Lots to Share

Here are some pictures of the last week or so.

Me and Kate

Alma won his huge National Competition that was held at the end of October. It was a National Tax competition and his team of 4 got 1st place!!! There were about 40 colleges that he competed against.

We are so pleased of him and his hard work.

He found out he was going to be a part of it last April,so there has been a lot of studying and anticipation about it.

Here are some pictures that I took of him getting presented with his Trophy and Prize.

Him with his Award.

I love this picture bc Kaitlyn actually looks proud of him!
Like she helped win too!

For Thanksgiving we decided we would spend Sunday-Wednesday in Nevada with Alma parents and Brother Spencer.

Here are some pictures taken at their place.

Kaitlyn loved the swing that they have in their living room.

She and her Grandpa Bates searched for Spiders... she was actually not scared of the spiders.

She loved looking for them.

Then we drove back to our place for Wednesday night and Thursday and spent Thanksgiving with my sister Kacey and her hubby and 2 boys and my brother Jared.

It was yummy food and it was great to get to spend time with loved ones, we ended up video chatting with my sister Kenna, who had my parents at her house, so we were "all together" for Thanksgiving.

Here is Zach!

Branson and Kaitlyn standing by their tower.

I love the way she looks in this picture. So sweet and innocent!

Then we spend Friday through Sunday morning at Almas sisters house in Kaysville.

There was yummy food, and games that we played and loads of fun. I didn't get any pictures there :(

Hope your Thanksgiving week was as great as ours and you all made it back home safely!
Lots of crazy snow here in Utah!

IT"S A...

GIRL!!

We are super excited!!

I really was secretly hoping for a girl, a boy would be fun but I feel like I know what I am doing with a girl... at least till the age of 2 so far.... and to have two sisters close in age will be fun and a lot cheaper and well... we JUST love having a girl! So we are excited to do that again.
We do want a boy someday though. But we are super excited that we are having another girl!

Alma will be outnumbered.... BIG TIME!

I had to take a picture of the Ultrasound pictures so sorry they are not the best quality.

This picture is showing she is a girl

This is a shot of our New Baby Girls Face!
For FHE last Monday, we had a fishing pole (stick) with a hook (paperclip) and we set up a Blanket on chairs and had Kaitlyn go fishing. Each fish said a trait about being a good missionary. We were becoming "Fishermen of Men"
We had this for dessert...
Blue Jello with Gummy fish in them... YUM!

And this was the other day. I opened the fridge and Kaitlyn ran up to me and said, "Shhhh Mommy! Big bird and babies are sleeping!!"

They took about a 3 hour nap in there.

We find out Wednesday Morning!! Make your guess!

We go in on Wednesday at 9am to find out what Baby #2 is, so make your guess over to the right side of my Blog!

I love my "almost" 2 year old

Well, this girl gets more fun with each day!

Here she is posing for the camera.

***Excuse the Mario on in the background.

She kept asking for it and and wanting to play it all morning.

It was really cute to watch her pretend to play***

Here is a picture of me today at 20 weeks with baby #2!

1/2 way there!
After Alma took my picture she wanted one of her, right in the spot where I was standing!
So fun!


She takes my camera quite often and has us turn it on and then turns it around pointing at her and says,

"SAY CHEESE!"

So these are the fun pictures you get randomly on your camera with a 2 year old.

Happy Halloween!!

So last night we had our Ward Halloween Party and since we were on the Activities Committee we had fun setting up and planning for it.

Here are some pictures of our night.

We dressed up as Star Wars.

Alma was Han Solo

I was Princess Leia

and Kaitlyn was Yoda.

Here is the church after we decorated.

Here is our Amazing Bishop with his wife and Kaitlyn.

Their Costume was my favorite... and I am not going to lie... I wanna do it next year.

My handsome Han Solo... running the Booth we were in charge of.

All the kids in our ward in their Costumes.

It was so much fun to have Kaitlyn see all her friends dressed up!

They had a Costume Contest and she took 1st place in the little kids category.

Kaitlyn and her friend

Wrapping up a Mummy... we got so dizzy!

So we passed a Yarn Ball around in a circle and held on tight to make a spider web.

