Fall/Halloween

Lots of busy things happening this fall.  Here are a few of our pics and happenings in no particular order.  :)

The hubs and I one day after he got home from work.  He never lets me take pics while he is in uniform but I made him take this one.  :)

 We went to see WICKED!  It was AMAZING.  More on that in a future post.

 Maryland is a BEAUTIFUL place to live in the fall.  There are trees everywhere.  These are some of my favorites on base. 

The President flying over Haylee's soccer practice.  Pretty cool. 

My fave trees again. 

a few of our cute fall decorations

Haylee's witch potion for Halloween night 

flowers from my hubby - love that guy 

Haylee ready for the fall festival on base.  LOVED her costume this year!

Haylee and her BFF Mia 

the costume contest 

2nd and 1st place respectively 

Before trick or treating

With the neighbor kids 

Cutest witch with her cutest pumpkin

We went to a birthday/costume party -this is us with our besties, we went as the fab five US womens olympic gymnastics team :)  

Sierra before a church dance  

pretty cute bumblebee!

more fall colors

Haylee playing soccer

she LOVES it!

watching the game

the look I get when I ask her to look at me so I can take a pic :) 

the fab five doing what they do lol  

My kid is awesome!

We had a boat for 4 summers.  Haylee refused to wakeboard.  It scared her.  Last summer we sold our boat.  We went out with friends at the end of the summer season and Haylee decided to give it a shot!  She didi great considering it was her first time on a board.  All she needs is a little more confidence!

Graduation

Still catching up!  I will get there one day soon!  :)  June 1, 2012 my boy graduated from high school!  Didn't he go to kindergarten just last month???  Guess not -it would be weird to have a kindergartener at BYU.  lol  Graduation was so bittersweet for me.  I was so emotional I didn't know if I would make it through the graduation without being thrown out for uncontrollable sobbing -not kidding.   The weeks leading up to then I couldn't keep it together but the good news is that I made it through the ceremony without too many tears.  Yay for me!  On a serious note, I am so proud of this boy of mine who is seriously one of the most amazing people I know.  Seriously. AMAZING.  He is so righteous and ALWAYS does the right thing even when it is hard.  He turns to the scriptures and prayer often for guidance in his life.  He spoke at seminary graduation for our stake and he was wonderful.  He made people laugh and cry.  After the seminary graduation a member of our stake presidency told me that "HD is someone that grown men can look up to" -true story my friends.  I realize I am his momma but the awesomeness shines out of that kid.  To say I am blessed to be his mother is a huge understatement and I am in awe every day that Heavenly Father picked me to take care of this boy.  Anywho, back to graduation.  It was a great event and people came from near and far to celebrate with us.  

A grey morning -later that day we would be under a tornado warning with a horrible storm and sirens going off everywhere.  I was very happy that his graduation wasn't at 5:00pm. 

The inside of his hat with his name and graduation date 

D and Sis -she sang with the choir  

 Pomp and Circumstance, this is the part where I cried. 

the class of 2012 

the choir see Sierra in the back row 

walking across the stage 

shaking hands -I was ok while he walked across the stage Haylee on the other hand put her head in her hands and sobbed for the next 10 mins.  poor sis she was so sad he was going to leave her.

chatting it up with the VIP's - :)  

Hugs from a teacher 

 Love this pic

and this one with his fist in the air 

 Hugs!

 More hugs!

 Love this pic of D with my mom and dad -his tassel is on my dad's head :)

with all of his grandparents.   

sibs 

The fab five 

the party 

This is from seminary graduation 

Sierra was celebrating only one more year of early morning seminary for her...or that her brother was leaving soon....or it was just hot and she decided to cool off :) 

Playing catch up.

Not a lot of commentary but a lot of pictures.  HD graduated in June and the whole dang fam came to see it!  We spent a day or two being tourists and one of the places we went was the National Cathedral. It is AMAZING!!!!!  Such a beautiful building!!! We all enjoyed seeing the gorgeous architecture and learning about the history here.

These are not in order really...

This pic is hanging at Georgetown Cupcakes which is where they film the show DC Cupcakes on TLC -it made me laugh because only two pics hanging in the place were this one of AF1 and one with Oprah visiting them.  AF1 is pretty up there if it can compete with Oprah!!  :)  and the AF1 guys didn't even visit Georgetown cupcakes donated cupcakes to our kids Christmas Party so Col. Turner sent them this signed pic.  :)

the kids my sister and my mom and dad 

 Haylee drew this pic for the driveway :)

 One of the stained glass windows in the cathedral

 outside -sorry it is sideways :)

 girls my sis and mom

 two peeps had the camera while the rest of the peeps went to the restroom :)

in order from L to R Sierra, my dad, my sis, Joe, me, Joe's dad, Joe's mom, Haylee, my mom, and HD 

another window 

 beautiful architecture

 lighting candles -Haylee thought that was pretty cool

 If you click on the pic it should get bigger -this cross was made out of rubble from the pentagon on 9-11

 amazing!

 a statue of George Washington

  the inscription

 I can't wait to go back!

 you can go up to the top and see amazing views of the city

I found that the top had GREAT lighting for pictures so we took some

Sierra my photogenic supermodel ;)

 Sis and Me

 goofy child - love this kid

 look at my gorgeous kiddos!  

Sis 

 Krissy

 my cute hubby -still in love with those blue eyes :)

me and my dad.