It only took us five million pictures to finally get one in the air!

Cute Max! I am so glad he and Will came on the trip! It wouldn't have been the same without them!

Lillsers~

Can't wait for next year!

Beloved Newport

In August we went on our annual trip to Newport Beach. There is really no place quite like it. The sand, walks, shakes, shopping, humidity, ocean, sand crabs, cousins, sisters, brothers, card games, rubys, coco's, diet cokes, I could go on and on. I must say that this was probably my favorite year which is saying alot since every year is so fun. But watching Kate so happy every minute plus Ty there almost the entire time equals pure bliss for me! I have sort of been dreading this post because the amount of pictures is overwhelming but I have decided to separate it into a few different posts. Majority of our time was spent out at the beach. Kate LOVED the sand and the ocean. She loved getting dirty and filling up her bucket with sea shells.

gotta love the diaper...

It is so fun to get dirty.

chasing the birds

Had to snap a picture of this lovely couple who celebrated their wedding anniversary with us!

Lillian and Max who mastered the boogie boards by the end of the week.

Parker building a castle with two excellent helpers.

"sissy" is so nice to Kate and always helps her find sea shells

The serious game of tag football

No fear here!

PLEASE take me back here! I could sit at the beach every day!