Happy First Birthday Caleb!

Caleb turned the big "1" last Tuesday. As far as we can tell, the mile stone has had no serious affect on him. He doesn't even really seem to notice. He has just the last two days started saying "no no" but it's more to himself. He'll say it when he gets into the kitchen cupboard that he knows he's not supposed to get into.

We celebrated as a small family Tuesday morning with a nice breakfast of pancakes and party hats. Caleb opened one of his presents from us which he thoroughly enjoyed. The were small balls with fun toys in side like a rattle and a disco ball. He liked ripping of the wrapping paper. Here is Caleb with his crown party hat enjoying his birthday breakfast.





On Saturday we had an extended family birthday party, mainly to have Adam's family down to Provo. They all live up in Davis County and haven't seen where we live yet, so we thought it was a good excuse to have eleven people drive an hour and a half. It was really fun though. We played pin the "Y" on the mountain in honor of the BYU football game earlier that afternoon and had pizza and cake. Caleb's cake was in the shape of a "1" with little blue footballs all over it. We all had fun watching him eat it exactly how he wanted to, all messy with his hands as can be seen in the pictures.





He got sick of it because the frosting and cake were so thick on his hands and he couldn't get it off, so he gave up on the cake in order to have his hands washed.

Adam and the Goliath Stump

Ok, it really wasn't that big but it was such an exciting event to get that stump out of the garden. It had been this giant, overgrown, spider-infested, bush that we chopped down about a month after we moved in. Now, one month later, Adam got the gumption and the time one Saturday morning to spend about four hours and single handedly chop the stump out. What a man! Now we can plant our tulips in our nice and organized garden.

Adam, conquering the stump.

He kept referring to it as "the bloody stump of a stump" like on the office when Michael burns his foot.

It was pretty deep.

Caleb tried to help, but he just kept patting the shovel instead of trying to pick it up and help move some dirt.

Happy Halloween!

Here are some of our festive Halloween pictures.

Carving pumpkins.

We were a princess guarded by the fire breathing dragon who is defeated by the brave prince charming.

From left to right: Caleb (dragon), Adam (prince charming), Lara (princess), Jane (octopus), Maren (lamb), Jessie (Mom), Amy (white trash hiker).