family pictures, etc

On Tuesday I made a brief attempt to take some pictures of myself and the kids using the timer on the camera. Not too shabby?

Now that the yard is fenced in, I'll let Colin go outside and play in the dirt while I make dinner. He has a great time and I can see him out the window and keep him out of most mischief. Win win. And then there was Thursday. Colin found some muddy water and played in it. Here is the end result.

He had pulled a weed (which is fine), dunked it in the muddy water (still okay), and then shook it furiously, soaking every square inch of himself in the process. It really wasn't that bad. He just didn't want to take a bath when I made him come inside.

On Friday I took the kids to the mall to look for some clothes for Nate. The Provo Towne Center finally has a little kid play area, and Colin and Kate loved it. They were so excited to find something to climb on where I didn't tell them no! There was a super chubby little girl with a big bow sitting on the floor, and Kate kept walking over to her to touch the bow. She eventually pulled it out.

Friday evening Nate and I walked the kids down to the church to play in the field of leaves. I had taken Colin on Wednesday after our Book Club, and he loved throwing the leaves in the air. Actually, he laughed so hard he threw up and we had to go home. Friday's outing was a little more sedate (since I didn't want to clean up more puke), but it was still fun.

Colin was shouting, "Dad! Come down here! Get out of that tree!"

Kate preferred to snack on the leaves.

Saturday morning we got up and drove to Provo to take some family pictures. Caleb was kind enough to be our photographer (even though he didn't have his own fancy camera to use and had to make due with ours). The kids were mildly cooperative and we got some cute ones out of the ninety-something that Caleb took. Colin fell down and smacked his face on the road as soon as we got there, so he has a huge lip and scraped chin in every picture. Poor guy! Here's a preview of our family pictures. These are the only ones I've edited so far because they are the ones that don't need heads swapped out and what-have-you.

Awww. I love my kids.

Can you believe Kate's beautiful eyes?!

Colin had had enough by this point.

And Kate had had enough by this point.

Thanks again, Caleb! You did such a great job!

Nate and I dropped the kids off after pictures and headed to the BYU game. My mom got some free tickets from her friend Doug, so we had an afternoon out. The seats were up pretty high, but they had an awesome view of the field. (Unfortunately, these seats didn't come with free food. Boo. I'm getting too spoiled for my own good.)

Here's an awesome view of Nate's happy face.

A kick-off. Not a bad shot for our dinky camera.

If you look closely you can see number 10 scoring a touchdown.

Nate and I left at halftime, since the Cougars were up 38-0. The final score was 55-7 since UNLV scored in the last minute of the game. We used our extra time to eat lunch and stop by a furniture store that is going out of business. Nate has nothing to add.