Little Caroline

This summer when I went home to Colorado I scanned in some baby pictures of me to have when our little baby comes to see if it looks like me or Trav. Of course Jess is in a bunch of the pictures too and couldn't look more like Sophie! Here are a few of my favorites:

First Baby Portrait. Aren't I a cutie?! :)


We determined that those are oars between my legs. Just another vacation at Bonita Beach!


Jess never smiled for the camera-this was the best we found in all the pictures, and neither does Soph! Ha!


This was my favorite kitty Leo. He let me do whatever I wanted with him!


This picture is how I remember home when I was in high school: me studying and wearing sports gear, Claire and Emily as the little girls, Joe and Jordan as fun young boys (well they of course still are), Sarah, Jess and I wearing crazy weird clothes. :)

Great memories! I posted these and more on facebook and got more comments on an album then ever before! We decided we need to pull the albums out again at Christmas this year. :)

Mindy's Babyshower

Mindy's little Savanna comes next week so we had a baby shower for her with a bunch of friends from the ward. It was so nice to get everyone together and so fun to see all the cute girl clothes! The girl stuff is just so adorable! We're so excited to meet Savanna and happy for Cael to have a sibling!

Graduation-Hooray!!!

It is finally official! Travis graduated PA school on Nov 14th!!!! We had a graduation party for him that weekend and had about 40 people over to our house. We accommodated everyone in our living area, den, backyard and front yard under a pop-up shade. We had tons of food and great company. :)





My parents came to town as well, and it was so nice spending time with just them! We went on a hike to the Arizona Hot Springs, at a turtle pace (since I couldn't breath-this baby making is no easy thing on the body!) but we enjoyed the trip and view of the Colorado River. We had a nice dinner on the strip that weekend too. My brother Joe and his friends also came to town that same weekend, and crashed at our place for a couple days. He loves coming to Vegas and it's always so good to see him.

It's so unreal that he's actually done! He just has his board exam left to take in a couple weeks and then he'll be certified and ready to work. He's started to submit resumes and we hope to know where we'll be or what he'll be doing by the beginning of January! So exciting!!!

Pet Bird

Travis found a cockateal flying down our street one day. Since he has this amazing ability to befriend/train birds he eventually got a hold of it and brought it inside. We had the bird for 2 days and thought that Trav just might want to keep it. Lily could not keep her eyes off of it and actually yanked out a feather! Well thankfully, it turned out to be a not-so-well trained bird and would bite him and fly all over the house. I was not amused- it even broke one of my nick-knacks! It was nice to see him go. We got someone on Craigslist to come get it.

Halloween

So we actually celebrated Halloween again this year! We're not big into dressing up but something got into me and I wanted to dress up with Brighton this year. So I bought a simple black cat costume (one of my favorite costumes) and headed over to Travis' parents for the festivities. His mom is so cute and made the house all eventful with treats and decorations. We ate a quick dinner and then Brighton, who was a witch, and Shawn and I headed out to go trick-o-tricking for about an hour and a half. She was such a trooper and ended up with 2 buckets of candy! It was fun seeing all the kids having a blast and just spending some fun time with Brighton. Travis enjoyed staying at the house with little David and held him for a good long while. He's a daytime sleeper so we haven't gotten to interact with him much yet. Overall it was a fun Halloween and I can't wait til next year with our little one!

Hunting....Witches

This hunting season Travis was able to help out with Nick's deer hunt up in Utah. They wanted to camp, so instead of Mindy and I just hanging out at Grandma's, we went up to Provo to be with family and friends. Travis had a nice wet time camping in the mountains and hiking all over. He found some nice bucks, but Nick wasn't closer enough to him or them. The tent got some good use and of course kept everyone nice and cozy and dry.


I stayed with my good friend Lisa in Provo and spent most of my time with her and Sarah. The main purpose of me going up to Provo though was to spend time with Jordan since it was going to be the last time I'd see him before he goes on his mission in December. He's headed to Nashville and we're sooooo excited for him! It was rainy all weekend but it let up enough for the entire BYU football game which we barely won. Jordan and I had a great time watching the game. It was so nice to chit chat and was so sweet of him to invite me. It was his second college football game he'd been to! He's such an amazing guy and I'm so proud to be his sister. He's going to be a great missionary and will come back even more amazing than he his. It was sad giving him his last hug, but it was a good weekend and nice last memory for a couple years.

The other main event of the weekend, besides taking Lily around to see Jacob and play with Carter, Lisa's son, and of course going to Tucanos and Noodles, was going to Witches Night Out. There's this place in West Jordan that has all sorts of craft stores and what not that puts on a Witches night. All the women are suppose to leave their kids at home and dress up like witches and go shop, eat, dance and just hang out. I went with Becca, Lisa, and Sarah and a couple of their friends. It was sooo nice to see Becca since it had been over 3 years since I saw her last! I got to meet her daughter, Jane, who is just adorable as well. So it felt like old times with Becca and Lisa dancing, and being dorks on the dance floor. :) It was lots of fun and we decided that next time we have to dress up even more and totally get into it. Hopefully I can go again!


It was such a wonderful weekend for both Travis and I getting to do the things we love. Travis' trip ended on an anticlimactic note though with Nick shooting his buck about 2 hours after we left! Such a bummer since Travis worked so hard hiking and scouting around in the rain all weekend. But we're so excited for Nick and it really was a nice buck.