October

October was an adventure. We went hiking again, and had lots and lots of halloween fun. I introduced "The Nightmare Before Christmas" at the beginning of the month. I figured it would scare the girls and they wouldn't want to watch it again. I could't have been more wrong. They loved loved loved it. And they wanted to watch it every single moment of every single day. And they wanted to listen to the music every time we were in the car. I am going to need an entire year to recover from that one. 

Here are some the photos from our October photo stream:

Abby taking selfies with the iPad in the car. This little girl and her funny faces crack us up. 

Pouting

In between sessions of conference we went up to foothills with Jolene and her family. We roasted hot dogs and had a picnic lunch. It was so much fun, until Juliet fell down in a pile of fire ants. That was heartbreaking.

Tim came up to visit us for a couple days and we went hiking at Devils Head. It was the coolest hike. It was actually a lot harder than we thought it would be, but it was totally worth it. The hike is 2 miles up and when you reach the top you climb up 1473very steep steps to get to the fire lookout. Then we could see almost all of colorado. It was amazing.

Seriously one of the prettiest and most rewarding hikes I have every been on.

We made sugar cookies one night. Abby loves this activity and always wants to make holiday cookies. I can't wait to do Christmas ones!

We went to the pumpkin patch twice! Once with friends, and we had so much fun we had to take daddy back. This pumpkin patch was so fun, and free! You could go in the bouncy houses and down the slide as many times as you wanted. They had all kinds of farm animals and then incredible pumpkin patches. The breathtaking backdrop was pretty awesome too.

This little girl is so beautiful. Inside and out. I can't believe how grown up and wonderful she is. She always gets herself dressed so I never know what she is going to look like when we leave the house. And she refuses to wear church shoes, she always wears her minnie mouse shoes... usually on the wrong feet. When we tell her they are on the wrong feet, she says "No they not". Because how could we possible know more than a 3 year old?

We carved some incredible pumpkins this year. Abby loved them, and both girls loved the pumpkin seeds I baked.

I took Abby to the Disney store to look at costumes and everything was 40% off, that totally made the costumes reasonable. So I let her pick out what she wanted to be. Out of everything in there she wanted to be Snow White. Over Rupunzel, Cinderella and even Elsa! But she loves, loves, loves that Snow White dress. So much so that it has a rip in it now that I need to fix. Little Jules got to be tinker bell. Thats Halee's halloween costume from years ago, then Abby's a few years ago and now Juliet's. They both looks so darling. The night of the Trunk or Treat was beautiful. Not freezing like last year. They both had a great time trick or treating at all the cars. Abby was pulling my hand as hard as she could to move faster. Juliet said "Dank you" at every single car.

They loved regular trick or treating too. Although Jules was not a big fan of walking up to strange houses, but she will do what ever Abby does. So she toughed it out.

Abby loved having the trick or treaters come to our house and handing out candy. Abby was a huge fan of Halloween.

One of our friends little boy's birthday is on halloween. He is the cute little pumpkin in the middle. That was a fun way to kick off halloween.

A family selfie because we are super cute.

Another gorgeous picture of Abby.

Sisterly love. I can't get over how much these girls mean to each other.

Jules loves monster smoothies.

More pictures from the pumpkin patch. Abby loved this slide!

We went to do a little shopping at costco and have lunch. Right as were getting finished a costco employee came out with these two ice cream sundaes and said that someone had gifted them to us. How awesome is that? It totally made our day!

Backseat selfie.

Running selfie. Running in the fall has to be a favorite of mine. Its so incredibly beautiful.

I ran a 10k with my two really good friends. Kaity and I rocked it! We kept it at or under a 10 minute mile the entire time. For where we both were at the time that was incredible. We never walked and it felt amazing to cross that finish line together. We have ran 4 races together, but this is the first one we finished at the same time. I love having a running partner!

September

I have been so bad at posting lately! So much has happened and I'm sad I didn't write it all down. The past few months have been some the hardest, craziest and most incredibly of my life. 

Here are a lot of the pictures from the photo stream from September

We were pretty low key on Labor day. Kyle and I had just gotten back from a quick trip to New Mexico. So we spent Kyle's day off at the park with our girls. We had a delicious picnic and hung out in the gorgeous weather. 

