Photoshoot with a FIVE year old!

Sara endured a photoshoot with me a few days before her birthday.  She is such a cutie!

Camping!

Every year during Fall Break we go camping!  Which might seem like a cold time to go, unless you are headed to southern Utah!  This year we headed to Zions National Park, and my parents came too!  I had just received my fancy-shmancy camera, so most of the trip was spent trying it out.  I have sooooo much to learn, but I absolutely LOVE it!

 

Utah has AMAZING geology!  Zions is just beautiful!

Fall Photoshoot

A good friend of mine (Niki Noel Photography) took our pictures this Fall!  She did a fabulous job!!!  These are some of my faves!  

 

 

 

PuMpKiN TiMe!

 

 

Fire Station Field Trip

AWESOME!

And just in case you're not sure what to do in case of a fire or an emergency you can ask Sara.  She knows it all!!!  She can even sing you a song about it :-)  

ZOO time

 September is the perfect time to visit the zoo!  We love it there!

monkey see,

monkey do!

It doesn't matter HOW old you are...animals are just COOL!

Busy, Busy, Busy

Violet is a busy, busy girl! 

 She is busy making messes, that is!

She is busy getting into the magazine basket.
(Supposedly, it's a great place to unwind and catch up on some reading :-)

 

She also stays busy with the laundry!  She loves to help me push the laundry basket through the house and down the hallway.  She loves to help me sort the dirty clothes and load the washer and dryer.  But she mostly loves to UNFOLD the clothes I've already folded!  Despite the extra work, I couldn't ask for a cuter helper :-)

Here she is trying on one of her sister's undies!

(This particular sis has asked to remain anonymous :-)

 

Violet keeps busy doing many other things too!

... emptying kitchen drawers, painting my bathroom and herself with liquid eye liner (by the way, it does NOT come out!), emptying dresser drawers, trying on everyone's shoes, rearranging shoes, brushing her teeth with whoever's toothbrush she can reach, throwing food on the floor, and then later eating off the floor, throwing whatever she can find down the stairs, throwing whatever she can find into the kitchen garbage, emptying all the tissue from the tissue box, going through the pantry, depositing napkins in every room, emptying the recycling box, finding treasures in siblings' rooms (they're learning to shut their doors before they leave for school), unrolling TP, coloring on walls, rearranging the table decorations... etc, etc, etc!!!

OH!  And always, ALWAYS running away!

Welcome to toddler-hood!