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Yes we made it to Logan. I know it has been a long time since I have posted. There are many good reasons for that... moving from Eugene to Logan, brother coming home from his mission, sister in town from Arizona, family reunion at Pineview... and I am PREGNANT.
We are really excited. My due date is January 13th...three days before one of my best friends and a week and a half before another close friend :) January will be busy but exciting. Here are some pictures from some fun adventures we have had (in no particular order):

Goodbye Party at Callisters. Mr. Jacob Callister himself. Good guy!

Sisters in our ward that cleaned my house when we moved out... I was so sick and they came to my rescue... Angels!!!!

Goodbye party at Callisters

Mountain Bike Ride along Logan River Trail. Boys loved it!

Pineview with Huffs. Crazy Cousins.

Uncle James coming home from Argentina... Yes he is very skinny!

Uncle James

Wheeler Farm with Grandma Baggaley

Wheeler Farm

Yummy ice cream!

Grandpa Huff's parade

Calvin and Dads hike around Silver Lake

Moving Truck in Eugene

Last day in Eugene:) We miss everyone!

Oregon Coast... Sniff Sniff

We are going to miss the Oregon Coast! A friend of ours gave us a beach house for free for the weekend. It was in a little town called Waldport. We invited some friends to join us. It was a great weekend!

Calvin excited to hold sand crabs

The Friends before everyone left

Milo loved the beach!

The boys took some nets and caught crabs. They brought them home and boiled them. I am glad I wasn't there when they did it.

Building a Sand Castle... until Simon came along and destroyed it!

This is the best picture I took of the boys together on the beach

Happy Birthday to This Person!

This is my mom. She is the cutest person in the world! It is her birthday today. I am so thankful for a wonderful mom that takes care of me. Some amazing things about my mom:
- She has 60 piano students... if not more... she is always adding here or there
- She accompanies the flutes at the U of U ... yes she does that on top of 60 students
- She had 12 babies... I cant even imagine being pregnant 12 times!
- She raised me... enough said!:)
Love you mom! Happy Birthday

Farewell to Oregon

For those who dont know... we are moving once again. Bryce was accepted in the MBA program for USU. We will be leaving good old Oregon in two short weeks. Bryce is officially done with classes here so we are trying to cram all of Oregon into the next two weeks. We started it off with hiking to the top of Spencer Butte. We have hiked part of this trail but never to the top of the butte.

On the way to the top. It is a total 5 1/2 mile hike. Calvin hike 5 miles of it. He actually probably ran about 4 miles of it :) He wanted to jump down the rocks on the top. Crazy boy!

Calvin made the hike so entertaining

Our little hikers at the top.

This is what the hike looks like. You feel like your in the middle of Lord of the Rings. You expect some magical creature to jump out of the fern.

The top of the Spencer's Butte. It was really pretty. One of the tallest points in Eugene.

The Letter A

I decided I was lacking on the "teaching" part of my mom job. Calvin is soaking information in like a sponge (good and bad). So I decided I really need to start trying to have a plan for teaching him. We are starting with the ABC's. Each day we start with a letter that Calvin colors. We then figure a food and an activity that starts with that letter. I am also trying to incorporate church things in with this. So here we go:

The Letter A

A is for Arthichoke and A is for Artist
We ate an artichoke for our vegetable for dinner and we were "artists" and finger painted.
We also talked about Adam. I asked Calvin if he new who Adam was. He said "Adam was our first Prophet." I was a little shocked that he knew this, but then we started to sing "Follow the Prophet" and I understood how he knew that Adam was our first Prophet.


I think Simon painted more on his tummy than on the poster
Calvin loved this activity... getting dirty

Where did he get it from?

