Our Fall Fun

Ok major update time! Some how September and October both slipped away from me!
September was a busy month for my business. Things have really picked up. I have about 3 houses a week now. Sometimes more. Poor Layla has had to spend lots of time away from me. At least most the time she can be at Grandma Bigham's house and play with her cousin William. She loves him so much. I got to babysit him one day in September. Layla had an interesting reaction. Usually she is so happy to see him but having come to her house was a whole new thing. She was not happy. She would not let me go and screamed and cried for almost the whole time he was here. Finally for the last hour she decided it was going to be ok and had some fun.

In September Layla got to go on her first Trax ride. We took Trax downtown to see the Circus Parade. The Circus was in town and to advertise they marched all the people and animals in there show down the middle of the road. It was pretty cool.



One of our favorite activites this year has been going to Wheeler farm. We went with my friend Amber and her kids and fed the ducks and went on a wagon ride.




Layla and I have really enjoyed being a part of a group of moms that live around Salt Lake. We get together and have playdates and activites and moms nights. In September we went to a lot of activites. They had a end of summer BBQ that even daddy came with us to.



At the end Of September we had a visit from Vaughn's Grandpa Mat Bigham, Grandma Ronnie, aunt Cassie and her two kids Bailey and Jerome. We had so much fun spending time with them. Layla warmed right up to them. She even reached out for them to hold her. I didnt get the best pictures while they were here but this is what I got thanks to Hannah. I'm hoping to see their pictures they took!




Thanks to Vaughn I was able to get out and have some fun mommy time. Although I wish he would have been there to dance with me!


That was our September short and sweet.
Now for October!
October 4th was Vaughn's 28th birthday. We hosted a birthday dinner at our home. And packed our house full of people. We seriously need more room. Can you believe I didn't take any pictures? I was too busy entertaining. But Vaughn did say he had lots of fun. One of the presents I got for Vaughn was tickets to see Austarilian Pink Floyd. We go every year to go see them. Don't know who they are? You are missing out! We found my cousin Marco and his wife Amanda at the concert as well. That was awesome!
We finally had our first family pictures done! Here is one of them.

October was also filled with many Halloween activites. We had a hard time deciding what to dress Layla up as. As a last minute costume for a trunk or treat with my mommies group she dressed up as some kind of woodland fairy. She put on a leotard that her aunt hannah used for dance and I put some sparkles on her face. The Trunk or Treat we went to was the weekend before Halloween. It was raining so it turned out to be a picnic table or treat.



In my mommies group I am apart of the Charitable Events Committee. One of our favorite things to do is go to the Senior Center with the kids. For Halloween we had them dress up in their costumes and hand out candy to the seniors. I think both sides had fun.




We waited till last minute to go get our pumpkins this year. We didnt even get to the pumpkin patch till the sun was already down. It was a cold night. It had just snowed a few days before. Lukily all the snow was gone. We went to Wheeler Farm. They had a bunch of fun activites. We went through a hay/corn maze and the wagon ride. It was fun going on the wagon ride at night. They had some lights on the trail for deocration. We even had some hot chocolate. When we got back from our ride we went and picked out our Pumkins. Layla liked that part the best. She LOVES pumpkins. Every time she sees one she gets excited no matter if it's real or fake, Jack O lanter or plain old pumpkin.












Layla also got to go Trick or Treating at her Grandpa Bigham's work. With her cousin William and Grandma and Nathanial (my inlaws foster son)


Layla wasn't the only one who got to have some Halloween fun! Mommy and daddy did too. We went to two parties. I dressed up as a Dark Fairy and Vaughn was a Air Force Gunner.




Layla loved mommy's wings

In Utah, when Halloween falls on a Sunday most Trick or Treaters come on Saturday night. It always throws everyone off. We got enough candy though for both nights. After Layla's Halloween activities we decdied that we didnt need to take her out trick or treating. We stayed in and decorated and carved our pumpkins. It rained that night so we didn't get very many kids.







Wow that was everything. I hope you enjoyed my update.

Good Bye Summer

Good Bye Summer, Hello fall. I do love summer so I am sad to see it go. But my favorite season of all is Fall. The only bad thing about fall is that winter has to follow.
Our last month of Summer was a busy one. I have been working so many hours with my new house cleaning business. I even set up a website because I had such a great demand. I may even take on another person to help me. I still need to get licensed and insured though. Check out my website... www.freewebs.com/outstandingcleaningdivas/ I have also been very busy at my other job, teaching water aerobics. 3 instructors were on vacation so that kept me very busy.

Layla and I drove with my in laws to San Diego on August 18th. We were going down to see my brother in law Mat graduate from the Marines. Vaughn was not able to go because of work. Layla did quite well on the drive there because it was night time and she just slept. I however, did not sleep. I never sleep well. We got into San Diego and drove straight to the marine base. To make a long story short we had some problems getting on base so had a little time to freshen up in the van and we were finally were able to at least park right at the gates. We met up with Vaughn's sister Maren and her family and Rheana and her family. Layla had lots of fun hanging out with her cousins and her cousin's cousin. :)

We spent the day touring the facilities and learning about what the marines do. It was very hard on Layla and I because we were hot and both needed a nap but in the end we were able to see Uncle Mat. He looked great in his uniform. The local LDS church put on a BBQ for the LDS Marines and their families. It was very nice to get some food in our bellies. We spent a little more time checking out the base. Then finally we made it to our hotel. Needless to day I did not take many pictures that day because I was tired and grumpy and looked awful.

The next day in San Diego was the actual graduation. It wasnt too long so that was nice. We were very proud of Uncle Mat.
Once we got off base the fun began. We went down town San Diego. We walked around awhile and looked at all the cool statues that were built to pay tribute to the military.

Then we took a Harbor cruise. It was so much fun! We saw some cool ships and submarines. We also saw Sea Lions. It was my first time seeing them in the wild.


After the harbor cruise we headed over the Coronado Bridge to Coronado island. We had some dinner and then went to the beach. The sun was on it's way down so it was very chilly but some brave members of the family dove in anyways. It was my first time ever being in the Pacific Ocean. On that beach was the hotel Del Corando. It was very cool to see it since the hotel I used to work at in Disney World was designed to look just like it. So it was a bit of a trip to see that hotel.



Our last day in San Diego we drove by the temple. It was pretty cool looking temple. Then we stopped by our friends, the Cherrey's house. We had not seen them for a few years. It was so great to see them. Then we were off again on our trip home. Layla did well again but was awake more and required more entertaining. We were so happy to get home.

Mat was able to take a 10 day leave before he had to go on to more training. So Vaughn, I and Layla spent lots of our time over at Vaughn's parents house to see them. We even got to go out on a double date with Mat and Rheana while grandma babysat both kids. The last Saturday of August Vaughn went with his brother and some other brave family members and hiked mount Timpanogos again. If you remember last time he came home and his socks were covered in blood. Well this time his knees gave out on him and he could barley walk the rest of the week. I think that may be the last time he hikes it. We will see.