I am definitely not going to be able to keep up on blogging this month.  It's only the 8th and I already have 200 new pictures on my phone...from this month.

We are so excited for October this year and all things FALL!  Especially the WEATHER!  Oh how I miss the fog and cool ocean air of my childhood.  Fall is the time of year that feels like home to me.  As such we have been spending a lot of much needed time outside.  Not just going out to and from the car...but SPENDING time outside.  I love it so very very very much.  This is going to be and already has been an AMAZING month!!!

loving our double stroller

proof that audrey has more hair than it looks like! and it is long!  if you're ever in doubt just have her go down a tunnel slide!

we saw a deer and audrey kept saying, "hey deer!  cmere!  you're not in trouble!  you're not in trouble!"

sometimes she gets this little strut-march going on

our movie party afternoon after getting caught in the rain at the grocery store.  we ran in put on jammies and watched the hunchback of notre dame with popcorn and hot chocolate and cozy blankets.  ah i love a good rainy day.

our new 'sit and stand' use of the stroller.  it has a seat for audrey to jump on and off.

mommy daughter date

she really wanted to hold her baby in the carrier

it was a little big

our complex's garden we missed out on this year

WHO SAYS WE DONT BAKE?????

evening library trip

knees

new favorite toy

thanks grandma hanaikes!

i love these sisters

possibly my favorite picture of hannah to date.  it just captures everything about her.  i adore that smile.

this is audrey's excited stance- back arched, body shaking, and a high pitched shrieking laugh of pure joy at seeing the ducks

daddy sometimes takes them for walks in the evenings so i can get a break

And a little sneak peak at our awesome pumpkin patch visit with our little Joy School crew last week:

HAPPY FALL EVERYONE!  WE CAN'T WAIT FOR HALLOWEEN!!!

My mom came for a quick visit over Conference weekend again and it was so great!  It was NOT long enough and it's not fair!!!  It just teased me.  But I guess it will have to hold us over till Christmas break.  I guess the cookie mixes she left us with will do the trick for now.  Anyways we had such a fun time with her going for walks, listening to General Conference, and going to Cornbellys at Thanksgiving Point for the first time.  Mom, Mariah, and I had a girl's morning/afternoon in Salt Lake City, complete with street tacos and Temple Square goodness.   Short but sweet visit, a memorable one.  It's pretty amazing how many pictures you can take in two days!

grandma and audrey's walk, just the two of them

if anyone ever says i don't have a fat baby ill just shove this picture in their face and say "WHAT WAS THAT??"

audrey's dance party on the table

she can really bust a move.  this is a necessary trait of a hanaike.

my view above during conference while waiting for mariah and mom to get out of the session

oh how i love sitting on temple square in perfect weather feeling the spirit.  it's my ultimate happy place, in my ldsbc years as well as now.

another place i used to sit in college.  i'd walk home from school through temple square and find myself sitting for and hour or two before i finally made it all the way home.

at the church history museum with it's amazing new exhibits.  i didn't take many pictures because i was too overcome with emotion at how strong the spirit was there as i walked through the joseph smith exhibits.  my testimony grew ten fold that day.

bean bag toss at cornbellys

rat rollers

audrey and ross "watching conference" ahem