Girl's date night to go see High School Muscal 3
Terrible picture, but this is Rivers testing to get her yellow belt in karate - she passed and is very proud to show her belt to everyone.
We like breakfast in bed (it's actually the only way I can get Rivers to wake up for school)
For Thanksgiving Rivers made everyone (the whole Nuno bunch) Indian names and wrote them on name tags. Dwight fittingly was Whispering Owl.
She also got dressed up in her Native American dress from a previous halloween (glad I made it too big) and was named Beautiful Sky.
Cousin Salesi and CD after the meal. They're still kind of in awe of eachother.
Dwight likes to copy Rivers and be right by her, so I like this pic of him pretending to lay down and read while Rivers does her reading.
Early snowstorm. CD is wearing Rivers old coat and her little pink mittens because the snowstorm was a surprise and he didn't have any of his own cold weather gear.
Now he's set!
Rough mornings-oatmeal from head to toe- he insists on feeding himself
I took the kids on an amazingly beautiful hike up Big Cottonwood Canyon called Stairs Gulch.
We didn't see one person, and the leaves were AMAZING! Check out that backdrop. It looks fake and you can barely see the trail going through it.
Go Mustangs! Rivers played 5 on 5 soccer.
At the zoo.
My little owl and tough supergirl.
At the Peterson family reunion
Wheeler Farms where Rivers got to milk a cow and my son sported a belly shirt.
Even his morning face is pretty darn cute.
Tanner's birthday - we celebrated with my super healthy zucchini/flaxseed cupcakes after ultimate frisbee.
My brother Jason and his family (that's Diana) came to visit family and go to football games. Here we are decked out in our Oregon State Beaver gear. We all decided that University of Utah fans are just about the worst - so rude to us, but maybe it was because the unranked Beavs were spanking them until the last second of the game at the Utes home field.
The next night we got to go to Logan and watch BYU win. I only own the old school BYU gear from my days there.
Cousins making pancakes together.
We impulsively decided to put a sprinkler system in by ourselves so we wouldn't be the only ones on the block with a brown lawn again. Turned out to be a little bit more involved than we were prepared for. We did it though and boy did it feel good to see those sprinklers sprinkle.
We needed a walkway to our driveway from the front door so I collected rocks that were in our soil and unearthed from excavating sprinkler trenches. I scrubbed them all up, got a book from the library on constructing pathways, dug 8 inches down with a pick-axe (what a wonderful tool) the length of the path, shoveled in a layer of gravel, compacted, shoveled in a layer of sand, compacted, mixed up 5 bags of mortar, and wiggled in all of the stones like a puzzle and voila, I finished my cobblestone pathway.
Here's a picture of the completed project (it runs along the driveway too so we don't step out of our car onto the grass). This also shows the new grass coming up that I seeded after the sprinklers were done. Thanks to Whitney for sending me free grass seed and cool little bulbs to plant throughout the grass. Spring will be fun to see everything come up and plant little beauties along my path that I am so proud of doing all by myself. It reminds me of all those cobblestones I walked on in Germany.
Girl's date night to go see High School Muscal 3
Terrible picture, but this is Rivers testing to get her yellow belt in karate - she passed and is very proud to show her belt to everyone.
We like breakfast in bed (it's actually the only way I can get Rivers to wake up for school)
For Thanksgiving Rivers made everyone (the whole Nuno bunch) Indian names and wrote them on name tags. Dwight fittingly was Whispering Owl.
She also got dressed up in her Native American dress from a previous halloween (glad I made it too big) and was named Beautiful Sky.
Cousin Salesi and CD after the meal. They're still kind of in awe of eachother. 
Dwight likes to copy Rivers and be right by her, so I like this pic of him pretending to lay down and read while Rivers does her reading.
Early snowstorm. CD is wearing Rivers old coat and her little pink mittens because the snowstorm was a surprise and he didn't have any of his own cold weather gear.
Rough mornings-oatmeal from head to toe- he insists on feeding himself
We didn't see one person, and the leaves were AMAZING! Check out that backdrop. It looks fake and you can barely see the trail going through it.
Go Mustangs! Rivers played 5 on 5 soccer.
At the zoo.
At the Peterson family reunion
Wheeler Farms where Rivers got to milk a cow and my son sported a belly shirt.
Even his morning face is pretty darn cute.
Tanner's birthday - we celebrated with my super healthy zucchini/flaxseed cupcakes after ultimate frisbee.
My brother Jason and his family (that's Diana) came to visit family and go to football games. Here we are decked out in our Oregon State Beaver gear. We all decided that University of Utah fans are just about the worst - so rude to us, but maybe it was because the unranked Beavs were spanking them until the last second of the game at the Utes home field.
The next night we got to go to Logan and watch BYU win. I only own the old school BYU gear from my days there.
Cousins making pancakes together.
We impulsively decided to put a sprinkler system in by ourselves so we wouldn't be the only ones on the block with a brown lawn again. Turned out to be a little bit more involved than we were prepared for. We did it though and boy did it feel good to see those sprinklers sprinkle.
We needed a walkway to our driveway from the front door so I collected rocks that were in our soil and unearthed from excavating sprinkler trenches. I scrubbed them all up, got a book from the library on constructing pathways, dug 8 inches down with a pick-axe (what a wonderful tool) the length of the path, shoveled in a layer of gravel, compacted, shoveled in a layer of sand, compacted, mixed up 5 bags of mortar, and wiggled in all of the stones like a puzzle and voila, I finished my cobblestone pathway.
Here's a picture of the completed project (it runs along the driveway too so we don't step out of our car onto the grass). This also shows the new grass coming up that I seeded after the sprinklers were done. Thanks to Whitney for sending me free grass seed and cool little bulbs to plant throughout the grass. Spring will be fun to see everything come up and plant little beauties along my path that I am so proud of doing all by myself. It reminds me of all those cobblestones I walked on in Germany.
2 comments:
i love your blog pictures! by the way, your christmas card was so awesome! you look so pretty in it! hurry home for christmas! the kids are dying to play with rivers and dwight!
i keep waiting for you to post some more pictures, but you never do!
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