Idaho trip

We decided to head up to Idaho for Kevin and Bethany's reception the following week and make a longer trip out of it. Stan had a work trip on Wednesday/Thursday so I flew up with the boys Thursday afternoon and Stan met us there Thursday night.

Scott loved the moving walk ways. He called them escavators.

We did prep most of the day Friday and some hanging out. Lots of the family showed up that day and the boys loved playing with cousins.

He LOVED the horse.

Let's go get into trouble!

We weren't doing anything!

Scott has missed Uncle Kevin so much (he still calls the bathroom and extra room in our house Uncle Kevin's)

Since we weren't going to be there for Thanksgiving, and Kevin's in-laws were all there, we did some shooting

Scott got to go with his cousins to watch

All lined up. I hit one on my first shot...I should have stopped then.

This kid

We went to Grandma Nancy's for our dinner so that we wouldn't make a mess of the house right before the reception.

I love his big grin! He took a turn in the baby tenda at Grandma Nancy's.

He is such a ham.

We then headed back to the house to get all ready and pretty :)

All ready for the reception

Kevin, Bethany, and all the nieces and nephews.

These two are such good buddies. I love that they are holding hands in this picture.

I had to include this picture because of Sterling's smirk...and Scott's definition of a smile.

My boys!

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We were trying so hard to get Scott to smile for a picture with us

And then we tried to do a family photo and it ended like this...

Opening presents post reception

"We LOVE donuts!!!!" Leftover donuts for Sunday morning breakfast

On the way to church, showing some leg :)

My dapper looking boy

Sunday afternoon we were able to go and visit my dear Tilda. I taught her on my mission and Stan has been so nice to help me go and visit her often. It was wonderful to visit with her. Thanks to Mom and Dad for letting us borrow the car to go see her as well.

Playing catch with Grandpa Monday morning

We headed home on Tuesday and the boys were pretty good on all of our flights. As always, it felt good to be home, but we always miss family after we have been able to be with them.

Saying goodbye at the airport

He was running, running and then said he had to stop and wait. So wait we did.

Around Albuquerque September 2016

September was such a fun month with lots of trips but we had fun around town too. In fact, my parents even came for a visit!

Scott wanted Stan to take a picture of them :)

Somebody was making a mess and thought it was pretty funny

I wish I could remember why I took this picture...Scott asked me to? And then smiled like that? I don't remember...

We took a trip to the park one day while Stan was at work for my exercise:

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They have two slides right next to each other so we were going down together

He was having a blast playing with his shoe :)

On the teeter totter

Scott found Stan's cowboy boots and thought they were great though he couldn't take more than two steps in them without falling over

This kid started to wear 12M clothes at 9M...

Scott got invited to our next door neighbor's grandson's birthday

No September is complete without a fresh peach pie!

One Saturday we went to help with a warm service project. Sterling was waiting while we got our tools out.

I don't know what I have posted about this in the past but...Stan has long been interested in a tree called a Redbud. They have beautiful flowers the cover not just the branches but sometimes even grow on the trunks during the spring. Their colors range from deep purple to pink and we have learned there are even some white ones. Last year we went and got some seeds from a woman nearby that had a beautiful purple colored tree and tried to plant them. At one point, Scott dumped a couple of the pots out :( and we thought they were lost. Well one day in August maybe, I was going through the weeds and pulled one out, looked at it an realized it was a seedling for a redbud! It totally was growing right where Scott had dumped them! So Stan started to tenderly take care of it. Until one sad fateful day, while my parents were here, that Stan realized they looked more like a vine than a tree...and upon further investigation, we learned they were morning glories!!! :( We left the boys with my parents and went right back over the the lady's house where I originally got the seeds and asked if we could have some more. She was so nice and we have a bunch of seeds. I will post a special Redbud tree post all about Stan's adventures with growing trees. We were also able to get a good seedling to plant at home:

Stan planting and babying our new seedling (ok, so there were two...but someone (me) didn't really get the roots of the second one and it died pretty quick...)

Sterling loving being with Grandma.

Scott loved that Grandpa would play games with him. Grandpa tried to teach him the real rules and Scott didn't really care for them :)

While watching a show, Scott went over to Mom and Dad and said, while squeezing himself in, "There room for me Grandpa?"

Stan brought me these beautiful flowers from the arroyo :) He gets me

Sugar cookies!

New haircut!

Singing "I'm so glad when Daddy comes home" :)

It was a good month!