Happy Halloween!

We had such a great Halloween this year. Sarah and Cooper

came down to visit and go trick or treating with us. We had dinner and took pictures of the kids.

Heres the two hardest kids to take a picture of!

Here we have Vampire Hannah Montana

The Gang!

Little Pebbles

Maybe we had too much fun taking pictures! HEHEHE

Then headed out into the neighborhood for our treats. We ran into this scary monster, who wanted Cooper's banana. (love Cooper's face!)

Kierstin loved trick or treating. It didn't take her long to figure out that she would get candy if she knocked on the door. She was so cute! She would take at least two candies from each house, if they offered her the bowl. She was so cute they didn't get mad! :0) Little stinker!

So...

My mom reminded me that I actually have a blog, and that it would be nice if I updated it!! So...here are some brief moments for the past month or so!

**Spent Labor day in Parowan with Robert's parents. We went to the Parade, the fair and the carnival. Gramma was brave enough to ride the Ferris wheel

and Teniah and I were brave enough to ride the Gravitron with daddy! I was surprised at how well she did!

**Robert hurt his shoulder playing Rugby...and was incapacitated for two weeks! (He is doing quite a bit better now, but it isn't 100% yet.

**Robert's grandfather passed away. He was a great man. He always made me feel like one of the family. He left a great family legacy, 37 grandchildren, 105 great grandchildren and 1 great great granddaughter.

**Kierstin has gotten, if at all possible, 5 times cuter than ever. Here she is wearing the princess shoes, and reading mommy's book!

** And I messed around with some hair color! Sorry about the deer in the headlight pictures, but...alas, I was the only one to take the pictures....so you get what I can take! haha

I promise I'll be better at keeping my blog updated!

Before After

First Day of School!!

Teniah started first grade today!!

I can't quite believe she is old enough! She was very excited to ride the bus, which I forgot to take a picture of! But she gave me the biggest grin and a big wave, and she was off!

She is also sporting a new do for school! She wasn't too sure about getting a haircut, but she ended up getting more hair cut than mom...which is a surprise!!

Big Tree

During our hike we saw, what I am guessing is, the biggest redwood in the park. The reason that I say it is the biggest is because it is named.....Big Tree! Here is the 'stats' on Big Tree!

It is amazing to me that this tree is so tall, so big around and SOOOOO OLD! If you hear me complaining that I am getting old, just remind me of Big Tree!

The Redwoods!

After our weekend at the Ranch, we thought that we would make a quick trip to see the Redwoods, because I have never been there before. We looked at the map, and figured we were only about 3 hours away. So we figured that we were too close to not see them. So we headed off. Well, 6 hours later we ended up in the Redwoods. We had a limited amount of day light, so we figured out the couple of things that we wanted to see and headed off. We went to one section of the park, and hiked around there for at least 3 hours.

It was one of the most beautiful hikes that I have ever been one. You were enclosed in trees. The trees were so big and so green, it was beautiful! The girls did so good walking and hiking through the forest.

They had fun being brave and climbing into a redwood

and having daddy take pictures.

We had fun watching daddy try and climb the redwood,

and giving us some perspective on really how BIG the trees are!

Teniah enjoyed learning about the rings on the trees and trying to figure out how old the trees were!

Hiking to the Waterfall

Just minutes from the ranch was a little hike to a beautiful waterfall. The area was green and beautiful and COOL!!! The kids were surprisingly good and most of them walked the whole way, with only little bits of complaining. I think that the round trip of the hike was a little over a mile, but it was fairly cool and shady and a good way to get out some of the kids energy!

I was able to catch Kierstin giving Robert a hug. She sure loves her daddy!! Unless it is first thing in the morning, then she just wants MOMMY!!

Chillin' at the Ranch!

Most of the time spent at the Ranch was lazy-dazy just chilling enjoy some much needed vacation time! Here are some pictures of us....just relaxin'!

Just the guys...can you be any more relaxed?

Here is Robert taking the girls for a ride!

Don't worry, Kierstin was really happy to be on the four wheeler, but she wanted to be in front with Audrey!

Here is Audrey and Kierstin playing in the dirt! These two had quite fun 'playing' together at the Ranch. Their 'playing' mostly consisted of Audrey lovin' on her cousin, which usually resulted with them rolling on the ground!

This is my newest niece, Kembrie, she had quite fun with Aunt Mel! She is such a sweetheart!! I don't think that I heard her cry the whole weekend!

Just one of Kiki's crazy faces!