Staheli Farm

We took our annual outing to Staheli Farm today!  It's worthy of mentioning because we took the time to dress up in our Halloween costumes for a photo shoot.  AND that's worthy of mentioning because of my costume this year:

I am Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas.  And I LOVE my costume.  I got so many compliments on it today.  And I owe it all to Mommy and our friend, Sarah.  Mommy spent four hours hot glueing my wig together and Sarah spent FIVE hours finding fabric remnants in her workshop/garage and surging them all together.  The dress is fabulous and unbelievably durable.  Again I LOVE IT.  And I got so many compliments walking around the farm.

Cara looks so fetching in this beautiful red hooded cape that we almost had her be Red Riding Hood, but then she also pulls of a beautiful villainess in her dark black dress that we went for that instead!

We had fun taking pictures...we aren't exactly great at posing but Mommy managed to get enough for photo overloads!

Our pumpkins!

Epic Lake Trip

Last week we made the decision NOT to go to Lake Powell with Grandma and Grandpa.  It was the first year that Cara and I were invited to go because neither of us were in diapers!  However, Mommy looked at the weather and said "No thank you!"  And we're glad she did.  The others still went and did a lot of sitting in tents while it rained and thundered and lightninged.

Of course THIS weekend it's been beautiful.  Oh the irony.  So Grandpa invited us all to go out for an afternoon and Sand Hollow even though the water is starting to be a wee bit nippy.  I never actually got in.  And it turned out to be a "blood relation" only trip.  No spouses.  Us grandkids were allowed to tag along because we are "blood"!

Mommy couldn't decide which picture she liked more...so you get two versions.. one with sunglasses, one without!

My Art

Here are some examples of the art I've been doing.  I'm lucky enough to get to do an art project every time I go to preschool AND every time I go to the gym daycare.  These are just a quick pick of five!

We had to include Frankenstein because we are a bit obsessed with this Halloween monster!

Marathon...Check!

My daddy just checked off a major accomplishment yesterday.  He ran a full blown marathon!

Yesterday was the St. George Marathon and this year it was favored with great weather.  Nice and cold in the morning with a terrific and slow heat up.  My daddy did really well.  (As Cara says, "My daddy is SOOO great!) He ran the full thing in just FOUR hours and three minutes.  We are so proud of him.

Uncle Eric, Aunt Becca, Aunt Angie and Grandma came to help us cheer him on for his last mile.  He was so fast that all of us only caught his backside running away from us on camera!

Celebrations continue!

On Sunday, after we arrived home from Disneyland ridiculously late, we took the time to celebrate with Mommy's family.

We did cake and presents for me!  And of course I loved it.

Grandpa got me my own chalk bag!

We also took the time to go see Grandma Great at her grave.  Sunday would have been her 70th birthday!  I can't believe it's been almost a whole year since she left us.  Happy Birthday, Grandma Sharon!

Disneyland Trip #4

I had a great birthday this year.  I got to spend it at Disneyland!  Since this was our fourth trip to Disneyland, it seems a little ridiculous to post more pictures of us doing the same things.  Or at least doing four separate posts for each day.  So we will try to keep it to highlights.

Highlight #1: Mommy and Daddy surprising us with a stay in the Disneyland Hotel for two nights.

We loved the room.  The headboard had a little button that would turn on the LED firework lights and play "A Dream is a Wish".  We even enjoyed it at 2 am when we arrived!

Highlight #2: Being walking distance to Disneyland two mornings in a row with the benefit of an extra Magic Hour available to only resort guests.  Seriously.  It made the difference.  We were able to get in to a separate park than all the other Magic Hour 3 day park hopper pass people.  We did so much in that hour.  We were able to do the new Cars Land roller coaster: Radiator Springs Racers FOUR times because of it!

Highlight #3: Taking a 2 hour break on our first day to play in the Disneyland Hotel pool.  They had waterslides that were so much fun...unless you ask Cara.  This is how she spent the two hour break:

Those monorail cars are actually slides...so fun.

Highlight #4: A Birthday lunch for me at Ariel's Grotto. Five star food with five princesses coming around and greeting us at the table....very exciting.

Highlight #5: Cara was finally tall enough to ride on Go Coaster with us!!  A roller coaster with the whole family on it.  Very fun.

Highlight #6: Seeing Cars Land in general.  It is very fun to walk around (except for all the people!!!) and we loved the Junkyard Jamboree ride.  Luigi's Flying tires was kind of funny too!

Highlight #7: Enjoying our rides on Haunted Mansion because it was decorated in Nightmare Before Christmas and we had been watching a video on Mommy's phone about it over and over!

Highlight #8: Cara and I really enjoyed the Halloween decorations even though we have been there two other times with them up.  This one we might ACTUALLY remember!

Highlight #9: Taking the morning on Saturday to spend at the beach.  I LOVED PLAYING IN THE WATER.  Daddy was afraid for me and the undertow but in classic child style I had no idea of the danger!

Cara showed Daddy how to take a drink without touching the cup
with sandy hands...she didn't get in the water...

I'm in Daddy's arms in this picture!

Oh the sand!

Highlight #10: Heading home on the I-5...and then doing a U-turn at the LAST MINUTE to head back down for a couple more hours and check some more things off of our bucket list! Crazy, I know, but worth it.