Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Utah part II Cal's wedding

My cousin Calvin got married the weekend after Noah's graduation so Autumn and I decided to stay and just combine all our trips together...especially since we already had a trip planned to visit my sister in North Carolina.
The happy couple, Elizabeth and Calvin Roberts.  They got sealed in the LDS Bountiful temple.
Autumn getting bored of taking pictures after the ceremony and playing in the flowers.
My mom and her mom....why I didn't get a four generation picture I'm not sure-especially since my outfit totally coordinated.
Autumn eatting her "happy pills" aka M&Ms
Brad, Calvin, and Noah: freshmen roommates
I thought it was totally funny that the bride helped snap a photo of the boys.
At the luncheon after the wedding.  Autumn took out her braids and gave herself "cra hair" as she says-Also attempting to do the Marilyn over the air vent.
I love when groomsmen are all dressed up and I especially love argyle.  My cousins were confused why they had to wear matching socks if no one could see them and no one took pictures of them...so I helped them out.
My mom meet up with some neighborhood friends from when she was little and they decided to "crash" the wedding.  It was so funny to watch my mom straight up giggle with her gal pals.
This is what Autumn did practically the whole reception...eat mini cupcakes...or rather lick the frosting off of them.
more licking...
Smiling while in the receiving line
Autumn asking for yet another cupcake.
Autumn waiting for the bouquet toss with the bridesmaids...and Rachel who inadvertently matched perfectly with bridesmaid's dresses.
Autumn "caught" the bouquet.  All the girls just stood there as they watched it drop on the floor then someone picked it up and handed it to Autumn.  It was pathetic!
My cousin Cameron also "caught" the garter.

This is aunt Traci trying to be sly and getting a picture of Rachel and Noah together.
Here is Autumn sometime after the wedding with my grandma Dorthy.  They are such great hosts and don't mind Autumn being a 2 year old at there house.  Autumn insisted on climbing up the counter and using the hose thingy to "waA hands"

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Utah part I

After our visit in AZ Autumn and I flew to Utah while Evan flew back home to get back to work.  Autumn is a great flyer, always has been, but she never sleeps on the plane...until this time yay!  The pictures are out of order but the main reason we went to Utah was because my little younger brother graduated from BYU (in statistics and psychology).  My other brother and his family also came out for the event.  Autumn and Korey got along quite well.  Autumn liked having a little person to boss around care for.  I often heard Autumn say, "come Korey Korey".

We went bowling one day...I was quite sore after that.  I didn't do to bad but apparently I have a bunch of ballers in my family.
We scheduled a tour of the conference center with my dad's aunt DeAnn.  She did an excellent job.  It was a fun tour.  While we were waiting for my aunt Deb to show up we saw my bff's dad in the lobby.  Apparently her whole family was there for a wedding.  So Kendra and her sweet baby Jane found us on the tour and tagged along for a bit.  Also note that Korey insisted on holding my mom's hand while in the stroller the whole time, and sometimes insisted on here dad's hand too!
Kendra and sweet baby Jane.
On Sunday my mom watched the little girls while we went and saw Music and the Spoken Word in the tabernacle.
Autumn is in love with temples.  We had lots of fun looking out the window as we drove around Utah looking for temples.  We saw Mt. Timpanogos (she really wanted to go inside that one, but I told her she was too little and she said to me, "Autumn tall".  So sad), Jordan River, Salt Lake the Provo city center temple, Bountiful, and a few others from the car.
Cake topper!
Korey hated taking a bath until the last night they were there.  My grandparents have a huge "swimming pool" in their bathroom.  Autumn and Korey are laughing at uncle Noah in this picture.
My SIL teaches gymnastics part time and thought it would be fun to take the girls to a little class.  That morning it snowed and my California relatives freaked out!  Alas we still took the kids to the class.  Autumn did really well and really enjoyed pretty much all of it.  I was really impressed at how she could get her legs parallel to the ground on the bars....the picture is before she got them all the way up.


Korey thought the Grandfather clock was really cool.  So every 15 minutes Jess ran her to the clock.  Autumn joined in too, but only because Jess and Korey got so excited over it.  After they left Autumn would look around to tell Korey the clock was going off.
We went to the duck pond at BYU one day while Noah was cleaning his apartment.  Here Autumn is throwing bread at the ducks.
Korey eating the bread..
I tried to get a picture of Autumn and the "Y", instead I took a picture of Korey and Dustin, but you can see Autumn's legs in the back ground.
Autumn loved the fountain in the JFSB courtyard.
My cousin Calvin and Noah...born 9 days apart and both graduating.

They let people go to the front row to take pictures when their graduate was coming across the stage.  Autumn wanted to come with me so we both sat for a few minutes at the front.  I kept telling Autumn to look for Noah.  Once she spotted him she jumped up and ran all the way to the back where my parents were sitting all the while yelling "NOAH COMING NOAH COMING".  It was adorable.
Dustin, Rachel Zitting, mom, Noah, Autumn, me, dad
Korey apparently is a champion sleeper so she stayed home with Jess and slept till 11 or something.  

Grandma Dorothy and Grandpa Sune...who didn't go to the graduation because they went to my cousin Jessica's in Rexburg the previous week...I guess you can only handle so many graduations.
Autumn and Korey playing in the play room under the stairs.
Bowling (same event as above)....Autumn even got her own shoes...so cute.

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Easter

Evan had time off YAY!  So we went to visit his sister in Arizona.  I was really excited for warm weather, Evan was scared he would die of the heat.  I thought it was perfect-Evan survived.  We celebrated Sara's birthday at a fun Japaneses cook in front of you restaurant.  We had Easter together.  The kids hunted for their baskets, did and egg hunt, and looked all cute-matchy matchy at church.  We took the little kids to an awesome park and splash pad.  We all went to a bounce place.  Evan and I visited the new Gilbert Temple.  The boys loved playing catch with Evan and they even went swimming one day.
After the egg hunt.  Sara had the kids eggs organized by color...such a good idea.  No fighting or "evenness".
Autumn isn't allowed to take her blanket outside...so she puts it under her shirt so it doesn't get dirty.
Kallie and Autumn in matching skirts that I made.

Cousins-6 months apart.
Gilbert temple...we also go In-N-Out afterwards!

This is Klinton, making sure that I got the picture of him catching the ball.
Autumn blowing bubbles with her cousins.
The little kids took 2 baths a day...because it was so much fun.  Charlie even let Autumn help wash his hair.







Saying good-bye to Patrick, since he will have moved by the time we get back to WY.
Autumn so so excited to go on the "trip" and ride on the airplane.  She even wore her Boeing airplane shirt.
Before the Easter fun began.
Autumn's haul...a new (so so be jealous cute swimsuit and sunglasses)

Hunting for her "pink" eggs.