Reesie-Roo Turns 10!

 Our fun, spunky Reese is now the big double digits. What a fun addition she is to our family. She brings excitement and joy to our home and family. 

Reese is getting better and better at playing and singing with the guitar and still enjoys going to lessons with Kristie Christensen. I LOVE hearing her play and sing. Reese also loves to draw and is becoming quite the artist. She draws comics and can draw amazing expression in such simple scenes. Reese's best friends are Brooke Bellows, Kenzi Waite, and Lila (from school). She has 6 boys in her class who have a crush on her (especially Justin who I hear about a lot) and loves going to school. Reese is such a fun light in our home and always entertaining us. She makes us laugh all the time with her witty comments and funny dancing and jokes. She is so much fun to have around and we love her so much!

For her birthday party I took her and several friends to the Provo Beach Resort. We did the ropes course, laser tag, the carousel and went back home for donuts and gifts. Overall it was a good time. 

Emma Turns 12!

 Our baby girl is now 12! How did that happen so incredibly fast. I feel these next several years at home are going to fly by. Emma got lots of cheetah things for her bedroom this year. She also got to have a birthday party at a vacation rental. We decided our family hadn’t had a family vacation in too many months so we combined this vacation rental into some family time as well as Emma’s 12th birthday. Emma invited 12 girls from the neighborhood and from Lincoln Academy. For the party they went swimming, played games, ate food, opened gifts and watched some Studio C :). They’re favorite games was “Imposter” or I used to call it murder in the dark. Emma had a great time. 

Halloween 2021

 We had a great Halloween day. It wasn’t super cold and weather held out great. The girls all decided to dress up doing their own things and switching costumes last min. This year Reese and Emma got to trick or treat with friends from school. They had such a great time. 

Jane’s First Dentist Experience

 Jane had her first dentist check-up and was so excited to get in the big chair. She put on their ear phones and watched the movie on the ceiling. The hygienist was able to clean her teeth great and was commenting on how amazing Jane was doing. Then the dentist stepped foot in the room and she burst into tears. Haha. No idea why but she was not a fan of a man in the room and cried the rest of the time. But she got a new toothbrush and prize at the end. Overall she did great :). 

Cade’s 20th High School Reunion!

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Fall Fun/Fall Break

 We gotta start the fall festivities by talking about BYU football 😆. I haven't been as into it this year with having a baby but Cade has been just as invested as ever :). He went to a game with our good friend David Roura. The girls are getting into cheering for them as well. 

Of course one of my absolute favorite things of fall is going up the canyon and hiking through amazing colors!!! We did our new favorite spot by the Granite Flats campground entrance since its easy and as long or short as you want. 

Lincoln Academy had a fall festival at the school and we invited neighbor friends to come. Then we invited them over for movie night. The girls had a blast. Their favorite was the face painting. 

Another fun hike with Reese and Nora. I just needed to get out and get some fresh air so we hiked up to Battlecreek Falls and I enjoyed their entertaining company!

Dad finally came to swim at JD's house and it was a blast with him there!

Fall break consisted of making haunted gingerbread houses, going to Jaker's Pumpkin patch in Springville, and doing the "witch hunt" at Gardner Village. We had good times actually getting out of the house as an entire family. Our original plans were to go to St. George with Nathan and Steph and Kristen and Andrew but Jane and Benson had colds and we really didn't want to travel south with sick babies and chance them getting even worse (and ear infections). So we changed plans but had a great time around here.