Dad's Wedding

My dad got married to this pretty lady, Sheila, on October 12th in Alpine, Utah. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful wedding.

Grandma Dot:

My cousin Todd kept the kids busy with magic tricks.

Cutest group of cousins ever!

This picture is my favorite! Ty LOVES his cousins.

I asked Kristen to snap a few family pictures or our family. I'm lucky to have a photographer in the family!

We finished with wedding stuff around noon, so we spend the afternoon at the Red Barn in Santaquin. This (below) is not it exactly, but it definitely looks like that. We took a hayride to the pumpkin patch and played and played!

The cousins were so happy to be together this weekend. Look how Makayla and Kate are holding hands on the slide below!

Hailey had no fear on the slide. She went down several times!

Henry enjoyed it as well.

Ty might just be in heaven.

The guys:

Look at this "engagement" photo of cousins Hailey and Henry. These two are only 2 days apart!

I have to thank Kristen for taking most of the pictures. I knew she was taking them, so I didn't worry about taking many myself. It was fun to see everyone!

 After hanging out with the Lotz family (and getting BYU creamery ice cream), we drove up to Tim's grandparents' house in Sandy because Tim's brother Scott and family were visiting. Ty got to see cousins Matthew and Mackenzie.

I tried to take several pictures of them, but they wouldn't stop moving!
 Ty enjoyed golfing in Grandma and Grandpa's backyard.

Quick Trip to Phoenix

  

My niece, Makayla was baptized into the church last Saturday. I wasn't going to go, but my conference was cancelled due to the flooding, so purchased a plane ticket last minute and flew out to surprise her! 

The last time I was there, Kathryn, who is 3.5 months older than Ty, had just been born and Ty was in my tummy. Now these two are almost friends!

 The weather in Phoenix was really nice, especially in the morning and evenings, so we spent a lot of time out in the backyard.

 

 Mindy had previously signed up for the Super Hero 5k Run, so I decided to join her. I was about the only person there not wearing anything super hero-like, but I did get pictures with some awesome super heros.


I feel bad I didn't take more pictures, but here is Will.

 Ty was in heaven with all of the toys they had.

 Bruzer is almost like an older sibling to the kids. Ty liked him, but Bruzer didn't like Ty. He would growl at Ty, but Ty didn't mind.

  

 Ty slept on the way to Phoenix and was pretty good on the way home. He LOVED looking out of the airport windows at the trucks and planes.

 Happy to be back home!

Ty, Ty the Cutest Guy

 Need I say more?

 Chick Fil A Family Carnival:

 

 

 

 Just a little light reading

 Rocking the sandals. He couldn't wait for me to put his clothes on. He had a fit because he wanted to wear his sandals.

  Future missionary. So Handsome!

 I can't get enough!

"A Flood of Biblical Proportions"

Many of you have asked if we were affected by the flooding in Colorado. Fortunately, our house was not affected by the flooding, but we are very close to the damage. The picture below is a road less than two miles from our house.

 

 Our church has been working closely with FEMA to help with clean up both in neighborhoods on a smaller scale, and with community support (ie guarding dumpsters around town...but that's another story). Below is one neighborhood in Longmont, just 20 minutes north of us. This neighborhood was one shown on the news with water covering the entire neighborhood. The National Guard set up camp at the entrance.

 

 This was the sight in front of EVERY house in the neighborhood.

Most basements still had several inches of water because the ground was too saturated. If the water was pumped out, it came back in from underneath.

These stairs lead to 5" of water four days after the flooding started.

  My friend Breanne and I were able to help because her mom, who just lives up the street (literally), watched the kids for us. It was a busy day moving items, scraping, hauling, tearing out carpet, and ripping out baseboards.

This was one of the more lightly affected houses. You can see how high the water got on the toilet, but the houses with basements had water up to the ceiling.

 Breanne scraping mud from the closet floor.

 We are doing what we can to help, but it will be a long process for these houses to dry out. I realized how blessed I was to not have any house damage from the flood, and realized how easily disaster can strike, These towns had contaminated water and no electricity for days. It sure makes me want to be prepared.

More Ty

Today is Grandma Larsen's Birthday, so I told her I would post a few pictures of Ty. HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA!

 New shoes from Grandma Diney. Ty LOVES them (and they look great with his little baseball outfit)!

The picture below is dark (it was dark in the room), but Ty was being so funny smiling at himself in the mirror.

 We've watched our neighbor's dog, Quakey, for the past two weekends. He and Ty are like brothers. They play, fight, and get into messes together.