September Catch Up

I'm hoping that I'll eventually be done trying to catch up on posts. September was a pretty busy month for us over here.

My parents and youngest brother came to visit over Labor Day weekend. While out here, they took Garrett shopping for his mission things. On the 2nd we got a babysitter and went to the Provo temple to be with Garrett when he went through for the first time. Several members of our extended family were also there. After the session we met back at Melissa and Nate's house where we had peach pie and cream pies. Here's a picture of me with my brother Garrett and sister Melissa.

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During the middle of the month, my sister-in-law Cassie and I threw Melissa a baby shower. I had fun making her a flower basket using receiving blankets.

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My sister Melissa and I took Zach to the duck pond to feed ducks for the first time. At first he'd let me help him throw bread to the ducks (which he thought was really funny). After a little while he thought it'd be more fun to join the ducks and started really struggling to get in the pond.

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Zach decided he really likes raisins and went through a phase where he loved playing in his closet. Playing in his closet led to him having a very messy room since one of the things he'd do in there was pull out all his clothes and throw them on the floor outside the closet.

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Other events include:

- A BYU game with Derrick's parents and a baby shower for Derrick's cousin's wife. I appliquéd a dinosaur onesie for her baby.

- Organizing a ward service project and making a display for a stake activity for the weekend of the General Relief Society Broadcast. We made tutus for little girls at the hospital. I got a lot of help on the tutus from some of the other members on the Enrichment committee.


- A trip to an apple orchard to pick as many apples as we wanted. This led to making lots of apple spice muffins and desserts.

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Now, for anyone who is still actually reading, here are some fun pics of Zach.

Tummy tummy! Zach loves running around lifting his shirt up. Apparently tummies are cool when they're usually hidden in a onesie.

Zach has started to get out the pans, lids, and spoons and pretend to cook. Though sometimes he comes up with other uses for them :).


Fun times running around with Jason and Cassie's dog Topanga.


Adventures in feeding himself yogurt. Yes, there is yogurt on his eyelashes.


Apparently relaxing requires holding one foot in the air.


That's it for this post. Congrats to those who survived to the end :).