To test its strength we threw Kaitlyn on there. It was pretty cute to see her face.

There was a Pumpkin Carving Contest

And then we tried to Pop Balloons that were tied to eachothers feet.

It was a great Halloween Party!

We took her Trick a Treating tonight and she totally knew what was going on.

Not hard to catch on I suppose.

We felt bad though because EVERYONE thought she was a boy.

I guess that is what we get for dressing her like Yoda!

Fall Fun

I love Fall!! Especially where we live, there are so many trees and leaves that fall.

I keep thinking that I need to take as many photos as I can of Kaitlyn and her friends so she can always remember her friends from Wymount.
When we were all outside playing in the leaves, I thought this was a great time to take some pictures. Enjoy!

My silly girl and Pumpkins

Kaitlyn loves to pretend to sleep and then have us say, "WAKE UP" and "Go to sleep" and back and forth while she closes and opens her eyes. It is a fun game at our place.

She put all her friends to sleep and then she was pretending to sleep too!

On Wed. we had some of our friends over and carved Pumpkins. We drank Root Beer and ate yummy Puppy Chow and Chocolate Chip Cookies.
It was so much fun and we are going to miss them a lot.

I didn't get pictures of us carving, but I did get the finished projects!!

The Richards did one together and theirs in on the left and mine is the spider on the right.

Alma did a creepy Tree with bats!

It was such a fun time!

Primary Program

This is more for my records but feel free to read about how Kaitlyn was in the Primary Program this year.

Since our ward is a Married Student Ward, our Primary has about 2 kids. But the Nursery has about 12 or so. So they invited the Nursery to be a part of the Primary Program.

They had all the Families with kids in the Program sit in the first 3 rows.

They had all the 3 year olds and older, even if the three year old was still in Nursery, stand up and say a Line. So while we were sitting (up in the front) each kid would get up and say their line. Since we live in an amazing place and we get to play with all of the kids in our ward everyday, Kaitlyn knows all their names.

So as each one took the stand and walked up to the Microphone, Kaitlyn would say, (pretty loudly) "Nathans Turn", "Joys Turn!" "Sharps Turn."

It was pretty cute to see.

Then she got to go up and sing 4 songs with all the kids. She would go up and stand right in the middle on the stools. It was adorable. We werent sure if she would go up without us, but she had no problem.

We practiced "Follow the Prophet" a lot at home for the week before the Program and she looked so cute singing along to it, especially the part that says, "Don't go astray" (cute little finger waving side to side)
After the 1st verse of Follow the Prophet, she yelled out, "BEAM?" which she does whenever we finish singing a song, she requests a different one. She wanted to sing Sunbeam next.

Then the next time she got up they started to play the intro to the next song... a softer song, and she busts out into a solo during the intro... singing "PROPHET! PROPHET! LAAAA LAAAA!" It was adorable.

Then as they started to sing the song that was next she looked at the Chorister with a very serious face and put her finger to her mouth and "SHHH'd" her. I suppose she was having them sing the wrong song.

Anyway, it was so fun to have her be in the Primary Program at such a young age and we were so proud of her.
We love you Kaitlyn!!

Attempting Pig Tails...

So the other day, Kaitlyn was playing with one of my Hair bands and so Alma took it and put a pony tail on the top of her hair... Gave me a thought... maybe we could do something. So I got little rubberbands for cheap and we did Pig tails.

She loves them... Always talking about her Tails, and checking herself out in the mirror.

My sister in law Viky gave me some curlers so we curled the back of her hair too.
Super cute.

It is still pretty short but it is fun to do a change, from her usual hairstyle... which is doing nothing.

The back
For FHE this last week we made Homemade Oreos and our lesson was on Gratitude.
So we made Thank you Cards to Kaitlyns Nursery leaders that just got relased and also the ones that we called. 6 couples. It was so fun to run around and drop off cookies and tell the leaders Thank you for their service.
I love FHE.
After making all the cookies, there were none left for us, and I was wondering if she would be sad she didn't get any, but She was ok. I guess Service feels better than eating cookies.
But I will admit, later this week we made cookies. :)

Helping us taste test the frosting!

All this fun must make you tired!!