He was hacking away for an hour, I put some on the bottom of his feet, put socks on him and about 2 minutes later he completely stopped coughing! I wish someone had told me this last winter when he spent 6 months coughing every night. Jack would cough so hard he would vomit...his throwing up in sacrament meeting was a particular memorable moment. So, to all you people with cute coughy kids: vapor rub + socks= miracle cure!
There was a time...oh, around the whole first year of his life or so,
Lucky for me he grew.
On the drive over Jack and I had a talk about sitting on Santa's lap. He was not interested. So I had to give him a pep talk about standing next to him and when if anyone asks him to sit on Santa's lap he can just say no. It worked out pretty good. When he was asked, he promptly said "NO, thank you" and didn't freak out about being in the picture. Chase was still pretty wary. 
"Can I push it?" 
Jack's letter for Santa. We wrote it just before we got in line, 
We drive past this peak every time we go to or from Mesa so I guess we've seen it like 200 times now and always thought, "It would be cool to hike that someday." Lucky for us we have some awesome friends who were inspired by our Grand Canyon story and talking about fun hikes turned into actually planning one for the next Saturday, no time to loose! 
It is a crazy trail!
The view from the top is really cool. Picacho just sticks up in the middle of a huge flat area between mountains so it is amazing how far you can see!
The hike we did was down a steep trail, along a plateau for about 6 miles and then up another crazy steep trail for a total of about 14 miles. It was amazing! Here we are at the top with Lindsay Melen, thanks for inviting us to come!
And one on the way out. The funny part is that when we were scouting out the hike the night before we saw some people coming up the trail and they went through a tunnel at the very top. So, the next day after we had been hiking straight up for 3 hours we came upon this tunnel, halileuja! We made it!...or so we thought. It turns out there are 2 tunnels, the tunnel at the top was another 45 minues up, sad!
The stats:
We sat out in the back yard watching them glow for an hour. Quinn and I sat and the boys were dancing around them, staring them in the eyes and were generally mesmerized by them.
Grandma and Grandpa were happy to have Buzz and Woody over for Halloween.
"You have candy for me in there, i see it!"
Thats kind of sad really, I guess I am just not a vogue mother. But, the good news is I just bought one. Not that I am expecting a baby any time soon but because it was such an amazing deal! Normall $32 but they are having a deal where you just pay for shipping, $8.95!
Don't ask me why they are doing this but they are so you might as well take advantage of it and get one for yourself, or your friend, or to keep on hand for the next baby shower you get invited to.
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Happy nearly free shopping!
Anyway, I am 2 today! Yeah!
