We're Celebrating

It's our Solomon's 5th Birthday today. Visit his blog to see how we like to celebrate his birthday every year.

Exercizing

During Family Home Evening last night, Katie started entertaining herself by holding on to the ottoman and lifting her legs into the air. She started calling it "exercising."

Hilarious! I don't know how she did it, but she must have repeated it 15 or 20 times. Sorry Dad, I know you were in the middle of a good lesson.

Worn out after all that strength training!

Family Time

We had the special treat of having family with us for all of October. Our brother and sister-in-law and their cute kids stayed with us while Ryan was doing a podiatry internship in the area.

We tried to find fun adventures to go on every weekend. Here we are enjoying Boulder and NCAR.

We took in two pumpkin patches to enjoy our gorgeous fall weather. We also made every pumpkin dessert we could think of in a month! I am missing that - the scale is not. :)

Sara and I bravely took 4 kids under 4 to the Zoo and the Nature and Science Museum. No big deal. As my friend says, "We're professionals, right?"

The cousins enjoyed a variety of sculpture on one of our Saturday adventures.

Sara so kindly watched my kids while I took on a crazy month of photo shoots. We did a little photo shoot of their own too. This was one of my favorites. Their kids are so sweet to each other. You give them one treat and they instantly offer to share with each other!

My kids completely loved having cousins downstairs to play with every day. Katie was so in love with little Davis (ok, young Davis - since he's almost as big as her). I'd catch her giving him hugs and kisses, which she doesn't do for anyone else! The girls are both in withdrawals now - not a day goes by without Katie asking for each of them. I'm so glad they got a chance to enjoy each other and this special time together. We secretly have our fingers crossed that Ryan does his residency in Colorado.