September was birth to Olives first plane ride. I was nervous about flying with her, especially because I was doing it alone and all she wanted to do was crawl and rip through everything. Our first little trip from Yakima to SEATAC was cake, she slept the whole way in her carseat happy as a clam. From SEATAC to SLC was a different story, sorry fellow passengers for your ear drums. But at least she's cute right? Luckily we made friends with a kind Gent next to us and he held her and played with her so that helped the ride. She finally fell asleep on my lap 15 minutes before we landed, great. But we made it there in one piece with only a small amount of puke on my shirt and a small poop stain on my pants. My mom was so happy to see her, she ran up a grabbed her from me and spent the next 20 minutes telling Olive how much she missed her. Yep, i'm chopped liver now. No one can compete with Olive. We spent a fabulous week with no sleep in Mapleton playing with the Harlan's.
Olives first plane ride, doesn't she look excited?
We stopped by and held our new cousin Baby Brooke's. He is precious and a handsome chap! He's not pictured but our cousin Blaire is!
Olive also got to play with her 2nd cousin Eliza. Olive was a bit too rough, she kept screaming and trying to roll over on poor Eliza. It kept me amused.
We were able to be in town for our good friend Esme's baby blessing and had an amazing time eating food up the canyon! Nothing better than food, oh and friends!
We were glad to see Great Grandpa Neal and Grammy!
Olive Loves Gramma Trina
Later in the week we headed up to Idaho Falls for Katee (Glen's Sister) wedding, the whole point of this madness of a trip! We stopped at the Zolmans in Brigham City on our way! Love you kids!
We arrived at about 1am. No thanks to our car top carrier that made me believe that car-planes are somewhere in the near future. It felt like we were taking off and landing over and over again. Fun, right? Glen left right after school and drove all night and met us there about 3am. We had plans for the temple to next morning. I woke up a few hours later to hear Glen puking in the bathroom. The poor man drank 4 Mountain Dews, a bag of spicy hot cheetos, sour path kids, and a pizza pocket for dinner. A man truly of my desires, however, he's not 16 anymore and can't handle it. After a few hours of that nonsense we made it to the temple and it was lovely!
Love ya Glen, you look decent even after puking all morning!!
The next day we went to the temple and watched Katee and Mike get married for time and all eternity. It made me a bit emotional thinking about how amazing families are and how grateful I am for mine. We mostly took pictures all day and set up for the reception and then danced, played, and ate all night!
Olives Bennion cousins!
All the Bennions!
Grandma Nae Nae and her grandbabies!
Glen and his sissy's!
Sometimes how I feel about fussy babies.
The Harlan's even came and celebrated!
Our Friend McKenna went with Olive and I to Bills Berry Farm. We put on our boots and flannel and drove about 45 minute drive to the middle of nowhere...well except to Bills Berry Farm so I guess it was somewhere. We ate carmel apples, donuts, and hamburgers. We then enjoyed 5 hay bale rides (we kept forgetting things at the car). We watched fresh apple cider being pressed and then did a corn maze. The corn maze was awesome except after 45 minutes and a little sweat we started getting nervous, we ended up at the beginning again and asked the lady to steer us towards the exit, apparently the entrance and exit are the same. Wished they would've told us that before we wandered around for an extra 30 minutes. It was a perfect day to ring in Fall weather.
We headed to Seattle to go to Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium! It was a fun day filled with animals and very tired moms at the end! Thanks Liz for the fun day!
Olive loved the aquarium glass!
That's a big walrus! (that's what she sai...nevermind.)
Polar bears are huge.
We had a perfect day at The Castle Playground. Most people wouldn't blog about a dumb day at the park but when your husband is in Medical School we live for these few hours when we get him to ourselves, no school talk, just fun.
Olive loves to swing!
Love my Boo!
My cutest little sister came out and kept Olive and I busy! We picked her up from her friend in Portland (she came bearing gifts-Voodoo donuts!) We took her home to Yakima with us where we shopped for a few days, watched movies and TV and then headed To Olympia to see our cousin Renae. The next morning we dropped her off at the airport, it was so sad to say goodbye. I wanted to cry. Glen, Olive and I took on Seattle that day. It was nice to show Glen around a few of the places I knew :) The pier was under construction (new seawall) so Ivers is going to have to wait. We did Pikes Place, the gum wall and of course we did some shopping! Hello Seattle. Goodbye Seattle.
Dinner in Olympia!
Olive loves pastries just like her Dad!
She's happy to be living in the NW.
Love my bae.
I threw Glen a little Birthday party! Happy 27th babe! We had a good time playing games and laughing with some of our friends! +Our friends know how to do Halloween cause check some of these costumes out!
Baseball, typical Jared.
Jack and Jill.
Leslie Knope and Ron Swanson.
Cops and robbers!
Our family costumes this year were successful to say the least + it kept me busy for a few days :) Olive enjoyed our Ward Trunk-or-Treat, I think I enjoyed it even more. Jimmy Kimmel would be proud cause I truly ate all of Olives candy in one night!
Christopher Robin, Piglet and Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood. Glen says "Wow the Hundred Acre Wood is really just 100 acres of trees." I married a smart man friends. Yes he's going to be a doctor.
Our creepy food man!
Bring it on November!!!
