Mi famila!

On Saturday, October 8th my good buddy Ashley took our family photos and I can't believe how cute they turned out! We've been needing to get some new family photos with my mom and all my brothers and sister but we've kept procrastinating it. We finally decided with Austin leaving on his mission we better get it done! The following are my favorites from the shoot. Be forewarned there are about a billion photos but everyone of them I think looks awesome so I felt compelled to include them, enjoy!

9 Months Old!

For Abby's 9 Month Photo I couldn't decided between the above Halloween one or the above cute cow one...I will let you decide which one is cuter!

My baby girl is 9 months already, when did that happen?! At her 9 month check up on the 7th she was 28 1/4" tall which put her in the 75th percentile, she weighs 20lbs which puts her in the 71st percentile, and her head circumference is 17 1/4" which put her in the 46th percentile (she is a little pin-head, lol).

Abby is just getting to be so grown up. She is crawling everywhere now, pulls herself to stand up and can walk as long as she is holding on to something. She gives mommy "kisses" and high-fives and just started giving me Eskimo kisses which though may involve drool is the cutest thing ever! She loves playing peek-a-boo and just getting into everything. She can climb up the stairs though coming down is still another story. I just can't believe how smart and quick she is. We've been teaching her how to get off the bed and though it's still a little nerve racking for me to watch her she knows exactly how to get off the bed and onto the floor safely. She is just so amazing and smart and attentive and just the world to us!

Thanksgiving

I don't know who still checks this but hey I can wait to see you all during Thanksgiving!

Daddy-daughter time!

On Sunday I had the opportunity to snap a couple of really cute pics of Matt and Abby having some daddy-daughter bonding time. I am so grateful for these opportunities to see my loves having so much fun together!

Matt's B-day!

My amazing hubby just celebrated his b-day and you know we had to make a weekend of it! Matt turned 35 on Sunday, October 2nd so we started the celebration on Saturday and had a ball!

Saturday morning we woke up bright and early (Matt had a test to take that day) and Matt opened up a card I gave him with some coupons. I gave him two coupons, one for a "Discovery Flight" which we had to postpone until his eye gets better, and the other for a weekend get-away to Park City. He seemed pretty excited for the day ahead!





Sadly my camera broke so we had to take it back to Best Busy to get fixed (which they said they would do for no charge, gotta love warranties!!) so there weren't many pics from our activities on Saturday but we had a blast! First Matt had to take a test which wasn't so fun but then right after we went to In-N-Out (one of Matt's favorites) and enjoyed some yummy food! Abby seemed to enjoy it too!





My buddy Claudia and her two daughters watched Abby Saturday and had a fun slumber party! Claudia is the best ever and I am so glad she was willing to watch Abby for us. After we dropped off Abby we headed up to Park City for the day and night. We went to the outlets and did some shopping and just had so much fun! Matt wanted to get some Christmas shopping done for me so we looked at clothes and I got a lot of good stuff...sadly I wont get to wear any of it until after Christmas. We also bought Abby a lot of Christmas presents which was nice. Later that night we went to dinner at the Blue Iguana and the food was amazing! We spent the night in Park City and the next day we picked up a very happy Abby from Claudia's. Thanks again chica! On Sunday we enjoyed watching conference, relaxing, and Matt opening his birthday presents from Abby. He got a mouse-pad for work with pictures of Matt, myself, and Abby, he also got a new shirt and the tv show Leverage season 4. Good times for sure!!










Later that day we all went out to dinner at Red Robin for dinner with my family. It was a bitter-sweet dinner since we were celebrating Matt's birthday but also it was the last time Austin would be having a family dinner with us for over two years. Still hard to believe he will be leaving on the 12th, just over a week away. We enjoyed good family and good company!








I always love spoiling my hubby on his birthday! He does so much for our family (works, goes to school full-time, is the most AMAZING dad ever!!!) and its always nice for me to let him know how much I love him! Matt truly is the best husband and father ever, he is so kind and patient and just so full of love. He would do anything for his family and he deserves so much for all he does. I love you so much Matt and I hope you had the best birthday ever!!