Playing Catch Up

So, I don't think I've posted since September...so for a quick synopsis of the highlights of the last 4 months. Here are a few ditties...(I apologize if the order of pictures to text is reversed...I still don't have this thing figured out).

In October to celebrate the Halloween Festivities, Jonah had a field trip to a pumpkin patch. You can see him here with his class. It was rainy and muddy that day, but we still got to do some fun things, including shooting a corn cannon.




Speaking of corn, corn on the cob has become a favorite of Anya’s and it is quite comical how well she can eat one. She is also good at eating Cream of Wheat and Spaghetti. She slurps better than I do!



Some other things Anya enjoys doing are coloring…that can keep her attention for like 15 minutes (which is huge for Anya), reading, and dancing with her brother (she copies all of his rad moves…or at least tries to.) Sometimes she just likes to sit and watch TV with her brother (for like 5 minutes).







For Halloween this year, Jonah was Spiderman and Anya chose to be a bee (which was really cool because we already had a bee costume from Jonah when he was that age.) So, when it cam time for Aaron and I to dress up, I decided to make a quick spider costume with a big hourglass on my growing belly and Aaron was a beekeeper. Not too fancy, but for something thrown together in half an hour, I think it was pretty good.

So, there is no real story that goes with the picture of Jonah vacuuming out the car, but I just wanted to show off what a good helper my little man is. What a stud!

We also got to take an awesome trip to Utah to see one of our favorite families get sealed together in the temple. We bought a minivan, then drove to Monterey, CA for a few days where we got to go to the ocean and the aquarium, then drove to UT where we got to hang out with some old friends including the Warners and the Ruanos. Here is a picture of Anya and her new best friend Zoe Warner at a pumpkin patch in UT. Then here is one of our favorite families (the Ruanos) on the day they were sealed in the temple. We were so blessed to be able to go and witness it, it was such a beautiful event.

And that catches us up to Christmas pretty much…