For Eternity

Evan flew to Arizona for a day and a half for his sister's sealing.  All the kiddos were with their other parent so it was an adult trip.  They dinned at Cafe Rio and Sara provided her famous creme Brulee.  

They went bowling and played arcade games.

The next morning Justin and Meagan were sealed for time and all eternity!  YAY!!! I couldn't be more happy for them, even if they didn't get sealed in a pink temple ;)

Justin's parents

These are my favorite kind of poses..."oh is the man out of focus? Eh, how cares."

Evan, Justin and Evan's sisters.

The only shot Evan got of the temple...Meagan helping a photographer out.

Another one of my favorites....I think Evan did a great job as photographer.

While Evan was gone I got a call from Evan.  

Evan: "are you going to be home this afternoon"
Me: "No Autumn and I are going over to a friend's house. Why?"
Evan: "Oh, a big package is being delivered today. Can you leave a note on the door?"
Me: "Is it a big bouquet of flowers?"
Evan:.....

I knew it wasn't flowers.  I knew Evan bought himself another toy.  The deal was no sub woofer until I got a car.  Evan got right on researching and purchasing his toy right away.  Luckily I wasn't home when he had time to open it so that I wouldn't spoil his fun.  I don't know if I'll ever appreciate his toys as much as he does.  My reaction is always just a bunch of eye rolling.  I can't help it!

Evan is so giddy about his new toy.  So despite the fact that there is no practical space for such a large item in our tiny apartment, and despite the fact that we live in such close proximity to other people who would be annoyed at such a toy...Evan is as happy as a little kid on Christmas.

Showing off the sub woofer to his family, while Autumn and I were at a Mom's of Multiples BBQ.

Oh Autumn

As of late Autumn has decided she has to poop as soon as we are down with the bedtime routine.  So she likes to read my family circle magazine while she sits.  Cute but annoying. Just. GO. To. BED

She also has insisted on sleeping on her trampoline, really anywhere except her bed.

For playgroup we went to Terry Bison Ranch.  Autumn was too afraid to pose with the stuffed buffalo by herself.

I absolutely LOVE these cut out face things...I just think they are hilarious!

On the train ride to see the bison

Feeding the bison.  They have never been in the "wild" so they are very use to humans and despite their nasty long tongues they were very nice.

Autumn in her adorable bathing suit and matching hat.

This night Autumn insisted on sleeping under the trampoline.  I am singing "Five little turtles swinging from the tree" with her stuffed turtle.

Autumn now takes Girl's shoes off when she comes inside and puts them next her hers.  She has a get imagination and pretty much cracks me up.

Autumn's Happy Half Birthday

Autumn is officially 2 1/2 years old!  We did the whole birthday she-bang yesterday.  The day started with making "animal" pancakes.  I attempted to make monkeys.

Then Autumn opened up her special birthday outfit...she is suppose to be waiting for her dad, but the anticipation was killing her.  She just kept poking the shirt out of the wrapping.

After story time at the library we shared cupcakes with our friends out on the library lawn.

After nap time Autumn got her hair trimmed.  This was the first time she was getting an non-mom hair cut.  I figure every fourth hair cut I can pay for.  I had told her that she was going to get it cut, but then when it was time she started crying.  So she sat on my lap while she got her hair cut...as seen in our mirror selfie.  Once I gave her a sucker she was totally fine.  And it took the girl about 5 minutes.

And then there was the cake....Autumn kept talking about wanting a pink cake and of course Ariel.  So I bought an Ariel Lego set, but I refused to make the whole cake pink.  Pink frosting is nasty.  So after a multitude of mishaps this is the crumbly mess I came up with.  (The pink is three mini cake rounds)  Autumn also wanted the cake on the fancy cake stand, so I had to cut out the 9X13 cake pan which fell apart, thus the leaning.  I also ran out of Chocolate frosting and tried to hide it by added "sand".

All Autumn cared about was the Ariel.  Also she wanted to eat the chocolate cake instead of the pink.

