October - November - December

Time to catch up on the last 1/4 of the year 2012!

An Indian summer day at 

RBG.  Crosby made the 

most out of short season this year!

Brothers swinging away the afternoon

Millcreek Canyon

The boys were tossing leaves

while screaming, "Leaves 

EVERYWHERE!!"

Nice toss

Did I ever say that I absolutely

treasure my boys?  I had a rough pregnancy

this go-round; more rough times than

good-feeling ones.  I was always

ridden with guilt that I couldn't

go here and there with my boys like

I wanted to, but we were still able

to fit in some memories :)

Crosby has had a great experience at

Highland High's preschool!  This day he was

the star of the week and I was the weirdo

mom taking pictures but I dunno... I'm

proud of my kid!

October creeped upon us quickly.

I already knew October was Jig's

month because it's his bday

month but boy does this little guy

LOOOOVE Halloween!  He 

really really does.  He was a 

sad soul to see the holiday on

its way out this year; all of the

"pooky" houses lost their "pooky"

decorations and... no more

"piedah webs." :(

Next year, Boogs!

Croz was happy to do a

Spiderman encore this

year, even with a run in his

Spidey suit

"What do you want to be, Jig?"

Piedah man.

En route to her new home in NYC, Jess

paid us a visit.  We had so much fun!

She just sleeps on the couch, logs time 

with the boys, and stays up late with

me for girl talk.  Dream come true!

We fit in a festive pedicure session

2012 Thriller group... look at all the 

Becks, count 'em FIVE!

First time doing RBG's Garden after Dark.

It was fun but man was October a horrific

month for me pregnancy-wise.  I was dying

(from tight tight contractions way up high)

this night but I told D come hell or high

water I WANT to do fun things with

my boys before this baby comes!

Making friends with batty

I hauled these guys to Gardner Village

on a freezing cold day thinking they

would have a blast finding all the witches.

WRONG!  The candy store was

mediocre at best, who would have

ever guessed.

Halloween Night 2012.  Last

stop: Trick-or-Treating at Nan

and Grandpa's.  That night D got

to come with us and we went trick-

or-treating all around Munga's

neighborhood too.  Once again I

was in rough shape that night;

soooo many Braxton-Hicks.  Glad

I had D to do most of the work

Leaf-raking season seemed to

pass in the blink of an eye

Snow bombarded us in early November 

this year!  It was fun to welcome a genuine

Salt Lake winter for once.  These are the

winters I remember when we'd come 

visit from out of state when I was young;

that quiet muffle of snow surrounding me.

By Thanksgiving time I was feeling much much better
than October pregnancy-wise.  My mom and I found
these little joys on Pinterest and had some fun making
them for the Thanksgiving table this year.

Made my first-ever blueberry pie, first-ever

lattice top!  It turned out pretty delicious

with some rich vanilla ice cream melting

on top ;)

Thanksgiving night D had to work 

so I camped out at my parents'

til late.  I remember my mom

and I looking at each other,

saying how exhausted we were

that night!  My dad found Star

Wars on TV and Croz was 

ecstatic, despite how he looks

in the pic.

Fun meeting up with some dear friends.

Holiday time!

Santa came to ARUP this year and this

is how it went.  C'mon Jig, he won't bite!

This day D was outside with these guys 

for so long having a snowball fight and

making a snow fort.

We hit RBG once again, this time

to celebrate Winter Solstice. The

boys loved it and it wasn't 

freezing cold so they could

actually move their fingers while

they made pipe cleaner

snowflakes and threw their 

wishes into a bonfire.

A little time out for exploring

Funny how I relate everything to me 

being pregnant, but wow was I 

outrageously comfortable at the

end of course, but especially

on Christmas day.  I at least got 

some video of the boys opening

their presents, but this is one

of the only photos taken that

day.  Lennox and Beth.  Really

Christmas was wonderful, just 

a really nice time all day!  Beth

is on my mind so much right 

now; as we speak she's in the

hospital with flu and pneumonia.

Love her very dearly.

This is what Crosby gave D and me 

for Christmas, he made it in

preschool.  It made me cry.

Here I am one day shy of my 39 week mark.

Time to set the ship a sailin' folks!