weekend perfection

one of our most favorite things to do is drive up big cottonwood canyon, over guardsman's pass, into the beautiful miday/heber valley(our future home), and have bite to eat at dairy keen. {did you know that there you can get soft serve orange sherbet like the kind that mcdonalds use to have years ago? well, you can and for me that alone is worth the trip.} that beautiful drive combined with our favorite music and sleeping babies has got to be the closest thing to perfection.

this weekend we made the drive for the leaves and you better do the same ASAP because they are out of this world.

i want to live in late september forever.

after our early dinner we stopped at the middle provo river so trevan could scope out some fly fishing territory. probably his best idea ever, screw fishing there i could live there. i will settle for something with in a 100 ft radius. in all honesty, living in that valley is in our 10 year plan.

the best view of life is always on your father's shoulders.

gretsie loved crawling around through the meadow. her poor legs are still recovering from all the cockleburrs.

jude ran around for nearly an hour jumping through the waist high grasses and fighting the reeds with his sword (stick). he was in 7th heaven and loved to play follow the leader around the river banks.

did you know my husband is smart? he is full of information that you would never care to think about. i wonder where i got him sometimes..... the things he fills is brain with are so random.

such as this.... see those slugs on the bottom of that rock? well, they are very bad for the rivers/fish. going from one fising spot to another fishermen track these vermin into the rivers on their felt boots they use for fishing. as 2010 you will now longer be able to buy felt soled boots for fishing. good to know, right? (see i was listen trevan)

what a perfectly magical weekend.

today... i love my life.

an evening with the schreck's

meet blake, lucy, and codi.... the schreck's. blake and trevan go way back to trevan's morgan stanley days, way back to when these 2 darlings thought their dogs were the perfect answer to children. 3 years later we are still friends and becoming better friends with each passing get together. friday we met at the zoo right before closing (perfect time to go the zoo btw) and then gathered at their house for some delicious pizza and cookies. safe to say.... we love the schreck's.

meet lucy.... she is equal parts amazing and adorable.

how do you feel about baby elephants? you should love them, especially ones like zuri. if we didn't have such cute human subjects i might have gotten better animal shots... oh well.

its good to love your siblings as much as these two do.

what? why yes, greta is standing up to objects and starting to cruise. it is nothing short of a miracle and nothing short of really really cute.

yes, he is that beautiful.

and no jude's teeth are not always that orange.... its a side effect of the nasty orange drink he got in his zoo collectors cup.

these 2......

are bound to be besties.

thanks blake and codi for a wonderful evening of animals and children. jude is STILL sleeping with his goody bag. you are the perfect hosts and perfect friends. we will return the favor as soon i decide to clean my house.

my friend jude

you should know that we are friends these days, me and my jude.

the past 3 weeks have been wonderful. jude has made a break through and i think (fingers crossed) we are out of the horrible 3's. jude's personality is so much like mine its a little scary (two of us in one house... ahhh). i think that maybe thats part of our problem sometimes. we get each other and we get how to make each other crazy. its a dangerous game reproducing, you never know what qualities your kids are going to get of yours. jude is a mix of mostly me, slightly trevan and some other crazy we have yet to meet. he is delightful, truly.

jude is actually pretty funny and has the most unique way of looking at things. his newest thing is making facial expressions when he talks to help get his point across. it is kind of adorable.

jude is also a singer and a dancer. jude loves music.... mostly my music. we sing-a-long to plenty of music he probably shouldn't be listening to but it is what it is, swell. he and greta both can shake a leg with the best of them. cam was over the other night and kept calling jude a "flamer" (slightly offensive) because of his dance moves and positrons. we all get a laugh out of my kids dance moves. we dance to the beat of our own drum over here on carnation drive.

in case you are wondering who this is......

this is the 'little fella' and he has been a part of our lives now going on 7 years. he sings a heart warming version of "super freak" and shakes his lovely little bones. he is part of our family and we all love him. its a national holiday when he gets out every year and consider yourself lucky if you get "crank" called by him.

missing him

{photo courtesy of our brookie}

trevan and jude went to a father's and son's camp out tonight and i am missing them. grets is sick with the flu and in bed and i am missing my nightly companion, my senor.

trevan and i don't spend much time away from each other.... ever. i think we have been apart for a total of like 8 days or something in our 7 years together. i am lonely without him. i miss him. i am thankful everyday for the wisdom i had at 21 to marry trev. he is so good to me and SO good for me. he is the perfect husband for someone like me. we don't hang out with friends much and with the exception of family we really just like being with each other. i am not trying to be cheesy, its just the way that it is and its nice. he is my husband and my best friend.

i am ready for him to come home and its not even been 5 hours. i don't know how people do it when their spouses travel, the thought makes me nauseous. i hate being alone.

i love you trevan, even though i am not the best at showing it. thank you for always being on my side and always being mine.

xo, me

early birthday present for me

is this a sign? probably.

i know what i am doing on my birthday (oct. 28th) this year.

this is it.

meet me at the fair

run, don't walk to the utah state fair.

we went with our besties to the state fair on saturday and a good time was had by all. trevan made a lifetime friend, the kids ran crazy, and i ate until i could eat no more.

jude was 100% smiles about riding a pony.

(we figured they make at least $960 every hour with this little pony attraction)

b.f.f.'s and the hitler youth all in one. they will never cease to amaze us.

i am not sure about the KKK goats.

can someone (farmgirl) explain this to me?

greta loved the moo'ing at all the animals. all farm animals moo, including the new pants she got today.

i want 3 piglets of my very own to snuggle with.

i won't lie, one of the #1 reasons i wanted to go to the fair is for the food i knew would be there. it didn't disappoint.

fresh funnel cake? to die for.

even the prets could not resist a little funnel cake. wait, hold the phone, she can't resist anything edible. its a wonder she is not an exhibit at the fair herself by the way she eats.

these 2 are best friends these days. i kind of love it.

jude at the lego table with a boy with his pants pulled up EXTREMELY high. he was however, a very nice boy.

the big yellow slide? worth all 400 pennies.

fyi... the utah state fair ends the 20th. giving you ample time to enjoy classy people, deliciously disgusting food, stinky farm animals, and a few rodeo queens.

2 things....

1. these kids are really, really cute.

bad angle for trev (sorry).

take a closer look at greta's fangs, she is a cullen in the making.

2. we got a new car. (for real this time)

my own grocery getter....

i love having more room and trevan loves that this wagon will be his car to drive in a few short years. he is a station wagon man, what can i say? i still want my giant gas guzzler but i don't quite have the numbers (ie. kids) to win that battle yet.

the kids like having more room and because it wasn't too much of a change from our jetta they seemed to warm up to that passat just fine.

i love new cars and cute kids.

skeleton jammies

our house has been ready for halloween since september 1st but our real halloween experiences never really start until the skeleton jammies arrive. well, they are here and a certain 3 year old could not be more excited about the pj's and halloween in general.

hil.ar.i.ous.

jude is trying to be scary.... he's too cute to look scary.

i officially love the fall. its sort of in the air but i think by us being amply prepared autumn will get here sooner.

let's hope.