More Fall activities

We went to Vesperman farms a few weekends ago with the playgroup I go to. The playgroup is though the city so they have lots of fun activities. It was on a Saturday so Ryan got to come to. There was pumpkin carving, a hay ride (without the hay), a pumpkin patch, animals, corn maze, making scarecrows, and roasting hot dogs. We didn’t’ do all the activities, but we had a nice time. Kaitlyn loved being outside and especially the animals. Some of the kids there started feeding a lama grass. It was pretty fun to watch. Ryan was so excited to be right there with the animals too. When we retire, I think he would love to live on a farm or a ranch. He just loves animals so much, and so does Kaitlyn. Here’s Kaitlyn helping Dad feed the Lama. She really wanted to, but got scared. Eventually she did it and then loved it and didn’t want to stop. It was so cute.




And this animal has four horns! I thought it was pretty crazy.



Kaitlyn



Emily, she was not very excited about this.



Our family on the “hay” ride



Kaitlyn loved it, especially when a Dog came up and ran next to us



The girls and I with a pumpkin. I was pretty disappointed with the pumpkin patch. It was just pumpkins thrown on the ground, and most of them were gross. We ended up not getting one, because we already had some at home.



All in all it was a nice time. Great to get out of the house and be outside with the family.

Grandma Dalton sent a Halloween package and inside was this cute Halloween outfit for Emily.



We love getting packages in the mail! We just got another package from Grandma D. Grandpa D is in the Philipines for work right now, and Grandma D went there to spend time with him. They sent all sorts of fun stuff from there. I got an AWESOME salad bowl set. They are each individually made out of wood and they are gorgeous! We miss you Grandpa D. and are so excited you’ll be back when we come home for Christmas! Yay! My mom also sent us a pakage. Kaitlyn got a new blanket and one we left when we visited, but her favorite was two cute little dolls that were in there, and of course the Yogos! Mom sent me some books to read too. I love to read.

The girls and I got to do lots of things for Halloween this year. It’s just so much more fun with kids. On Friday I got their costumes out and tried them on them to make sure they fit, and then decided to run up to Ryan’s work to visit him and show off our beautiful daughters. All the girls in our office just love our girls. They love it when we visit, infact when they do special lunches at the office they invite the girls and I to come along too. We’ve been very blessed to have Ryan work at this firm. On Tuesday we went to playgroup and got to go dressed up there too. They had lots of fun Halloween treats that people brought in. It was lots of fun. Then on Wednesday we had Library time and the girls got dressed up again. And then finally Wednesday evening we went trick or treating. I almost missed it because where I grew up you don’t start until about 6 or 6:30. When Ryan got home from work at 5, he asked aren’t we going trick or treating tonight? I said yeah, probably in an hour or so. I had just put dinner in the oven and wanted to eat first. Well Ryan told me all the trick or treaters were already out. Infact most are done by 6:30! Good thing he came home! We quickly got the girls dressed and reaced outside. Kaitlyn LOVED it. How cool is it that people just give you candy! I think she remembered the easter egg hunt (we used the same bag that night) so when she saw the bag and the candy, she knew it was going to be a very fun night! We just went around our block, but still got a good a mount of candy. Ryan would have loved to go to all the houses, but Emily was getting cold so we called it a night. Here are the girls dressed up. This was before Library time, wich was good because after trick or treating Kaitlyn’s cow was covered in candy!






And the girls with Dad at the office



Kaitlyn loved her cow. If you pushed the nose on her tummy it mooed. Great. She loved it so much she insisted on wearing it on Thursday too. After that it was COVERED in food, so I hid it in the laundry. I hope it all comes out. I was pretty proud of myself, our costumes cost nothing this year. I bought Kaitlyns at a garage sale before she was born, and Emily’s was from a baby shower that my dads work gave him for her. She was an Elmo Cheerleader. I love the irony that we live in the Cow state, and I bought a cow costume before we even thought of comming here.
We live near the fire station, so we stopped there, and they passed out glow in the dark necklaces! Kaitlyn loved hers. This was her playing with it in the house.

I've been tagged (a few times)

Four Things about me. This is just for fun

Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Cinemark movie theaters –mostly in studio eats, the little café inside
2. Dominoes- for a whole 3 days
3. Primrose daycare and private school, and one in Des Moines. Both times working with 6 weeks up to 1st grade
4. Pasar- afterschool program for the Plano School district, working with k-5

Four places or more I have lived:
1. Lima, Peru
2. Quito, Ecuador
3. Seville, Spain
4. Mexico City, Mexico
5. Rexburg, ID
6. CAmpinas, Brazil (and I had three areas that I lived in on my mission do those count?) :)
7. Provo, UT
8. Des Moines, IA (that I miss so much)
Ha Ha, I wish. That was my friend Lisa’s list. Here’s me:
1. Logan Utah –born-4 and for a year of college
2. Plano Texas (Dallas area) 4-20 minus one year in utah
3. Des Moines Iowa – for 3 years of law school
4. Lancaster Wisconsin- current resident

Four Places I have been on vacation:
1. Utah
2. Nauvoo Illinois
3. Florida, honey moon
4. Minnesoda- twin cities, got to see the mall of America!

