Jenna's visit for confrence weekend

We were so happy to have Jenna come out to visit over conference weekend. The first thing we did was go get our Halloween decorations. Jamison has been so excited to get his pumpkins. EVERY time we'd go to the grocery store he would run to the massive mound of pumpkins and I would have to remind him that we were waiting for auntie Jenna to come on the airplane and then we would get our pumpkins. He did finally get the concept because he would run to the pumpkins and say, Jenna Pumpkin. So cute. So anyway we went to a cute little spot in town to get some straw bales and corn stalks.

After our first stop we headed to the pumpkin farm to pick our own pumpkins. We love this place. It was really fun and the weather was perfect.

I took advantage of Jenna being around to have her help me can my 40 lb box of pears. Luck for her we discovered that 3/4 of the box was rotten. I was so mad!!! So here is Jenna being introduced to the wonderful world of canning.

Oh how this brings back memories of my first time sense early childhood in the snow. That morning I had said sorry to Jenna because it didn't look like she would get her snow and she informed us she has prayed for it and sure enough her prayers were answered later that morning when it lightly snowed for a little while. If you can't tell she was thrilled. :)

Happy Birthday Terry

Happy Birthday to Terry:)

So on September 26th Terry's family got together to do Tyler's baptism in the early afternoon. That was wonderful of course. Then it was time to do the dinner for Andy's homecoming event. That was really fun too. Then to top the evening off we had pie and sang to the birthday boy. I felt bad that I wasn't able to do a big old cake for Terry because I had an order that took a lot of time but he got to have his Favorite, Key Lime Pie. All is well


Andy and his date


Nicholas
Jamison and Nicholas playing in The Skidmore sand box

"I got it"

As I was in the kitchen doing dishes I hear Jamison say in the other room " I got it." OK I thought, then after a minute I think "got what?' So I go to check on him and find that he "got" the powder open and was changing bears diaper and POURING it on. He was so proud of himself I couldn't help but laugh and snap a few shots. At least it was just powder so that area of the carpet smelled baby fresh for a while.

Doesn't Bear look oh so fresh and clean? Ahhh, what can ya do.

Camp fire fun

Last night the Williamsen's invited us to join them for a camp fire at a park near our house. We had so much fun. We've been wanting to check it out up there but for one reason or another we just haven't done it, which is lame especially seeing as how it is only like 5 minutes from our house. Anyhow, Mary Kate also came up with her girls and the kids just had a ball running around exploring and eating lots of fun stuff. Amy made super awesome peaches with cinnamon and sugar that she baked in the fire and bananas stuffed with chocolate and marshmallows also baked in the fire.

!!!YUMMY!!!

Utah State Fair

Growing up in Los Angeles, CA I never thought I would be participating in "fairs", we just don't have them where I grew up, it was more likely I would be participating in a street fight, just kidding, but really not "Fairs" Well "When in Rome...", so now that I live in Utah and have discovered the domestic goddess within I thought "Hey, why not" And I entered some Raspberry Jam, and a Carrot Cake. The Jam was not a winner but he stood tall and proud non the less. And to my TOTAL shock my carrot cake won FIRST PLACE!! I don't usually like to toot my own horn, but hey this time I will. I have NEVER won anything, every!!! Well there were a few scratcher lottery tickets in the 90's , but I have reformed my ways so those don't count. So yep I won with my carrot cake recipe. Who knew.

Below is my carrot cake, oops I mean my WINNING carrot cake :)
And a shout out to Mary Kate, Thanks for lending me the Bunt Pan at the last minute, may have been the key to my success :)

Here are a few more of the family pictures Amy took while Zach was out. We just love her work and are so happy to have these. There are a ton more but I wanted to make sure I had a few on here for journaling purposes.

These were done in June of 2009

in Bountiful, Ut

Yes we all know what your thinking about this shot. (Hee Hee Hee)

But I think it is totally funny. Poor innocent child :)

Just Chillin

No joke, totally not a posed picture. Jamison quite frequently lays like this while driving, reading with mom and dad, watching TV, and sleeping. I just look at him and think how sweet it must be to be 2 years old and so carefree.