Fall is in the Air

Autumn is my favorite time of year by far! I love the smells the colors, everything about it. The changing of the seasons is so exciting to me. Summer to Fall means a few things...

Squeezing in a few more evening walks...

Sunday drives after church with no plans to see where they take us...

 Baking...

And Playing indoors

 

Bed head...oh wait that's every day in the Pugmire house

 Cuddling up in a warm blanket and falling asleep...

 Watching General Conference in the comfort of our own home. (while wearing last years Halloween costume?)

 Wrestling dad, still in PJ's

 Oh, and never leave your children with Dave. Sometimes he gets bored. Yes that is a diaper on my child's head. (don't worry its clean :)

 These little girls will have to be good friends because we have a long winter ahead of staying indoors together. Looks like we will be OK...

 I love these little munchkins

Summer re-cap part 3

Towards the end of summer we tried to squeeze in as much as possible and take advantage of where we live. So on a whim, we convinced our friends the Nelsons to go on a little canoe adventure in the mountains. The drive to Mirror Lake was beautiful and Dave was itching to get his fly rod out while we passed views like this:

When we arrived at Mirror Lake it was FREEZING we are talking low 40's and I know they were thinking (the  Pugmire's have no idea what they are doing)

But we all braved the cold and it was well worth it because when the sun came out it was beautiful. The water was so still. We are definitely making a tradition of this one.

We stopped by Provo Falls on the way home. I never get tired of seeing the views.

Unfortunately I wasn't on top of things as well as I should have  been and we all got a little sun burned.

Next we headed to Brigham City for Peach Days. Dave plays in a softball tournament up there with some friends and I grab my load of peaches for canning, freezing and jam to last the rest of the year. (but it never does)

Of course we had to stop at Maddox and grab some grub!

We decided since we were trying to make the most of our summer (and since Dave's team didn't make it any further in the tournament) We would head up to Bear Lake for the rest of that next day. We are so glad we did!

We stopped at the house where Dave's Grandpa was born (Yes in this house almost 100 years ago)

Then spent the rest of the afternoon eating fresh raspberry shakes and lounging by the lake.

Evie collected quite the supply of sea shells (or as she called them "mermaids")

Dave of course wanted to explore a new way home by driving through Wyoming and finally after much debate I convinced him to make sure and ask that we would be headed in the right direction. Yes, he is wearing shorts, his baseball jersey and boots.

We ended up making it home and will definitely use that route in the future.

Summer recap continued

As Siena continued to grow the girls became pretty good buddies. It has been so fun to watch them interact more and more.

But in a house full of girls (poor Dave) I have learned that moods can go from good...

To...total breakdown within a few seconds

But there is nothing a little lazy afternoon by the lakeside cant solve. Especially with a little bbq and some ibc's.

Our second camping trip was also in the uintas with some great friends. The area is so beautiful.

 

Over the summer Evie became quite the little baker. (check out that concentration)

In August we took our annual road trip to California to visit Daves family. On our way there we stopped to hike down to our "secret spot" in Tahoe. This little beach is so beautiful. Dave went snorkling in the crystal clear (freezing) water. The weather was absolutly perfect.

After Tahoe we met up with Nana and she joined us on our drive up to the cabin.

Evalyn inherited some great dress up clothes from cousin Maddie and insisted on wearing them as often as possible. (The shoes rarely came off)

Evalyn loved every moment with her cousins and still asks about them. Here they are all watching the deer off the back porch.

There is always some great food...

Poor Siena was teething and had a rough week but her aunts discovered the swing would sooth her.

Chef Evalyn

We organized a little surprise party for Daves 30th birthday while we were in California since he never gets to celebrate with his family. Here he is in his birthday hat

We hiked to some beautiful springs not far from Carie's place

Dave with two of his sisters and mom. They found some great blackberry bushes along the trail.

Since my family just moved to SanDiego, we continued our road trip south and spent a few days with them. We hit the beach, Sea World, and just enjoyed spending some time together.

Here we are leaving Sea World. My Dad is walking with a cane due to his torn ACL and I must say it was pretty nice not having to wait in line for the rides. However, the next day we drove the 2.5miles from my parents place to the beach and while my Dad and brother were in the water my father stepped on the barb of a sting ray. It went into the bottom of his foot (the same leg as the torn ACL of course) It wasnt pretty. One thing you can count on when visiting the Ayala's...its never boring :)

Still growing...

Siena was a trooper at Sea World, just hanging out in the stroller.