Some Pictures

I haven't pulled out my camera much lately. It's mostly due to the fact that Madelyn figured out she can look at the pictures on my camera's display screen so every time she sees the camera now she stops whatever cuteness she was doing and runs over to me to look at pictures.

We do have a few sneaked shots. They're mostly from camera phones though. Here we go:

Messing with the Christmas tree!

She hates snow on her boots and stops every few steps to brush it off. It makes for slow walking.

We decorated the house too.

Playing on Grandma Jo's play set over Thanksgiving.

Mmmmm. Pumpkin pie!

Rory and I actually got out of the house (without Madelyn) and went to a party! It was a blast!

Big Spring

We took Madelyn on a little hike up the Big Spring trail. We didn't make it very far but we met lots of dogs. Madelyn loved it.

Playing Peek-A-Boo with Dad.

One of the many springs we passed along the way.

Madelyn had fun throwing all sorts of stuff in and watching it float away.

I Stole These from Facebook

Thanks Craig!

More Halloween Festivities

We actually went to a Halloween party this year! But I forgot to take my camera... and the one picture I took of us in costume I accidentally deleted. But I'll have you know it was awesome, and so were we. Rory went as the Headless Horseman. He had a real 26-ish lb pumpkin on his head! What a stud. I went as Poison Ivy.

Here are some things I did manage to take pictures of:

Ripping the guts out of our poor pumpkins.

Feel the squish!

Two of the final products. My pumpkin ended up being moldy on the inside. Yuck! It was like scooping snot.

We also decorated Halloween cookies! Madelyn loved the frosting.

Pumpkins and a Hike

We picked our pumpkins this weekend!

Kipp picked two things at once!

That afternoon we went on a hike. Madelyn walked over a mile all by herself! What a little trooper.

Yet Another Quilt

I finished this little baby quilt recently and was pleased with how it turned out. 

Madelyn modeling the quilt and also a little stuffed elephant I made. 

 

Camping!... Sort of.

We decided to go camping this weekend. Sounded like a good plan...until we got out to the campground and found all campgrounds in that canyon and the next one over were full. Dang it. Well, we were not deterred. We drove onward and at American Fork Canyon.... all the campgrounds were full. 

We ended up pulling off to the side of the road, finding a mostly flat spot and pitching our tent there. By that point it was 9 o'clock at night. We spent a restless night with Madelyn who was not happy about the weird bed time or the sleeping arrangements. 

So, no hot dogs, no s'mores, no sleep. But it was a beautiful spot and a beautiful fall drive through the mountains. Sorry to our not-so-lucky camping companions. 

Two Things

Two things this little thing likes doing:

Looking at all her clothes. She'll sit in her room for long stretches taking out all her clothes and hugging them to her, saying "ooooo!" and patting them. 

Reading. Anything and everything. 

Running near Mesa Falls

We went up to Rexburg again this past weekend so I could pay money to run. But before the run, we hung out with family. Yay!

Mom checking out the fruits of her labors.

Pretty Rose

Pretty Gimpy Adam

Ian was so wonderful and played with my baby lots and lots.

Haha. I love this picture of Ruby.

Big boys playing soccer.

Madelyn wondering who that other baby is.

Saturday was the Mesa Falls Marathon and Half Marathon. I ran the half, Sara ran the whole dang thing! Jake was so nice to ride the last part with her to keep up morale.

Waiting for the runners.

Waving to my Teeny. Rory says I run like a T-Rex. Awesome. 

Sara the stud finishing her marathon!

Afterwards I just wanted to sit on the ground for the rest of the day. ( I didn't... I had to walk to the car to go home.) 

Tracy Aviary

We went to see The Birds! Not Alfred Hitchcock style. These were nice and mostly caged birds.

I don't think Madelyn cared too much about it. She was just hot and sweaty.

Baby flamingo!They're about the ugliest cute thing I've ever seen.

After the aviary we let Teeny run around for a while. She really wanted to jump in the lake but the best she got was running over this bridge a few times.

Rory caught these hummingbirds fighting.

And this has nothing to do with the aviary but everything to do with yumminess.

Visit to Rexburg

Since Rory left Madelyn and me for a few weeks we decided to go home to Rexburg. We've done many fun things while we were here.

We went to a crash up derby.

Sam, Adam, and Ian ran the money fun run and everyone got a dollar!

We had some cousin baths. So cute!!

Teeny, Ian and I went to Egin Lakes and messed around with the Richards.

We've been out to Grandma and Grandpa Murdock's a few times to visit them and Sara, Ruby and Rose. Ian was such a good babysitter! We got to eat so many delicious peas fresh from the garden. Yum!