September

September started with Alden's baptism and then we left to go to Las Vegas for a short family vacation. Michael had a conference there so we decided to make a trip out of it.  It worked out really well.  The first night there we stayed at a hotel. They had a kid place which made it fun for the boys. They had miniature golf, lots of movies we could borrow, archery, and other games.

After dropping Michael off we went over to watch some of the fountains.

The second day we went to the natural history museum in Las Vegas.  We have fun looking at all of the exhibits.  Evan loved seeing all of the stuffed large animals.  The other boys liked the real animals that they had there.  I enjoyed learning even more about Tut's tumb.

After the first night we spent the rest of our time there with the cousins.  Which was a lot of fun.  We enjoyed visiting and playing with them.  We also went to go and see the big horn sheep and feed the fish.  We had a great time!

Breaking down a wall! This was a fun project and really Alden did most of it.  There was a space under the steps that was just wasted space, one day when looking at the steps I realized it and then told Michael how I wanted to knock out the wall to get to it. We were concerned about how it was built underneath and if it would be an easy project or not.  I had my brother-in-law check it out for me when he was here, and okay it so to speak.  We are excited to have some more storage space and a larger toy closet for our boys!

During conference we did a number of different activities... one was conference bingo, building a tent, lego construction of the conference, and using old friends to cut out pictures that line up with the 13 article of faiths. These are pictures of the boys with there article of faith cards they made.