busy, busy, busy

A lot has happened since our last post. Here are a couple of pics to update you:

We spent a weekend in St. George where Emma rediscovered her love for rocks. She always seems to have a rock in her hand for some unknown reason - strange child. The reason for our visit was to cheer on our friend Lauren who ran the St. George marathon. It was fun to watch her come in and spend the rest of the day swimming and hiking - thanks for the great weekend Lauren!

We also made it to the Cornbelly's fall fair which featured the world's largest corn maize (above pic). Emma had a blast leading us around the maize, eating a foot-long corn dog, and playing inside princess castles (below).

They also had this really cool "jumping pillow" which was pretty much a massive trampoline. I think we enjoyed it more than the kids.

We were also lucky enough to find a babysitter and get a couple of tickets to the BYU homecoming football game - too bad we got our butts kicked. It was still fun to get out to the game instead of watching it on TV.

And, of course we spent Halloween night trick or treating to Emma's heart's content! Emma couldn't decide between dressing up as a "scary witch", a princess, or Tinkerbell - she finally settled for Tinkerbell. Jack made a great lion. The guy in the Michael Jackson costume in the last pic is Traci's uncle. We went walking around the mall with him and didn't get very far because everyone wanted to stop him to take a picture.

Finally, I just got back from Philadelphia were I attended a conference for school. Here are some pics from the trip including the Liberty Bell with Independence Hall in the background, and a good little restaurant where a couple of us had some amazing pizza.