Pumpkin Carving.

For the past 3 years, we have gotten together with our good friend Melynda to eat dinner and carve pumpkins. Melynda made us some yummy broccoli cheese soup.

Since this was Taytum's first year, she got to join in for the festivities though she only made it thru dinner before she started to get sleepy so I had to hurry and get a few pictures with her first pumpkin which you will see below.


This picture, she is wondering what the heck this big orange thing is.

We got a little smile out of her. Happy Halloween Tayters.

Here we are with our pumpkins. Each year, Kyle and I seem to pick the hardest pattern that takes us forever. Every year, Melynda has to wait for us to finish. She is so fast. She even did an intermediate pattern this year as opposed to her normal beginner pattern. Good job M. I think all of our pumpkins turned out awesome.

Melynda is great at multi-tasking. Pumpkin carving and babysitting is a cinch.

Transferring the pattern.

Say cheese!

Misty's Mummy pumpkin

Kyle's scarecrow pumpkin

Melynda's "Beware" pumpkin

We've decided that we should all become professional pumpkin carvers.

Halloween Party!!

This week, we went to a Halloween party with some friends and it was a lot of fun. They had tons of great food and games. We even won the "donut on a string" eating contest, I hate donuts but luckily Kyle got most of it. As you can see, I went as a witch and Kyle was Hillbilly/Pit Crew Hunk. I couldn't find anything small enough for Taytum without spending a fortune, so she just went as the "Cute Halloween Baby" with a cute shirt and bow.

She rolled over!

Yes. She rolled over from her tummy to her back for the first time. It was quite exciting and I think she even surprised herself. Needless to say we've tried to get her to do it again and it hasn't happened yet so maybe it was a fluke. Also if you notice that her outfit looks like it came straight out of the 70's, you're right. I wore this outfit when I was her age. Too cute!!

This is just a random picture, but most mornings when we get her out of her crib this is what we see. We have a thumb sucker on our hands and it is absolutely adorable. She also has the unique ability to bury herself under blankets so you can hear her sucking away on her thumb before you even lift the blankets. Hopefully we can break her of this habit when she becomes older but for now, I think its so cute and she usually only does it in the mornings.

Southern Utah Deer Hunt.

We spent this years deer hunt in southern Utah for Kyle's deer tag. Though the weather was perfect and the scenery beautiful, we did not see much deer that were worthy of our freezer. It was a nice get away and Taytum got to spend two days with Grandma and Grandpa Paxman so I could go. I sure love having them so close by.

One thing I love about camping is I usually get to kick up my heels and let the men folk cook. Now this is the life.

Travis and Kyle cooking a delicious morsel of sausage and eggs.

They spent forever staring and tormenting these ants and their ant hill.

Gotta love the hunter orange

"Muley, 12:00. Get em Trav".

The Handsome Hunter!

Silly headbands!!!

So I was driving to work one day with my sweet angel in the back seat. Now Taytum seems to enjoy her car seat and rarely fusses on our drive to work -except for this one day. The whole 10 minutes of the 15 minute drive she is letting me know that she is not happy; but I'm driving so obviously there's not much that I can do. I arrive at work and go to get her out and this is why she's fussing. I thought it was so funny I just had to take a picture. Silly headband wasn't cooperating.

Blessing Day!!

Getting Ready.

Dad helping me do up the buttons in her cute white, puffy dress.

Looking too cute.

I was successful in catching this spit up but just as we got her buckled into her car seat and was headed out the door, she let loose and yes had to have spit up down the front of her the rest of the day.

Our cute little family.

She is just too cute. I just love her so much!!

Looking absolutely bored of all the picture taking.

Kennedy, Jacey, Luke, and Taytum
I wish I would have had pictures with all of her cousins because they all love her so much but it was kind of a crazy, happy day.

Four generations

Daddy's Little Princess.
Kyle gave such a beautiful blessing to his daughter and I am so lucky that he is ours for eternity

Hiking, Glassing and Sleeping. Oh my!

As you can see, after a long wait and much needed break. We sported our hiking boots and headed for the mountain for Labor day weekend. My sister graciously took our little one into her home for two nights and we spent some quality time together doing the things we love most.

We also spent some time looking for bulls and saw quite a few. Kyle is actually currently out there with his nephew helping him with his elk hunt. Hopefully they can come home successful. Here we are checking out a few bulls.

Not a monster but a nice looking bull that we got real close too.

I forgot to take a picture of our brand new tent that is huge and incredibly nice. Not to mention all the sleep I got this weekend, not having to get up a couple times throughout the night. We even got in a nap or two during the afternoons. I love sleep. Though I will admit that at seven weeks our little Taytum started sleeping through the night. On average she has been sleeping from 9:00 p.m to 5:30 a.m. I can live with that.