Thursday, November 18, 2010

Boston


This was all Bart's idea... he told me near the beginning of October that he had a few more days he could take off of work. So he took a couple of days off at the beginning of November and told me that my dad and I should go to Boston to visit my sister and her family and he would stay home with the girls. How awesome of a husband is that!

It was so fun hanging out with my sister.

One of our favorite things we did was visit the Louisa May Alcott house. (pictured above) I took that picture through the wet car window. That's why it looks wavy. We all love her books, my dad included, and the tour was filled with lots of neat information about the Alcott family. Most of the items in the house were owned by the Alcotts. And May Alcott's drawings are literally all over the house. Her framed art work but also her drawings are actually right on the walls, door frames and window frames. We also saw the desk that Mr. Alcott made for Louisa in her room where she wrote Little Women.


In Salem, MA we went to a Witch Trial museum and the House of Seven Gables. (above) I read that book just recently for book club so it was neat to actually see the house Hawthorne was writing about. And nearby was the house where Hawthorne was born.





These ocean pictures where taken in Marblehead, MA.




The New England towns are so charming and cute. And even though it was past peak season the fall colors were still amazing!




My sister, Tanya, her 4 yr. old daughter Reagan and me.


We also went to a really cool art museum called the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and went shopping at some awesome consignment shops right by my sister's house.
It was really great just hanging out with the family, playing games and having time to relax!

Me and my sis!
Love you T! Thanks for the fun visit!



Sunday, October 31, 2010

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!




From~ Dorothy, Vampire and Black Cat

Friday, October 29, 2010

Pahl's Market

We love Pahl's Market. We go there for lots of things. We love their watermelons and corn drive-thru in the summer months and we go there most years for picking out our pumpkins and going through their haybale maze. Which is what we did yesterday.




Monday, October 25, 2010

School pictures 2010

We survived another round of school pictures this year. I think they turned out pretty darn good. {knock-on-wood} but so far we've never had to do retakes. And Summer (little miss cutie patootie) got to have her 1st year of school pictures taken. They take more poses for the pre-school pictures so I added all of them for your viewing enjoyment.

Ainsley ~ 4th grade ~ 9 & 1/2 years old

Mackenzie ~ 2nd grade ~ 7 & 1/2 years old

Summer ~ Pre-school ~ 4 & 1/2 years old


Saturday, October 23, 2010

A perfect Fall day


















Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Before and after wicker

Lookie what I did....



I painted and fixed up my old white wicker.





I like it.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Summer's first field trip

Summer went on her 1st field trip with her pre-school class to Lebanon Hills visitor center. They went on a nature hike and learned about trees, leaves, pine cones, squirrel nests, acorns, crows and other fun naturey things. Summer & Claire on the bus.
Learning about pine cones.


On their nature hike.




Tree Huggers!


The whole class.


Utah Football

Let me start by stating some facts:
1. Bart is a HUGE college football fan.


2. Bart went to the University of Utah.


3. Bart LOVES U of U football.


So when the Utes came as close as 3 hours away from us to Aimes, IA it was a no-brainer. Bart's brother Mark falls into the same category as Bart does when it comes to Utah football. Mark lives in Utah but flew out here and they drove down to Aimes together. They had a really great time and of course, the Utes crushed the Cyclones! Here are some pictures Bart took of their fun weekend.



Bart & Mark at the game.


You can see the final score of 68-27 behind Bart.

After they win the Utes sing the U of U fight song to their fans.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Applewood Apple orchard

Ahhh...It's that time of year again...Fall! Going to the apple orchard is just one of our families favorite fall activities. We love eating the Honeycrisp apples, the hay ride, the mazes, the apple brats, the mini-donuts and I love taking pictures of it all!