A STAR is BORN!

So, Avery Jane has entered the world of dance.

Weekly classes, sparkly costumes, dance shoes, so much gel in your hair it won’t move in the wind world of dance.

Monday night she had her first performance at Thanksgiving Point at the Scarecrow Festival.  The wind was howling and blowing, she was freezing!  But when the time came she ran on stage kicking her “booty” all the way, with her hands on her hips and a smile on her lips (as Miss Mo would say).

We tried to catch it all on video…

(keep in mind the wind was blowing…really hard, and Miss Mo loves to dance too!)

She got in the car and we asked her if she had fun dancing.  She said, “I liked the dancing, but I just loved being on that big stage.  THAT WAS SO AWESOME!”

We are so proud of our little performer!

A few more pics…did I mention we were proud?!

 

 

Hay! and pumpkins too…

As part of the Autumn festivities we make an annual trip to Pack Farms in Farmington to pick out pumpkins.  Even though we grew our own this year, we just couldn’t pass up the fun.  This year we went with the Jensen Family, Grammy and Papa and Cousin Addy (here from Missouri).  The main attraction for the little girls was the hay maze that they could run and chase in and never get lost.

This was Chloe’s first trip as a free roving toddler and seemed to get the hang of it quite quickly.

  

The older girls were old pros…

 

Addy…not so much a believer in the fun that could be had in the hay maze…

On to the pumpkin patch…

The perfect find.  Rolled it all the way!

Good old fashioned Family Fun!

Autumn

Autumn is one of my favorite seasons.  We so rarely see much of Autumn here in Utah, but this year I feel like it came and stayed for a while.  I love all the things that Autumn brings. 

School days and the excitement of learning new things, school supplies, the smell of freshly sharpened pencils (You’ve Got Mail…Tom Hanks), the vibrant colors of the tree lined streets and mountain sides especially my Autumn Blaze Maple in the front yard (above), the air that takes on a fresh, crisp scent that can’t be captured, the harvest from our gardens, Halloween costumes and candy, pumpkin patches and carving them for the front porch.  I love that it is “soup weather” again, time for homemade root beer, caramel and golden delicious apples.  I love putting away the short sleeves and pulling out the old baggy worn out sweatshirts, jumping into bed where the pillow always has a cold side.   Welcome Autumn!  Stick around for a while.