can you say 50's??

Clearly Autumn was born in the wrong era...

Autumn is 1/2 way to 1!

This is the perfect little face I get to wake up to everymoring. Okay she isn't smiling that big EVERY morning...but most! She is SIX months old, I can't belive it. The time really does fly, it seems like I just barley had her and now she is eating real food and sitting up by hersefl and rolling all over the place. She doesn't crawl yet...but i'm sure she will be soon, or just skip crawling all together I bet she'll be walking soon.

She still tips over sometimes....glad she's still little and not all grown up.

She reaches for things all the time now

she is such a joy! My goodness I love her. I could play with her all day...oh wait, I usually do!

New Home

We recently moved in with Logan's Mom and Step Dad. They have been so great to us. They built a kitchen in the basement, and Brooke moved upstairs so we could have it to ourselves. We have our room, Autumn's room, a bathroom, lots of closet/storage space, a huge family/living room/office and our cute kitchen! They had a great entertainment center set up down here with a big screen TV and surround sound and naturally we told them they could leave it set up if they wanted to...so now we get to use it all the time! It has been great! Here are some pictures of our new set up.

Lots of cupboard space which I need and love. We got to go to Home Depo with Kevin and Joy and pick out our counters and cupboards and appliances. It turned out great! We thought it was going to take awhile to build but it was done in two days! this is the other half of the kitchen. I love our table!

Living room. A room that we do our living in.

Oh...did I mention our room is bright pink?? haha that's what we get for kickin brooke out of it. She loves pink so our new bedroom and bathroom are both pink!

Logan says he doesn't mind though...I wanted to paint it red before we moved in, but he said he likes the pink, I think he just didn't want to do the work or getting paint and painting...oh well at least we have a room!



Here is Autumn playing in her crib watching her bright fish fly in circles above her

Autumn's fish mobile above her bed...she loves it!

The cute block letters of her name that Rae made for her...


Her room is attached to ours so this is the veiw of her room from my bed.

Cute wall flowers that Grandma Joy found at Tai Pan! and of course her cute cute cute crib set from Aunt Rachael. Her room is the perfect setting for a baby! it's attached to ours yet she has space for all of her stuff. I love it. Excetp when she wakes up a lot at night...:)

We love our new house! It is very nice to be able to live here and save some money. We are paying Joy and Kevin $400 a month for rent which they are putting into a savings account for us that they will give back to us when we move out. They are so good to us, we are so greatful for them.

I hope they call me on a mission...

Well I never grew that foot or two so that I could be called on a mission...but James did! James left for the MTC today. He is going to the Huston, TX south mission, spanish speaking. I am so proud of him. He has been such a great example to me and for our whole family. His decision has already blessed our family in many ways. I really look up to you for your choices little brother. Love you!

So handsome too!

MEXICO

We went to Mexico the first week of August with Logan's Family. It was so much fun! It was Autumn's first time on an airplane...she did great. Grandma Joy helped with Autumn so much the entire trip This was Autumn's first time at the beach, we went down as soon as we got all settled in at the resort. I think she liked the sand between her toes feel !
One of the days on our trip the family went Scuba Diving. It was Logan's first time and he had a blast! I stayed home with Autumn that day because she's just a bit to little to do that. I hope we go again some time when Autumn is a little older so I can try it too!

To get into the water you have to fall off the boat backwards. Here goes Logan...

SPLASH!! Look at his cute little legs!

After the long day of Scuba everyone was pretty hungry so we went to a little restaurant just outside of the resort, it was pretty good. It ended up being one of the favorite spots for fajitas on the trip. Autumn and Daddy just after dinner. She is so dang cute!

We went to the flee markets on one of the days and had a lot of fun finding little things and bartering for them. We got Autumn a cute little Mexican dress, a fishy mobile to hang above her crib (I bartered him down for 250 pesos to 80 pesos! I was pretty proud) and Logan and I both got ponchos.
Autumn just loves her Beautiful Aunt Brooke. She is so good with her.

