Snow fun, Farm Fun, Halloween Fun

First day of snow!!!

 Fall on the Farm.

(Grandma Hicken is the best story reader)

HALLOWEEN!  Sariah was a clown and River was a dinosaur because she wanted to be "something scary".  She also wore vampire teeth with her costume for a while so she could have "sharp dinosaur teeth!"  Sariah kept saying "I'm gonna be a clown with a red nose and when I say 'twick or treat' they give me candy!'  We even got to stop by Great Grandma and Great Grandpa's house the week before Halloween. 

The Halloween parade at preschool.

Cameron with his cuties!

Eating the loot.

Frosty the snowman.  The kids and I made this snowman in about 5 minutes....the snow was wet and perfect!  Sariah was so sad when he melted.  She looked out the kitchen window and cried "Mom, frosty died!  Look! Look! .......Awwww. Poor frosty!"   River ran out to dig in the snow for frosty's mouth because it was made out of red licorice.

Blake's Last Year Playing for SUU

In an effort to finally catch up I'm combining all the pics for Blake's SUU games together.  We were able to go to a home game in Cedar City and a game up at Weber.  We had a great time. 

 Swimming in St. George before the game.

River, Mom and Ty

 Family picture in which River refused to look at the camera.  Check out her awesome hair though!

 Ty and Mel

 The Girls

Sariah with Uncle Kenney

What if the Circulation Bell Starts Ringing?

We decided to put River in a dance class this year.  I was a bit skeptical, having hated dance myself when I was her age, ( I was super shy) but she likes it.  Also, low and behold, River's class gets to dance "Seize the Day" from Newsies, my favorite musical EVER. 

River's favorite part is  "Proud and defiant, we'll slay the giant!  Let us seize the day!"  (if you know the music, this is where you sponaneously burst into song)  Because they get to do mock sword-fighting.  Dancing and slaying things go together, right?

Ballerina Sariah.

  She can't wait to turn three so she can "go to stool when I'm three, momma?"  "I get to dance when I turn three too!"

 This is just a random picture of the kids playing in the garage with a friend.  I love it when they play pretend!

Off to Preschool

River was so excited for preschool to start up this year.  She picked this VERY special outfit to wear the first day, so of course Sariah had to put on a dress and legwarmers too!

Random Summer Fun

THE ZOO

River and Sariah loved the zoo this year.  They REALLY loved the dinosaur robots.....even though they were a little scary at first.  I think the girls are pretending to be dinosaurs in the first picture.

 HILL AIRFORCE MUSEUM

SWIMMING LESSONS

  River had a great time at swimming lessons this year and practically has gills behind her ears now.  I'd say it was the best two weeks of summer for the kids.  We stayed late at the pool every day, ate packed lunches and relaxed with friends.

Two random pictures, but cute none-the-less.  By the way, never get the Cowboy and Octopus books.  So dumb!

Bear Lake Adventures

 Sunny skies, clear blue water, sandy beaches and lime-raspberry shakes.  Heaven on earth I tell you!  We went to Bear Lake on Memorial Day with Cameron's brother Cory and his adorable family.  I think we need to make it an annual tradition...it was sooooo great.  The kids swam, collected seashells and built sandcastles.  I used a shovel to craft a little wading pool for Sariah to play in because she was scared of the waves the boats made when they passed.

Sariah finally conked out after lunch and took a nap with Daddy in the shade.  It was good too because she was getting fried even though she had on SPF, like, one thousand.

The wading pool.

Aftynn and River are now bosom buddies for life!  They had a blast exploring together.

Oh, Bear Lake, how I pine for you!