Pumpkin Carving and Trick-or-treating!

Happy HALLOWEEN everyone!

(Cohen at our ward party)

We did some festive pumkin carving for family night with the Avery's! Scott really got into it...

Here is our completed master piece! Cohen was so excited...

He actually had more fun with Dylan and his toys than he did playing with pumpkin goop and seeds. I was surprised!

We could hardly wait to get home and see what it looked like all lit up!

Cohen was a little monster for Halloween. (This was not intended to reveal his true self, it just so happens the two coincide.) Here he is at the Radebaugh's party. He is very serious because he wants to play the piano and the lid is closed. Sadly this is the best picture I got of him that night. But he sure looks cute anyway!

My adorable nieces and nephews! Destiny, Cameron, Kaden and Devan.

My mom was very festive in her Witch costume!

Cohen's first experience trick-or-treating!
He was thoroughly annoyed with having to place the candy in his bucket, he just wanted to eat it as we went along. Luckily we only went to a few houses.

Even more fun than the candy for Cohen was the leaves! He didn't want to "leave"! Ha ha ha! (Ok, that was my poor attempt at making a joke, just ignore it.)

Kaden wore Cohen out by chasing him all over Papap's house. Here Cohen is reaping the benefits of begging for candy door to door. See, it wasn't just for us!
(What a strange holiday... we dress our children up in cute, scary and/or strange costumes and parade to strange people homes encouraging them to take food from them, but then expect them to not talk to strangers any other day of the year! How confusing this must be!
Oh well, I still love it!)

Hope everyone else had a GREAT HALLOWEEN too!

I turned 25!!! Happy Birthday to me! :)

The weekend before my 25th Birthday (October 10th) Scott and I had a night of our very own in Park City! This is the first time we have gone away together since Cohen was born 16 months ago. Needless to say, we were so excited!
I did have a hard time leaving Cohen and when we dropped him off to Kay, who was keeping him until my mom was finished with work, I cried and actually had second thoughts about going. As we drove off I cried more and Scott being the supportive husband that he is just told me that is was okay to cry if I needed. I think that is something he learned throughout our years of miscarriages. But as we drove to Park City I got so excited about actually having time to ourselves!
Here we are at dinner at the Westgate Grill!

We stayed at the Westgate Resort and had the nicest room! It had a full kitchen...

Upstairs game room overlooking the family room with a fireplace...
"Hi SCOTT!"

King sized bed with a double jetted tub and steam shower...
And to our surprise, out on the balcony was our own private hot tub!
Here is Scott waiting for me to join him! :)

Relaxing watching Seinfeld in our "robes" (say it with your nose in the air.)

We were so excited to wake up the next morning to the first snow fall of the season! It was so romantic snuggling in bed together watching it out our window! (Insert GAG noises here when it applies! :)) Everyone in Park City was ecstatic about it... (the snow, not our romanticness). Scott and I had some reservations...
Lick it! Lick it!
I felt the need to wear my combat boots!

Later that morning we reluctantly checked out of our retreat and headed to Main Street for some lunch!

We ate at a delicious pizza place.
Lemons! I love lemons!

Here is my wonderful husband wondering why his wife subjects him to pictures everywhere he goes... "IT'S FOR THE BLOG!" I tell him.

We stopped at the Love Your Pet Bakery and Boutique and I fell in love with their pets! They have four HUGE Newfoundland dogs that were so sweet and gentle and and made my dogs look like rats with the same type of spazy energy as rodents, especially Lilly!

One day I want a huge dog that I can use as a pillow! Or a horse in this case!

The longer we were in Park City the longer we wanted to stay and play and just be together. We ended up coming home anyway and were very excited to see our sweet baby waiting for us at his Grandmommy's! Thanks Mom for keeping him! You can anytime!

Here are a couple pics from my birthday! (October 13th)
Scott took me out to breakfast at Mimi's Cafe (YUM!) and then I spent the afternoon shopping with my mom! That night all my family went out without the kids (Rocky and Megan kept Cohen for us, thanks again!!!) to PF Changs. Then for dessert we grabbed Cohen and went back to Kay's house!
My mom's boyfriend makes the best apple pie! I requested it for my birthday and he was sweet enough to slave all day and make it! Thanks Kay!

Happy 25th Birthday to ME!!!
Weird... I am old! I still feel the age I was when Scott and I first met... 19!

Cohen loved the ice cream! He just slurped it right up!
I had a great birthday and I am sure this will be a great year as well!!!

Conference Weekend Ranch Trip

We have had a really exciting!!! and busy month! Our wireless router is not working so I haven't been able to update my blog since the first of the month. To be on online I have to sit in our cold basement, which obviously I haven't had enough drive to do, but now I have become so desperate with desire to update our blog that I am...

Over Conference weekend we spent 4 days at Scott's cousin's Ranch in Capital Reef. If anyone has been following my blog for more than a few months you know we make an escape there whenever possible and we are invited. We LOVE the Ranch and really enjoyed the relaxing weekend eating good food and listening to the wonderful Conference talks with family and friends.
And bonus! Cohen was wonderful and slept great while we were there!
Thanks again for letting us share in your weekend Shregan and Rads!

Cohen enjoying some chicken noodle soup!
(And tomatoes and pears... I know random, but he likes them!)
We just loved this cat that their neighboring family owns. He followed us around the entire time we were there. I wanted to bring him home, but Izzy and Lilly would never allow that in our tiny house!
Tree swing! Weee! Our beautiful boy!
Tickle, tickle!
The mountain hills by the Ranch were covered in GOLD from the aspen trees. It was so beautiful! We went up the near by canyon to explore!

It was a beautiful day!
Horsies!!!
We ate, we slept, we laughed, we listened, we enjoyed, we had to go home... boo hoo!

Nebo Canyon

Scott, Cohen and I went and explored the Payson canyon Sunday. It was so incredibly beautiful with the fall colors, I couldn't believe I have lived in Utah County since I was a couple years old and have never been up here!

The view!Maple LakeMy honey and me!Cohen was in heaven and loved throwing rocks in the lake and playing in the dirt with sticks!

"Mooo!"We went on a short hike too!