Apple Picking

Monday me and Beck drove down to an apple orchard with my friend Sarah and her little gal Ava. The orchard was fun they let you take a bag and a map to go pick yourself some apples, but we were too lazy to treck through the orchards with our strollers so we just bought some apples at the front which I'm pretty sure defeated the purpose of going but we did go on a fun hay ride and actually the real reason we wanted to go was because it's a perfect place to drive to see all the leaves because they are BEAUTIFUL right now! I've seen a ton of people blogging about how much they love the fall and I'm going to agree with all of them, I love EVERYTHING about this time of year.

Visitors

Last week my mom dad and Dayne came out to visit YAY!!!! I can't even explain how excited I was for them to come visit, ask any of my friends out here I've been talking about them coming since the day we got here. I wish they would just move out here but I'll settle for a visit for now. The only downer was me and my mom got sick, and it was cold and rainy the entire time they were here which was ironic because it was perfect weather till the day they got here and started again the day they left.

We went to Monticello, Williamsburg, and DC while they were here...but I think that the place that my dad was most excited about going to was Trader Joes hahaha he went bananas when I told him we had one close to us. We probably could have done even more if BOTH of my parents hadn't turned 50 this month AHHH!! We let them think we were seeing a lot of stuff while they were here but we really didn't want to overwhelm the oldies.

My camera wasn't working so I only got 3 pictures which doesn't do justice for all the fun things we did together but what can you do. We even had fun just bumming around the house letting Beck entertain us all, I can't wait till they come out again, and it better be soon!! While we were in Williamsburg I ran into one of the nurses that I worked with right before we moved from Utah...wierd! I didn't know even she had moved out here, so I was extremely shocked when I passed her on the streets of Williamsburg, talk about a double take!!

Me and Dane wanted to impress my family when they came to visit so we got our curtains up in the living room and painted our bedroom. I haven't done curtains before, and I can't believe how much they added to the room, I'm pretty excited about them.

I'm also pretty excited about our greenish yellow walls in our bedroom, definately a color we will look back on and make fun of in a few years but I'm pumped about how it turned out.

And whats a post without some random cute pictures of Beck. I've felt bad for him since my family left cause there's no way I can entertain him as much as they did so I think he's felt lonely after being the star of the show for a whole week.

He shouldn't feel too neglected though cause I still spend every waking moment chasing him around, and laughing at all the stinkin cute things he does.

He's really close to walking, he can stand up and balance on his own without holding on to anything, he just doesn't try to take any steps yet and I am perfectly happy with that cause he is fast enough crawling around I can't imagine the energy it will take to chase him when he can run, AHH!

Family Pictures

My friend Maryanne Miner who is an AMAZING photographer took our family pictures a few months ago, I'm just really late getting them posted

State Fair

The other night we went to the state fair with our friends Rich and Brityn, they're the only other first year medical students in our ward so they have no choice but to be our friends cause they are going to be stuck with us for quite awhile. We saw some bull riding, gigantic rabbits, baby chicks hatching from their eggs, giant pumkins, and interesting people. But the best part of all was that along with Rich, I experienced my first funnel cake- and because of funnel cakes I don't think I will ever miss a state fair again.

Unexpected trip to Utah

Last thursday night my dad called to tell me that my Grandma Stone had passed away, and so they flew me and Beck home on Saturday so that I could go home for the funeral. It was kind of funny that only two months ago we had our big tearful goodbyes and our week long drive across the country and then all the sudden we were back to square one again!!

Even though we had only been gone a couple months it was soooo good to see my family and friends again!! Shelby and Trevor were able to come too, so the only one we were missing was poor Dane who had to stay home cause of school. But even though Dane couldn't be there and we missed him a ton, we still managed to have a blast together eating out, playing games, and just talking. I sure wish they would all move out to Virginia with us!!

The funeral was so nice! My aunt, cousin, and my grandma's sister did a really great job on their talks about my grandma. I didn't expect to be so emotional because my grandma had been sick for a long time, but I wept like a baby through the whole funeral when I was reminded of all the great things that I loved about my grandma. I can't decide if she was just really good at making all of the grandkids feel like they were her favorite or else if me and little Dayne really were her favorites - just kidding. Theres too many things I love about her to mention but one of the best was that she was the funnest grandma in the world! I have great memories of her playing games with us, and laughing and joking around. Once I jokingly told her that some of my older cousins were being rude to me and she jokingly went and personally spanked every one of them that I told her was in on it! And I used to love to pop out and scare her and she would crack up every time, it killed me! I LOVE my grandma!!

While we were there we got to meet up with two of my best friends too. We hung out with Michelle and introduced Beck to SUPER cute baby Britton, and we also got to go to lunch with Stephanie (dang no pics). I had a TON of fun hanging out with both of them and wished that we could have stayed and talked all day!!

One night after Shelby had to leave (or we would have included her) me, my mom, and my grandma (my other grandma), went up to Gardners Village and met my aunt Susan and cousins Lacey and Karissa for a girls night, and cause we want to see Lacey's darling new baby! Girls nights are one of my favorite things!

Me and Beck also got to spend time with my mother-in-law which we loved too! We went to thanksgiving point so he could see the animals. He had his first pony ride, and fed some goats all by himself, he's a lot braver than me already because Myrna tried to give me food to feed the goats and I couldn't do it. Then me and Myrna went and picked out a Halloween costume for him and followed the night up with some PF Changs. I am so lucky that I have the best mother-in-law!

Gosh this post is just full of love isn't it! I can't help it though, I have a lot of people I love and I got to spend all week with most of them!! It was such a fun week and sad to say goodbye again!

9 months

I thought that being a stay-at-home mom would consist of cuddling up with my baby watching Ellen, Reba, and Full House re-runs all day...big surprise I was wrong!

Beck started officially crawling the day we moved in and now he has completely mastered it, I can put him in the living room and literally run to the kitchen to do something and within about 30 seconds his grinning little face will pop around the corner of the kitchen, it is so dang cute! And the best part is is that I feel like I can eat whatever I want all day because I can't imagine how many calories I am burning by chasing him around.

He's also mastered being able to pull himself up on things to stand, I love when I'm in the kitchen cooking (yes I cook now!) and all the sudden I feel a little person climbing up my leg, he just wraps his arms around really tight and likes to stand there attached to me.

The biggest down side to all of this is of course his cute little face is now constantly covered in bruises, because he falls so much even though I really try to watch him close, and me and Dane keep checking his reflexes to make sure he doesn't have brain damage or anything

He is a ton of fun in every way now, if I crack up about anything Beck will crack up too. And all you have to do to get him to laugh uncontrollably is to pop out and scare him, I don't show people too often cause it makes me look like a total idiot but it gets a good reaction from him.

Here he is taking all of the DVD's off the shelf, he is into everything and he can't even walk yet but he is so dang fun!! I love my little buddy

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