Happy Birthday!!!

Today is Ella's 1/2 birthday!! I want to give a shout out to my adorable little girl who likes to celebrate everyday!! Why not have another reason to celebrate! So, to my sassy, enthusiastic, hilarious little princess....Have a wonderful half birthday!! Congratulations to making it all the way to 2 1/2 years old! Whoo hoo!

Halloween Weekend!!

Our Little Ferry Princess!

Our chunky Monster!

Ella and Tanner

Lily and Cavin!

Halloween is over, but the best part still remains....or at least what candy I haven't eaten yet :) Ella was VERY excited to put on her ferry princess costume and Cavin wasn't loving his monster costume, because as most everything else, it was a little small....surprise, surprise! Ragnar got off early on Halloween and we went with the Ferrins, and the Stones trick or treating! Ella will miss not going with Tanner next year! She had fun even though she did get a little scared of some of the costumes, she is such a scardy cat! After trick or treating she had a fun time going to our ward party and walking on the cake walk. She was so happy all night and kept saying how much fun she was having!

On Saturday morning we woke up and I hurried to Kohls to get a super good special on a portable dvd player which will be a necessity on our drive to Houston! Afterward I drove with the kids to Provo to visit my sister Marisa! I got to see her beautiful wedding dress and then hang out with her and Ethan! Ella kept talking about talking to Ethan the whole way home! My cousin Stephanie was also nice enough to take time out of her day to come say hi, it was fun to see her, I wish we were closer! We had a good couple of days and I CAN'T WAIT for Ragnar's next 3 days off! Don't even get me started on how excited I am that he is leaving his current job!

Corn Maze Fun!

The Jeppesen's

Ella pretty much the whole time..twirling

her hair and looking for sticks!

The MacNair's



It seems like I have been posting a lot lately, but I think I am trying to document all the last fun memories we have while we are still in Utah. Yesterday we went to the Green Canyon Corn Maze with our neighbors the Jeppesens, and MacNairs. We had a fun time, even though most of the corn was dead and leaning over! We got through in about 45 minutes and mostly because of my slow, distracted two year old who was to busy finding sticks and didn't want to get in the stroller! Thanks for being patient guys! We have fun with our neighbors and will be so sad to leave them!
After the corn maze we went back to eat pizza all together. We enjoy the fall so much, I wish it never had to lead into the dreadful next season...WINTER! I won't be sad to taking an early leave from the snow!

Pumkin Walk!

Tiger Woods, John Wayne, and Michael Jordon

Isn't Ragnar a very pretty Cinderella!

Ella wanted to be snow white!

Every year since I have lived in Logan, Utah we have gone to the pumpkin walk that the city puts on. Each year they have a theme and you can go and look at all the pumpkins that people either carved or decorated. We enjoy going and seeing what's there and this year we took the kids and went with our neighbors the MacNairs. We had a fun time and the boys were so excited that we waited in a long line for a string cheese! We had fun though and I love this time of year!

It's Official!

Cavin isn't sure he wants his sister to hold him
in the box!! He looks a little scared!

"peekaboo!"

Well, after much thought, we have decided to go ahead and move to Houston. We have been waiting for the house to sell, but regardless of the house selling, we need a change in employment and we need some forward progress for our family. Our hearts are full of many different emotions. We have made so many great friends in our 4 years here together. We have both been in Logan for at least 7 years and it has been a place, I swore I couldn't wait to get out of and now am sad to leave. I guess you really can grow to love anywhere you live. We are excited about our new adventures and the job opportunities in Houston, TX. I am also very excited to move closer to one set of grandparents and let the kids have a chance to be close to them at least for a time. As I told Ella we were going to move by Grandma Speers she immediately said "oooo I love Grandma Speers, come on let's go...whoo ooo" and then proceeded to jump in the box! We are very grateful for our family's support and willingness to help us in the scary endeavor. We will miss everyone and hope that our house will sell quickly after we leave. Our plans are to leave on November 29th. So, we say a sad goodbye to Logan, UT and a familiar welcome back to Texas! We will both be city slickers once again!

Our Munchkins!!

Today Cavin had his 6 month check-up! I can't believe he is already that old! He was 22.4 pounds and 27.5 inches. He is slowly coming back to the charts! Yeah! He did great with his shots and has never cried! (I think partly because he has such chubby legs he can't feel them!) He also started his first solid foods...oatmeal and squash, didn't love the oatmeal, but I think he liked the squash! He is so smiley!
Ella on the other hand is loving the "presents" that come with potty training. This is her in her new tiara and wand! I sure love dollar store bribing! I can't believe how old she looks now, I mean she looks like she is 5! Oh she is so adorable!

Our Not So Little Girl :(

Ella is getting to be such a big girl! It's weird to think of her as a little girl and not my baby. It does help that I have another baby to call my baby, but she is growing so fast. This past week we decided she was ready to be potty trained, so that's when the fun began. It has been a week now and she is doing pretty well. The last two nights we had no wet pull-ups and haven't had an accident for two days! She is really getting the hang of it. I mean I don't believe people who say that do it in one day, I just think it's a complicated concept for little ones. She is doing well, but I'm sure it will take a while before I will consider her completely potty trained. She is making good progress though and I am proud of her! (For those of you who think Presents don't work...they did for us.. that's the only way she would go in the beginning!)

One other thing about the terrible two's that I was dreading was the awful 2 year molars everyone talks about. I kept thinking, I know they will come when Cavin starts teething. Well....I was brushing her teeth last night and I looked a little closer and 3 had already popped through!! I had no idea, she never said a word and I said Ella your teeth are in, and she just said, "I know mom!" I couldn't beleive it, so only one more to go and maybe I won't even notice that too! We can only hope we have this good of success with things with Cavin!