Hattie Laura Allen is here

We are excited to welcome Hattie into our family. She came to us on October 29th at 4:13 am. She weighed about 9 pounds 10.5 ounces and measured about 23 inches long. We brought her home on Halloween. She is doing pretty well. I am on bedrest for the week, but hopefully after a week I will be better and recover much quicker than I did after Mabel. This labor was much better and faster - only 21 hours this time and not nearly the damage. We are so grateful to have little Hattie here and healthy. Mabel just loves being a big sister. She is so proud of her little sister.

What's Hiding in your Leaves?

Some Fall Fun Today!!!

hi everyone

hey everyone in america how are you? hope that all is well !! everything is going well in australia!! but we do miss you all. love Victoria and matt

Cole Doyle Nothum is here!

Hey everyone, we welcomed our little baby Cole Doyle on Friday October 9, 2009 at 3:49 p.m. He was 8 pounds and 5 ounces and was 21 inches long. He is such a sweetie and we love him to pieces already! Here are some pictures for those who want to see our new little nugget!

Cauble Family

Good Looking Family! -Taken shortly after Jae's return home from his mission! They were only together for about a week before Jae left for BYU.

Family Nite

Here is a fun FHE activity for you all. Tonite we had Family Nite with all the California Wilkins Family, and we carved Potatoes. Here are some of the creative masterpieces:

Porter's Kindergarten Play - The Little Red Hen

Porters class performed a musical "The Little Red Hen." It was adorable. Porter sang a solo and he did great!

Savanna's 8th Birthday Bash

Savanna's Fun Barbie Cake. It was fun to make. We had a sleepover and it was a blast watching all the girls have fun be their girly fun selves! And of course a little cake fight!

We love Uncle Frank and Aunt Nita!

Frank and Nita were so sweet to let us all come over and visit this summer. The kids actually behaved pretty well. I hope our kids will remember them forever!

And here is my handsome man...always stopping to smell the roses. No, really though, Eric is always so positive and fun. That's why I fell in love with him :) Cheesy, but true.

Dawson Stewart

Chandler Eric

Summer fun in Utah!

We were able to go through the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house. It was huge and beautiful!

Miss Eliza Jeanne

Miss Hannah Dezarae

Hayden Lavard

Our Most Recent Adventure

Day 1: We left around 10:30 and headed up to the St. Louis Zoo. Wes thought the Hippo tank was great, but it took him a little while to warm up to it. After we left the zoo we went to Sonic to get a drink (walking around the zoo is TIRING) and then drove about 30 minutes past Saint Louis and stayed the night.

Day 2: We woke up early and headed to Pittsburgh. We pulled into town just in time to find a parking place and head to PNC Park to watch the St. Louis Cardinals take on the Pittsburgh Pirates. The game was exciting with the Cardinals coming out on top :) Our seats were great, and Wes had a blast with his Grandpa, Grandma, Uncle Rick, Laura, Ryan, Joe, and Mike (he doesn't like being around us so much).

Day 3: We wore ourselves out walking around Pittsburgh. There was also a college football game that day so there were people EVERYWHERE. The City is beautiful with a lot of bridges crossing the river, and a nice riverwalk that goes right alongside it.
Day 3 Continued: We were able to go to another Game with the Cardinals winning again :) After the game there were fireworks which were AWESOME. Once again Wes spent his time as far away from us as he could get.
Day 4: We got back in the car and drove up to Cooperstown, NY to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The town was little and had lots of little shops filled with baseball memorabilia. Todd, obviously was excited to be there.
Day 5: By day 5 I was pretty sick of baseball so I hung out with Wes outside while Todd continued to look around Cooperstown. Wes was practicing his "jumping" outside off of the curb and then would run up and then back down the sidewalk and "jump" again. (he needs a lot more practice). This particular time he ran to the end and posed just like this and said "cheese, mommy, cheese" Of course I had to open up my camera and snap this shot...that silly boy.

We were also able to drive home through Kirtland, Oh and drive by the Temple and visitors center. It was getting late so we didn't have time to tour or anything but it was still nice to see.

Day 6: We drove home...Hooray!

I have A LOT more pictures to post, but I'll post them on my blog.

Congrats to Rex & Zoe

Congratulations!!!

Vegas FUN

Anyone recongnize this missionary stud we ran into in Vegas?!

Hi, Everybody, we thought we would let you know that we are having a.............................GIRL. We are so excited to start our own little family. Our due date is November 26th..

4th of July Parade at Brent and Linells

Aunt Teresa brought flags and fun pinwheels. Here is a picture of Makenna and Doni.

It is a tradition that we do "Every Year" or so say my kids. This is the second year. So Brent and Linell you have to keep it up. Thank you for putting it on for us and for organizing the barbque afterwards. We appreciate the memories we are making "Every Year" at your house on the 4th of July!

Waiting for the parade to start.

The Little girls

The Older GirlsThe Boys
Annie and Olivia