This past weekend was really fun, on Friday we went to our friends' little girl, Ellis', 1st birthday party, and it was too cute! It was at a park, and we could hardly get Audrey off the swings, she loved them so much! Then Saturday and Sunday was conference, which I always love. All of the talks were so great. In between sessions on Sunday, we invited all the other law students over for a potluck brunch. We had a great turn-out, and the food was awesome! It was a pretty tight squeeze, but that made it all the more fun! We had 18 adults and 10 kids running around, so I'm sure you can imagine! Anyway, thanks to everyone who came and brought stuff, it was a lot of fun! Here are some pictures, enjoy!

Packing everyone in

The cutest kids ever!
L-R: Eliza, Laney, Grant, Auston, Audrey, Jack, Cadence, Ellis, Eliza, and Paige

Hey everyone! I thought I'd do a little update, since it's been a while. Steve's mom, Gainell, came to visit and just left, and it was so much fun to have her here! We spent time in Chicago, did a lot of shopping, went to the Amish country, and made lots of strawberry and raspberry jam! It was a lot of fun, and we miss her already! It was my first time to actually spend a long time in Chicago, and I absolutely loved it! I can see why it's so easy to fall in love with it. It was clean, friendly, and beautiful, even downtown on Michigan Avenue, the "Magnificent Mile". It has parks, trees, the gorgeous lake, even beaches, right downtown. It was awesome. And Gainell was the best tour guide. :) Since she lived there for awhile, she knew where everything was, the history behind it, and the best shopping! If anyone goes to Chicago, they should go with her! So we really had a lot of fun. Also, since my last post, we went with some friends of ours and went paddleboating on one of the many ponds in our city, and I also had my birthday , the big 25, which Steve really made Awesome! We went to the movie "Ghostown" (our first movie in a long time) and we loved it! Anyway, so here are some fun pictures from our eventful last couple of weeks. Enjoy!

Cute Pictures!

Flexing for the camera

Chewing, not sucking, on his pacifier

Playing paddy-cake, sang the right way (inside joke)
Bad hair day

Superwoman!

I've done this same pose so many times in school
Audrey tilts her head all the time, it's so cute!

Our friends Eli and Stephanie came over and Audrey and Auston had fun playing with their little girl Ellis

Auston and Audrey all tuckered out after playing with Ellis

So last weekend was Labor Day weekend, and for us, it really was a Labor Day. We decided to put up our fence around our backyard, and it proved to be more difficult than we originally thought, especially since our yard turned out to be a lot bigger than we thought. Luckily, though, we had a TON of help from all of our new friends here. Funny story, Steve rented an auger to help dig the fence posts and he decided to have the missionaries, who were helping, poor guys, dig the first hole. Well, they just so happened to cut our neighbor's phone line. And that was how we introduced ourselves to them. Great, huh? Then, a couple holes later, the same phone line was cut. Even better. Well, it all turned out ok, the phone line was fixed, and we didn't end up having to pay for it. We were so happy. Anyway, our fence turned out Awesome and we Love it! So a big thank you to everyone that helped! You're the best!

Crazy Audrey

In an effort to love and praise our children equally here is a video with Audrey as the main feature. We Don't know where Audrey learned this, must be something in the water out here. We think this is so funny, maybe that 's why she does it so much!

Hey Everyone! This is a really funny video of Auston eating turkey for the first time. It's so funny! Hope you enjoy!

The Slideshow

As you can probably see, we have added "Slideshow of the Unspecified Time Period". You may have also noted that we haven't been able to update our blog regularly, so we can't promise that the slideshow will be changed at any regular interval, hence, the name of the slideshow.
Well, this slideshow is of our recent trip to Hawaii with my (Steve's) family. We had the best time. It was a great way to connect with my family before we left Utah. The twins were with Kristen's parents so we had a true vacation. We loved it and are definitely going to make it back there, but probably not too soon. We saw Kristen's sister, Paige, and brother-in-law, Joe, as well as their kids, Joey, Andrew, Mike, and Becca who had recently moved there. Hawaii was absolutely wonderful.

The next slideshow will be of our family reunion in Yellowstone with Kristen's family, so check back because you never know when we'll update the slideshow!

By the way you can click on any picture to see it bigger.