Twenty Eight

Last week, I turned 28. Birthdays are great days to think about your life - where you've been and where you're going. I feel so blessed and so complete. It's a wonderful feeling. Heavenly Father has given me and husband and three children and a home and there is nothing else I want or need. It was a definitely a day of counting my blessings.

I took the twins to Firehouse Subs for lunch and to get my free birthday sub!

A pan of birthday brownies did the trick for dessert that night.

Trunk-or-Treat

Tonight was the ward trunk-or-treat. Here are the kids all ready to go. Unfortunately, Elliot threw up about five minutes before this picture was taken. We didn't stay at the activity long, but we still had fun.

Jake the Neverland Pirate, Dracula, and Sleeping Beauty

Happy Fall

We wore long sleeve shirts today! Fall is finally here.

Stoneman Lake

For Columbus Day, we spent a couple days in the forest just south of Flagstaff. We found a place called Stoneman Lake on the map and thought it sounded nice. Anna and Jason were able to meet up with us, too. We had such a good time that we decided this needs to become an annual occasion.

The rig (unfortunately, the trailer was just borrowed).

On Sunday, we drove to Happy Jack, AZ where there is a small branch that meets in a quaint meetinghouse. There were about 30 people in the chapel, and according to the Branch President, all but eight of them were visitors.

They opened up the primary room for my kids, but there was no teacher there. Anna got creative and gave them some coloring assignments.

The rest of the weekend, we went hiking, cooked delicious Dutch oven food, and played games outside.

Audrey tried so hard to keep up with Jack on his bike.

Unfortunately, GoogleMaps was a little misleading... there is no water in Stoneman Lake. So much for fishing.

Ty took this picture of the "lake" early one morning. The lake bed is filled with fog. Gorgeous!

Tee Ball

Jack started playing tee ball and his first game was today. His team name is the Golden Eagles and his coach is Dad. He had a lot of fun and felt good about scoring some points.

Nice hit!

Jack on first base