She sure can color!

Ally won the "Be Fire Safe" coloring contest...again!  She won this one in second grade, too.  (And Logan won it in first grade.) She spent a lot of time working on it and should be proud. She won a tee shirt and a backpack.  Her entry will be displayed at the Brigham City Fire Station or Coldwell Banker Realty in Brigham for the next year.  She said the best part is having her picture in the newspaper, though.  Way to go, Ally!

Autumn Home Evening

We had our annual Naylor Family Autumn Home Evening a couple weeks ago.  The kids love it, mostly because of the scavenger hunt.  We had three teams this year.  Jensen was with Tiffany and Lorne (Tiffany's boyfriend).  Logan was with Dusty and Debbie (Tiffany's friend).  Ally was with Josh, Holden and I.

This is Ally with one of our strange/unusual objects.  Not sure what it was doing in the middle of a campsite, but it was good for 5 bonus points.

We also got 5 bonus points for this cute little bunny.  We tried really hard to catch it, but it was a quick little bugger!  Thank heavens for digital cameras so we got credit for our find!

Jensen and his vine. 

Logan's attempt at the largest Elephant Ear.

Cute Daddy/Daughter moment. 

I'm proud to say that my team won this year.  Probably due to our awesome bonus points.  We roasted hot dogs and had donuts after the scavenger hunt, along with our lesson.  The kids never get tired of finding fruits and vegetables growing in weird places.  We decided we're not really sure what the point of the lesson is, but it's tradition!

Family Pictures

We had our friend Kristen take some family pictures the other day.  I wasn't going to do them again this year because I LOVED last years pictures, but the kids had changed so much. We also happened to have a free weekend, good haircuts, and some coordinating outfits just laying around so I decided what the heck!

First of all, I just have to say that Ally is VERY photogenic!  I can't decided which picture I like of her more.

Holden was IMPOSSIBLE!  This was the only picture of him smiling that we got.  He wouldn't sit still, wouldn't look at the camera, basically acted like a toddler-imagine that!  I seriously don't know how people with toddlers get pictures with the toddler actually looking at the camera!

Here's handsome Logan.  You can't even tell he has two false front teeth.

Okay.  Jensen is just cute.  What else can I say.

This is the one I like best.

Josh likes this one.  Opinions?

This one is cute, too.  There was a train going right by us as we took this one.  You can tell Jensen and Holden weren't too sure about how close it was!

My funny (so they think) family.  Holden is giving Josh kisses. :)

It was quite the adventure, but it's always fun to catch these moments in time.  The kids are are growing up WAY too fast!

Trouble

Yes, he climbed up there all by himself.  You can tell he thinks he is pretty cool. This is just a small glimpse into my daily life of "Holden chasing".

Cake!

We had a joint birthday party for Josh and Ally on Sunday October third.  The McBrides, Crippens, Kotters and the Naylor Grandparents were able to come.  Ally finally got the birthday cake she was waiting for.  That's a lot of candles on one cake!

Ally is Eleven

 It was love at first sight for Josh and I on that bright September morning eleven years ago when Ally entered our lives.  The years have flown by and she has turned into such a cute, sweet "tween".  Here are eleven things we love about our Ally:

Her big blue eyes.

Her determination.

Her perfect handwriting.

Her smile.

Her kindness to others.

Listening to her play the piano.

Watching her dance ballet.

Hearing her laugh.

Her cheerful attitude.

Her cute sense of (modest) style.

Her ability to deal with having three little brothers. (She needs a medal for that one!)

Since her birthday was on Tuesday, and it wasn't a "friend party" year, we didn't do much for her birthday. We ended up going to dinner at Idle Isle with both sets of Grandparents.  We all had a fun time watching her open presents and just celebrating having her in our lives.

Here she is with all her gifts.  She got stuff to make flower bows, lots of craft kits, pajamas, some clothes, socks, recipe cards, and a gift card for Wal-Mart.  She also got a cute Birthday haircut. We are also going to let her join the 5th grade orchestra as one of her birthday gifts (cellos aren't cheap).  We love our Ally Boo!

Labor Day in the Uintahs

The kids begged all summer to go camping, so we decided to go over Labor Day weekend.  Josh's parents took their trailer up to Sulpher Campground in the Uintahs.  This picture was taken just a little ways past our campsite.

We brought everyone's bikes and Logan had tons of fun riding around the campsite.  The rest of us decided it was lots of fun going down the campground road, but not so fun coming back up.

Look!  It's a rare picture of me on the blog!  I'm doing what you're supposed to be doing while camping: nothing but sitting and enjoying the scenery.

Ally and Bubs by the river.  We enjoyed taking walks around the river and looking for fish.  Holden liked throwing rocks in the river to scare all the fish away.  We also saw several moose including one we could see from the trailer.

We took the kids fishing at Butterfly lake where Jensen caught two fish.  Nobody else caught anything. 

 After spending one miserable night in the trailer (Bubs wouldn't sleep, it was uncomfortable, there were icky bugs and lots of dirt-yes we are spoiled)  we decided to drive to the cabin for the next night.  We enjoyed a nice relaxing weekend after that.  We'll see if we ever go camping again...maybe at the Holiday Inn!