Gardener Village

We had a fun girl's day up at Gardner Village today. It was fun seeing all the decorative witches and browsing the "boo-tiques." I could drop a lot of money at that place! I especially loved their fabric boutique- holy cow it is amazing. Wish I had the patience to sew more! We already love having mom up here with us :)
P.S. for some reason the pictures are looking super fuzzy, but if you click on them they show up more clear...? I don't know why...

Brooke has joined the stroller club :) Love it!

I love this kid!!!

Boys playing with the light sabers grams got for them.

This place is soo cute!

"Big Budda" from the news was there doing a segment so we got a picture with him.

Pumpkin Patch

Fall Greatness

Who doesn't love Fall?? It's the greatest!  Holidays, crisp autumn air, candles, boots & jackets, football, goodies, warm blankets, hot chocolate, traditions, the list goes on and on... just the greatest.  Here are some of the great Fall things that are going on around here lately.

We finally planted trees!

  

It was hard to try and get everything in the picture... Looks so much better now though!

Some Fall decor... The "A" frame was my latest craft.

The "BOO" sign was last year's craft.

Pumpkins & pumpkin candle.

Fall wreath on our door.
I made the feather wreath last year and added the little owl this year.

Hayes got his first pair of boots!
I can't wait to dress him up in all of his cute jackets and fall clothes.

This doesn't really have anything to do with fall, but I finally added some decor to our mudroom last week.
Pillows on the bench and shoe baskets underneath it.
Don't mind Hayes is in the corner, asking to go outside... haha he never wants to stay in the house.

Most exciting- Shad and Brooke welcomed their perfect baby boy into the family.
Tavvin Shad Webb.
(Brooke I stole your picture:))
He is the 5th grand baby.

I'm excited for all that this time of year brings! Happy Fall!

The Proposal (3 Years Later)

It was about this time 3 years ago, that my amazing husband asked me to be his wife.  He knew I had high expectations for a proposal and he did not let me down!! :) I love looking back at the beginnings of our love story.  So glad I found him.

Luckily my brother and his wife were staying at this gorgeous house at the time so Joe had the perfect set up.

Rose petals-candles-lights-torches. The works.

Amanda documented the whole thing for me!

Gorgeous right?

I was totally surprised!

Butterflies.

Candlelit dinner.

Hair Cut for Hayes

Hayes has already had many hair cuts. I think this is like his 6th one... but it grows so fast! I just loved his luscious curly locks but it was beginning to look pretty scraggily, (not a word I know...) and also it took almost as much time to do his hair as mine soo... we decided it was time for a cut. Joe thinks he is the master hair cutter because he cuts his own hair, and he assured me Hayes would still look like a dreamboat when he was finished so I agreed to let Joe cut it tonight. (My mom usually cuts it) Here are some before and afters!

Before the hair cutting started... and the crying...
Hayes does not enjoy hair cuts!

AFTER
He looks like a totally different little boy!
I feel like he aged at least a few months with this hair cut. haha
Still handsome though :)

Ahh. I already miss his curls! Good thing his hair grows like crazy!

Mad at dad for chopping off his hair :)
Isn't it funny that Joe did it and not me?
I tell you, Joe does it all.
Also, look at that little tummy pokin' out!

Labor Day Weekend

Okay, so I know I'm going out of order on the timeline here but we had such a good Labor Day weekend I can't leave it out.

Saturday night was spent having fun at Trafalga here in Lehi. 

Hayes was a little nervous about the airplane ride....
Mommy was even more nervous about Hayes on the airplane ride....

He survived! I kept telling Carter, "Don't let Hayes jump out okay?" haha

Family Photo

Giving Bampa some lovin.

Hayes saying, "Whoa!" as he watched the airplanes.

Another ride we were both nervous about :)

Grams helped him decide it was fun.

On Sunday my mom made a yummy Sunday dinner for everyone.  You can never say no to that!

Monday morning was tennis for the guys, and playing at the park with the kids for the girls.
After that, we headed to the Lehi rec center for some pool time!

Trey & Carter getting their daddy.

Swimmin' with dad.

Hayes bouncing in the baby swings... he maybe was a little big for them but, it's fine.

After we were nice and worn out, we took Hayes home for a quick nap and then went over to Cody's later for a BBQ.  I think it's a rule that you have to barbecue on Labor Day or something? Anyway, it was delicious and always fun to play with the fam. Thanks for a fun weekend everyone!

California (part 2)

Days 3 and 4: Shopping- Beach- Whale Watching

(No pictures of shopping, but it happened...)

They had this little couch just Hayes's size at the condo and he just loved that thing.

Hayes didn't really appreciate being buried. It was short lived.

Swings on the beach!

Building sandcastles!
AKA - Joe building sandcastles and Hayes destroying them with his shovel.

Pool time!

Hayes wasn't a big fan of the water this trip... But at least he looks cute just observing :)

Pretty waterfall at the condo and cute boys after swimming.

This pretty much sums up the first 30 minutes of our whale watching adventure.
Hayes would not stay put and the boat was rocking so he kept falling over.
Lant switched off turns with me chasing Hayes because Joe was sea sick...
Luckily, Hayes chilled out after awhile and Joe started feeling better so we ended up enjoying the rest of the ride.

The cool guys stand at the back of the boat.

Soo we didn't see any whales... So disappointing!
We saw a ton of dolphins so that was cool and it was way pretty to be on the water at sunset.
I really just wanted to see a whale though :(

Isn't it pretty? (picture credit goes to Lant)

That pretty much sums up our trip! The last day we basically just packed up and traveled home.  Back to real life! So long California! You did us good!