...five months...

Look alikes...

Mabel & Nate

 Elliott & Nate

 Thanks to my mother-in-law Georgia for saving Nate's darling

baby outfit all these years so we could have our kids wear it too!

Same street, same shoulder, same shirt:

Have I mentioned I am in love with this face?

I am.

misc. phone update

a bunch of phone pictures from this summer:

my dinner from the garden! (cheese was from Harmons)
So good.

Nate showing Mabel a classic movie we always quote!
(Out of the Mouth of Babes - a funny 80s video
where kids are asked LDS religious questions.)

Rainy day playing at the library. Mabel loves to "work"
on the computers. Elliott was snoozin.

Book Club at Michelle's...we read The Giver and then
went to see the movie. I loved it.

We all got sick....and then got it again.
I had it baaaaaaad one day complete with fever
and chills. 

Our garden loved the September rain....we had tomatoes
growing like crazy! We emailed our friends and neighbors and
told them to stop by and help themselves to the surplus on our porch.

 

The Bumbo Pout. I love this picture.

Boba Balls. I ordered these off Amazaon as a sensory activity
for Mabel. They are like extra large tapioca pearls.
You boil them for 5 minutes, rinse, and play!

SQUISHY WEIRD FEELING!

It was kind of therapeutic to sit and squish them
between my fingers.

Folding laundry with my buddy.

It was Grandma Georgia's birthday so we made
her a play-doh cake and sent her this picture.
Birthday love from Utah to Austria.

My grandma got me a callous file and Mabel loves
to use it on me. Too bad she can't paint my toenails
too.

Hanging outside.

Mabel got a father's blessing from Nate before her
first day of pre-school.

Emri came over one Saturday morning and the girls made pretend
 boba soup and then had lunch on the patio.

We are sure going to miss Emri so much when she moves! :(

Sick again. Mabel had the fever this time.

This is what our Sunday looked like.

Sleeping baby.

The MOTU Visits!

My nana (the Matriarch of the Universe - aka M.O.T.U) 

came to our house for a visit! Her flights worked out so she was able to 

schedule a layover for a few days in Salt Lake before flying to 

her final destination - my mom's house in Colorado.

She got to meet our sweet Elliott!  

Mabel was BEYOND excited to have Nana Goat here and, 

I KID YOU NOT, she didn't stop talking to her the entire time. 

It was pretty funny. (and exhausting!) They watched Frozen

and Tinkerbell, played games, and Nana got to come to 

Mabel's dance class. We even got to sneak away for a girls dinner

(Kelsey too!) at Zupa's while Nate got Elliott to sleep one night.

Nana brought all sorts of treasures for each of us in her 

Mary Poppins purse, and we got to listen to her talk about 

her adventures in life. She tells the best stories.

COME BACK SOON NANA GOAT!!

...four months...

::feliz cumpleanos to me::

I turned 31 earlier this month! Nate took the day off work and

it was so nice having some time with him.  

>>>NAPS<<<

Both kids napped at the same time and it was great.

Birthday silence is a wonderful thing.

>>BUTTERFLY DISH<<

Mabel was so excited to give me her present. She had been keeping it

an almost secret for about a week! She told me a few things about

it but tried REALLY hard not to give it all away. :)

Nate had taken her to Color Me Mine and she got to choose

something to paint for me.  Then you leave the item there and they 

glaze and fire it for you and you pick it up a few days later.

I love my butterfly dish! She chose all the colors herself. 

Isn't it great? I keep it on the counter in my bathroom.

>>TRIO<<

My friend Jocelyn watched Mabel for the evening and Nate

and I went to dinner. One of my favorite restaurants is Trio.  It's so good

EVERY time and their rosemary flatbread is amazing.

They have a location downtown and in Cottonwood Heights. 

Elliott fell asleep on the car ride over (his birthday present to me!) and

then stayed asleep through about 20 minutes of dinner. 

It was almost like we were alone!!

We both got fancy drinks....mine was cucumber cooler (cucmber, lime, ginger, seltzer)
and Nate got a peach pounder (white peach, pineapple, and ginger beer).
They were interesting!

I like these two guys.

(and I really liked Nate's pasta carbonara...

going to have to get

that next time!)

>>CAKE & ICECREAM<<

Nate got me my favorite cake (carrot) and Mabel helped me blow

out the candles.  I got lots of wonderful texts, emails, cards, and FB messages

from friends and family - thanks for making me feel so special!!