Four of my favorite foods:
1. dessert, I’m really liking pies right now
2. pumpkin, pretty much anything pumpkin
3. carbs: bread, noodles ect.
4. pretty much anything I didn’t have to make

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Anywhere but my messy house (that is how I feel most of the time)
2. Texas
3. Des Moines
4. someplace warm with a beach, and a full time on call babysitter and Ryan on vacation, no work

Four things you would have changed about your wedding day:
1. Better photographer, my guy left us and went and shot another bride! And he did cooler locations with her, just following her around snaping pictures, and he left the reception early.
2. RELAXED and dances more. Our line was forever long, I didn’t even get any food or the special drink I had my Grandmother send up
3. Found a video photographer
4. Had a separate day for Bridals

Four baby names you love (boy or girl)
1. Logan Daniel
2. Parker (Ryan doesn’t like this one cause it’s the name of the town my parents live in, but that’s not why I like it)
And I’m not sure for girl names, I already have 2 great ones
3. Emily Elaine
4. Kailtlyn Fe’ (pronounced Fay, it’s Portuguese for faith)

I LOVE looking at all the cute pictures of fall activities. Everyone’s kids look so cute! I’m WAY behind on blogging. Aren’t I always? Oh well. Life here is crazy one day and mind numbingly boring the next, such is the life of a mom. We are doing well though. We’ve started looking at houses and that is really exciting/stressful. I love looking at the houses and seeing the different floor plans and ways to decorating and thinking about the different things I could do to improve the house. Or, I guesss I should say the long list of things I could give Ryan to do to fix the house. He keeps telling me to give him projects, one of these days he’s really going to regret it! Lol, oh well. It’s also frustrating because our price range and what I want are a little different. Go figure, the more expensive houses are prettier. There are a lot in the reange we want to spend, but most need a lot of work and don’t have room to grow. We plan on having lots of children, so having room to grow is important to me. Even if it’s not finished yet, I don’t care. Well I could go on and on about houses. I just feel bad for our poor realator, she didn’t know what she was getting in to when we walked into her office. Oh well. I’m going to post a bunch of pictures from this month (wish me luck! I hope the my internet will coroperate!) and quick explanations, hopefully you’ll get an idea of life in Lancaster from the last month.
My brother Andrew, that just left for his mission let us borrow his Guitar hero game while he’s gone. Ryan was SOOO excited. For the first week or so he’d play on his lunch break. He almost always comes home for lunch, (which I LOVE!) so he’d play a little bit and then go back to work. To funny. I even played a few times, Ryan is way better though. Well Kaitlyn thought it was supper cool and wanted so bad to play too. My favorite was she would stand next to dad and dance with him. So cute! Here’s her looking supper cool!




Kaitlyn loves to help out. Sometimes she really is a big helper and other times… She loves to help put away the dishes (so cute!) but doesn’t understand when I’m loading that I don’t want her to unload. She likes to help put the laundry into the dryer and close the lid, often before I’m ready. Lol, she’s great though. Her favorite is to help with Emily. As soon as she hears Emily I hear her, Emily! Emily, bottle. That poor girl doesn’t even have a chance to get hungry. Kaitlyn just loves to feed her. And she gets really mad if I don’t let her feed Emily her baby food. She does a pretty good job, just have to make sure she doesn’t shove the spoon in to far! Here’s Kaitlyn helping feed Em



For FHE at the beginning of the month we carved and painted pumpkins. Kaitlyn LOVED the painting part. She looks like a real artist. She was very serious about her work. I loved it!





She was very sad when it was time to come in. She did not want to put her pumpkin on the porch. Here’s the finished product, our pumpkins on the porch.



I finally go Kaitlyn’s hair up into pig tails, I was pretty excited! She officially no longer bald! Unfortunately Em is losing all her hair now. They’re switching places.




More to come soon, I hope!

Yay, 2 in 1 day. I hope my luck holds!

Emily with her grandparents. In the first one my dad's eating, but wait so is Emmy! -We love grandparents, they're so yummy, I mean fun.





We love to play games, so we had some friends and family come over one night. It was so nice. Emily and my friends baby, Skylar were having fun with each other. Emily is 3 months younger but just as big (gotta love those rolls!) Skylar was showing off her way cool moves, she was so close to crawling. I think Emily was envious, but to lazy to figure it out herself. lol, that's fine with me. I'm fine with her not crawling for a very long time! They were both trying to eat the other girls skirt. It was so funny, but I didn’t get a pic of it, darn it! After they left Ryan and my brother in law played each other in DDR. It was so much fun. Mindy, my sister in law and I played too. But, I took a quick picture of the boys dancing.



