Feisty Kaelyn: Fall Fun and Festivities

We sure do love fall around this house. It means volleyball, football, birthday's, colorful leaves, General Conference, halloween, pumpkins, parties, thanksgiving and lots of other fun stuff. Here is what we have been doing to celebrate this fun time of year.

University of Utah volleyball game.

These girls take the dancing and cheering during timeouts very seriously.

Rivalry week tailgate party at our office.

Annual NEF Rivalry Bowl. Utah took home the trophy this year.

Jaymi and Bryn loved pushing the ball down the lane, we even got a strike or two.

The first night of Jaymi and Kaelyn's UFIT program.

Bryn got to join in on the boogy board fun when we came back to pick up the girls.

Kaelyn hit the bullseye

Jaymi getting warmed up for her first gymnastics class

One of the gyms in our area offers a free special needs gymnastics class taught by their elite gymnasts. We are so lucky to have so many fun programs and opportunities for our girls. Jaymi loves it and was totally built for this sport. She is so strong and flexible, so its right up her ally.

Visiting our new baby neice Averie. The girls love holding a real life baby doll

Jaymi got to go down on the field for the opening of a Real Salt Lake soccer game. She was pretty scared by all the hoopla and noise, but our cute little neighbor took her under his wing and she finally calmed down. She was so excited to come home and tell me all about it. I love how tiny she is in her uniform.

Swinging at Grandma Bonner. We have been soaking up the beautiful sunshine these last few weeks.

The girls and I rode the train to Gardner Village to explore their halloween witches exhibits. We had a lot of fun. Jaymi asks to ride the train everyday so its nice when we can find a reason to ride it.

"What in the world is this lady?"

Bryn was a little nervous to get to close at first. By the end of the day she wanted to climb right up on the different witches.

We splurged and got the girls some "witchy" toes. They were both so good to sit still while they painted their toes.

Hanging out with our good buddies Cohen and Avery.

Bryn decided to do the Kaelyn crawl down the street. Silly girl, just wants to be like her older sister :)

Kaelyn has really been against me doing her hair lately. She puts up quite the stink so when I do it I try and do a style that will last a few days. This is what it looked like after 5 days in the same twisty buns. Yikes!

Gotta love school pictures. She looks a little less than excited.

Swinging with the scarecrows

Jaymi is now missing both her front teeth, now we know what she'll be asking for for Christmas

Kaelyn was a ballerina for her school Halloween party.

The girls and I went on a road trip out to Grandma Ruths over UEA to make their Christmas dresses.

Of course we had to stop at Dad's favorite restaurant in Heber, Dairy Keen.

My parent's took us all our for dinner to celebrate my upcoming birthday

Whats better than going to a pumpkin patch? Going to our good friend's farm and picking out as many free pumpkins as we wanted. The Horrocks family have been some of our closest friends since before I was born . The girls loved playing with their grandkids and getting pumpkins to take home.

They had lots of leaves the run and jump in.

And a great swing set of course.

"Hmm, how do I decide?"

Kaelyn had to get real creative to keep entertained while mom sewed for hours and hours.

Silly little girl

Bryn just had to join in on all the fun

We loved spending so much time with Grandma Ruth. She is still going strong, sewing everyday. The dresses turned out beautiful, thanks to her! I just tried really hard not to mess them up.

My mom sent home some of my old dance costumes and the girls had a great time dressing up in them and dancing around the house.

I love that this blue leotard goes down to Bryn's knees.

Carving our pumpkins for Family night.

Bryn was all about digging the seeds out and getting messy.

Jaymi on the other hand wasn't so sure about it and had to keep taking breaks to wash her hands.

Hey, any reason to pull out the power tools.

The finished products

I made these little frankenstein apple sauce pouches for Jaymi's dance party. Once in a while I get creative

Kaelyn in her little Asain costume for the ward Halloween Carnival

The girls and I got to help out at Jaymi's class party at school on Halloween. We were in charge of the cookie decorating station. Its so fun being able to get to know the other kids in her class. She absolutely loves school and is doing so good!

My little helper Bryn

Kaelyn was so patient while we helped the kids decorate their cookies and trick or treat around the school.

These two are best friends, I love when I catch them being sweet with one another.

Jaymi quite enjoyed her first Halloween! She was so good at trick or treating. We dressed the girls up in their Russian dresses an they looked so cute. We couldn't have asked for better weather, they didn't even need to wear coats while trick or treating. I was able to wear my nice white Russian coat, any chance to wear it is a reason to get excited!