Family Pictures - October 2011

Here are our family pictures for 2011. Adam Sink took them and he did a great job! I was really happy with how many good ones we got. Our location was maybe too exciting for the kids because all they wanted to do was explore. So it was hard to get them to sit still and smile, but they are cute anyway.

Austin would not stop sqwirming so I just held him upside down. It was the only smile he gave us the whole time.

D'Agostini Family Picnic

Today we went to Liberty Park for a D'Agostini Family Picnic. Liberty Park has a lot of fun things to do, but this weekend it was packed with a lot of hoodlums, so we mainly stuck around the picnic area. It was still a good time to see the extended family. Lucky for Elaina, Tyler found this fuzzy yellow caterpillar. Unfortunately, this caterpillar soon met the same fate that so many of Elaina's "best friends" meet. He was smothered with her love, but Elaina and her new friend Katie gave it a proper burial.

HeeHaw Farms

Tonight we went to HeeHaw Farms with some of Adam's family and had a ton of fun!

Our kids loved the cute little petting area. This little lamb was 4 hours old! Soooo cute!

We rode on the animal train which was fun.Elaina got to ride on a pony. She was a natural!

Elaina and some of the adults had a lot of fun on the little tractors. Here's Elaina pushing her friend Kinley.

And Austin had a lot of fun doing what he does best, getting dirty.

Snowbird

This weekend Adam had the bad misfortune of having to do a briefing at Snowbird, with which he was allowed to bring his family. Well, the kids and I did not want him to suffer alone, so we agreed to go with. It wasn't too bad. We just had to endure a hotel room that had an amazingly wonderful (working I might add) A/C unit, three catered meals and two catered snacks each day, beautiful scenery, free tram ride, 12 hours of nonstop kids and playtime for Elaina (well, that is until she got kicked out of the program for running) and lots of time with Adam while he was being paid! It was wonderful!

Adam had to brief members of the National Guard and their spouses/girlfriends who had just returned home from Afghanistan on sexual assault. Fun! The briefing lasted about 30 minutes and then him and I volunteered to help out with the youth program for the guardsmen's kids. We were put in charge of (16) 5 & 6 year olds. It was a little (more like a lot)crazy the whole time, but it was good, fun, quality time spent with Adam. Austin obviously didn't love his time spent with his age group because it was about 10 minutes before we were asked to pick him up, but he did love the attention our 11 girls gave him. They all thought he was the funniest and cutest baby in the world!

Elaina, liked I mentioned earlier, had almost made it the entire day with her age group but an hour before pick up we got the call that she was asked to stop running and did not comply therefore needed to be picked up. The second day was a complete success for Elaina, though.

It was a great weekend and nice to do something different. We're really grateful for Adam's job and the opportunities that it has given us!

Our room had a window in the shower area. Elaina loved that she had her own bed.

A view of Salt Lake County from the tram stop. They are way too close to the edge! I was freaking out.

Austin and His Fishy Crackers

Austin loves his fishy crackers! So, I stay stocked up with them. Most days Austin with come find me carrying one of my backup bags. He's such a cutie!

Family Day in Provo

Today, Adam had the day off so, we made it a fun family day. We started the day off by giving Austin a long overdue haircut, then we took the kids down to BYU's Bean Museum to see all the animals and to BYU's dinosaur museum. The kids loved it. Elaina did not want to leave the dinosaur museum. She was able to tell us what each dinosaur was. She's so smart. Her favorite was "Sarah" the triceratops.


Elaina with a giant crockadile and then with "Sarah".

Austin got a haircut! YAY!!

Austin has needed a haircut for a very long time now. Adam finally gave in today and cut it! Yay!
This is a picture of Austin's hair on a normal day before his haircut.

Austin's hair now! What a stud muffin!