I also got to on a girls day out shopping with Ryan’s Mom and two sisters. That was so much fun. We even got to check out IKEA. So much fun. Oh, the ways I could spend money! In fact I spent most of the days shopping. I had this huge craving for crazy amounts of shopping while I was there. Probably because there’s no where to shop here. I am so deprived! Okay, not really but I do miss shopping. The main reason we went down was to see Andrew before he left for a two year mission for our church. He had a combined birthday party and farewell on that Sunday. It was fun to see everyone come and support my brother. I'm so proud of him. He is the first of my siblings to serve. It's exciting and a little hard to send him off for two years, but I know he will be a wonderful missionary.

Finally!

I know you've been going crazy waiting for the update I promised, so here it is! Well part of it. I had more, but I'm still having problems with my internet. I can't tell you how shocked I was to be able to get this much. Hopefully I'll be able to post more soon. I'm working on it I promise!

While we were there my parents gave Kaitlyn her 2 year birthday present early. She LOVED it. This is her just after opening it, and playing with her sister and aunts.






It turned into a mini photo session, just cause everyone was having so much fun.

Bee and TEXAS!!!

The same day that Ryan got hit at work, Kaitlyn had a rough day too! We met Ryan at an outside event for some lunch. We had just gotten our food and sat down when Kaitlyn was stung just under the eye by a bee! Not kidding. Poor girl. Luckily Ryan’s work was near by so we went there to eat and check out Kaitlyn’s eye. On that day two of my babies were hurt. This is a picture of Kaitlyn’s eye.



I couldn’t get her to sit still enough for a really good shot of it. I felt so bad for her. And of coarse it was by the eye so I couldn’t put anything on it for her.

Here’s a happier picture. Kaitlyn loves to play inside the dirty clothes hamper.



TEXAS!!!!!

We drove down to Texas to visit my brother before he left on a mission for our church. It was so nice to be in Texas and to see family. EVERYONE in both our families live in Texas. It’s hard to be so far away sometimes. We left Tuesday September 25 in the late afternoon and drove all day and night to get to Texas. We were just climbing out of the car in my parents drive way when my brother Jace walked out side on his way to SEMINARY!! That tells you how early it was (just before 6 am). Jace was very surprised to see us, in fact I was worried he wouldn’t even notice, since he was half asleep. But, he woke up enough to give us big hugs before he left. We walked inside and no one was awake yet. LOL, oh well. I went in my parents room and my mom and grandmi got up and were like you’re here? It was fun. I got to wake up the whole house. I got the girls (Jessica and Tiara) up, and went and said good morning to Kurtis who went right back to sleep. Gotta love teenage boys! We stayed until Monday morning and it was so great to see everyone. Katrina even came up from Austin and got to see Emily for the first time. (Yes, it was our first time back to Texas since CHRISTMAS!!! I was definitely glad to be there) We got some cute pictures with all the cousins. These are my two favorite.




-So my internet sucks and I can't put up any more photos right now. More to come soon.

Ryan

So, if you read the previous post, you heard all about Ryan's adventure at work. When he came home that evening he said, I got hit today. I couldn't figure out what he was talking about. It didn't even cross my mind that something like that would happen. Who goes up and just hits another person anyway? Well Wednesday morning last week they went to court for a restraining order. Ryan came home for lunch and was very stressed out. This guy was horrible! This time he was actually sober, but he was not acting normal. The girls that work there told me he used to be decent when sober, but he's just scary now. Luckily the judge signed for the restaining order and he's not allowed to come in to the office any more or contact anyone. I thought moving into a small town would be safer, and for the most part it is. I guess Ryan's just going to meet and work with some pretty scarry people! Silly me thought a Lawyer was a safe job. Oh well. Hopefully this is the olny situation. His bosses said nothing like this has ever happend before, but it happened on his 2nd day as an atterney. Anyway, on a lighter note, here are some fun quizzes I took.

You Could Be a Vampire... If You Had To

Like most people, the thought of being a vampire has crossed your mind. But you're not sure if you'd do it, even if you could. Living forever doesn't sound half bad, if you could live forever with the people you love the most. But do vampires even love? And would the vampire version of you even be you? It's all too much to contemplate. Luckily, the chances of you ever becoming a vampire are astronomically low. What you would like best about being a vampire: Living forever What you would like least about being a vampire: Blood stained teeth

Could You Be a Vampire?

You Belong in Rome

You're a big city soul with a small town heart Which is why you're attracted to the romance of Rome Strolling down picture perfect streets, cappuccino in hand And gorgeous Italian people - could life get any better?

What City Do You Belong In?