Mountain Goat

I turn my back for 2 minutes and this is what I  find. Our baby proof just got baby proofed! 

Fall

Ethan had a few minutes before study sessions tonight and so we decided to go the park. On our way to the park was saw a bunch of leaves and got distracted into an hour of fall fun! Kelsey doesn't smile easily for pictures and so we were loving up all the smiles she was giving us. She LOVED the leaves. We found this shopping cart on the lawn and she loved that too. We did everything you would expect. Kelsey "jumped" in a pile of leaves (ran through them), we threw leaves at her, we tried to bury her but she hated that, and we played tag. It felt so good to be outside running around. We had so much fun playing with Kelsey. It was  a really rough day and so it was nice to end it with so many smiles and laughs.

Ethan's phone has the awesome feature where he can push the button and it takes like 4 pictures back to back to back so we were able to get some fun pictures of Kelsey and the leaves.

BYU football

We finally had a warm and early enough game that we could justify taking Kelsey. On Saturday we played Georgia Tech and Kelsey got to come. We packed plenty of snacks, brought warm gear, sat high in the bleachers, and next to a wall so we felt sufficiently prepared to handle the beast. Kelsey was AMAZING!! She loved all the cheering fans around us (and they were all super nice too), she loved to clap when Dad clapped, and of course just loved being outside. We had to leave a couple of times for diapers but it was good to mix it up a bit. We had such a fun time being there as a whole family. BYU won too so it was a great evening.

I just think this picture is hilarious

Pumpkin Patch

Kelsey and I went to the Springville pumpkin patch on the 7th with MBASA. It was a surprisingly warm day which was nice and the pumpkin patch was as fun as a pumpkin patch can be but Kelsey is still too little to be way impressed. There was a corn pit that she didn't like to play in and just stood there, there were some animals which she actually loved, a slide that was too big for her and too over run by 5 year olds, and a place to climb the hay which she tried over and over and over but she just kept slipping. It was kinda sad actually. I mean all in all it was fun to be outside and to be apart of a fall activity but we are still just too little I think.

I guess pumpkin patches are just not Kelsey's forte

                Last year                                                                   This year

The corn pit was cool but she was unimpressed. All Kelsey wanted to do was push the stroller around. This was harder than it sounds because the ground was so bumpy and rocky that it kept getting stuck.

Despite the hardships, we enjoyed the afternoon. 

And when did I get a toddler! She looks so old to me. Slow down Kelsey! Slow down!

College Date Night

We are in college again and our dates have turned into college dates again. Aka revolving around BYU events and free food. On Friday Oct 11th we got to go pick up a free pizza because we read to Kelsey every day for a week. After the pizza, we went to the park, walked around the BYU library (which now has MACS and a fireplace) and then went to my intramural game. After the game, we watched The Birds which I have always wanted to see, but found it kinda a waste of time :) Anyway, despite The Birds, we had a great night and felt like we were in college again.

Kelsey is a girl from my own heart. She LOVES pizza. She had one and a half adult sized pieces.

The pizza made her little belly stick out. It was adorable

Thank you Darden

Over conference weekend Ethan had the opportunity to fly to Orlando to interview with Darden Restaurants in pursuit of a potential summer internship. We still haven't heard back from Darden, (and probably wont for a couple more weeks) Ethan was just excited to be able to have an interview under his belt and is ready for more. He was very nervous for his first interview, but while he was flying in he saw the fireworks over Disney World and that helped calm his nervous. That also made us want to live there terribly but we can't get too excited. 

As a thank you, Darden was classy enough to give Ethan a gift card to Red Lobster and so when he got back we planned a date night and went to Red Lobster. The food was delicious and the whole meal we couldn't help but talk about living in Florida.  (We are not doing well at keeping our excitement contained.)

These pictures make me laugh so hard! I love them. The flash on Ethan's phone went off like 5 times before it would take and it was hilarious! 

Seeing Kelsey sleep still makes our hearts melt

Conference

This year the annual conference extravaganza was at Robert and Diana's new home. It is such a beautiful home and has plenty of space for all of us that we felt like we really were on vacation. This year was especially different because we celebrated Holden's, Emily's, and Diana's birthdays back to back to back. It made for one crazy, good food weekend!
 Ethan and I were able to stay Thursday night to Monday morning, so it really felt like a vacation. Kelsey has so much fun following Granpa around, stealing the hall flashlight and reading Granmas books. We slept in the guest bedroom and so I would wake up to Kelsey saying "Poppa? Poppa?" I would then take her out of her crib, she would run down the hall yelling for Poppa. Se just loves her grandparents. Its super cute.
Kelsey especially loved the reading nook that Granma has created. There are more books than a little girl could dream of! She loved it. She also spent plenty of time in the adorable play room under the stairs and in the closet and running back and forth on the cement blocks in the backyard. It was just so nice to be able to run around, play with new toys, walk on new carpet, and get away from our little apartment.

The favorite toy was the doll stroller. These two girls fought over it like you wouldn't believe. The funny thing too was that they wouldn't push it once it was their turn. They would just carry it away from the other one to make sure that it really was theirs.

Reo or Julie had the brilliant idea to put Harper in the stroller. Harper wanted to be pushed and Kelsey wanted to push. Problem solved! And it was adorable for the rest of us to watch. Who needs a doll when you have a cousin?!