Park City

We went to Park City a few weeks ago with my family and had a great time as always. We did some eating, played sand volleyball, tennis, crafts, fishing, game nights, movie nights, shopping, and enjoyed each other's company. I can't believe I didn't take more pictures, I'll have to get some from my family.
Steve and Mandy brought up pumpkins for the boys to paint and they loved it.
Austin-he really seemed to enjoy seeing how messy he could get
Zack- in serious concentration
We decided to do some finger painting with pudding one night.Austin- again messy
Thanks for the fun trip mom and dad!

And the diagnosis is in...

I have Shingles! Can you say owe!

All of a sudden last Thursday this weird rash appeared on my chest. Then Saturday it started itching and Monday it started hurting. The great thing about working where I do is it saved me the time and money of going to the doctor so I talked to some of the doctor's last night and found out I'm in for 2-4 weeks of this nerve pain. It can be brought on by stress, yeah I would say that fits. Dang canning!

Girl's Night

Saturday during conference we had a fun craft day at my mom's. We decided to make these cute fabric pumpkins. We had so much fun, but there were so many distractions with my boys and other things that we didn't get them finished so we'll be doing that this weekend. I love time with the girls!

Family Football Outing

On September 26th we took the boys to the Utes football game. It was Zack and Austin's first of the year and Gavin's first ever. Austin and Zack loved it which I wasn't surprised about at all. They all did a really good job, but I don't know that we will take them again this year. There just isn't enough room with our 2 seats. I think next year we'll definitely plan on getting 4 season tickets. I love spending time with all of my boys and it's even better when the Utes win!

Oregon Day 8

We headed out this morning around 9. It was a long drive home. We only stopped a couple of times to let the boys run around and luckily unlike our drive there they all took pretty good naps so that made it go faster.
I had a really hard time leaving the ocean, but I must say when I saw the Wasatch Back mountains it felt like home. We got home just before 7 and it was good to see our house. Now bring on the laundry!

Oregon Day 7

I love waking up to this face!
Today we headed to Yaquina Head Lighthouse. The Yaquina Bay and Yaquina Head Lighthouses are built pretty close to each other. About 70-80 years after they had built the Yaquina Bay lighthouse they realized they built it in the wrong spot so then they built Yaquina Head- it's one of the tallest lighthouses. Aaron and I were going to take turns going to the top (our kids aren't tall enough to go up and you aren't allowed to carry anyone), but then we found out it takes 30-45 minutes to go to the top and we didn't want to wait around that long so we just enjoyed the outside.
We walked down to the rocky shores and the boys had a great time throwing rocks in to the ocean. It was an overcast day and just beautiful.
Zack
Austin
Gavin
Then we said goodbye to the ocean which was so sad! I would move there in a heartbeat! Next we headed up to Portland and went to Voodoo Donuts. I wasn't very impressed, but Aaron found a new love in life with there maple bacon donuts. Portland looked like a really cool city and we would love to go back there, but I don't know if I'd take kids. The short walk we did down the street was kind of nerve wracking with the interesting people we passed.
We stopped by the temple which was just beautiful. It's hidden in the trees and was so cool how it just peaks out of them.
On our way out of Portland we stopped at Multnomah Falls. It was so pretty and so tall. These pictures only show half of it.
That night we stayed in some podunk city in the middle of nowhere. We went swimming at the hotel and got pizza for dinner. Only 9 more hours of driving and we'll be home.
All day today Zack and Austin have been saying "I want to go to the ocean."
Poor Gavin, as of yesterday all we have to do is put him in his car seat and he immediately starts crying. Thankfully he forgives easy.

Oregon Day 6

Happy Birthday to Aaron! It's hard to celebrate a birthday on vacation because it's not like I could make him his favorite food or really do anything like that, but I hope he still felt special today and knows how much me and the boys love him. I'm so grateful for what a wonderful husband and father he is and how much he blesses our lives! I'm a lucky girl.

We headed to Newport Aquarium in the morning. The boys got to see sea lions up close there and thought they were really cool. We got there just in time for their feeding which was a lot of fun to watch.
They have some neat aquariums where you basically walk through a tube that they have cut out of the aquarium. On the ground they have part of it covered by carpet, but you can also walk on the glass which totally freaked out Zack. It was really funny to watch him walk trying to not step on the glass at all.
An egg yolk jelly fish
After some coaxing they thought it was cool to stand up in an aquarium
Then we had some lunch and headed to the ocean for our sea life cruise. It's a 2 hour day cruise along the coast. They told us they had seen whales everyday for the last month so we were pretty excited.
The harbor that we left out of to go to the ocean.

There are these different buoys in the ocean and there were sea lions all over them.
We saw porpoises, sea lions, sea birds, and jelly fish, but no whales. We were bummed by that, but it was so cool that we got over it. This was one of our favorite thing of the trip.
I know the lighting in this picture is bad, but that's what you get when others are taking the pictures for you.
The crabs we caught. At the beginning of the ride we put two crabs pots in the water (Aaron and Zack got to help) and this is what we pulled up at the end. The boys thought it was so cool!
These sea lions live in the harbor basically year round with the exception of 2 months a year when they go to mate. These are all males.
By this point in the trip Austin and Zack would just randomly start making sea lion noises, it was so cute. After our cruise we went to dinner at Mo's. (Blake and Kristin- the Mo's in Newport is much better than the one in Florence.)
Enjoying daddy's birthday brownie and ice cream
Then we went back to the hotel and went swimming. That is one thing that's bad about being out numbered is that we miss out on picture opportunities. Happy birthday honey! Love you!