Alcatraz

Main jail house
huge!
Library!
3 floors tall!
one cell.. with bed, toilet, table, and their things they liked to do.
visitation area! there is a hole in the smaller one
Kitchen
This is the apartments that the families of the guards lived in.

This was so cool! We only got to see half of it because our parking was almost up so we had to leave:( I want to go back again before we leave! If anyone wants to come with come on down! So many more buildings and things to learn about. There was also a former inmate that was on alcatraz there signing the books he wrote about his life on alcatraz. I want to read it.

SAN FRANCISCO!!!

WWII sub
This says... 80 men, 75 days, NO SHOWERS!! it was a sign near the sub.
WWII ship. COOL
Lombard street! Such a cool street! When you come up over the hill it looks like a drop off. its crazy!

Jason's birthday!

Jason's birthday was Sept 23rd just 3 days after Natali's birthday. It was also Grandma Moffett's brithday on the 17th so we got them a small cake and some ice cream and went out to Olive Garden. That we did together for both of theirs but for Jason's birthday I took the family to San Francisco. This was Jason's first time to San Fran even though we only live 2 hours from there we just have never been.





This is the kids driving through San Fran.

Natali's 1st birthday!

Natali turned 1 on Sept 20th. She was just so cute! I can't believe my baby is already 1 and walking. anyway I made all of her decorations with the help of my mom and Grandma Moffett the night before. Then we went to the park the next day to celebrate.


Here is Natali with her first taste of her cake.


OH BOY.... she liked it:)
Who is this under that mess? it was too cute and just perfect. she had it everywhere!
This was a gift her friend kate gave her.
This was a baby she got from Great Grandma Moffett
So many gifts...
This was her very own cake. The commissary gives you a free small cake for the kids if you buy a regular size one.
They even put lady bugs on it for me. Thats what I wanted... only lady bug cakes for my little bug.
Cake table
Cake table. we made flowers and put nats pictures on them. I think the party was really good. I'm so glad some family and friends came to enjoy Natali. I love you baby girl. P.S. thanks Crystin for your help cleaning up Natali after that big ol mess:)

camping!

Kids waiting while we put up the tent:)
Our ward decided to go on a ward campout in september. We really wanted to go camping one more time this year and so we decided to go with them. It was fun and super easy. We didn't have to bring much because they had most of it for us. We just had to set up our own tent and bring dinner for ourselves. It was fun until we went to bed. Jonathan struggled and he wanted to be out of the blankets. he is a blanket boy and has to have 2 blankets with him always but he sleeps next to them and hates them on him. Of course it is September and super cold at night so we all froze. the kids were up at 4 and ready to go but of course by the time breakfast came they were so tired. so after we ate we took down our stuff and headed home. at least we got to camp right:)

SOUND THE ALARMS.....

NATALI IS WALKING!!!!
Natali took her first steps 3 weeks ago and then she didn't take anymore till a couple days ago. then all of a sudden today she thought she would just walk every where. It is official she is a walker and that means I have 2 walkers. bitter sweet... my baby is not a baby anymore. She will be 1 years old on Tuesday. But she is so cute when she walks:)

Canning

Yep I spent my labor day working... well canning! I loved it though! I made 7 jars of salsa, 5 jars of peach jam and 2 jars of green peppers. I am loving the canning and adding stuff to my food storage. Now I look at them and think yep I made those. now we can enjoy them:)

CUTE PICTURES!!!

In august I decided to get Natali's pictures taken since her birthday was coming up. so I wanted some cute pictures taken. I have a friend out here, Crystin Hall, who takes pictures for military families around here for cheap. She took our family pictures last November and did a great job. She also took my neighbor's picture of her baby bump and I loved how she made the invitations to my neighbors baby shower that Crystin and I threw for her. So I decided I wanted cute picture for Natali since I have never had birthday pictures sent out or Christmas pictures or anything and I wanted to do that. Crystin told me she was going to do these for free and all I had to pay for was the printing which was $7. She took a ton of pictures and I got 45 1 year pictures of her. She also decided to take pictures of Jonathan which was super nice of her. I loved how most of the pictures turned out and of course my kids are super smiley and giggle all the time but as soon as the camera comes out they look at it funny! so it was hard to get some pictures with them smiling. I have a ton of the pictures if anyone wants pictures of my cute kids I would love to either send them to you via email or have them printed and mail the to you. Just let me know if you want some pictures.







So cute! Jonathan Andrew 2 1/2 years old. Natali Orianna 11 months old.