Ok, so I have been horrible about keeping up on this and am now making a new commitment to post something at least once a week, even if I have no picture! Part of the reason for this blog is to help me remember our memories and I’m not doing very good, so starting now, new commitment!! 
As of now, I’m going to give everyone a quick update on our family with only a few pictures and then links to our photo album if you want to see more. 
To start off, Jeremy and I are doing great! Jeremy has been working in Salt Lake for the last 4 years and commuting over an hour each way and has recently been transferred to Riverton, which is closer but still about 40 minutes away. He is still working for the Church and loving his job and so to make it easier on our family and have him home more often we have decided to make a big move. We love our house and neighborhood in Springville, but we love seeing Jeremy more so we are moving closer to his work! It has been really hard on me to make this decision because I love our house (we have put so much work into finishing the basement) and I love the neighborhood and Springville and being a little closer to our parents and close to my friends, but after much deliberating and much praying we know this the best decision for our family and it is what we are supposed to do! So for the last few months we have house hunting and have finally found a fabulous home with an incredible yard that our kids can actually go out and play in! We are so excited and will hopefully be in our new house around the first of December. Our new house is less than 10 minutes away from Jeremy’s work! It has almost everything we wanted in a house and are really happy about it! Now let’s just hope the neighborhood and ward come close to this one!! 
Mason is now three and is going to a really great preschool. I am still up in the air what to do about this one, lol, I don’t really want to drive 40 minutes each way to take him to preschool but I love this one because he has school during one half and then gymnastics during the other half and he LOVES it! The best part is that when he comes home, he’s worn out!!!! Who knew he could actually get worn out? Here’s a picture of his first day of school.
He had several great birthday parties! We can’t believe he is 3 already, time just flies by. He is still very active and always has tons of energy. He is quite the chatter box and is always talking, even if no one is listening! He still loves cars, trucks, and trains and his new favorite thing is computer games (go figure with Jer as a dad!) He is really good on the computer and it is amazing to me how quickly he picks things up. He also loves to read books and have them read to him so luckily he has a Grandma that works at a school and is always buying him fun books. He says the funniest things all the time and I’m going to be better about writing them down so that we can always remember them! We are a little nervous about he will adjust to the move. He loves going out of the house and doing stuff, but is always grateful to come home so we know there will be a little bit of an adjustment. He also loves going to Church here so not only will he be going to a new church with new kids, but soon after he will be a Sunbeam and leaving nursery where there’s lots of toys and activities…which may be one the biggest reasons he loves going to Church lol!! If you are really interested in seeing what he’s been up to lately, you can click on the link below to see his birthday parties, him playing, whatever you want lol! But here is ones of our newer pictures of him.
http://stowell.smugmug.com/Personal/Mason
McKinley just turned 11 months yesterday! Man, she is growing up so fast!! She is a little spit fire, too! She already has soo much personality! She is definitely a mama’s girl, but she sure loves when her dad comes home from work! She has been crawling since early 5 months so we expected her to be walking by 9 but she is now just starting to get cruising. I never thought I’d actually say this, but we are ready for her to walk. She has been crawling for so long that it really feels like she should be walking already!! I’ll probably regret this statement!! She is such a determined baby and if she ever really wants something then it is almost impossible to stop her. She is also such a drama queen already! She already knows that falling apart will more than likely result in someone picking her up and she knows that flashing that cute smile will get everyone’s attention pretty quick. She is very friendly as long as someone she knows is holding her, but as long as she is safe, she does all she can to get people to look at her and smile at her!! Oh, this is why I was so afraid of having a girl!! But we love her so much, she is so fun and such a happy little girl. She is also just a loving baby! She hugs everything she can get her hands on, be it a person, a stuffed animal, a remote, a phone…whatever! I love it! Mason, still to his day, is not a cuddler! Here is a recent cute picture of her. Yes, I know there is no bow on her head but she refuses to wear them right now and pulls them off the second they are on and cannot be distracted from it even for a picture. Maybe soon she’ll finally have enough hair on her head that I can make something stay in there!
Her current words right now are mama (of course), dada and bogee!! Poor Bogee, she loves him soo much and just always wants to show him! Mason and her have so much fun together, they wrestle, which scares anyone watching because we’re so afraid he’ll hurt her, but she just laughs and laughs and lunges on him for more!! It’s so fun to see how much they love each other and how much Mason already looks out for her. Here are some really cute pictures of them in their Halloween jammies!
I’m just a sucker for pajamas, I spend as much on them as I probably do their actual clothes that people see. I bought McKinley’s in Park City when I went there with some friends for a girls weekend. We didn’t think I’d be able to go because McKinley was still refusing to take a bottle (we just finally gave up and went to a cup for her) but Jeremy was great and just took care of kids while I was gone and they were so good for him and it was soooo good for me!!! I am still working at the hospital but I’m only on call so I just work every now and then. It’s nice, I still get to get out of the house and do something besides being a mom (which I love, but it’s nice to think about something else once in a while) but I’m not working all the time and still sleeping most nights.
Ok, enough catching up, on to some pictures!
We went to Arizona the first of September to surprise my grandma for her birthday and stopped in Vegas for the night on they way. It was a long day and the kids were pretty tired, but we had to stop at the M&M factory!
Here we are suprising Grandma! No one called her on her birthday to make the surprise even better! She was shocked to see us all there and it was a fun weekend.
This is an attmept at getting a picture of all the great-grandkids with them…hahaha!
We had a great time at the Elk hunt this year, we took two trailers up to give us some more room and it worked great. The kids had a blast playing in the mountains. There are a ton of great pictures from the hunt, but here are a few and then if your dying to see more, you can click on the link below to check them out.
http://stowell.smugmug.com/Personal/Hunting/Elk-Hunt-2009/9767857_7y6i3#662047791_WmPPj
Alright, I think that was pretty good! I’ll be back soon with Halloween pictures and some other stuff!!
