Sept 23-29

Sept 29th

Apple picking.  We found some for free and went as a family to pick them. It was a fun adventure. Hannah called the owners "grandma" and "grandpa."

Sept 28th

Trying out his new winter hat. 

 Sept 27th

Learning E for Elephant.

Sept 26th

The night before we called Charity to wish her happy birthday. The next morning Hannah made a "happy birthday cake" for her.

Sept 25th

Although this picture shows how embarracingly behind we are on laundry, It's beautiful to me. Hannah, Hiram and I spent ALL morning doing it. It was so fun! Hannah was so proud of it.

Sept 24th

My second failed attempt at mixing flour and milk to thicken the corn chowder. In the end Tyson did it for me while I fed Hiram. Tyson did it perfectly after reading the instructions that say NOT to heat it :) 

Hiram thought my failed attempts were kinda yummy.

Sept 23rd

Trying on Dad's tie.

Sep 16-22

Sept 22nd

Normal people wash their cars on Saturday morning. Us? We wash our stroller.

Sept 21st

Hannah conducts the marching band at Canyon High's homecoming game.

Sept 20th

No, I didn't take this picture, but I could have; it looks exactly like what we see when we go running out in the country.  Tarantulas are everywhere. On Thursday night (the 20th) someone knocked on our door at about 10:30 or 11:00. It was the neighbor. She and a friend were having trouble getting rid of a tarantula in the apartment just below ours. Tyson bravely took care of it for them. Afterwards one of the ladies taught acupuncture points to not have nightmares.  TO OUR MOTHERS: don't worry. Tarantulas aren't poisonous (most of them). I was relieved to discover this fact.

Sept 19th

Experimenting with new bread recipes. By Saturday I found one that I think tastes even better than Great Harvest (but I'm probably slightly biased).

 Sept 18th

We spent the day with a little neighbor girl and they shared pizza with us for lunch.  Hannah was ecstatic!!

Sept 17th

The other day Hannah went potty in the bedroom (yes, on the potty, not the floor-it's a very mobile potty) so I asked her to go get some tissue.  She came running down the hall saying "GWWWWEEAAT GRRAnPa Tissue!" because it was such a big handful. She measures the size of everything by the age or size of family members. 

Sept 16th

Sep 9-15

Sept 15th 

I've wanted to cut Hannah's hair for a long time, but put it off dreading trying to help her hold still.  But she watched me cut Dad's hair, she was 100% willing. She did great!

We thought this warning sign was funny and had to go back to take a picture of it. 

Sept 14th

Hannah likes to help Hiram take naps. Every day she gets pillows for him and her and lies by him and sings to him. Today he kept looking at her like "Are you done yet? Let me close my eyes."

Sept 13th

A juicy one.

Sept 12th

Hannah insists almost daily that we play the piano together and sing primary songs. When she plays with Dad she makes sure he uses both hands.

Sept 11th

Hiram sneaks some pancakes then laughs about it with Hannah.

Sept 10th 

Hannah loves to show her accomplishments to Hiram. She's so proud of how well she's doing at potty training! And I'm loving it too!

Sept 9th

Hannah got an ouchie on her head so we "bandaged" it with a pajama shirt. 

 
More crawling.

 
Talking to Grandpa Alma.

Sept 2-8

Sept 8th

Putting the kids to bed.  Hiram just wanted to look at us :)

Sept 7th

With a little neighborhood friend.  Hannah took this picture all by herself (with a little help from Dad).

Sept 6th

A teething update. 

Sept 5th

A piano!  Yipeeee! We were grateful for the neighbors help to pick it up and for the great deal it was!

Sept 4th

Beat Box Lullaby

Sept 3rd

We have loved having the missionaries over for lessons with investigators!

Sept 2nd