Night Out

Look it's Ashley Simpson!!! She does look like her doesn't she?


Anywho... last night I went out for my good friend's birthday-Chelsea-(she bottom picture) It was a much needed night out with JUST adults. We had a great time at this new restaurant called Grazie's in Wexford (for those of you from around here-you should definitly try it).

This is a picture with all of us-everybody but me works at Chelsea's salon-some fun women!

We striked some poses-trying to act like we're all young again(not nearing 30) well exect for Tiah, oh I mean Ashley Simpson.

This is the picture of us Utah girls-Chelsea, myself and Tiah

And here is the Birthday girl-Happy Birthday Chelsea!

Reminder to Self

These pictures and this post are kind of for me, myself. I try and remember the way I decorated my fireplace with every new Holiday-I'm sick of trying to remember-so I'm taking these pictures to remember next year. (Not that what I did was so hard or something, it just makes it a little bit easier on me, and I can easily reference back with a blog post. Most of the other areas decorated in my house are easy to remember or should be changed up every year so-

Next-my attempt at being a fun mom and hostess. We're having friends up, and I thought it would be fun to make a autumn/Halloween desert. These cupcakes are suppose to be pumpkins. The gourds are suppose to help your imagination reach the point where they do kind of look like pumpkins, maybe though the real things actually hurt the effect! They're strawberry flavored; it's suppose to be an unexpected surprise...

Catch-Up

I have been so behind on blogging! I'll take you through these pictures to bring you up to speed. Above: Sweet Sophie at 7 months. Yes she's sitting up and now she's somewhat crawling, dragging herself around. She's ahead of where the other girls were, at this same age. She is so much more of a mover than Olivia and Maddie were.

Here is Trent with the girls at a neighbors birthday party

Maddie showing her loot from the pinata

Sophie trying to stand-at the same party

Maddie attacking Dora the pinata-does anyone else enjoy seeing this as much as I did? Dora is by far the most annoying children's show on tv-she's always yelling!

Olivia swinging. Liv, you are not going to get very far with one hand and your eyes closed! (and she didn't get far; didn't even make a dent in Dora's big noggin)

This is a picture of what Hurricane Ike did to our yard-we just got some of the after-math, but it was definitely bad. Our county was declared a disaster area. over 60,000 were without power and water for almost 7 days. We luckily were not among these, but the outages started less than a block away. It was unbelievable to us how lucky we were.
Here is a tree that was snapped in half by the wind and knocked onto our house. It hit the house and then rolled down onto the deck. Somehow it did no damage-again we were very lucky/blessed.

Cutting up the tree-we had a fire that night with some of this wood-should have taken pictures-

Now these pictures are all the way from Labor Day-we went biking up to a lake not far from our house. We had a great time and the girls were able to go swimming. Now it is cold and hard to picture all of that (its in the 40's today).

And this is how we roll- gear that we purchased with gift cards this spring from Target. It was probably the smartest gift card usage we have ever made.
Hopefully I'll have another post up with all we've done to get ready for this Halloween!