Rowen's First Birthday

Yay! My baby turned 1! I can't believe it went by so quickly. He is growing up way too fast and it makes me so sad. Can't they just stay little forever? We had a little birthday party for him the saturday before his birthday. It turned out great (although it stressed me out a little). But there were lots of friends and family there to help celebrate. Also we went to Rowen's 1 year check up the other day. This kid grows like a weed! 27 lbs and almost 33 inches tall! 95th percentile for both!

People who came to Rowen's birthday party:

Our friend Sabina and her kids Taya and Boston (don't know where her husbund was in this picture)


Our friends Ami and Antonio and their little boy Ande.


My friend Jamie and her little boy Julian!

Most of my family (some are missing in this photo)

Scotts parents and sister Holly


Pictures from the party!

Family photo

His monkey cake. Scott made it, can you believe it? He did it all on his own and did a pretty darn good job!

Getting ready to blow out the candles

Yum! He loved that cake. He love it so much he picked the whole thing up and gave it a kiss. Then it slid down into his lap (well most of it)

Eating more cake

Turned out pretty good! I thought it did anyway

The night of Rowen's actual birthday we took him to "As You Wish" and made a little monkey picture frame with his handprint. Daddy did most of the painting since he is the artist in the house. It turned out really cute. Afterward we went and got ice cream!

Finshed!

There was no one around to take a photo of all of us together so we had to take one separate with each of us.

Got a family picture at the end of the night when we got home though!

We Moved! Job changes and new ward!

It seems like our lives have changed so much in just the last month! For those of you who dont know we got rid of our house in down town Mesa and moved to east Mesa. We love our area. Scott and I were actually very apprehensive about where we had decided to move but we have enjoyed every minute of it. We love our new ward. It's full of lots younger couples our age who have kids and everyone is so friendly and accepting. Also, Scott got a new job working at Chase bank, which he seems to be enjoying for the most part right now. He is still very eager to be working in architecture but since things have slowed to in that field it's Chase for now. He also started working on his MBA at University of Phoenix and is 3 classes in right now. 9 more to go! I told him I think he would be happy as a professional student for the rest of his life if it paid! And last, our sweet little Row Row turned one just before Thanksgiving (I'll post from his bday party in another post).

We have been so blessed lately and have been enjoying the new changes that have been made in our lives recently. What a wonderful way to start the Christmas season!

Pirate

Forgot this picture in my last post but I had to show off Rowen's cute little stick on tatoo he got at Scott's work party!

Fall/Halloween

For Fall/Halloween time, Rowen had lots of cousins in town and lots of activities to do. He had a blast!!!! We went to the pumpkin patch with Scotts parents and his sister, Dana and her two kids. They were able to pick out a pumpkin and decorate it, go on a hayride, and see lots of farm animals. Rowen loved it!


Family picture at the pumpkin patch


Rowen picking out his pumpkin


Decorating the pumpkin


Ava, Rowen and Dylan decorating the pumpkins together


Got to sit on the big tractor with daddy

And the little tractor with Grandpa Garvin

He loved looking at the farm animals. See the goats?

Oh cute cousins Rowen (horse) Dylan (cow) Ava (pig)

I love Dylan's face in this picture!

We had a little pumpkin carving party with my family and here are some of the pictures from that:

Rowen's pumpkin

Rowen wasn't so sure about pulling the guys out of the pumpkin

With Grandpa Hemstreet. They decided to watch a Halloween movie inside

Pumkin carving

And more pumpkin carving

The finished products!

Rowen and his Cousin Storrey in their costumes! So cute!


Went to go see Grandma and Grandpa Garvin on Halloween. They got to dress up too!

Tonto Natural Bridge

Ok alot has happened since my last blog update, which was so long ago, I know. But I'll start with our little trip to Tonto Natural Bridge. We actually had planned to go up to Pine/Strawberry for their annual Fall Apple Festival. I thought it would be so fun. It was the end of September and with it starting to get near Halloween time and it was still really hot in AZ I thought why not? I was totally wrong. It was still very hot there (I thought we might get a little reprieve from the heat in the valley) and there was not an apple in sight! I thought it was the Apple Festival! I was very disappointed. So we decided to head to the Tonto Natural Bridge. Scott and I had been there once before while we were dating and we had a blast so we thought we might try it again. We definately had fun! My parents and little brothers were there also so it was a little difficult try to hike all the little ones in but once we were there it was so much fun! And alot cooler too! Here are some of our pictures from our trip:

This was down under the water fall. Rowen loved playing in the rocks!

Crossing the bridge to see the water fall

Family picture

This was the only picture we took at the Fall Apple Festival (since the rest was lame) Captain Jack brought his ship for all the little kids to play on.