i subbed a sunday school class of 
this shot right here epitomizes austin & ellery together. he's rough & tumble & she eats it up.
clearly after her nap.
her favorite seat in the house. a completely ignores her & watches his tv.
it was after her first little goose egg.
chief's front-running fatherhood duty: taking the sleeping babies to bed. i say babies because it quite often includes me...
& this could not possibly capture these 2 any better. i so much as go to the bathroom & return to this: stuff strewn all over my house, ellery grinning from ear to ear, & austin's goofy-shoulders-shrugged-i-know-you-can't-stay-mad smirk. & he's right, dang it.
i just think it's too cute.
what you lookin at?!
we shopped, walked around, hot tubbed, ate, played, met up with my older brother jonathan & baby sis steph, went to ruth's chris steakhouse (WOWZA! thanks daddy-o), went to my dad's favorite place in the entire universe: taco time, went on the alpine slides, visited the olympic village, ellers learned how to feed both me & her toy turtle friend, & pet her first puppy. such a fun trip, SO worth the time! it was freezing the whole time we were there & even snowed on us while we were walking around window shopping.
but the highlight of the whole week was ellery bellery getting to meet her great grandparents kelly!!! finally! they really are amazing & it was so much fun to see them with her.
park city is GORGEOUS! we couldn't get enough of all the scenery- i am fully obsessed with fall & utah has such beautiful autumn colors. the farms & churches & barns on the scarecrow path was my favorite.
surprise! we showed up in st george last saturday to welcome renee at the finish line of her first marathon. it was so fun to ambush her! we were the last people she would ever have expected to see. her face was absolutely priceless!
ellers is so proud of her grandma renee.
that night we got to go to aida (while aust stayed home with the babe, happy to miss a musical)in the most extraordinary outdoor theatre i've ever been to. the play was so impressive, i loved it. we also were able to stay at my grandparents house AND use their car in st g even though they weren't there. so nice of them. thanks g & g kelly! 
no she is not cheering on her best-diaper-changer-ever-awesome-lunch-provider-funniest-comic-of-all-time fabulous mother.
the jellybean is totally crawling! sometimes she'll revert to her backwards-scooting days or just relies on rolling but she can still get across any room. i totally thought she'd skip crawling due to her insane hatred for tummy time but here we are. i think crawling babies are my favorite thing ever.
