Fall break

We spent Fall break doing fall things, imagine that! Gardener village, pumpkin patches, decorating Halloween donuts,  pumpkin painting, leaving "spooky" treats on neighbors porches and one night Daddy even set up a "movie theater" complete with "tickets" and a Halloween movie :)

Have I mentioned how much I love Fall time?!?!?

My Dad

Everything about fall time makes me think of my Dad. Being with my sisters last week made me really miss him. I hope it makes him smile when he see's us together and loves how much we love being together. My Dad does not have a gravesite so for his birthday this year we took the kids to my grandparents site. My Dad used to take us there regularly and I have so many good memories of being together as a family there.

 We ate at Olive Garden because Italian was my Dad fav, we always joke that we were raised half Italian. My Dad served his mission in Italy and was always incorpirating Italian traditions into our home.

I am so thankful for my family. They help ground me and make me feel safe and secure when I feel like my head and emotions are spinning out of control. I miss my Dad so much it physically hurts sometimes. I don't think that is ever going to go away. But my family helps ease that pain a little and gives me the hope that we will all be together again someday-forever.

AZ trip Fall 2013

Well it was time to head back to AZ to hang out with my sissy's so April, Amanda and I packed up and headed out...

Our fist night was the Depeche Mode concert..luved it! Very chill, relaxing on the grass listening to music, doesn't get much better than that!

Of course we did a few hikes, that's one of the main things I love about AZ!!

Will kept up the tradition of taking us to some new, crazy, funky restaurant...Sochu House, Phx

And of course we spent much of our time chilaxin by the pool, talking, talking, talking,and just luvin being together!

On our way home was our stop in Vegs for the Dane Cook show!!

A quick stop in Saint George at Swig for the best sugar cookies EVER...

and then home to the warm arms of little babies :)

dash 4 cash

Our school did an amazing fundraiser this year. The kids had to raise pledges and then run the amount of pledges. Lucas did a mile! He was so happy to be "a racer like mommy"--melt my heart!!

I can't believe how many companies from the community helped out. I was able to get Great Harvest to donate over $500 in product and gift certificates and Babinskis baby to over $100 worth of product. 

Leo the Lion from the ReAl soccer team came and let the kids kick goals at him, he took a liking to my cute kiddo's for some reason and they absolutely ate up the attention.

Speaking of soccer, Kaleb finished the soccer season as the star player, surprise surprise and is itching for indoor to start, he can't get enough.

He had such an amazing fun team and such a great coach! We are sad to see it end :(

I heart afternoon kindergarten!

 I love having the morning time to go exploring with the three little ones. I feel like the world is quite. Everyone is at school, or work, or getting ready for the day and we get everything all to ourselves. The zoo, splash pads, Great Harvest, play dates,  parks, I love it. And the weather is absolutely perfect. It makes me so happy! 

 This pic was day 2 of Kalebs face healing :( I promise he is having fun even if you can't tell :/

 little models, now only if their mom was a better photgrapher...

Jonah loves being outside and running around "all by himself" he thinks he is so grown up. :)