Halloween

Pumpkin Picking, Pumpkin carving, yeah! We got some good pumpkin seeds out of these ones.


There was an old lady who swallowed two flies.
I don't know why she swallowed the flies, perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a frog.
She swallowed the frog to catch the flies.
I don't know why she swallowed the flies, perhaps she'll die.






Our trick-or-treating buddies, the Grow family.


Jensen, helping himself.


Jensen ate 3 suckers that night...and this was the result:

Thanks for the Cookies, Mga Posey!

Nice Decorating Ryley... what is it?

Care Bear Birthday

Ryley had a Birthday! She's 4 years old. We had a "care bear" birthday party at the park last Saturday and it's taken me all week to recover. We made a "cheer bear" cake, played pin-the-tail on the bear (we used tape, not pins), care bear tag, catch-the-water-balloon-in-a-towel game and a pull-string pinata (that I made out of a fed-ex box). It was a fun party!

Jensen had fun too, and started to REALLY walk that day. He's still kind of wobbly, but does pretty good. The tank still likes to be held, however. It's funny to watch him, so enjoy the video.



Ammon is totally immersed in school now. He picked the lab that he'll be doing his first rotation through and he'll start next week. A quote from an email Ammon's professor sent him: "[Ammon] will be learning about computational methods for the prediction of transmembrane helix:helix interactions and the effect of sequence changes on the dimerization relative free energy. Experimentally he will be analyzing computational predictions for sequence changes that have major effects on the association thermodynamics and/or on transmembrane orientation."

Juliana is keeping busy trying to be young women's president in our ward. It's fun, but it's definately a challenge.

Cute Kids

Look at all these teeth Jensen has!! He can even eat corn. And he loves it! He also learned how to fold his arms for prayers, thanks to his big sister's good example. He's also started taking some steps! We'll see if we can get a video up on here soon. Ryley is a little crazy sometimes. Some of these pictures are from much earlier in the summer, but they were so cute and funny I had to include them. I'll start being more organized with this blog soon I'm sure. She just started preschool with some church friends and we'll be rotating whose house we go to. She loves to learn and she's very smart! Her 4th birthday is coming up this Friday. We're having a Care Bear party and we're so excited! Ryley has been pretending to be various care bears for the last month. It depends on what color she wears, and then she'll insist that everyone call her "Sunshine bear," or "Tenderheart" for the entire day. Anger occurs when someone calls her Ryley. In summary, we have cute kids. We also celebrated Ammon's birthday and he has reached the magical number of 29.

A Summer of Fun!

Instead of sending an email, I decided to use that time and take the leap of faith and start a blog like everybody else. We'll see how it goes. I don't really know what I'm doing. Anyway, Our summer is coming to a close and Ammon is starting his phD this week at Johns Hopkins University, school of Biophysics. Our summer has been jam-packed with fun and it would take me all day to tell about it, so to make things simple for my first blog attempt, I'll be brief. July 1st we flew out to San Francisco to see the Jensens! We got to see Jake come home from his misison in Italy, go waterskiing and sailing in the lagoon, and backpacking into the Sierran mountains. The video that I hopefully will attach is of Ryley eating a raw fish eyeball from a freshly caught mountain lake trout. She doesn't have taste buds, and she's crazy. We had lots and lots of fun playing with little Olivia too! We spent 2 weeks there having lots of funness. Then, we flew to Utah to meet up with the Poseys! We took a trip in the car up to Montana for a family reunion and a week of waterskiing! Even Ryley got to feel the pull and went wakeboarding with Ammon. Jensen's favorite part was throwing rocks in the water. We also got to do a hike to a beautiful waterfall and mountain lake where we found a huge rope swing and made proper use of it. We also had lots and lots of fun with Kinley and Elle, our little cousins! Well, enjoy the pictures- they're the best part. I'm not much of a writer and it takes me too long to write much. Two kids keep us busy! I promise the next post will be more organized.