November

We celebrated 11/11/11!

Mom, Alicia, and I have been volunteering
at Courage Reins, a therapeutic riding center
for disabled kids.  We get to help the kids and
work with the horses; it's a ton of fun!

We are celebrating Jason and Mom's birthday at Granny and Granddad's house.  November 13/14

 We are in St. George to celebrate Thanksgiving with the Jerman Family.  Jason, Alicia, and I are standing by a guitar sculpture made from only metal.  November 24th

 We finished a scavenger hunt with our cousins Jake and Mary Turville.

 We are on a bridge by a beautiful rock waterfall.

As a Thanksgiving tradition, the family is playing football in the lovely weather of St. George.

 We are eating Thanksgiving dinner with our cousins and relatives.  Yummy!

 We are hunting for a Christmas tree in Pine Valley.  November 25th

 Alicia, Amy, and I are headed down to explore a cave in Snow Canyon!  November 26th

 We are playing soccer with the cousins in the Sand Dunes.  How fun!

I am tackling Zac in our game of Capture the Flag.

October

 Our little General Conference picnic.  October 2nd

Tucker loves catching frisbees!













I scored two goals at my soccer game on October 6th!

We are having a baby shower for our cute little neighbor Kai.  October 18th

Annie and I are headed to our first Stake Dance.  It's a Halloween Costume Dance and we're dressed as artists!  October 22nd

TJ took a nap on the washing machine.  October 23rd

 We got cute new bedspreads!

 We took our Japanese Exchange Student Daiki to Krispey Kreme.  October 27th

We ate dinner at the Heritage Care Center.  Then we went Trick or Treating.

 We played games and collected candy!

 We saw an amazing haunted house!  October 28th

 We had a Halloween Party at Granny and Granddad's house!

We played the Ghost game with cousins.

We are on a haunted river boat on the Provo River!

We are at the Tabernacle in Temple Square.  October 30th

We carved pumpkins, how fun!  It's our last night with Daiki.

Scary!!!

 Our lovely pumpkins.

It's Halloween!  Time to get some candy.  October 31st










And we said goodbye to our Tucker that we have had for 10 years.

September

I actually got my braces off!  Yahoo :) September 13th

 TJ is taking another nap in the sink.  September 18th

 Girls in pink and brown!  September 21st

 Camping at Burraston Ponds with friends and family.  September 23rd

We are ready to catch some crawdads!  September 24th

 I am swinging out into the water!













We are trying to catch a stubborn little crawdad named Larry.  Annie and Alicia are almost going to let go of me.  Scratch that, Alicia's not even trying :)

 I caught Larry the crawdad!

 Yum!

 Ahhh!

It's a little slippery.

We got a cute little parakeet named Peetie.  He loves to flap around and sing.  September 30th

August

 We made it to New York!  We are at Niagara Falls looking across to Canada.  August 1st

Wow!

 We are having a great time.

Niagara Falls is gorgeous!

 I'm climbing up beside the Falls, getting completely saturated under my poncho.

 New York here we come!

 We are having a grand time on the Jumping Pillow at our RV Park.

Look at those splits I popped out!

 We drove to Palmyra.  We are now at Joseph Smith's Frame House.  August 2nd

 We are in the Sacred Grove.

Jason, Alicia, and I are racing up Hill Cumorah.

This is where the first Books of Mormon were printed in Palmyra.

 All aboard!  We're off to see Ellis Island and Liberty Island.  August 3rd

 Rachel Harris also came with us for the fun day.

 The Statue of Liberty was spectacular!

We are swimming in the Atlantic Ocean!  It was pretty cold.

 New York City!  The Twin Towers are being rebuilt.  August 4th

We are having a fun time shopping in China Town!

Fireworks exploding throughout the city was a great end to our day.

This is the Empire State Building.  August 5th

 Alicia and I love Hershey Kisses!

 We got to meet a famous movie star at the National Museum of Natural History!

This is Times Square all lit up............... wow.

The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  August 6th

The Washington Monument is pretty awesome!  Washington D.C. is one of a kind.  August 8th

 The Lincoln Memorial was cool!

The U.S Capitol is a long walk from the Lincoln Memorial.  We needed a rest.  August 9th

 This is Ford's Theatre, where President Lincoln was killed.

 The White House is filled with tourists.

 This is the Jefferson Memorial.  It was also pretty cool.

Here we are at Mt. Vernon, where George Washington lived.  August 10th

This is Gettysburg.  It is a cute little town with the battlefields of the Civil War.  It concludes our trip.  We then traveled three days home.

 My first day of High School, how exciting.  August 23rd

That night Zac had a Pack Meeting and we got to see some cool animals.  I am holding a sugar glider, how cute!