Pumpkin Carving

Early in October we had the Parkinson's over for some pumpkin carvin fun. The daddy's did most of the carving and the pumpkins turned out great. Lily is Elmo CRAZED so Dave made her an Elmo pumpkin...she couldn't have been happier. (Not that you can tell from this picture!!)

(The Count with Tyler and Hailey)

(All three kiddos...not really sure what they're looking at!)

Farm Fun

So now that I am medicated again, I was finally able to get around to taking Lily to one of her favorite places on earth: Thanksgiving Point Farm Country. My mom took her there a lot this summer while I was at BYU but I just hadn't been feeling well enough to take her myself this last month!
Lily is still in the "there's-no-way-I'm-looking-at-that-camera" stage. So unfortunately, none of the pics are very good.

(This is Lily being thrilled with looking at the horses.

I didn't get a pic of her major freak out when I tried to put her on one!)

(Ducks, or "qack qacks" as Lily calls them. And yes, one bit her.)

(And here we have Lily and Jackson deep in conversation over bunnies.)

(I thought this one was kinda funny. All the girls paying zero attention

to each other, walking in completely different directions.)

Anyway, it was very fun to get out and see some friends, I really needed that! ;)

The official annoucement

My oh-so-mysterious blog silence has earned me a few sidelong glances and tentative questions so I suppose I just better come out with it. Yup, I officially have a little one in my tummy.

Photo from fugufugupress.com

As most of you know, my pregnancies are a little tough (tough enough to keep me from blogging!)...at least until I get to that first doctor's appointment and get nice and drugged up. We're all just crossing our fingers that this time maybe, just maybe, the 'morning' sickness will end sometime before the baby actually joins us!

I've actually really liked having a little secret. We told everyone so fast with Lily, I kinda just wanted to see how long we could go without telling people. Of course we are beyond excited. Baby is due the first week of May so the kiddos will be almost exactly 2 years apart.

A pilfered post

Lindsey posted this on her blog a few days ago and since I didn't have a camera that day and was the one driving the boat I'm just going to copy her whole post.

Couples Skiing

nope not David and I
David and Dave :)
(sorry the pics are blurry, i dont know what my cam was doing)

Deer Creek w/ Zinch

where'd david go?

still there :)

Dave yelling at the jet skiers that were getting a little too close

nice!

thats a close one

lookin' good

whoaaa!!!!!

cool!

uh oh.......

and hes down

(Lindsey...hope you don't mind the steal!!)

So excited!

I just registered for a few of these classes and I am STOKED!! This is probably the first time in my life that I'm actually excited for November! Bring it on!

UPDATE: Here is the website for anyone who is interested http://nicolesclasses.blogspot.com/

Promenade

Our quaint little town of Pleasant Grove has a little weekly festival from July-September complete with shops, farmer's market, music, food, and fun!

Lily being sassy and dacing to the Live band.

Live music. Dave says she was a female Dave Matthews,

and we all know how much Dave loves Dave.

I realize this is an extremely yucky picture. It was the only one.

Plus I really was pretty yucky that day.

We were definitely pleasantly surprised and hope to go again before it ends!

The Government Can

I just saw this on a friend's blog and being as grossed out by the government as I am--not to mention the huge Willy Wonka fan that I am-- thought I'd share.