Family Pictures

Our friend Adam was nice enough to come over and take some pictures for us this past weekend. Adam took our wedding photos as well as some other pictures of Austin. The pictures turned out great and we are very excited to share them with everyone. I'll put a few so you won't know which one to expect on your Christmas card. My favorites are the non-posed ones of Austin and Calleigh.

I am so glad that we live in a place that we can go outside on a beautiful day and take pictures!!!

Tidbits from November

November has been a pretty slow month so far so I am late on blog updates. The first weekend our nephew Aidan had his Meet and Greet. We were able to see a few family friends and what not. Austin enjoyed playing outside with some other kids.


Last weekend we drove up to a camp site that Ryan's dad was at. He is part of a group that gets together every few months to shot mussel loader guns, throw knives, and do some fun things like that. It was nice to get outside and snack on some fun food. It did start to get chilly, we left right as the fire was started.

So we pretty much all the busy stuff starts happening this weekend. With only a week until Thanksgiving and then a month to Christmas, things are going to go real fast. Here are some fun pictures from this month!

View from the campsite

Oh silly boy (PS He was in jammies and it was noon when I took this picture)

Austin and Grandma Barb

Holding Adian

The boys enjoying the outdoors

Austin in a dog bowl? Why not?

Halloween 2011

Hard to believe Halloween has passed us once again! I really love this time of year. Not only does it represent a change in the seasons, but also the fun holidays. We were excited to do all the holiday stuff with our growing boy this year. Austin dressed up as a knight and I must say he was the cutest knight I have ever seen. He even had the chance to go trick or treating for the first time. We stopped by both Grandparent's homes and then headed back to our house. Austin's pumpkin this year was Lightning McQueen from Cars. We are hoping to get some better pictures today because it was dark yesterday when we got home.

Pictures with the Pumpkins

Austin got to head to the farm today! We went to Vertuiccio's Farm out in Mesa for their Fall Festival type deal. It was okay, just super hot. That is right...HOT. Who would have thought that this late into OCTOBER we would still have 90 degree weather? We tried to get out in the morning, but even as we were driving away our car said it was about 85 degrees out. We went with Grandma Barb, Andy, Cassandra, Calleigh, Aidan and Grandma Cathy. Austin had a great time trying to climb through the pumpkins. It is amazing to compare pumpkin pictures from last year to this year. He was also very interested in walking a lot. Good fod him!

Day at the Zoo

This week we took advantage of Fall Break and took a trip to the zoo. My mom and I are both off this week, so we thought it was great timing. We also went with my sister in law Cassandra, my niece Calleigh, and Cassandra's mom Cathy.

It was a little warm by the time we left, but the morning was really nice. Austin didn't really notice most of the animals, but he did like the play area and the petting zoo. He got to pet a horse named Smokey, it was the first time I remember being that close to a horse.

His serious look

Auntie and Cousin

Cousin Love

He was too big to need my help.

See, I can do this!

Whoa, big horse!

Finally, a smile!

Just Because

I really have no reason to post this blog except to share a few pictures from this month. I've noticed that I take a lot less pictures than I used too. Sad huh? Anyway, we had some great weather over the past couple days, so we went for our first wagon ride outside. It started out okay, but ended with Daddy carrying Austin and Mommy pulling an empty wagon.

Next week is my Fall Break. I'm looking forward to spending time with my mom and maybe even welcoming a new member of the family! We shall see.