Hogle Zoo...

I loved spending an afternoon with my cuties at their school field trip!  This year the weather

was beautiful as we headed up to Hogle zoo.  The animals were so active and their colors so pretty.

We usually go in the spring, so this was a nice change for us.  The Polar bear was playing 

around with the kids and doing tricks in the water etc... it was amazing!  I think  i will 

always go in the Fall now.

Ghost Falls...

We have had a beautiful fall and were dying to get out and see the colors in the mountains.

Conference weekend we decided to take the kids to our favorite mountain bike ride and 

hike up to Ghost Falls.  

The water wasn't really flowing very well, but still so fun to hike and take the 

dogs on a nice hike.  lots of people had the same idea! ha! 

My kids did great, no complaining... maybe now they are ready for mtn bike rides up to 

corner canyon! {wink}

Mindy Gledhill Concert.

We had a fun girls night out with my girlfriends and our daughters.  I decided to just 

take Olivia on a fun mother daughter date. ( too late for ivy) and we loved it!  

We listen to Mindy Gledhill all the time and LOVE her music.  

We ate at Communal in Provo and then walked across the street to the concert.

I loved spending the evening with my best girlfriends and their cute daughters. 

my cute little olivia can party all night, she did awesome, put her on my shoulders

for our favorite song. "whole wide world!" 

Electric run SLC!

A bunch of my girlfriends in my neighborhood signed up for the Electric Run Race at

Thanksgiving point! It was SO much fun! The race started at around 9pm and was all 

lit up the whole race.  The course was so fun and perfect.  It wasn't really a race but just

 a fun party!   

The best part was they were filming the Bachelor and so the Bachelor was 

running with us in the race for a bit.  It was hilarious!  

i guess i better watch this next season!

Tennis!

My cute little tennis players!

These two started playing at Ivory Ridge this fall.  They play once a week and are 

actually getting really good.  They play with Pro's and are learning all sorts of tricks. Hayes 

has an awesome backhand!  

I love watching them play.  I love tennis and can't wait to play on

 a league when Ivy is in school full time, so i gotta get these two ready to go. ha!

it's football time...

This is possibly my favorite time of year... i love fall, everything about it, the pumpkin 

patches, the leaves changing, the beautiful fall mountains, and football season. 

This year Boston tried playing some QB!  He did awesome! He has a great arm 

and his passes are great.  He would rather play running back and middle linebacker.  That boy

loves to hit! ha!  

8th grade football is challenging, you have so many kids who have already grown a ton and some

that are just hitting puberty. It's a huge size difference and a bit challenging.  Our team kind 

of struggled this year, but they still had a fun time.

of course the best part is that the games are on  the High School football fields, which 

is amazing!! one game the announcer was announcing all the plays with the name and you hear

Boston Taylor all the time.  It was so awesome!!!

 plus we have the cutest cheerleaders... 

love how good the Cheerleaders are to my girls, and of course the American

 Girl dolls had to come to

Flag football.

My hayesie bugs had a great season of Flag football this year.  This is his second year 

playing and he had a blast.  He actually had a fabulous coach and they won most 

of their games.  I love that he learned all sorts of plays and actually became more

aggressive!

Happy October...

I LOVE surprising my kids with a bunch of halloween goodies and treats when they

get home from school!  It's become a little tradition now.  I'm sure they love halloween 

as much as i do by now, they were so cute when they came home, even my little teenager

loves this stuff! 

I love this time of year...

Even Sadie got a little costume!

That same weekend was conference, so while the boys were at Priesthood session the little 

ones and I went with my sister and her kids up to Gardners Village to the Witchfest. 

 It's so much fun to go and see the witches and shop around. 

Ivy turns 5! {cowgirl style}

My baby girl is now 5!  She was so excited to do a cowgirl party!  She couldn't wait to 

ride pony's with her cute friends.   

she has been into American Girl dolls and wanted Saige for her birthday.  Saige loves to ride

horses and also is an artist.  Ivy said "mom that's just like me!" haha!!  

Love my cute little cowgirl.

We loved celebrating Ivy with pony rides and sack races.  The kids ate a light lunch of 

Grilled cheese sandwiches, carrots and ranch, grapes, chips & Root Beer.  

They all took turn on the two horses that my neighbor brought over.  

Penny and Magic were beautiful horses and I'm so grateful there were 

no soccer games in the park behind my house, and it didn't rain!! 

  It made for an absolutely beautiful day for 

a party!

My friend Stacia made this darling cake, it was so delicious too!

  

My cute little helpers during the party!

Her birthday was the following monday, so of course we had our tradition of waking up to a crepe breakfast before the kids were off to school.  She got to open her presents and loved every minute of it! 

Some of ivy's favorites... 

 ~She loves to whistle

                                                  ~has to kiss daddy & me 100 x a day {i secretly love that part}

~loves to play with her friends ALL day!

~is really good at coloring

~chocolate milk sippies 

~loves to do jobs, and is a great little helper

~'sofia the first'

~playing minecraft with hayes

she has the most infectious laugh and giggle, i die over her dimples!  She is a bit bossy but is 

a leader amongst her friends, so i guess thats a good thing, {wink}   

she has the cutest sayings that we love to repeat and we all laugh with her! 

then we brought pink sprinkled krispy kreme's to school for all of her friends.  

She had a fun filled day!