This is Simon sleeping. Why did I take this picture? Notice his shoes. They are together with his socks placed in them. When i put Simon down for his nap, I took his shoes off and just threw them to the side. When i came in to check on him, he had taken his shoes , placed them nicely together, taken his socks off and placed them inside the shoes. This kid is a neat freak! He doesn't like his hands dirty, he is always picking up trash around the house and throwing it away. And now his shoes and socks have to be nice and neat before he will take his nap. Where did this kid come from??? Maybe I could learn a thing or two from him:)

Super CTR

My sister-in-law made this cute cape. Calvin loves it. He always asks me to get it out. The other day he begged me to pull it out of the drawer. As I was putting it on him, I explained what CTR stands for. I told him that when he wears this cape, he has to "choose the right." So he ran around in it. Flying from room to room. About twenty minutes later he comes to me and says "Can you take this off? I don't want to wear it anymore." Two seconds after I take it off, he runs and grabs the truck that Simon was playing with. I guess he was done choosing the right.

Calvin's Baby Blanket

You would think by the name of this post that it was three and a half years old. But no, I finally finished Calvin's baby blanket. Before Calvin was born, Bryce and I went to the fabric store and picked out Calvin's material for his baby blanket. It was supposed to go with his room... that he no longer lives in.
I needed a good cheap project to do. So I pulled it out and started on it. The original fabric was too small for Calvin now so I went to the store and found another piece to add to it. For those people who are talented at sewing... please do not look too close. But for those who only know how to sew straight lines, like me, be amazed!

The little paw print is from his original baby blanket. the Skaters and Bikers fabric is what i picked out. I thought it matched Calvin to a T. They dont necessarily go together but I felt that they described Calvin. Its a little wrinkly because Calvin loves it and uses it. It makes me happy:)
And i made these rolls... actually i didnt. Bryce made these yummy rolls. His mom taught him how to make them while we were in Utah. Just thought i would add them to the domestic post.

The Boys!

Guess what... You may have already but I love my two little boys. Don't get me wrong, they are a handful! But when I look at these pictures it makes me love them. Maybe cause they are taking a nap right now and they look like angels on these pictures. Have to take pictures when they are being fun and cute.

This Calvin and his truck. He decided the couch was his truck and he "loaded" all his things on and was driving it around.

We went to the U of O baseball game. Calvin kept yelling to the duck "Hey Donald Duck!" I guess he likes the duck now... he used to be terrified.

This is the LDS Law School tailgate party at the baseball game.

The boys riding Milo... Yes Calvin has a headband on. Don't you love Milo's face in this picture:)

The boys put my headbands on and were running around. I took a picture and they made funny faces at me. I love that Simon does whatever Calvin is doing.

I Like to Ride My Bicycle!

Bryce took the training wheels off of Calvin's other bike to see if he could ride a regular bike. Calvin picked it up quick. Here is Calvin at the church.

We decided to start Simon on the balance bike. It is a little early but this is how Calvin started:)

Spring Spring Spring said the Frog!

I grew up with this book. Calvin and Simon love to read it. It is about SPRING! Yeah for SPRING!

I told Simon to say cheese and this is the face he pulled. Such a cute boy!

These arent the best pictures in the world but they are so cute! Oregon Spring: Rain + Sunny day = mud! The boys love playing out in the mud. It just means I end up doing a lot of laundry. Worth it!

Go Daniel!

We went to my little brothers soccer game the other day. This is the first game that Calvin has actually sat down and watched. He usually is running around or playing with the other kids. I think he liked the attention he was getting while he was cheering for Daniel.

"Daniel Son" himself

Go Daniel! Go Daniel! Go Daniel! ... Calvin yelled this for about 20 minutes straight. The crowd was laughing and thought it was so cute.

The Camera Lady for the team took these pictures. She said Calvin will be on the team video at the end of the year. Awesome Calvin!

Off to Nursery with you!

Simon is 18 months! Finally he is going to nursery! Unlike Calvin, I think Simon is going to go to Nursery with no problems! Love this kid!

You know how you worry when kids are quiet? I usually don't worry with Simon because often I find him sitting and looking at a book... or tearing it apart.

this morning Simon put his swim cover-ups on. He wants to be like Calvin and wear underwear. He often says "go" and walks to the bathroom and tries to pull his pants down.

Simon loves to put things on his feet... mom shoes, dad shoes, tupperware, or his play pots and pans. He squeezes his feet into them and then walks around.