Evan's cousin and his family dropped by for a quick visit...

Then we had some yummy Pizza Hut pizza. and of course presents.

Autumn was so excited.  And is definetly at the "next present" stage.

Tennis racket

Dress ups from G&G Robins

And a bike!!!

This is Autumn pushing her imaginary friend, "Ariel" in the bike (who by the way had to be buckled in and have the helmet buckled too.)

Autumn and "girl" in their new matching jammies from G&G Norby.

Since we've been home

Here is a couple of "every day" pictures....

Autumn eating peanut butter from the jar...she likes to do that when I make her sandwiches...except for today after church when I realized we were out of bread, so I handed her the jar and a spoon and called that lunch.

Autumn doing her chore...putting away the flatware.  She thought it was fun the first couple times.  Now of course she doesn't want to do it, but she gets time-out if she doesn't. Most of the time the time-out is a result of her throwing her plastic spoons all over the floor.

One day way back when I was in Utah I left Autumn with my mom and flew back for my 20 week ultra sound...they were so unaccommodating with Evan's work schedule that this is what worked best so he could come.  Well it is fun to see the babies move around, but laying flat on my back for 2 solid hours was so very painful and the ultra sound tech wouldn't tell me what was going on, so I was also very bored.  (I've since switched doctors..again.  And am very happy.)  Oh yeah, we're having one boy and one girl!  Just what we wanted!

 On memorial day we drove to Denver to look at a used car.  It smelt like smoke so we didn't buy it.  Since Evan was working in Denver he couldn't drive us back to Cheyenne. We ended up staying in Denver a few days with him at the hotel.  Luckily with some hard work and determination we found and bought a van.  I feel like a free woman.  Not only can I drive myself to the library- without having to come up with some elaborate plan of getting a ride or borrowing a car and switching car seats a million times-but Autumn can climb in and buckle herself...even if it does take longer, I don't have to bend over to buckle her or lift her up in the car.  Also it is really shiny.  This is Autumn and I posing (me at 25 weeks).  I put this maxi skirt on in the morning (because seamless yoga pants are more comfortable than pants), so Autumn wanted to dress up too.  She also wanted to be in the picture because I was using the self timer...the only time she is willing to take a picture...and she also wanted to touch her belly.

Another note:  I found a game Autumn and I can play together that doesn't involve me getting off the couch.  So we were playing said game and Autumn standing towards me on my left said pokes my belly and says, "boy baby? girl baby?"  I replied, "that is the boy baby"  So she takes her toys that she is playing with and moves to my right side and says, "I sit by girl baby".  It is funny to see how much she "gets" in regards to the babies.  She also likes to stand by the window and "wait for babies" to come.

Autumn's favorite, more involved game is airplane.  We usually ride in the airplane a.k.a dinning room chairs in the living room for about 6 seconds and then have to get up because we are "here" and then sit back down and do it again.  So one day I got bored of sitting down and standing up so I told her the plane crashed and I needed a doctor.  So now the game gets dragged out a little longer.  Autumn is always the doctor and her favorite is giving shots.

End of our month long vacation: New Mexico

After getting back from North Carolina Autumn and I stayed in Denver for one night with Evan.  Evan worked in Denver for the whole month of May, which was one of the reasons we planned our vacation the way we did.  So then Evan's parents picked us up and we drove to New Mexico for our brother-in-laws MBA graduation.  The road trip down there went pretty fast after we had to retrieve the car seat which I left in Evan's car and he took to the hospital, which resulted in a 40 minute delay....

Autumn loved playing with Lexi and all her girly toys.

Charlie and Autumn at the graduation.

He did it!  

The Norby grandkids

Just the girls

Proud wife

All the Norbys except Evan and Patrick

Autumn again with the girly toys..a Barbie  blow dryer.

The trip was short and sweet.  We took the kids swimming one morning and had two dinner parties with Justin's family to celebrate his graduation and his sister's graduation.