Halloween was pretty low key. We had some family over for some soup and the kids dressed up to trick or treat. Here's our adorable little pirate girl! :)
Our nephew Josh had his Court of Honor to become an Eagle Scout on Sunday! It's such an accomplishment and we are so proud of him! Marc is bummed that he was not able to be there, because he was out of town on business....being an Eagle Scout himself, he especially would've liked to celebrate Josh's success with him.
On Friday, my sister and I took our little Princesses to Disney Princesses on Ice! It was such an amazing experience! The show was amazing and we sat four rows back on the chair section! 
Most of these pictures aren't in order, but it's too time consuming to put them in order....
Tink
Mickey and Minnie
Cousin loves
My younger sister is a savage---she's an athlete for sure. And like every high school girl, the Powder Puff Game this year was taken VERY seriously. Especially when you're one of the captains, like she was. Like, so seriously, that she broke two fingers. She broke her record from last years ONE broken finger...
The artist and his apprentice at work...
The guts...
The masterpiece...
While the master chef was working on these...
I had a helper
She taste tested the frosting for me...
We found a cute little Pumpkin Patch up by our house where we decided to get our big pumpkin to carve this year...and definitely, we took the opportunity for some "Kodak moments".
I have been a little amateur photographer since gettin my new camera...
My main subject?? Montana, of course!
So here are just a FEW of my favorites, because I have taken literally HUNDREDS over the past few weeks.
For my birthday, Marc gave me a NIKON D5000---I LOVE IT!!! Look at the quality of these pictures!!!
He gave it to me at a Rogers Family Birthday Dinner on my birthday, where we celebrated all the October birthdays, so unfortunately I couldn't use it that night. But the next night, we went out with my side of the family to Red Robin, and everyone loved snapping away!!! 
October 17, 2009- Sacramento Temple
Logan danced it up at the party...
Ryan had the "Elbows up, side to side" thing down!
It was a great day and we couldn't be happier or prouder of this wonderful, beautiful couple and their choices!! :) Love you!
My brother married his wonderful wife Ashley a few weeks ago. We are so happy for them and had a great weekend celebrating their marriage.
ASHLEY'S ENDOWMENT
The lovebirds...
Ashley's family
All in attendance...
The next night we went out for some Girls Night/ Boys Night fun...
The girls ate at Fat City Cafe in Old Town
Sam and I...
And the boys ate at Hard Rock Cafe and then went Flowriding at Dream Xtreme in Elk Grove.
(Great pictures, right?? haha...this is prior to my birthday where I was given a NIKON D5000---posts to come on that!)
David showing off his new buzz cut...
The guys...
Fun times had by all--now, just needed to get some sleep to prepare us all for the wedding day...
I have an iPod touch. Not an iPhone unfortunately but hopefully next year that will be rectified. I have come to have a huge dependency on my touch for my schedule, music, Internet when I'm connected to WiFi, and all the applications.
It's also a very easy way to be lazily addicted to Facebook.
Anyway, Montana has been sick the past few days- keeping us both up on and off through the night. Today, although she still is hacking away, she has mounds of energy and I have none. I'm currently laying down with her trying to coax her into a nap, but trying to keep myself out of one so I can accomplish some things once she's in her cocoon of rest. So, I thought I'd try my new blog application- where I can blog from my iPod. Is it working??
I am starting to hear the steady, yet snarled, congested and snotty breathing from my poor sick baby and know that she is floating peacefully into dream land.
So, I will now float( or drag my feet is more like it) peacefully (so as not to wake her) into laundry and pine sol land...
Well folks, we're about at that time in the pregnancy, and if you haven't already heard on Facebook---we are HAVING A BOY!
I wasn't gonna do it this year. I just love having my little girl home with me all day. BUT- she desperately needed preschool. She needed the socialization, she needed the discipline from someone else and the structure. On a particularly hormonal day, as we played in the backyard of a friend who happens to run an in home day care, I made a deal with my preschool teaching friend. If you can get her to listen to and obey me by the time we leave, I will put her in preschool!
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Don't get too excited people---we took like NO pictures during the shower. We were all too busy eating good food, enjoying company and having fun. But here is a picture of the darling bride opening gifts...
And here are a few pictures of the party. I had so much fun putting together all of the pink and green stuff. Thanks so much to my sisters and mom who helped out. Especially Courtney! :) By the way, all of these pictures are POST-party. Again, not so smart on the picture taking.
The FEAST
One night, Daddy had a church meeting...which meant there was no one to tell us that we couldn't....
Montana has some great friends in our ward. One family that she adores in our ward are our friends the Danielsons. They were a HUGE help to me during my Road Show calling and they let Montana come into their home to play. She loved to play with Hadley and Sage. She recognizes Sage and Hadley's mommy and daddy at church and loves to smile at their baby brother Rocco. He's IMPOSSIBLE not to smile at because he's ALWAYS smiling!
A montage of videos from Marc's latest obsession. He even has a flowrider board now!
If you think it looks fun and are in the Sacramento area, check out Dream Xtreme to flowride for yourself!
We recently bought a little puppet show stage off of a friend of mine. Montana likes to do what she calls "Falent Shows". Here is some cute footage of the adorableness that we get to view every day! It's a long video, but there's lots of cuteness (at least this Mommy thinks so!)
And Rachel-in this video is where she recalls our lunch with you at Chick-Fil-A months ago. I think I told you about this, with the "judge-mints". haha- You have to listen to it. It's too cute.
Last month Marc and I decided to take a little getaway to Las Vegas. We got a great deal on an amazing hotel, The Wynn's-Encore. The vacation was exactly what we needed? Rest, relaxation, good food, swimming and a tan.
Our first day, in front of our hotel
I LOVE apricots!! Especially when they grow for FREE in my backyard! The crop has come and gone, but my freezer still holds a bag full of these little beauties. Any yummy ideas of what I could do with them??
I have to be honest...this 4th of July kind of turned out to be a bit of a bummer. As you will notice, there are no pictures of Marc. He woke up that morning with a horrible stomach flu, and had to stay home sick on one of his FAVORITE holidays.
Montana and I ventured out to try to enjoy the day with family, but missed him terribly.
We first went to play with the Rogers' side at Marlo's house.
Maryn and Montana
Poolside fun
Montana and Mitchell chasing Justin with the pool toys
Cute Caleb
I could just pinch those little cheeks on Mitchell...
Sweet Tyler
Then we went to hang out with the Petersen families and the extended McFadyen family to enjoy some fireworks.
Andalyn and Tana
Aunt Ashley and Montana
Grandma and Tana
Mommy and a "I'm getting tired" Montana
Court and I
