BYU Football

One of my favorite things about fall is BYU Football. My dad has had season tickets since I was a kid and there are always extra seats for us to use. We make it to almost every game and love it. We took Rease to one of the night games with us. Though it was cold and late she had fun.

We try and make it there early enough to be able to see the band march into the stadium. While we wait, Rease always like to climb on the cougar. I'm sure I have pictures of me doing the same thing when I was her age! She had fun sitting with Aunt Hayley. Cute little pair!

Bell Canyon

Last night for Family Night we decided to take a hike up Bell Canyon. We have been wanting to do it for a long time and finally decided we needed to get it done before the weather turns to not so nice. It was a perfect night for a hike. I had Liev in his little pouch, Rhen was on Josh's back in the carrier and Rease was on her own as a lone hiker. Uncle Greg and Jax came with us and he was a big help to Rease. (She did great on her own, but on the way back we were glad Greg could help out.)

Rhen was in the best seat by far. She had fun just looking around and didn't have to spend any energy to get to where we were going.

Rease and Greg were a good pair - they led us the whole way up.

We wanted to show the kids the trees that are starting to turn colors. We found this amazing red tree and had to grab a picture. Rease loved the leaves and thought they looked more pink than red.

The hike up to the lake took us about 30 minutes but it is a pretty good hike uphill. We were happy to make it to the lake. It was beautiful!

I love Rease's red cheeks - she did so great and made it all on her own!

The girls promptly started to play in the water. (I didn't get any pictures but they also found some ducks and threw their whole dinner to them. "These ducks are so hungry" they kept saying. )

Eating some dinner before it disappeared to the ducks.

We had such a fun time and the setting was perfect. Great family night activity!

Rhen's Burn

Last week Rhen burned her little hand on the iron. Poor girl. I felt so bad for her - she didn't know what to do but just cry and let me hold her. I wasn't sure how bad the burn was until the next day when I took off her bandaid and saw this blister.

Since then I have been really diligent about keeping it clean, putting neosporin and a new bandaid on it and wrapping it in an ace bandage for extra protection.

Rhen was very excited about her "special bandaid." She has been so good about keeping it on too.

I should get an after picture because now almost a week later it looks awesome and the blister is almost completely gone. Sweet little thing has been so good about helping mom take care of her burn.

Playing in the DVDs

I came home one Saturday after one of my long runs and found out that the girls had been busy making a masterpiece in the basement. A DVD grid!

They were very proud of their handywork.

Showing the now almost empty DVD shelves.
This prompted a project of going through the DVDs and finding out which were in the wrong cases (many of them) and which were lost (a few of our favorites - Star Trek, Enchanted) and which ones just needed to be thrown out due to scratches, breaks, etc. We now have organized, marked DVDs thanks to Rease and Rhen's masterpiece!

First Day of Preschool

Sweet Rease started preschool this week. She has been talking about school for months and her day finally arrived. I have to admit that I cried a little bit when I dropped her off - I can't hardly believe she's old enough for this! Good luck at school Rease!