Go Cougars!

Rise, all loyal Cougars

And hurl your challenge to the foe.
We will fight, day or night,
Rain or snow.
Loyal, strong and true,
Wear the White and Blue.
As we sing, get set to spring.
Come on Cougars, it's up to you!
So Rise and Shout, the Cougars are out
We're on a trail to fame and glory.
Rise and shout, our cheers will ring out
As we unfold our vict'ry story.
On we go to vanquish the foe
For Alma Mater's sons and daughters.
As we join in song,
In praise of you, our faith is strong.
We'll raise our colors high in the blue
And cheer our Cougars of BYU.
Rah! Rah! Rah-rah-rah!
Rah! Rah! Rah-rah-rah!
Rah! Rah! Rah-rah-rah!
GO COUGARS!

New Family Picture

Here is one of the family pictures we took a couple of weeks ago. I think our photographer did a great job putting up with my whole family (all 17 of us). It was a lot of fun. Before this we did not have family pictures taken for 6 years.


Here is one of just us. It started to rain at the end of our shoot, but I think we got all the shots we wanted. I can't wait for the next photo opportunity.


check out our photographer here

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Happy Halloween

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I think that it is such a fun day. I was so excited to have Miriam this year to celebrate with. Michael thinks Halloween is an overrated holiday, but I think he had fun too. We went up to visit my parents for the weekend. We did some fun activities and I ended up taking over 80 pictures on Halloween.

1. Miriam carved her first pumpkin.

Miriam sticking her hands in the pumpkin goop

Miriam helping Dad with the pumpkin

Miriam helping Mom draw the face

Miriam with Mom and Dad and the finished pumpkin

Miriam with her first jack-o-lantern
(we did not get a picture of it lit up)

2. Miriam had her first sucker.


3. Miriam went Trick-or-Treating for the first time. She dressed up as Tinkerbell.

Miriam all ready to go

Miriam and Mom

Miriam at her first house for treats

Miriam with her cousin "Fancy Nancy"
(she is already more interested in the candy)

Even though she won't have any memories, I hope Miriam enjoyed her first Halloween. I am already making plans for next year.

Sad Loss

BYU had a very disappointing loss this weekend. We were so excited to go to the game, but ended up sad about the outcome. It rained for a while before the game. Luckily it stopped before the game started. Although it was colder than previous games, we were able to stay dry.

10 months

Miriam is ten months old today. We can't believe how big she is getting. She is so much fun. We took her to the park this evening to take some pictures of her playing in the leaves.

Watching her Dad throw leaves

Playing in the leaves

Miriam has a real sweet personality. She is a really easy going child. For the most part she is content with whatever she is doing (even though she is having a clingy stage right now...stranger danger). She will sit in front of the bookcase and read all her books for a long time. She loves to turn the pages of her books. She has even started "telling" the stories. She has figured out how to roll all over the room to get to what she wants. The past few days I have started finding her in all sorts of positions in her crib. She pushes herself backward on her tummy for a short while, but mostly just rolls over when she is put on her tummy. She is starting to understand things we tell her. The funniest part is she gets this little pouty face when we tell her "no" to something. It is hard to be serious and tell her she is doing something wrong when she looks so cute.

Pumpkin Patch

We took Miriam to pick out her first pumpkin today. It was an unseasonably warm day (70 degrees). We went to a little family farm in Highland. It was called the Monson pumpkin patch.

There was a chicken walking around and Miriam seemed pretty interested in it. Personally, I did not like it being so close.

We found a small pumpkin just her size.

We walked into the cornfield.

Michael and Miriam found the perfect pumpkin. She was so excited she started waving at me.

We got to cut the pumpkin right off the vine.

We are going to take our pumpkin home and carve it soon. We hope to make this a family tradition every year. What a fun day.