Reading stories with my girls. One of my absolutely favorite things. I always read the books in the same voice with the same actions. Juliet always mimicks me when she reads the stories, and Abby can pretty much recite most of our favorite books. It makes me feel good that they are actually listening!

One beautiful Saturday we decided to drive up to Boulder and go for a hike. We drove up to the very top of flagstaff mountain. The views were absolutely breathtaking.

Driving home from church and they passed out. Nursery is just too much fun! We are in our new church building now that is only a mile away from our house and church is a little earlier so we can make it home for our naps.

Playing at the park in Reunion. We love this park, the playground is amazing and its beautiful out there.

Poor jules. She gets really upset over not being able to watch TV. She would watch it all day and all night and never even turn head away. It drives me crazy!

More pictures from playing at the park

Hanging out together while dad is at school. These little girls are so busy and keep me very entertained!

Crazy hair in the tub! They love tubby time together. As long as Abby isn't splashing. She likes to tease her sister just a little bit. But thats ok because Juliet likes to tease back.

Spontaneous Trip

So I made one of the most spontaneous trips of my life this past week. My mom was in Ioka with Halee and Tragdon. Lacee was at EFY and my dad was back in Arizona. Monday morning I got back from my run and was thinking about how fun it would be to be in Utah with my mom. And then I started thinking I could totally go to Utah today. Kyle had finals so he was going to be busy and very distracted. The girls were both old enough that I could make the 6 hour drive by myself. I talked it over with Kyle and he was of course very supportive. So I called my mom and asked if it would be ok if we came out that day. It was so last minute, but she was so excited that I was going to come. I hurried and packed up the car and in a matter of a few hours we were on the road. 

It was so much fun! The girls were awesome on the trip, Abby slept on the way there and the way back. Jules didn't sleep on the way there, but she was awesome and so sweet the entire time. 

Juliet didn't sleep at all again that first night. I don't know why she does that, but it is so hard. Especially because I didn't have Kyle to trade off with. About 3:30 in the morning I went downstairs to try and rock her to sleep. Luckily my mom came down to use the bathroom around that same time and she offered to rock her so I could sleep. I got a solid hour and then went back to grab Jules and my mom had gotten her to sleep. She is a miracle worker. So I was able to get a couple more hours. The next two nights Jules slept really really well. 

The First day we headed up to the farm where my Grandma grew up. They are tearing down the old house and we wanted to see it one last time. It was really cool up there. They had 3 week old little kittens. The kids loved them. They were so sweet. There was this huge tom turkey that wouldn't stop chasing us. I really disliked him. I will enjoy my thanksgiving meal even more now. 

Other than that we played outside, took a million walks and visited the little baby horse. It is so beautiful at my grandma's house.  I haven't stayed there for years so it was so fun to be there with my girls. I hope we get that opportunity again and again. 

Abby and one of the little kittens. She was so sweet with them. 

In front of the old house. My great grandparents raised their 9 children in this house. So cool. 

Climbing the trees!

That horrible turkey. I really didn't like him. 

An old milk can that my great grandfather used. They would milk the cows and put them in these cans. Then they would put them in the canal to keep them cool. The milk man would pick them up straight out of the canal. How cool is that? 

Running along the lane in the morning. It is so beautiful out there. The lane is a half mile long so its perfect to run up and down. 

Pink ice cream in an ice cream cone. Abby was a little spoiled by her mema. 

Headed out for a walk. 

The view from the top of the lane. We used to float down this canal every summer when I was little and we would ice skate on it in the winter. Now it is so grown over that we can't do it anymore. Its one of the things I miss the most about my childhood. Those were really good times. 

We always see this sign on the way out and back in the canyon in Colorado. Shouldn't that read road closed? 

Playing outside. We seriously couldn't get enough. 

Meet Maximus, the newest addition to the Nelson Farms. He was dang cute and I loved him.

The trip was awesome and it ended with a huge surprise. Wednesday night I had just put jules down and my dad shows up! He couldn't stand that we were in Utah without him so he came out early to surprise all of us. Abby was so excited to see her poppi.

We missed Kyle like crazy. But he rocked all of his finals. And he is only 1 more day away from officially being a 3rd year dental student! We survived 2nd year! Go us!