a quick fall

September and October flew by, here we are mid November and I feel like fall just started (although the freezing weather tells me otherwise).  Here are a few pictures from our October.

We met up with some friends for some fun at the Peterson Family Farm pumpkin patch.  Jonny loved to look at the pumpkins, push the wheelbarrow (or try at least to push it), play with some little trucks they had, and most of all, climb on the tractors.

 

A couple of scalawags having some Halloween fun

 

  

Our boys :)

 

Earlier in the month we took a trip to Gunnison to visit Jenny and Wade and their cute girlies. Davey and Lauryn were only born a few days apart and despite Davey being a little chunkier, he is actually the younger one... I especially like the picture where he is karate chopping Lauryn and she looks all annoyed. :)

and of course what is turning into our annual trip up to Logan for the pumpkin walk! (see here for last years trip.)  This year we got to hang out with my niece Marianne who is up there at USU. We had a really great time.  Thanks Min for spending some time with us.

 Lastly here are a few pictures of my sweet boys.  I love how intently Davey just watches Jonny.  I always catch him staring at him and Jonny loves his brother equally as much.  It is pretty sweet.

 

July and August

WARNING:  There are far too many pictures on this post... much like the previous one.

We spent our Independence day in St. George this year, just our little family.  It was blazing hot, but we had a really good time anyway.  We went to the parade (super pathetic... it turns out we were at the end of the parade and the floats had gotten sooo spaced out. We waited for like 5 minutes in between some of them... or most of them, and then they had all run out of candy.  It was really sad)

We spent our morning and evenings out doing stuff like the splash pad and pool and the rest of the time we hung out and watched movies and took naps :)

8 months pregnant...

 Jonny's first time experiencing fireworks!

 I think we were more excited than he was.

That sunday we went for a little drive to the Mountain Meadows massacre site and walked up to the monument there.  

We also visited the Brigham Young winter home and the Jacob Hamblin home. It was a great trip.  Thanks again Aaron and Janet for letting us use the St. George home.

 When we got back, this project awaited us...

 

You did a great job babe.  Thanks for making our condo feel like home.

While our floors were torn up we went to spend some time in Oakley with cousins.

 Jonny loved playing with the hose and wouldn't let the other kids have a turn...

  

 Just a normal Sunday, come home from church and take a nap :)  I promise I didn't pose Jonny with his Jesus picture and Book of Mormon.  I walked into his room to check on him and found him like this... I about died!

the Hogle Zoo with Grandma Niemann

 August was spent much like the rest of the summer.

 We played at splash pads, 

Took advantage of $2 Tuesdays at Thanksgiving point,

 

 

 colored pictures,

 Used the potty for the first time :)

 

 Did some hiking up to Donut Falls with cousins,

 

  

And last but surely not least, Davey finally decided to Join us!

Easter, my happy place and some stitches

This Easter we had our first Hardy Easter Egg hunt.  It was a lot of fun.  I think the kids had a really great time.

Jonny's first egg he found had jellybeans in it.  He opened the egg and didn't care to find anymore, he just wanted to sit and eat the jellybeans.  He is a funny boy.

All the kids enjoying their spoils.

The first weekend in May we headed down to my happy place for the Niemann annual St. George trip.  We had a great time hiking, going to the splash pad, playing in the pool, eating out, and just being together.

Here is our little water baby lounging about by the pool.  

The weekend before we left for St. George Jonny was playing at my moms house and fell down her back steps.  It was super traumatic... for me.  I'm pretty sure I cried more than he did. The poor little guy had to get 7 stitches. Unfortunately, the instacare by my moms house was closed so we had to head to the ER which means those were some expensive stitches.

 

Here is the little guy the day after.  He seemed no worse off, just a little skittish around stairs...