5 Months of Awesome-ness

October second marked our fifth month with our little Hammer.  It seems like we've had him forever, but when I look back and realize that its only been five months, I'm blown away!  The past month has been pretty fun, we've had a lot of adventures and have grown a lot as a family.

Austin's first time sitting up on his own!

The Top Ten:
1)  Austin is crawling, rolling, grabbing, standing, walking with help, and into EVERYTHING!

Eating Daddy's hair in St. George

2)  We had an awesome vacation with Carly and Logan down to St. George for a long weekend.  We spent time at their grandparents condo, I ran 11 miles down in Coral Canyon, and we went shopping in Vegas.  AMAZING!
3)  We finally closed down Ivory Ridge Pool for the winter!  Yea!  I love my job, but it is a HUGE responsibility and its nice to have a break from constantly worrying about pool quality, lifeguards, swimming lesson, patrons, scheduling, etc!
4)  Gregor is swimming with BYU right now to try for his Olympic Trials cuts again.  I couldn't be more proud!  My handsome husband is so talented, I'm sure he's going to qualify again!  He's following in my sister, Candice's, footsteps.  She qualified again for Trials this past summer and I cannot WAIT to go see my amazing family doing what they do best...SWIMMING!
5)  We had some really awesome FHE's during September, as well.  My favorite still has to be our finger painting activity.  We've been trying to get Austin's handprints since he's grown so much, but all that turkey wanted to do with the paint was squish it in his hands!  So we decided to paint Austin instead!  I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG time!

See, we painted him!  And he couldn't be happier!

Yep, I do love Austin.

6)  During September my lil' brudder, Kyle, got his Mission Call!  He will be serving in the Ventura, California mission leaving on December 7!  I am SOOOO stoked to have a missionary in the family!  Kyle is such a great guy and I know he'll be a fabulous missionary.  He's just got a way with people, I know he's going to be successful.
7)  This is too long in coming, but I also need to give a shout out to my beautiful sister, Kate!  She is teaching English in China right now for four months.  I cannot believe how brave she is!  I would be terrified to leave America all by myself for four months, but she is so freakin tough!  I'm so proud of her and hope and pray that she is safe and having fun teaching and SHOPPING (everything is so cheap there, I'm jealous)!
8)  My sister-in-law, Hilary, is pregnant with their second baby girl.  She's due in December, I think on Christmas Day, actually, and they are naming her Terra.  I'm so excited to have another niece!  I just wish they lived closer so I could spoil them rotten!
9)  I've been training for the past five months for a half marathon on October 8.  The training has been rough coming back from a pregnancy, but I am happy to announce that even without any sleep due to a sick baby the night before, I ran all 13.18 miles of the Pink Series Park City Half Marathon in 2 hours and 11 minutes!  I was SO stoked about holding under 10-minute miles and running in such a beautiful place!  I would run in PC everyday if I could.  Thank you so so so much to my sweet husband who took such great care of Austin so I could go on long runs and for getting up with me at 4 am so we could drive up to PC on time and thank you to my parents for watching Hammer for 7 hours so I could compete!  So so so so so fun!  I can't wait for next year and for my first full marathon in JUNE!
10)  Grandma Kathy came out for Austin's 5 month birthday, too!  She was actually coming out to Utah to help her sweet sister, Debbie, find a wedding dress.  And did they find a Wedding dress!  That thing is GORGEOUS!  Debbie looks stunning in it, and I was so glad that Austin and I got to spend some time with Grandma!  We love you, Ma!

Swingin in style.

Playing in the yard.

My beautiful Mama on her birthday!  I got her the necklace and earrings.  So pretty!

Dressed up and ready to go!

My October centerpiece.  I got this idea from Pinterest.  My favorite new site!

So excited to board this year!!!

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These cracked me up

Austin- five months

September was a GREAT month!  We have so many adventures from day-to-day, its hard to get them all down.  I am so grateful for my wonderful family!  We are so blessed.  More to come, and hopefully I write sooner and more often!