He found my.......

Deoderant! Yuck!

I don't know why I'm surprised. He's been eyeing it for weeks now.

Happy Halloween...

...from our little

WITCH...COWBOY...and...PUMPKIN


Thank you Grandma Lombardo for the cute Halloween shirts.

First Snow Fall

I always love the first snow fall. Gets me so excited for Christmas and hot chocolate and warm fires. Love it!

2 year old biking gang

To join: You must be 2 years old, adorable, fearless, and of course have a cool bike like ours. Oh, and occasionally fall off, bonk your head and get a good size goose-egg on it.

Halloween Carnival

The building industry may be suffering, but Ivory Homes doesn't seem to struggle as much. They had a fun carnival, open to the public, last week including pony rides, pumpkin painting, cookie decorating, face painting, hay rides, and of course, trick-or-treating at the model homes. Super fun and free!! Thank you Ivory Homes.

Some Random Shots

Comic Girl

Aaron showed Hannah the comics in the paper and now she will ask for them when the paper comes and "act" as if she's reading them.



And Nathan likes to pretend too! Funny kids.

Abigail is 10 months old

Hmmmm......what to say about this little stinker. She is officially crawling! Hooray Abby! She sucks on her right pointer finger to fall asleep, she is also a blankie girl just like my other children, she is still a little runt, and we love, love, LURVE this little girl.

Abby is crawling!

Okay, well not quite, but almost! Actually, this post is for Susan, my sister. She is the 3rd child in my family and is always saying that the 3rd child is so jipped with pictures. Apparently, I don't take near enough pictures of Abigail, so this is all for her.

A finished project

I, (along with my sister Susan) painted the girls room last week. I would not say that I have much of an eye for colors or decor. I really had something in mind here that didn't quite turn out how I had imagined. Actually, I never intended for the girls room to look like I painted balloons on the wall. Fortunately, I found these cute little wall decal stickers and they tied the colors in better. Oh well! The girls like it. I am liking it more and more too.

Fountains and Temple Square

This day was intended for Discovery Kids Gateway, but it just so happened that we chose one of two days the entire year that they close it for cleaning. Figures. So, what else is there to do in downtown Salt Lake? Fountains! and Temple Square! What a fun day! Thanks Jeff and Suzanna for suggesting it.

Abigail is 9 months old

Length: 28.5" 75%
Weight: 14lb. 13oz. 3% She really doesn't seem this little to me
Head Circ: 42.5cm 10%



So, now that Abigail has 6 teeth, she is officially on a bottle. :o) The transition was super easy, just a little bit of juice in a bottle and she took right to it. Love it! She is close to crawling, but still hates to be on her tummy. Her favorite place is in mommy's arms. Such a mama's girl!

Watermelon and Corn on the Cob

We're so proud that he likes to share. :o)

Precious Pictures

Abigail with my 96 year old grandmother, that I love!

Adorable Baby Gifts

My sister is selling these darling bags and other fun baby things. I must say her stuff is super cute! I've given some of the things she makes away to friends and they LOVE them. Check out her blog http://mysugababy.blogspot.com/ to look at what she has to offer. Happy shopping!

Trip to Idaho

Heads up....This is going to be a long post!!

I mentioned months ago that we would be going to Idaho at the end of August for a fun getaway with some very fun people. Well, it was a blast!!! My dear friend Mandy invited us up along with another of our good friend, Julia and her family. Where do I even begin. Hmmmm.... we got there late Wednesday night.
Mandy's cute house. Loved it!

Julia's family got there Friday morning. On Thursday we drove to Rexburg to see my old campus of Ricks college (now it's BYU-Idaho). It was so fun for me to show my kiddos and hubby my old stomping ground. OH the memories I have of that wonderful school. I haven't been back since I graduated 10 years ago! Honestly, it is the most wonderful school on earth! Mandy was my roommate and Julia and I took a cross crounty ski class together. It sure has changed in the last 10 years, but there is still such an AMAZING spirit on that campus.
Mandy infront of our old dorm building.
Rexburg's new Temple.
kind of a neat thing that they used a "wheat" theme for this temple and in some of the stain glass windows is stalks of wheat.
School doesn't start for another week or so, so the dorms were locked. I climbed up on the fence of the dorm to get a picture of my old apartment, #232.

After our little walk through memory lane we drove up to Mesa Falls. Gorgeous!!!! Idaho has such beautiful mountains and falls. The kids were wiped out, so it was off to Mandy and James' house for a yummy garden dinner. Did I fail to mention that they live out in the country on 2 acres? So fun! I forgot to get a picture of their most impressive garden (shared between them, James' dad and sister). Behind their house is a giant barley field of which is used to make Budweiser beer. Unfortunately, no beer for us folks though! :o) It was neat to see the huge tractors harvesting all that barley while we were there.




The barley fields behind Mandy's house.


The rest of the time together was spent going water skiing,Nathan's first time on a tube.
If you click on the picture you can see that Nathan didn't enjoy this experience.
Hannah LOVES the water nomatter what she's doing in it. Just like her daddy.
Aaron did awesome water skiing and for those waterski bums out there, look at that gorgeous water!
Me knee boarding. I don't know how you crazy people ski, but I cannot seem to figure it out for the life of me!

BBQ/Zipline






Me harnessing up for the zipline
Here goes Hannah

Loved it!
Aaron was too fast that this is the best shot I got. Nathan was all good to go until we put him on the actual line and then he wanted nothing to do with it. Funny kid.

hiking around an old lava field

Julia, Adam, Brooklyn, and Jacob
Mandy, James, Corbin, and Grant
Going into a huge lava cave. Super fun!


Corbin, Hannah, Jake


Me and my bud!

Then we hiked up this mountain and the views were incredible!
Nathan, Brooklyn, Corbin ages 2, 3, 2










playing games,


lots of laughing, and yes, more visits to Ricks. We had so much fun. Good friends are rare to find these days, so we are all the more grateful to have them in our lives.