Family Resemblence

Family resemblence? Maybe so.

Happy Veteran's Day!

Today's Veteran's Day and I wanted to take a minute to recognize the wonderful people who have sacrificed so much for our country.  I'm very thankful to live in a country where the gospel flourishes and I can live and raise my children without fear. I'm very grateful for those men and women who have been deployed two, three, four times and continue to go because they have a commitment to our freedoms.

Some shout-outs to some veterans who are very special to me:

On the left is my Grandpa and Grandma Clark, although technically not a veteran, my grandpa served in the Army for several years.

On the far right is my Grandpa Breedlove with his wife, Sherry.  He served in the Korean War where he had several teeth knocked out and lost hearing in one ear.  I'm also very grateful to him and my grandma.  They are the pioneers in my family.  They joined the Church in the 1960s, shortly before my mom was born.

My husband, Dallas.  He's a wonderful person and an awesome husband and father.  I'm so grateful he was willing to serve and help so many people.

Although we weren't married when he was deployed, I'm still grateful for his service and so proud of him.  We made the decision last week for Dallas to extend his contract with the National Guard until the end of 2011, and I'm thankful he's so willing to give up so much for others.

Dallas' brothers--Tyson (right) and Ryan (left).  They're both wonderful men and great examples to me.

This is us in Utah over general conference weekend. From left to right: our good friend Cesar and his fiance, Ally.  Bracken, Dallas' cousin, and his wife Katie, myself and Dallas.  All three of these boys served in Iraq.

I'm sure Dallas would also like to mention his cousin, Russel (sorry, best picture I could find!) 

Happy Veteran's Day to all of our wonderful people in the service!

The Many Faces of Halloween

This year Halloween was a BIG day! We saw Dallas' parents in the morning then went down to Rigby and Dallas played football with his brothers and friends. My favorite quote of the day was from my nephew Payson. He said he was going to be an army guy for Halloween and I asked if that's what he was going to be when he grew up and he said, "Maybe, or like a football player or a dad or sumfin'.":)

Can't you tell Dallas is so excited for Halloween?

We went and saw my parents and my grandparents as well.

Amaya and her 2nd cousin Easton. He had the cutest little Batman costume!

That night we went over to Dallas' friend Chad's house for the (Unoffiicial) Annuel Halloween Costume Contest.  (ok, it was just our 2nd year getting together.)

This year I FINALLY got Dallas to dress up--at a high price.  I had to let him shave his head.

We went as an old man and a trophy wife, or in Dallas' words, "Basically your average French couple."  I didn't succeed in getting him in makeup and sprayed hair, but there's always next year.

Everyone's costumes looked sooo good!  Some of our favorites...

Dallin and Cecily's holy attire.

Father forgive them...

The only day of the year it's okay to be a transvestite.

Travis graced us later with his choreographed routine.

Sweatin' to the Oldies with Richard Simmons and company.

Think The Emporer's New Groove:

Kronk and Yzma

Elderly was a recurring theme.  Yes, that's Chad in the middle.

The after party

Doesn't Kaizer look so cute in his pumpkin costume?

Halloween Sneak Peak

You know when you see something really cool and you think, "I could do that!"and really you can't? I did that yesterday with sugar cookies.  They turned out a lot cuter in my head.

Dallas' own personalized sugar cookies ;)

And a sneak peak at Amaya in her adorable caterpillar costume.

We love Halloween! We're so excited!

A note about the background/music.  I was looking for a Halloween background and I stumbled across a WICKED background.  If you didn't know, Wicked is pretty much amazing and also my favorite musical. 

Watch Me Grow!

Wow! Where has the time gone? I can't believe Amaya is already three months old!  Life is so busy being a full time mom and a part time student, I never have time to post to the blog.  So, here's all the stuff I've missed posting.

Two days old.

3 weeks old.

Bathtime @ 1 month old.

6 weeks old and full of smiles!

September 6 Blessing Day @ 7 weeks old

Playing X-box with Dad @ 8 weeks

2 months old

Hanging out with cousin Maylee.

Trip to Utah @ 2 1/2 months

2 1/2 months

When she isn't swaddles, Amaya always sleeps like this.  Check out that red hair!

Hood rats @ almost 3 month

Hanging out when Dad's out of town @ 3 months

Tummy Time.

We borrowed Grandma's jumper!

As you can tell, she thinks it's pretty awesome.

After the jumper and just prior to nap time. :)

Amaya has learned to scoot just a little.  It really freaks me out when I leave the room and come back to find her off the blanket. 

This picture was taken today. Amaya loves to grab onto her clothes.  Not only are most of them now stretched out, they're pretty soggy from being in her mouth!

Two weeks ago Amaya was 12 lbs. 9 oz. and 23 inches long.  She's growing so fast! Yesterday I was giving Amaya a sponge bath and she managed to kick over the cup of water twice and pee on the floor.  What a pain! Dallas and her both thought it was pretty funny. We love our crazy little girl!