LSM: 2 weeks of good times goodness!

Last weekend I didn't get a chance to write because we were off having so much fun!

 It was general conference and we stayed home for the first weekend in a LONG time! We also got to hang out with some of our very best friends, the Allred's! They stayed with us on Saturday night and left Sunday morning. The guys went to a movie late Saturday and Alana and I talked until 1am. Stori and Tracen played and played and then cried and cried when Tracen had to leave. They love each other so much and it makes us love the Allred's even more! :)

On Sunday afternoon we crossed another thing off of our Provo bucket list; drive the Alpine loop! It was the perfect conference day activity---just ask everyone else in Provo that also decided to drive it! We still had a lot of fun looking at the beautiful mountains and colors despite all the people.
We got home and Stori rode her bike all the way to the park and we let them play for a while. It's so much easier having Dan at the park with me haha!

Totally jealous of my 3 yr olds hair!

Earlier that week we were able to hang out with the Forester girls and we took the kids to that same park where they played for hours and hours. Stori and Lila are still great friends that can make each other laugh really hard in between the fights haha!

Visiting Daddy at Law School! 

Last Monday we had uncle Jonny over for dinner for Monday night football, I made Halloween costumes, and got stuff ready for a baby shower we had for mutual on Wednesday. That whole week was just as busy as that Monday! But a good busy: it was dans fall break so we got to play a lot and he had to work a lot so that we could leave Thursday for Idaho! It was our annual Yellowstone trip that got turned Jackson hole trip! Out family, Megan's family, and mom all got to spend the night there and then explore Jackson! We hiked to Cascade Falls around Jenny lake! It was 5.2 miles and everyone did awesome!! Not a single kid complained! (And we even hiked during lunch time without food). We also: got family pictures taken, saw bison at Mormon row, saw plenty of deer, saw mom spill her soda twice in the car, heard stori laugh for 20 minutes because of said soda incident, grilled hamburgers and hot dogs (stori ate 3 hot dogs---must have been hungry after that hike she did) drove around oxbow, and then headed home through Wilson to see 2 big moose! We love family time and love our annual trip!

you know she's serious about driving when the binkers takes a back seat.

gathering rocks to throw. repeat.

Syvlie and Granny were doing this naturally, but when they stopped, Stori asked them to go back and pose so she could get a picture. She thought it was pretty cute I guess.  :) She's got the eye for photography.

half way point of our hike

Of course Sylvie fell asleep while Dan carried her… and the only time store got carried is when she got injured. She insisted on "hoppity scoppity" over every rock. Granny "helped" her cross a poison canyon that injured her rear end. And that's why Granny is holding her. :)

Not sure Sylvie really cared that much that she saw an amazing waterfall.

Tommy and Stori

Maizy found a rock shaped like Utah and she is pointing to Clarkston and Provo! :)

At the top of the hike. Waiting for our turn to get pictures taken.

awe. the whole group.

Thanks Meg for taking some family pics! I'll post the rest later.

And if you want to see some of dan's pictures from when he got up early on Saturday, just click HERE . All the pictures aren't done uploading yet because they are huge files, but there are 6 good ones on his blog for now! :)