Fall family photos

So, these are obviously old but I'm catching up. My awesome and amazing sister Holly used my other incredible sister, Stacey's camera to take some family pictures for us back in the Fall.

Cadence just being cute and playing in the railing when we were finished (these are in reverse order of when we took them).

Sitting on our front porch, the corn stalks were from our own garden, the pumpkins were not.

One, two, three!! Cadence used to love this and she still does. Now she say two, three and lifts her legs up so we have to swing her or at least carry her along.

Standing in our garden.

Fun on our back yard swing.

Would've been so cute if Cadence had cooperated.

Just the 2 of us. (Doesn't Sean look good? And this was before he lost 35 pounds!)

This shows what was really going on between pictures, it was just a good thing that Holly snapped them fast so we got some good ones too!

Want some?

Playing in the leaves is so much fun!

Our house, I like how this turned out.

Too bad we got the neighbors not-so-beautiful-house in the picture, but Cadence's smile makes up for it.

The actual picture...

The cement-edited-out-picture.

She was probably trying to grab the camera but it looks like she's waving.

Party!

We went up to Idaho for little Eli's first birthday party and saw Steve and Alisha's beautiful home that they've been renting and a model home by the builder that is building their new home. They also took us to the lot where they were planning to build. It's a beautiful area and you can get a lot more house for your money there than you can in the Ogden area. Here are some pictures of the party.

Alisha made a very fun (and yummy) cake for Eli.Cadence loved the cake.


Eli didn't like the clapping at the end of "Happy Birthday".
Eli wearing one of his many fun gifts.


The proud grandma's.

Halloween -it's time to catch up

So I thought it would be nice to start catching up on the blog before we hit the 6 month mark as it's only been about 5 months since Halloween.

Getting ready to go to the trunk or treat put on by some local businesses (we had a family Halloween party the night of the ward trunk-or-treat).

At the trunk-or-treat, which turned out to be quite disappointing, the lines were ginormous and most of the trunks were lame with treats to match. But our little Belle looked adorable. Aunt Holly came along and we had a good time.

On Halloween day we went to some local grocery stores (Macey's, Lee's Market, and Wansgards) for some indoor trick-or-treating. It was a little rainy so it was nice that it was all indoors. Lee's gave great treats like string cheese, gossners chocolate milk, a little bag of carrot sticks, and other fun treats and prizes, they were my favorite, Macey's was good too, they let us decorate a pumpkin cookie, Wansgards was alright, they didn't get too into it. . . Aunt Kaylee came along and we had a very fun day.

This was taken a little while before Halloween but Cadence is wearing her Halloween shirt so I thought it was fitting. She was playing peek-a-boo in the clothes. Here she has just emerged from throwing herself back into the clothes so all you could see were her little legs and feet. It was very cute!

The annual (Giatras) Halloween party

First, here I am doing Heather's hair for her Medusa costume (which I purchased second-hand for $5).

Medusa's shadow, watch out, if you look directly into her eyes, you'll turn to stone.

Sean and I as secret agents.

Our costumes didn't correlate with Cadence's at all but we did what we could. (I just have to brag, because I'm a bargain shopper, our trench coats were literally a steal from a yard sale, they were giving everything away for free at the end and we grabbed them.)

The traditional doughnut eating contest, we never remember who won, the fun part is just playing.

Carving pumpkins.
Enjoying our delicious Chinese dinner. This year Jon and Stacey shook things up by putting the chinese names for each course on the menu so there was no figuring out what we were ordering. The meal was great and all homemade (sweet and sour chicken, eggrolls, wontons, the works). We had the whole party in the garage, they brought out a big rug and a couch and we decorated the place to look like Halloween party central. The Giatras' really know how to throw a party.

3 cute cousins.

Mom and Dad's cute costumes.

Grandpa with two of his beautiful (sleepy) granddaughters.

Great Grandma and Grandpa Sjoblom couldn't get enough of Abby.

Halloween night we ended up throwing a little impromptu party with a jack-o-lantern pizza and some fun games and treats, it was a lot of fun. The second one isn't a quality picture, but it's the best I had with everyone looking.