Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Catching up: Fall 2014

Time to play a little catch up to try to make up for being a blogging slacker these past 6 months or so. Here are some highlights from this past Fall...


Trip to St. George a few days before the anniversary of Braydon's death:

We visited the crash site. 

And we saw his bike on display at the hospital where he worked. 

We also visited Braydon's memorial up the hill from their house. 

 

Later we visited Braydon's grave on the anniversary day of his death. 

Hannah loved his pinwheel.
 
 
We went to a lot of Cole and Clay's football games last Fall: 

Not all of the games were this warm, but they were all fun.


These cute boys eventually won the championship! Go Payson!
 
 
Fun with Carter cousins:
 


 The other cousins wandered away before I could take a picture. They must take after their parents... :)


Fun with Clayson cousins:

 Cute girls!

Pyramid fun! 

 
We visited my grandma as much as we could:
 

 My grandma spent 2 months in a rehab center after being hospitalized for 2 1/2 weeks due to an infection. Hannah loved visiting her and singing to her.

And Scott and Maelie had more fun visiting her than it looks like here. :) 

 Bonus pic of cute Maelie trying to take care of her baby dolls.
 
 
We had a fun Halloween:
 

 This adorable little elephant was always on the go.

The girls watched the Great Pumpkin with Logan and some other kids. 

 We all enjoyed John and Megan's annual Halloween party.

We tried to go to Pumpkinland with cousins, but we arrived a few minutes after it closed. 

At least we got a few cute pumpkin-y pics. 

Then we played at a park. 

And Hannah and Maelie loved playing in the leaves. 

Maelie was a total maniac! 

 Hannah didn't mind scooping the goo and seeds out of her pumpkin.

We were happy that she was happy with a simple carving design. 

 We attended Cole and Clay's last Halloween parade at their elementary school.

 Then the girls went trick-or-treating with Faith, Cole, and Clay in Salem.

Maelie wasn't in the best mood, after having fallen down the stairs at my parents' house. It was horrible! But at least the sucker cheered her up. Poor sweetie. 

We also attended a trunk-or-treat in Santaquin. 

Hannah loved the spider in front of Grandma and Grandpa Clayson's house. 

But she loved this hunchbacked monster even more and kept hugging him and calling him her brother. So funny. 

A little more trick-or-treating with Jana. 

 Hannah with her hippy grandpa and grandma. We then visited her Carter grandparents, although we didn't take any pics there.
 

 Only Maelie got to see Grandma Meservy on Halloween because Hannah fell asleep on the way there. Grandma made it home from the rehab center just in time for Halloween Yay!
 

Our family of pumpkins.
 
 
Road trip to Colorado for Jason's priesthood ordination:
 
We drove to Rifle on my dad's birthday, and so we celebrated by eating yummy Mexican food. 

The next day was Jason's birthday and his priesthood ordination. Special day! 

We rented a van so that we could drive with my parents and my nephew Joseph. Maelie loved all the extra attention and entertainment. 

We were all grateful for the dvd player. 

 Happy sardines in the back seat!
 
I turned 38:

 I celebrated by eating Thai food with my favorite people.

I have fabulous friends. 

And fabulous sisters. 

And my Scottie is pretty dang fabulous too. :)
 
Oh, and I celebrated with these fabulous girls a little later.
 
 
Hannah had her 2nd dance recital: 

She was as adorable as can be! 

Just doing the "Commotion." :) 

The girls really loved eating ice cream and playing at McDonald's after the recital. 

 

First snow of the season.

All bundled up and barely able to put their arms down.  :) 

Not much snow, but tons of fun! 

 Happy Hannah!

Mischievous Maelie!
 
We finally bought a HOUSE: 

The girls have loved our new house since the first time we saw it all together. They especially enjoyed running around in it the night we got the keys. 

Our new house. More pics to come. 

Our last night at our "condo house." A little bittersweet. 

We moved a few days before Thanksgiving, and we had some great help from some great family members and friends. 
 
 
Thanksgiving:

We ate our first Thanksgiving dinner with my family at my Grandma Meservy's house. 

We had lots of good food and good, relaxing times. 

The kids loved playing in the leaves. 


After the good times with Claysons, we enjoyed a 2nd dinner with the Carters. But I don't have any pics because, well, the Carters hate pics. :)


I hope you enjoyed a bit of catching up. There will be more to come.

1 comment:

Sandy Brunson said...

Love the catch up. Thanks for posting some of your house and of course all the adorable pictures of your super cute girls!