HALLOWEEN

For Halloween this year we went to Trent and Jess's house.  We all really missed having Zeke and Porter around to go Trick or Treating with, so instead the party stayed home and gave candy to the super cute kids that came to the door.

This year for Halloween I was an Eight Ball and Connor was a Garden Gnome. 

The fun crowd this year.

Christof was Gru and Kendra as one of the little girls in Despicable Me.

Trent as Hot Rod, and Jess as the lovely ghost.

Our awesome pumpkins! Top Left to right: Christofs, Trents, Connors

Bottom Left to Right: Tyleens, Kendras, Jess, Mine

Connor's a Smarty Pants

Connor started Pharmacy School at University of Utah this year and before school started, he got his white coat at his White Coat Ceremony.

School has been going really well for Connor so far. He comes home and says he gets more and more glad that Pharmacy is what he will be doing.  He studies like crazy and when I help him go over his flash cards I sound like I can't read and I'm speaking another language. It's crazy all the information he has to learn, but he seems to love it and is doing really well!! I feel really lucky to have a husband that is so determined, enjoys learning and does so well in School.

Gwendalyn Rose Lander

My sweet niece Gwendalyn Rose Lander was born August 10, 2013. I couldn't have been more excited for a baby to come into the world!!! It was really fun being pregnant while Karissa was too. I would call and ask her a million pregnancy questions or just observe paying close attention knowing that in just 3 short months I'd be experiencing the same things. On Aug. 10, when we heard Karissa was going into the Hospital, Connor and I got in the car and headed down to Utah county!! we couldn't wait!! We ended up spending the rest of the day with Zeke and Porter until we were told we could come see the cute new member of the family!!

Zeke and Porter made cards for their baby sister

Have you ever seen a cuter little family?!

 

 

I am so lucky to have such cute nieces and nephews!!

No Work, and a lot of time on our hands!

Connor and I moved to Salt Lake City right after our Beach trip.  It's a great place right near campus so Connor can catch the bus and get to campus in just 5 minutes.  It is pretty much exactly like Wymount Terrace (BYU student married housing), just University of Utah's version. We still get the glory of having cinder block walls, and carpet that is so short and old that it feels like your sitting almost directly on concrete when you sit on the ground. BUUUUT, we have managed to turn it into our little home and love it!!

So since the whole month of July, Connor and I didn't have work or any other commitments, we were able to enjoy each day sleeping in, hanging out together and staying up really late watching movies or talking until we fell asleep.  I will never forget the July of 2013!! We were trying to decide if we should go on a cool trip before the baby came, but instead, having a whole month together doing pretty much nothing was way better, not to mention much cheaper.

One of the days I was feeling pretty restless and wanted to get out and do something, but felt limited because of how pregnant I was feeling.  So I looked up some family friendly, pregnant easy hikes around the area and found one!!!  So we were off to find the Cecret Lake. (pronounced like SECRET! which made it way more cool looking for the secret lake)

 

We brought picnic lunches!

And shared with this little guy

A pregnant picture at 25 weeks 

Beach Trip

This summer I was lucky enough to leave work in June right before Kendra's wedding and not return again until the beginning of August.  Connor and I had trips planned and we moved from Provo to Salt Lake City and my boss is super awesome and told me I deserved the break and the idea of me taking that much time off sounded awesome and that I should do it. Soooo I did!!! Following the Seattle trip visiting the Willises, we continued on over to the Oregon Coast where we met my family to stay in an awesome cabin right on the beach!!!

It was actually really windy and kinda cold at the beach, and these three were the brave ones that actually got in! 

Trenty caught a wave that brought him allll the way in

Connor would probably hate this picture, but I just think its so funny. He caught many good waves, and this is him riding one all the way in.

My camera doesn't zoom in very far, but that's Tyleen riding a wave in!

A couple of cute red heads sharing some pretzels

Trent, Devin and Toby flew their pretty awesome kites any chance they got.

The boys turn to show everyone how it was done!

This was a pretty good statue man. If you gave him a dollar he'd take a picture with you

Seaside!!! One of our most favorite beaches ever!

We spent the week of Fourth of July at the cabin and on the night of the Fourth, we had a fire on the beach and watched the firework show right from our spot. It was a pretty cool looking either direction and watching someones fireworks and we were close enough to see the towns firework show from our beach.