Daddy and mommy took turns taking Scarlette down the "Big Slide."
Scarlette's favorite movie it Tangled. So we had to get her picture in front of the Tangled display at the Pumpkin Walk.
Here with the cousins (well my cousin's kids) at the entrance of the Pumpkin Walk. They look like they could be Scarlette's older sisters and brother, don't they?
Hangin with Daddy at the Aggie Game!
I taught her how to do the gymnastics salute before we left. I didn't want her going in like a total beginner! ha ha!
Here is a witch hat I made and some D.I. shows turned witch shoes. Thanks to my sister for coming up with the perfect "witch" saying to go with my decorations.
We've been enjoying the spoils of our summer garden. All except for our pumpkins... THEY WERE STOLEN!!! There wasn't a lot of "love at home" for FHE the Monday night we planned to carve pumpkins, only to discover that they were all gone!
We canned our own salsa, tomato sauce, and peach cobbler filling. We also froze corn, creamed corn, and green beans. I've also become quite the expert with Zucchini. I made up my own recipe for Zucchini bread and I make some killer Zucchini cupcakes! (that one's not my own recipe :)
We painted the kitchen/dining room turquoise and put up a white chair rail. To see a "before" picture of our kitchen go to a few posts back when we moved into our house. It used to be green and a lot of people commented that they liked that color, but something was bugging me. I think it went too perfectly with the decorations and looked all "matchy-matchy" like a grandma kitchen or something. I wanted to go with a color that was bright and unexpected.
We originally had a borrowed kitchen table from a family member. I wanted one that was a little smaller to make our kitchen not seem so crowded and I wanted one that matched. So I got this table and chairs at the D.I. for $18.00 I just re-covered the chairs to match and used a new particle board circle for the top because it was missing.( that's why we had 2 tables taking up our kitchen for a while, we didn't have a truck to returned the borrowed one. And the 2 washing machines were here too because we had a really old 80's washer that my uncle gave us but my sister's boss was getting rid of his newer washer and offered to give it to us. Once again we had to find the truck to move it all around.)
We painted our cabinets black. It was a long, tedious process but we are really happy with how it turned out!
Scarlette and I have been spending a lot of time playing in the water this summer. She loves to go swimming, but it's very tiring for me to take her by myself. She is not scared of the water at all. So if I let go of her, she's running right for the deep and of the pool! And while we swim together in the water, she's constantly pushing away from me so she can swim on her own. I have a floatie for her, but she doesn't want to be in it cuz all the big kids don't use floaties. There is a splash pad here, so that's a little easier for me to take her to, so we've been doing that a lot lately, too.
We went on my family's annual 24th of July boating trip to Alpine, Wyoming. It was a lot of fun! Lots of wakeboarding and tubing and some Razor rides on the side.
Spencer and I went to Hawaii in May. We left Scarlette with the grandparents for a whole week! It was really nice to get away and we totally got hooked up! My cousin lives in Waikiki so we stayed at his place and he let us use his car (Thanks Kirk!) we didn't have to worry about a place to stay or transportaion. And we used our credit card airline miles for the flight. Yeah we know how to travel!
Polynesian Cultural Center Luau
Laie, Hawaii Temple
We learned how to surf!
Spencer is also in Young men's now. So he's been busy with youth conferences and scouting trips. Most of his days off of work lately have been taken up by outings with the young men. Now that school is starting, hopefully there won't be as many activities where he has to be gone all day :) Here he is at youth conference this last weekend in Salt lake. He was plum tuckered out!
Scarlette is now in nursery, which we are loving! And we are starting a "mommy and me" gymnastics class on tuesday. I'm so excited!
Christmas was great! Even though Scarlette was a little young to understand Christmas, Spencer and I had so much fun getting her gifts and getting her all exited for it. We spent Christmas eve with Spencer's family and Christmas day with mine. The picture above is my family in front of our Christmas tree up here in Logan.
Scarlette got tons of toys and some clothes. This is a winter hat that my mom gave her (the gift bow is optional) And here is Spencer and Scarlette at temple Square to see the lights. The Fam went for my brother-in-law's bday. I had a wedding video to do that day, so I couldn't go :(
Scarlette turned 1 on January 28th! I had a video of her eating cake but it wouldn't upload :(. This is the cake I made for her party. It was fun! We just had a bunch of friends over and ate treats!
We had a lot of fun with Halloween this year! Spencer and I went to a murder mystery dinner party. I was Miss Scarlett and Spencer was Pierre Dupont. I almost won! I was in the final two!
Scarlette was a bumble bee. We had a lot of fun taking her trick or treating on main street during the day. We took her to the mall too but it was so not worth it! It felt like we were waiting in a Disneyland ride line going from store to store in order to get a mini tootsie roll at each stop. Where was the chocolate, people!
Spencer had Saturday and Monday off for the holiday so we decided to go visit Spencer's sister and her family down in Price. They live near lots of fun places like Goblin Valley, Moab, and the San Rafel Swell. So we figured we'd go visit while the weather was still nice enough to enjoy that kind of stuff. Above is a pic of Spence and Scarlette and our 2 nieces Blythe and Ada.
Here we are in front of some petroglyphs in the side of the mountain. Our camera is horrible but I think you can still see them back there :)
Once again, out horrible camera did not capture this very well. It's a real dinosaur footprint!
Here we are standing in front of Little Grand Canyon. It was way cool but we were a little nervous standing out on this cliff with our nieces and nephews running around. Thank goodness Scarlette isn't mobile yet!
On Saturday one of the girls in our ward had her mom come and do cake decorating for enrichment. It was way fun! The pic below is the cake I did at enrichment and the one above I did at home. I had to practice my new skills :) I still need to work on getting the icing smooth, but my favorite part is the decorating so I end up concentrating mostly on that. So now I can do cute cakes for birthdays and stuff, which I am excited about!