Autumn with Grandpa Kevin, she was getting pretty hot so he held her in front of a big fan to cool her offShe looks good in Daddy's favorite glasses too! This is Logan's favorite swim suit of hers...It's a little too big, but it still looks pretty cute! Grandmas Simmons gave it to her, it used to be mine
Mary-Ashley and I were so excited to see the ocean, she was swinging me around





This cute Mexican couple just loved Autumn. She wanted to hold her so bad! She was tickling her and kissing her, I didn't know what they were saying exactly but they were just loving her!
Autumn had her first taste of Guacamole! Now she is officially part of the family because we all love guacamole and have it every Sunday at Grandma Joy's house! I don't know how much she liked it...but I'm sure in a few years she'll love it!
Every night during happy hour we would all go down to the bar and get Pina colatas (they were virgin...don't worry!) and just talk about what we did that day and what we liked about it. This was one of my favorite parts of the trip, just hanging out and talking with everyone. One of the nights we started talking about when the kids were younger, I love it when they start telling their stories, Logan starts laughing so hard he almost cries. It's pretty funny. Most of the funny stories are things he would do and blame on Steven or things Steven did. Our family would be pretty boring if Steven wasn't a part of it.

At the beginning of the week Logan and I went on a mountain biking outing. It was a really fun outing, probably one of the best ones we've ever done. It was just he and I and a tour guide. It was a pretty hard ride. It started out in town and we rode through the streets for about five minutes and then we started up a dirt trail. There were so many hills...I thought I was going to die. At the top there was a waterfall and a big pool of water you could jump into, if I hadn't had that to look forward to I probably wouldn't have made it. Logan did great he would go to the top of the hill and then wait for me. I did pretty well the first half and then I got so tired I had to push my bike up the hills.

But eventually we made it to the top! It was really beautiful.

Here is Logan just casually waving before he jumps off the cliff into the water

Logan in mid jump...I'm not very good at taking pictures, I couldn't get a clear picture of this, I tried about five times before he was like "No more, it's your turn." I was so scared. I just couldn't do it. I stood at the edge forever just saying over and over again, "I don't think I can do it Logan."

But I finally worked up the courage and jumped! I screamed so loud it hurt my ears. Logan is clearly better at taking pictures than I am cause I'm not a big blur in my picture.
After we finished swimming we hopped back on our bikes and rode back down the mountain. It was a much faster ride on the way down thank goodness!
This is us with our Tour guide. He was so nice. He didn't speak much English but Logan and him talked a lot in Spanish, that is always fun for Logan to keep up on his Spanish.
Logan is so buff! He is just showing off his huge muscles after that bike ride!

My legs got pretty dirty on the way down, we had to ride through a shallow part of the river....My feet got soaked!

My huge muscles! I felt so buff after finishinig the intense ride.

We went to dinner in Town and Pipi's! Pipi's is our favorite resturant every year!

We went surfing on our last day there. It was probably the funnest day of the whole trip for everyone. We went to a way pretty beach and rented boared and took turns going out and trying to surf. I think most of us were able to get up at least a few times!

Autumn has cute chubby feet and legs...Aunt Brooke has skinny little feet and legs!

The girlis just posing with our boards

Mary did a back flip off of Aaron's shoulders and Cody did a great job capturing it with his water proof camera.

Brooke, Mary and I...I love these girls!

Our cute bums.

CANDY! A little boy was walking along the beach with this wheelbarrow full of candy. We got theses yummy little chewy watermelon ones...they were so good.

Logan looks like a true California boy surfer. He's so hot!

Most of the time we were just sitting or paddling around on our boards waiting for waves, but it was pretty fun.

We also spent a lot of the time playing at the resort! There are huge pools, a water slide, a lazy river, and it's right on the beach...

Logan domintated the jumping contest in the lazy river

Logan stole Autumn's floaty

This is the slide I cracked my head open coming off last year...

I defeted it this year with no injuries!

Even Autumn went down it, with her Daddy of course
He held her up pretty good, but her face still got pretty wet. She's going to be crazy when she grows up, she has no fear.

She Looked so cute in the little dress we got her
Our Family

Autumn and I on our day together just laying out
That was our trip! Thanks so much Kevin and Joy for taking us! It was such a blast! I didn't want to come home! Can't wait for next time!!!