october

October was filled with fun fall activities

like dinner in the canyon. i love the going up the canyon this time of year. We usually go up early october with drews family

we went to thanksgiving points little barn with friends

and bought season passes to corn belly's where they have a bunch of fun activities for kids.

niya discovered dress up and became obsessed

and my parents came to visit for niyas 2nd birthday

i went out with some girlfriends to "witches night out" at gardner village

 and Lets not forget halloween that i already posted on and niya's 2nd birthday party that i'll give its own post.

september

In september i turned 32! yikes. we had a fun little family party with lots of gluten free treats :)

August

by august morning sickness was in full effect so i was not on top of my best game this month

Niya spent a lot of time entertaining herself. I spent a lot of time feeling sorry for myself

july

Here's a recap of july. As I'm going through my pictures I'm realizing that i was horrible about taking pictures this summer. here's what i got

we spent the 4th of july at the beach house with my family

we always love to be there.

drew found a california king snake on our little nature walk. he was so stoked. the kids were really stoked too.

a lot of july was spent playing outside, eating popsicles, and playing in the "pool" in our back yard :)

A few other things we did in july included... drew hiking mt whitney. He loved it. And i got to go to vegas for my annual girls trip to celebrate my moms birthday. I loved it. I also found out i was prego!

June

so since I'm sooooo behind on blogging as usual I'm just going to do a quick recap of the months i've missed so that maybe i can get back on the blogging bandwagon without feeling so overwhelmed. So here are a few fun things that happened in JUNE.

lake powell  of course

My mom gave niya 2 weeks of swimming lessons. She really hated it at first because the method is pretty hard core. She did really good though and was holding her breath really good by the end. She even started to kick and swing a little.

we went to Nadia's cowgirl birthday party. Niya loved the pony rides, and petting the animals, and especially being with her cousins

halloween

halloween is for sure one of my very favorite holidays. i love costume,s and dressing up, and candy! niya has adopted my love as well. she was sooooo into halloween. it was really fun to experience it through a kids eyes. she totally got it.

during the day i just wanted to dress her in a cute festive outfit. well, she thought she was a witch, and insisted on finding her witches hat. i didn't have one for her of course, so i had to improvise. i cut out a little hat shape out of felt, glued it onto a headband with some feathers, and voile! 

she was the cutest witch i've ever seen

for trick or treating she wore her "hoo hoo" costume. i worked really hard on this costume and when she threw a fit when i was taking off her "witch costume" i thought it was all going to be for waste. some how i managed to get her to change. candy works everytime

at first she didn't want to walk. drew kept on telling her that if she wasn't big enough to walk then she wasn't big enough to trick or treat! when she realized trick or treat meant put candy in your basket she stopped complaining

she looked so cute standing at the doors waiting for someone to open with a bucket full of candy. she said trick or treat everytime, and happy halloween!

we tried to do a family theme costume this year. Drew was harry potter, i'm hermione and niya was our little owl. drew kept telling me that hedwig was white and niya didn't look like him. i said i took some creative liscense. for our costumes i just got graduation gowns at DI and made a semi look alike gryffindor patch on my silhouette (amazing craft cutter)

after trick or treating in our neighborhood we went to drews parents. niya was so happy to see manda dressed as a panda

drew thought it was so hilarious to "cast spells" on me

yeah he's nerdy

grammy was a witch and she made super yummy chile and we ate doughnuts. it was a really fun halloween!