Fall Fall Fall!

I LOVE the fall! Especially this fall. The weather has been gorgeous, the leaves are falling, and the fall colors are amazing! Fall also gets me excited for the many holidays that fall in the fall.. and I'm actually going to have fall decorations this year! What a terrific fall this fall has become!

Another thing that has been going on this fall, is the rise and fall of Logan. He loves to walk around the furniture, but that inevitably comes with falling. The only problem is that he hasn't figured out how to get back up! The poor kid. On a happier note, he is almost walking on his own! We'll see which one comes first: being able to get up, or walking by himself. Should be interesting if the latter comes first! I have a feeling there will be a lot of crying involved. If anyone has any suggestions on how to assist a baby in learning how to get from his back to his bum to his feet, I'm all ears!

Here is Logan going for a walk with his friend, Billy, to a playgroup on a beautiful fall day.

My cute neighbor brought us some awesome Halloween sugar cookies. I thought they were so cute, I just had to post them.

Logan is such a cute sleeper.. but then again, what baby isn't?

I have a billion other pictures to post, but most of them are on Dan's phone so it might be awhile until I get a hold of them! Until then..

Happy Fall!

Birthday Surprise.. Kinda.

So I'm a month late on updating about the awesome anniversary of my day of birth, but what I really want to do is brag about the amazing people in my life who made it such a special day.
First of all, my husband. Dan knows me SO well it's almost scary.. Everything he did for my birthday was exactly what made me feel the most loved. We decided to do dinner the night before, so he took me to Tucanos (our favorite restaurant, and free for me during my birthday month) where we had a delicious meal. I'll get to what happened after dinner in a little bit..
The next day, my actual birthday, he had an anonymous sender text me riddles to find presents he had hid throughout the house. Now if anyone knows me, they know I LOVE riddles and scavenger hunts and surprises (even if the surprise is just a mixing bowl). Is was SO much fun to find measuring cups, hair elastics, tupper ware, mixing spoons, and all the other little practical things that I needed. Logan loved them too..

That evening he came home with flowers, Sour Patch Kids, and 3 more presents! Yipeee! Before I got to open them we went to 7 peaks for the very last time (so sad) with Byron, Tracy and little Carston. The weather was perfect! Little Carston fell asleep in Byron's arms. Isn't that priceless??

 THEN, once we showered and got Logan to bed, I got to open my last three presents! I am such a little kid when it comes to presents. I try to act like I'm not that excited, but Dan can always see through it. He could give me a spoon and I would be so happy, as long as I got to open it! Fortunately, none of my presents were a spoon.. he gave me a gift certificate to Olive Garden, a gift certificate for a massage, AND blown up family pictures to hang on the wall. I LOVE HIM! He could have given me nothing and my day would have still been great, but the fact that he knew EXACTLY what I needed and wanted just made my day. He loves me :) Oh and I need to thank Tracy who got hired on to be the present wrapper.. you're a trooper!!

Here are the pictures he blew up for me.. the family picture was supposed to be the big one in the middle, but the order was messed up. I guess it makes sense though.. Our world revolves around our Logie Bear!

SO, now that I've bragged about the Hubby, let's go in order of time and move to the roommates. Jenni Sumner planned on throwing a surprise get-together with our group of friends from sophomore year. I say "planned" because it kind of got ruined when I found her standing on the grass outside of our apartment as Dan and I were coming back from Tucanos.. and a few seconds later Kristi (another roommate) comes walking out from behind the building looking like a deer in the headlights! IT was so funny!! I guess you can say I was surprised! Just not in the way that it was planned. Later, the rest of the group came, and it was fun to have everyone together again!

Here is the group minus a few that don't live in Utah anymore who couldn't come...

Blowing out candles feeling stupid like I always do when people sing Happy Birthday to me, thus, the face.. Jenni's confetti cake was amazing!!

He loves me!

On my birthday, my amazing in-laws (Michele, Amy and Tracy) took me out to Kneaders for lunch. It was so scrumptious! I wish I had a picture so you could see that I was in my happy place!

The Saturday before my birthday my loving family made the excursion down to Provo and we went to Cafe Rio, then to a park. It was fun to have them be in my environment, rather than us going up there like we always do since they all live in the same area. No pictures :(

As you can see, I am so blessed to have so many amazing people in my life! Thank you all for making me feel so loved!