Happy birthday Davey! And a train ride.

First off this little monkey turned 1!  We are so happy he is in our family.  He loves everyone and has a happy personality... Unless anyone he doesn't know is around - then he clings to me and cries a lot.  His birthday was rushed and crazy because we were leaving on the train early the next morning and these days are pretty much me single handedly orchestrating everything our little family does!  Anyways we did celebrate and a daveyjay needs a post all his own!

Here we are getting ready for a 30hr train ride to Salt Lake City!!

Train switch in Chicago 

Denver

New friends and more in Utah later!

Jumbled Fall

Fall is always a busy time of year and this time around has been no exception.  But it's been a happy busy.  So much is missing from here like Davey turned one!!! He started walking about a month before his birthday and fills our home with the joy that only sweet little people can.  I turned 31! Holy smokes.  We celebrated 9 yrs of marriage! Woot woot.  Mark got called into the Sunday school presidency and then the young men's presidency.  I am now the primary president.  Yikes!  Zina is still begrudgingly attending school but her teacher says she is an amazing little girl and deals so maturely with even the most difficult classmates.  Mark and I laughed and said "it's because she has 3 little brothers!!"  We are loving the changing leaves and cooler temps.  Wilson begs to do school everyday because he knows when he is done he can play the iPad for 20 minutes.  :). Sammy is sure to let us know if he is not getting enough attention by karate chopping Davey.  Sigh.  He is such an intense little person!! Here are some pictures of Fall 2013!

Crazy tie day at school and staining the deck with lots of little helpers.

Indy children's museum 

Queen amidala

Rafael tmnt

Darth maul

Indy children's museum

Downtown indy on my birthday.

Baptism visits

We felt super lucky to have Grandma Judy, Grandma and Grandpa Keeler, and Aunty Liz come out for Zina's baptism.  We gave Zina the option to get baptized in Utah the next week, but she wanted to do it in Indiana because she "didn't want a lot of people there."  I think she was very happy with her visitors and her special day.

 We felt so lucky to have Grandpa come and play.  The kids loved playing with him but especially Davey who seems to have a hankering for his Grandpa David.  

Zina is the queen of dress-ups.

 Saturday after the baptism we took everyone on a drive through Indiana country to our favorite park.  It was a beautiful evening and so so so nice to spend it with family.  I'm still dreaming about it. 

 Mark even busted out the guitar. Whoa!  That only happens about once a year. 

He really must have been feeling it. :)

 I may have cut of his head but this is proof that the grandkids were loving having Grandpa here to play.

 Yes I was actually there!  (you can see in Davey's eyes that he is starting to get sick...really really sick)

 Poor baby. :(

 Then everyone started getting sick. 

Ug. I hate being sick.  

But we made the best of it and we hope everyone comes back again someday. :)