.::Family Time In Utah::.

We're very fortunate to live so much closer to family. Granted we still have to drive 3 1/2 hours to see them but it's a lot better then buying plane tickets. We wanted to just hang out with family this time we were home and we had so much fun.

We took pictures for Mother's Day and I think they turned out pretty cute. I know I am posting the pics a day early but my mom happened to find them early so that went right out the window. However, I think they turned out pretty cute.

All of the kids..

Me & my sisters <3

The boys..

On Saturday, our nephew Hank had a gymnastics thing so we went to support. It really was a bunch of kids showing how they can do cart wheels, jump on trampolines, and cute stuff like that. After we went out to eat with some people from both sides of the family.
After dinner we went over to Mark & Rachel's to play games and our 5 YEAR OLD neice, Charlotte, made us chocolate muffins all by herself...like everything by herself..pretty impressive if you ask me. Oh and they were delicious.

The baker doing her thang..on a foot stool of course.

Just before they went in the oven...

On Sunday we celebrated my dad's birthday with Cafe Rio pork burritos/tacos that my mama made...seriously the closest thing to actually Cafe Rio..and I made my dad a Laker's cake and cupcakes.

After we played some Bocce ball and then we left to Blakes parent's house where we celebrated our neice Hallie's birthday with cake and ice cream and played games.

.::October::.

October has been a busy month for us.

I finally got a job so that's big news! I was offered to be a psych ward clerk at a psych hospital here but the next day got offered a job in the communications department at St. Mary's hospital and jumped on that and started last week. It's been really busy but it's good to be doing something instead of staying at home all day! 

The first weekend of October we made a final (until holidays, hopefully) trip back to Utah since basketball practices would be starting soon.

My parents went down to St. George to go to a wedding so Blake and I took on babysitting duty. Friday night we went to Blake's mission reunion and I got to meet some people from his mission and Pres. Wixom and Sister Wixom, they are the sweetest people and I see why Blake loves them so much. It was conference weekend and it was great to hear from our Prophet and other leadership in the church. Sister Wixom is actually the churches Primary President and spoke on Saturday morning and did awesome. It was nice to lounge in my mom's "mom pajamas" and hangout with some siblings. On the 6th Makenna turned 12 so we took some pics for her and she was stunning! She also had a witches birthday party to go to so I got to dress her up and she looked so cute! She won the costume contest and my mom was pretty proud! :)

We took tons of pics but this was one of our favs and the one we used for her birthday party announcement.

"Mom pajamas" Love these!!

The cutest witch ever!

We went to a wedding reception that night and it was nice to run into some freinds and chat and then went home to make breakfast burritos with Mikey and his girlfriend Kiera.

Our trip was fun and it was good to see our family, even though it was short lived.

Official practices started and I'm sure Blake and the rest of the guys were excited since that meant no more early morning weights and conditioning. A day or two before practices started Coach Heaps had everyone over for a BBQ and the food was great and it was nice to meet everyone.

Last Saturday they had a scrimmage against CNCC (a juco team) and it was fun to see them play together. Colton's girlfriend Angie and her mom came down for the weekend so we had a fun Saturday together!

Our nephew Barrett sent Blake this "Flat Stanley" guy who they read about in some book in school and he likes to go on adventures. So we thought how perfect would it be if he went to the scrimmage with us haha. Barrett loves sports just like his uncle so we got a picture with Blake, Colton, and Chandler.

After the scrimmage we went to eat at a yummy mexican restaurant and a few hours later got together at our house for some pumpkin carving! I hadn't done this in years and realized soon after we started that it takes me FOREVER to carve a pumpkin cause I am too much of a perfectionist.

We had tons of treats for the get together and Angie and I made these Chocolate chip Brownies....yummmm!

 Blake was literally done in 15 minutes so he took some pics

 Final product!

 Flat Stanley was involved also haha! We sent these pictures to Barrett :)

 With the lights out and candles in.

 Blake, mine, Colton, and Angie's pumpkins!

We had such a fun day with Angie and Colton! We're going to make it a tradition now to carve pumpkins every Halloween!

Also, for those of you who knew that Blake's team (Mesa State) was planning on playing UVU next week in Orem, the game was cancelled. Dick (that's seriously his name, but it explains him well) cancelled the other day and lied and said something about NCAA rules but we found out he was lying about it and we can't quite figure out why he doesn't want to play but have come up with some reasons being that there are 3 Utah guys on our team and he wont recruit from Utah but who really knows?! But there was a contract on the game so he would rather pay $75,000 instead of playing! Weird! Anyways we're sad our friends and family wont be able to watch him play but what can you do?!

Hope everyone has a fun and safe Halloween!

.::Pioneer Day::.

On the 24th my side of the family came over and we had a BBQ pool party...it was so much fun! We had steaks on the barbie and tons of delicious side dishes! My mom is an over-acheiver when it comes to parties and she made so much good food! Yum!!!

My cute cousin Eden and Grandpa Price

Mason, Melanie and kids joined us for the fun!

I swear my dad didn't get one good pic of me haha...

We had so much fun! At one point we had a 3 on 3 basketball tournament that was a lot of fun and got pretty physical. Once it got dark my dad and Mikey lit the illegal fireworks they bought and everyone loved them!

Great times with family!

Also on Friday I was home with the kids and we got bored and one thing led to another and we decided to have a photoshoot. They all had fun except Hunter, he was more forced into it so he took a few pictures and then he bounced. Here are a few of my favorites :)

Makenna is gorgeous!

Seriously Makenna and Drew worked the camera. I took 101 pictures of the kids and so many turned out. Such a fun day!