Party, Pumpkin Style

Our house was alive with joy on Sunday. We had a little pumpkin carving festival and had our awesome friends over. Little rugrats laughing and playing always make for a fun Sunday afternoon. Paxson finally had somebody to play with! And we had other grown-ups to talk to!

Here's our group shot...Akiko, Yuki and Yasuko are the ladies from left to right. Akiko has 2 kids Naho and Yuma. Yuki's baby is Ryo and Yasuko has 3 boys whose names are hard for me but sound to me like Ko, Kei and Ryu. (Yasuko--please help so I can write it correct next time!).



Our friends are originally from Japan.
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Thanks for coming over and we're excited for our next get together.....maybe sledding and snowboarding party!?

Hooray For Babies!

Two of our friends from law school have new additions to their families. Congratulations Team Jodasm and Team Bosworth! I would pirate their pictures and post them here, but I think that's bad form. Well, maybe not. How can I resist sharing the joy of new cute babies?


Jen Curtiss and Team Thoman and Sasha Sulia and Team Taslia both have new additions. But they don't have blogs so we can't pirate their cute babies. And Mark and Wendy have a new baby coming... Paxon! Oh yes and Katie, from Team Costello.

Henry, Gray, Elijah, Ava, and Katie, welcome to the world! (And Paxon, if you're here already.) If you're reading this, keep up the good work. You're way smarter than I was at your age.

And some of our other friends are blogging, too. Justin and Elle haven't had any babies, but their round the world adventure is coming along nicely. With any luck, we'll meet them in Turkey/Cyprus and/or Romania. They are in Tanzania at the moment. Wouldn't it be fun to take a train from Istanbul to the Iraqi border?

The most gripping book we've read lately is The Road. It was tough to put down. Perfume is an interesting movie. And not just because of the city-wide orgy at the end. Talk about a twist! Didn't see that one coming.

The title of this post is a play on our favorite album from SLC days. It's also a sentiment most babies share.

T is for Trouble

The Wild Man

Remember the good old days? Like when retrieving an empty milk gallon from the trash and playing tug-o-war with your mama brought unbridled joy?





P.S. By the way, it's not just fun to take stuff out of the trash. Putting stuff in is just as fun....like the car keys, a favorite toy, your mama's hairbrush or all of the doorstops at the courthouse. Strictly speaking hypothetically, that is.

P.P.S. T is also for Thanks as this was originally supposed to be a photoshoot to thank Betty Cook and The Cook Cousins for the polar bear sweater outfit. Hopefully someone can forward this along to them. Senor quite enjoys the outfit, as you can see. Thanks!!

P.P.P.S. Here's more trouble in action. (Warning: this one falls in the category of David Cross' baby staring at a grape for those who aren't excessively interested in cute baby videos....but then again our entire blog has descended into that category, so if you're still interested, maybe you'll like this one too!).

Wild Horses

On Saturday, the snow stuck to the ground for the first time this year. Mr. Pax Rev tried to check it out for himself, but his mobility was severely limited by the large quantities of warm protective clothing his parents bundled him in. He can walk quite well by now, but in this outfit he had a hard time crawling. Needless to say, he'd appreciate it if we'd figure out a system that allows more mobility.






Of course, the snow is gone by now, but more is predicted for tomorrow. Hooray!

2 Peas in a Pod

Here's a quick photoshoot of Mr. and his best buddy Hayden. I'm so lucky that he's our neighbor and his mom watches Senor while I toil away at the office....Needless to say, my efforts to catch both of them together in a photograph didn't quite pan out....but you get the idea.

Still loving those blueberries

Saturday Surfing and Snowing

The snowline is getting low and the waves were nice and high....



Senor is checking the swell...

Fall being well underway, is it time to buy a $60 pumpkin?

Shopping with Papa

September Adventures and October Too

Let's see... we wandered in to the Big City for 10 days and enjoyed a lot of hanging around with Team Wilyo. Unfortunately we took very few pictures, but fortunately Nami always takes great pictures and some of them made it to her blog. The biggest news is that Mr. Revo-Roo started walking, and he's getting better and better at it every day.

We were living in the lap of luxury during Dawson's conference, staying at my favorite ancestor's dwelling, The Captain Cook. It's pretty cool - the huge hotel is decorated with reproductions of the paintings made by Captain Cook's official painters on his world travels. Each room has one. Ours happened to be of some Australians.

Revel-Roo had his own ideas about interior decorating. The hotel may have actually lost money on us simply on tissue replacement costs alone.

The next weekend, we had the good fortune of a visit from our favorite Armenian American, Tom Jamgochian. It was a speed visit, sub-48 hours, but we managed to hit all the Dutch Harbor highlights. Fortunately the weather cooperated. It's always great to see Tom and the time flew by. Of course we hiked to Peace of Mind cabin, checked out the bunkers, the church, the A.S.S., the bachelorette auction, the museums, and last but not least, the famous buffet.

Now hopefully Joy will start checking out our blog again! Fortunately, Tom also takes great pictures. (We have a small problem of getting excited about hanging out with friends and family and forgetting that we own a camera.)

Fall colors on the hike to Peace of Mind Cabin:

Baby Steps