Pre-Halloween Fun!

We made this awesome halloween haunted gingerbread house from Grandma Murray when Melissa was here- we LOVED spending time with her by the way!

Then a week later we made sugar cookies- here are Whitney's sprinkle-hands!

our plates of cookies

The girls went to a friend's princess/fairy party, they were so cute. They also went to a Halloween party Katrina and Phillip had for their nieces and nephews, it was SO cute and I wish I had a picture of the orange-fruit salad jack-o-lanterns!
we made these sweet ghost decorations, thank you Family Fun magazine!
love Halloween right now.

whitney's race video

Whitney and Katelyn ran in the BYU Homecoming kids races, it's 200 meters for 1-4 year-olds. It was just as awesome as we knew it would be!! Katelyn did great, see next post, even though she runs faster than that when we're just playing in the backyard. She took 4th place! So she just missed a medal. :) But in the official results they have her as 7th, because as you can see from our video evidence, 3 girls passed her in the finish chute and the people in charge didn't even notice! Rude. Eric was so mad, he's the one who stayed with her during the race, but didn't go through the finish line with her. Good thing she didn't really take 3rd or we would have had to fight for her medal! haha.

Then little Whitney, you'll see in this video how she stops, breathing all hard, just to rest, then stops to point out a hot air balloon, totally trips and falls on her face, classic Whitney, then jumps back up and keeps going. My personal favorite is her funny big steps the last few meters. She was the CUTEST, SO excited about "my race" for weeks beforehand. We weren't going to have her do it but she wanted to SO BAD! She took second-to-last place and it was so fun! (and the video is blurry, taken with our old broken camera)

This is a new family tradition by the way :) If only we could get Eric to run the 5k with me....

Okay sad. the video will not upload after 4 tries. :(

kate's race

we have a separate video of Whitney. coming soon.

weekend in St. George

We went to see my whole family and lots of extended relatives at my great-grandma's 90th birthday party in St. George a couple of weeks ago! It was a surprise party, so awesome. Here's Whitney and her only boy cousin Caleb, they are going to be great friends.

Katelyn, Natalie and Whitney singing "I am a Child of God" they were so cute and hilarious! Katelyn held it together while Whitney made up some words and Natalie and Whitney wiggled all around.... classic.
And here they are, the 5-generation pictures I've been DYING for! Katelyn with her Great-Grandmom, Mom, Great-great-grammy, and Grammy.
Whitney with her Great-grandmom, Mom, Great-great grammy, and Grammy!

me, my 5 siblings who were there (obviously Derek and Jonathan couldn't come 'cause they're on missions.....) and our great-grandma (Grammy)!

me and my 4 sisters after we sang in the "talent show"- we did the star-spangled banner verse 1 and 3 in 4 parts. cool.
the girls with Natalie at the St. George Temple. Sadly, this is the best one I got!
me and Whit. now every time we sing "I love to see the temple" she says "we went there!"
I didn't get any pictures of us all swimming on Saturday night, it was really fun! And we discovered that Whitney looks JUST like my grandmom when she was little- I love that we can see those similarities through the generations!

more random pics.

Here are a few more late summer/early fall fun pictures.

The girls saying goodbye to uncle Kurtis before he went off to college at BYU-Idaho.

dark picture, but here are the girls with our favorite snack of August- watermelon with fruit chunks stuck into it with toothpicks. DELICIOUS.
On probably our last hike of the year- in Utah that is. The leaves were beautiful! Kate's got an apple in her mouth by the way.
Cousin sleepover!! We got to spend several days with the girls' only 2 cousins. It was so fun!
My prize tomato!