Snow Flakes

One day in Provo while Ryan and I were dating, the snow began to fall. I was sitting at my apartment with my room mates when we saw Ryan running towards our door. He opened the door and kissed me then turned and ran back towards his house. Every time the first flakes of snow fall we remember that moment and continue to celebrate the same way!!

This year we were able to include Paige in our little winter celebration :)

Fun with Cousins

Over that past month Paige has spent a lot of time with her cousins...

It has been fun watching them interact with her and also her playing with baby Jaxon.


Ryan played in a soccer game with my nephew Andrew. It was his last soccer practice and the kids play a scrimmage versus the parents. Since my brother in law was out of town working Ryan was kind enough to step in. It was a fun game and Ryan had fun running around and playing some soccer again.

Pumpkin Carving

We went to a pumpkin patch one weekend and picked out the perfect pumpkin. It was really fun and I think we will do that every year instead of getting it at a grocery store.

We carved our pumpkin and Paige helped. She wasn't afraid or freaked out by the "guts". We had to make sure her pacifier was in because everything that she can grab, goes into her mouth!

I carved the eyes and nose and Ryan gave our pumpkin a mustache instead of a mouth. It was a fun family event!

1st Halloween

Paige LOVED her first Halloween! She was such a trooper and would go up to the homes and smile and they would give her an extra piece of candy for being so stinking cute!


We went down to my sisters house and helped her take her kids trick or treating. I honestly think Ryan had as much or even more fun than the kids. Hallie was a green witch and was tired of carrying her broom so Ryan used it as part of his costume and would ride it and lead the other kids to the next house...




Ryan and I didn't get into the dressing up thing, maybe next year, so we used all the accessories that the kids didn't want to hold as our costumes.


I think Paige realized all the candy was in the pumpkin. She worked really hard at trying to figure out how to dump it all out. We finally helped her and showed her how to separate it.

We have taught her well... She went straight for the chocolate. Sorry Paige, next year you can enjoy the fruits of your labor, but for now, THANKS!!

Cute Cute Cute

Do you ever think that your baby can't get any cuter???

Well I do and then another day comes and I get to pick out another outfit and dress my my size barbie and BAM...

She is even cuter!


Everyday I can't believe how blessed we are with this little cutie! Everyday her personality shines more and more. I can't believe how much and how fast she is growing!!



She finally wore all of her 6-9 month outfits. Hopefully she can wear each outfit a couple more times before she out grows them and we have to start all over...


Paige we love you!!!

I Promise...

I promise we are still alive!! We are finally getting back in to a normal routine after pretty much living at my sisters and helping her with her move. So watch out!! There is going to be alot of posts coming up :)

Ward Halloween Party

Tonight was our ward Halloween party. Ryan and I are lame and didn't dress up, but hey when your this cool you don't really need a costume :) Of course Paige went as a pea pod, and she was the cutest little pea pod EVER!



Instead of doing trunk or treating, our ward does trick or treating in the church. You can sign up to decorate a room and the kids go from room to room saying trick or treat. I have never seen it done this way but we loved it. You don't have to go outside and the different families decorated the rooms so cute. We're still trying to get Paige to say trick or treat but it usually ended up with her just smiling at the candy!


They also had a little dance after the trick or treating and Ryan couldn't resist going out there and showing Paige how to shake it. They did that silly dance where the song tells you what to do "clap your hands, stomp your feet, move to the left" you know that song if you ever went to a stake dance...

So far we are enjoying Paige's first Halloween. While I was putting Paige to sleep, Ryan was busy separating the different kinds of candy and we each took turns picking out candy that we wanted :)

Man we can't wait until Monday to do it again!!

Kirtland and some Family History

Since moving to the Midwest, Ryan and I have been able to visit some historical LDS sites. We were part of the Nauvoo stake in Missouri and traveled to Nauvoo and Carthage a few times. We went to Kansas City and visited Liberty Jail and Independence. Now that we are in Michigan, we decided to visit Kirtland which is only a few hours away. Since this weekend was going to be the last warm and sunny weekend of fall before it starts to turn into winter, we called some of our good friends and planed a little road trip!!

We went with the Irvins and the Childs and went to the Kirtland temple first. It is owned by the Community of Christ and they took us on a tour of the inside. We were all commenting afterward about how different the feeling we felt between the Community of Christ tour and other tours we have taken with LDS missionaries.

After the temple we went to the LDS visitors center. I remembered that a friend from BYU was serving a mission there and we actually ran into her at the visitiors center. It was fun to catch up since we haven't seen eachother for quite a while. We then toured around the town of Kirtland.

Paige was such a trooper the whole time. We stopped by the Whitney store and the tour guide told us how the owner kept a record of his customers and what they bought. Heres the family history part....

I knew that my dad's side of the family has a lot of pioneer stories, so I opened the book and went right to the Ws for Woods and saw the name Daniel Wood. I have heard that name a lot and felt pretty cool that his name was right there! I took a picture with my phone and texted my dad to make sure that that was the right Daniel Wood and it was. Daniel Wood was baptized by Brigham Youngs brother in Canada and then joined the saints in Kirtland. While they were building the Kirtland temple, people who were against the church tried to vandalize the temple. Daniel was one of the 50 armed guards that protected the temple at night. He then traveled with the saints to Missouri and then to Illinois. After Joseph Smith was killed and the saints began to travel out west, Brigham Young asked Daniel to stay and prepare for the second group to travel out west. He was told to plant seeds and harvest food for their company. He then traveled with the second group and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. Later on he was called on a mission by Brigham Young. The city of Woods Cross Utah is named after Daniel Wood.

(Hope I got all that story right Dad)

It was a fun trip and now I can't wait until spring so we can make the trip to Palmyra New York!!!

Growing Pains

I think I am suffering from growing pains! No I am not growing, but it's sad cause my baby is growing. Today I pulled out all of her 3-6 month clothing and replaced it with 6-9 month clothes. It was so sad. They looked so small yet so big!


On top of growing out of her clothes, this little one is sitting up all by herself!




Paige has such a fun personality and I can't get enough of this cutie pie!!
I just wish she would stop growing :)