Munkin Patch

Last but not least, we made our way north to my dad's house. Kassidy was given some adorable tinkerbell wings, which she didn't take off for the rest of the trip (notice she even wore them in our family pictures, a few posts down). My step-aunt took adorable family pictures for us (see below) and we took a big group family photo too.





My favorite part of the trip was going the a local pumpkin patch and spending a few hours. We had way too much fun playing with the pumpkins and gourds and Kassidy loved the hay maze. We picked out our own family pumpkin and painted them at home later. Kevin and I did Jack from the Nightmare before Christmas and his girlfriend, I can't remember her name. It turned out pretty well. Kassidy loved her 'munkin' as she called it, and carried it around like it was as fragile as an egg. She painted it with loads of sparkles, that's my girl!






Kass and her special munkin


Yeah, we were trying to get the mini pumpkins in the background, but this was just painful.


My cute brother and his wifey


Nice guns hun!




Lost in the hay maze




Painting our pumpkins






We had a great time and loved the gorgeous fall weather. Thanks Dad and Cathy, love you guys!

The Beav

Due to a really unrealiable computer, I haven't been able to finish posting about our Utah trip. Our next stop was Beaver to visit the Marchant clan. We woke up there the first morning to some beautiful, though accidental, ice trees and grass. The sprinklers went off during the freezing night and resulted in this, I thought it was really pretty:




Kassidy went to work with Grandma Marchant one day and was the cutest little secretary you ever saw :)

We also spent some time in Cedar City with Kurt and Wee-wee (as Kass calls her aunt Whitney) and went to the park with Grandpa Bruce.






We also made a quick stop at Kevin's sisters house and Kassidy and Berkley had a mini jam session.

Thanks Marchants for the fun stay, we had a great time and miss you already!

Better Blogging

My church published a great article in the Ensign (our monthly magazine) about better blogging and sharing the gospel online. I found the articles very informative and they caused me to look over my blog to make sure it's safe and appropriate. I haven't had the desire to go private with our blog, but I do try and be careful about the information I put on there. I found the advice in these articles very useful and a good reminder to be careful and courteous about what you write on your blog. Blogs are also a great way to share your beliefs and be an example for your church. I'd like to encourage you all to take a peek at the articles. Here's a URL link to copy and paste if you don't get the actual copy of the Ensign. Or you can search the title Better Blogging on www.lds.org under magazines. Enjoy!

http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=931e52605a4e3210VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD

Moo-tah

The title of the post is how Kassidy says Utah. She's been talking about "moo-tah" ever since we got home. We had such an amazing time with family and friends and played way too hard, which is probably why we got sick.

We spent 3 days each with parents and it still wasn't enough time. Conference weekend was spent at my mom's house (Grandma Shelly) where we watched conference as a family and ate way too much food. Grandma Hicken (my grandma) hosted a girls night for all the girls while the men folk went to Priesthood session. We ate ravenously all the delicious food Grandma made and then crafted some bracelets and earrings out of beads and thread. Monday morning my sweet mom watched Kass so Kevin and I could go to the temple with my amazing grandparents. They work in the temple presidency at the Provo Temple and it happened to be their day off and they still wanted to go with us. Thanks Gram and Gramps! We had a neat experience.


For some reason, neither of them look to happy in this pic, but I promise they really love each other!




Kassidy with my cousin Whitley. I wish we lived closer because she'd make a fabulous babysitter!


Kassidy and Grandma Shelly at Wingers for lunch.

Spending a few days at mom's house was a great way to start off our vacation, and we had a great time. Thanks mom! We miss you already :)

I'll continue our vacation for anyone who cares in the next couple days since there's so much to tell and too many pictures.

Home

Wow, we had such a wonderful time in Utah with all our family! Now that we're back again it seems to be such a letdown, and to top it off our whole house is sick. I have way too many pictures and stories to tell and no motivation right now, so I'm just going to post them a little at a time. We got our family pictures taken by my aunt while we were home. She does such an amazing job and is the funnest blogger, check her out if you ever have time- http://www.mychaosmybliss.blogspot.com Here are the end results:

Utah, here we come!

There has been a serious lack of posts due to my excitement to go home!! Kevin has a week off school, so we're headed home to Utah to see our family. We are really excited and look forward to much needed break from our routines. I'm sure I'll have way too many stories and pictures after our visit. See you in a couple weeks!

Nuttin' New

Everyday when I get on to check all the happenings of my friends and family, I promise myself I going to post something. But when your life consists of spending the day trapped in your apartment with your two year old, there's not much to tell. I guess a few things have been going on although I warn you, they're not really too interesting unless you really love us.

Here goes--We survived the first test week of pharmacy school. When I say survive picture two near-drowned people that have just been dragged onto the shore and are gasping for breath and looking ragged. It was rough to say the least. Kevin put in the maximum number of hours each day preparing for the tests that were ridiculously hard. I think it was so frustrating because he didn't know what to expect and it was so much information crammed into a month. As for me, you'd think I was a single parent as much as we've seen Kevin lately. Even when he was home he was locked in the bedroom studying and wouldn't come out for anything. We were both grumpy and frustrated and I was lonely and stircrazy. So we've both learned something from this experience and we hope to come out of the next test week a little better off. We're learning how to handle grad school slowly :)

In other news, my sweet uncle and aunt gave me a job cleaning their dental office. Strangely, I'm excited to have something to do to earn a little money, even if it is cleaning bathrooms and scrubbing operatories. We've also been pretty busy with church functions, mainly because I make a point to go to every single one, just as an excuse to get out of the house and meet people. There are a lot of truly amazing people in our ward that I'm sure will be lifelong friends. I'm also throwing a baby shower for one of my newfound friends. Everyone loves a party, right?

We've also figured out Skype and are loving video chatting with a few family members who have it too, so if you have a webcam and want to chat, call us! Also, if you have any secrets for making the picture not freeze frequently, let us know. Our main form of excitement is our upcoming trip to Utah!!! If you couldn't tell by the three exclamation points, I'm really stoked! We're headed home the first week of October so we'll be there for Conference and to see a little fall weather which is not going to make an appearance here in Cali for another few months--it's still 90 degrees and I miss my crisp fall weather :( Now that I've yacked your eyes off, that's life of late, not much, but it's life!