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Busath photographers were invited to a Halloween party
and I got to tag along!
Everybody HAD to wear costumes to be
invited, so we decided to go as a
P-I-M-P and a ...
you get the picture!

Pumpkin Patch with our friends!

One morning Miyo, a dear friend and amazing photographer at Busath, and I
went out to the Schmidt's pumpkin patch to take pictures of our little girls!
Madeline's halloween costume had not arrived yet so I put her in this little
pumpkin shirt instead! The pictures turned out so cute! I will post more as soon
as I get them!!!

Lake Mead

Dave's family usually goes to Lake Mead every summer.
For the past two years, we have gone in September.
It is so much better then because the crowds are gone, and
it is not 110 degrees every day!

This year we brought a few extras!
(From left to right: Jacky (Jesse's girlfriend), Jesse, Dashel, D.J., Dave and Dan)
Becky, Madeline and I are on the beach taking the picture!

This was coming off the lake one night!

Isn't she so cool! Ha ha!

Madeline was helping us drive the boat!

The whole fam-damily!

This is Dave's attempt at crashing on the air chair...
looks like he succeeded!

Grandma Becky loves to play with Madeline!

...and I guess Dave does too! :)

Jesse and Jacky

Madeline was giving me kisses!!! She doesn't do that anymore
so I am glad I have a picture of it!

Wow this chair really dwarfs her!!!

I sure liked this expression! So sweet!

The timing of this picture was kind of fun... this wagon is
in front of the mexican restaurant in Beaver!

Madeline really loved her new life jacket!
That lasted about 30 seconds... then it was
back to the good old neoprene?

She definitely is a mini-Dave! (oh, except the girl thing... she's cuter!)

Off to Cleveland!

Well, these pics are from Cedar Point

(one of the largest amusement parks in the country)

This is the first time Dave put Madeline up on his shoulders!

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Yes, we did in deed end up with a minivan!

We rented this car from Michigan then drove

to meet Dave's cousins out in Cleveland.

Yes, this is me changing Madeline on a public bench!

Eeuuww!

After a pretty quick drive, we made it to

Grant and Stephanie Mack's house.

Grant is going to dental school out there!

Their family is so cute! We had so much fun with you

guys!!! thanks again!

While visiting, they took us to Cedar Point,

one of the largest amusement parks in the country!

We had a blast a wore the kids right out!

Notice both of their kids asleep in the stroller too!

Madeline's first Rollercoaster Ride!

This train was about three feet wide by six feet long...

and moved about an inch per minute!

Nevertheless... it was her first ride!!!!

Seatbelts and all!

But the kids loved it!

This is darling little Bronson

...and Stephanie and Aubrey!

More pictures from Cedar Point

This is on the dock where we ate at Famous Daves.
I think this is also probably the only group shot we took
with the MAcks!

I just thought this was a cool view...

Fun!!! We got to ride on the Merry-go-round!
Don't worry that I got in trouble for having Madeline on a
"moving" animal...

Too bad the operator of the machine barely spoke English...

I really couldn't understand what he was saying! :)

Flying home from Cleveland

Madeline was great on the plane!
She actually played on the floor for a while...

This was the most spectacular view of the clouds!

I think that I have something written on my forehead that says "I want my picture taken!"
The nice baggage guys offered to take our picture as we waited for our stroller to come!

Wow- I am a whole SuMmeR behind!!!

For those of you that have completely stopped
checking my blog I am so sorry! I have had
major computer issues and have successfully
overloaded my entire computer with photos!

So, in order to regain some friends...
Here is the ReaDers Digest version
of our summer!!!


The month of August in a nut shell...
I helped plan a "Busath" boating day and it
turned out to be really fun!!!

We rented a pavillion at Jordanelle, skiied,
ate yummy food and had a ParTY!


This is Drake, the owner of the studio!
He takes beautiful pictures all day long and
this is what we get of him! Ha ha!


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Dave and I planned a quick trip to go see Becca and Josh and since we were
there... we got tickets to the University of Utah game in Michigan!!!

Becca had just had knee surgery
(and I hope that we didn't put you out too much!)
and wouldn't let me take any pictures of her...
so, here is her darling family in front of their
amazing home!
Becca- you guys really have a talent for decorating homes!


Charlie and Will were absolutely darling with Madeline!

On our way to the stadium, we stopped in front of
a big blue bus with people partying like crazy!
We asked them if we could use their port-a-potties...
They took one look at our RED and said
NO WAY!
However, as soon as Madeline was in sight they totally said
"oh, look at the little Ute!"
Needless to say, they let us use their restrooms AND
THEY wanted us to take a picture with them!


And HerE we are at the BIG HOUSE!!!
Dave, Mike Nelson (who flew in from D.C. AND is the one that
got us these amazing tickets!!!), John Gardner and Mike Harrington



This was our showing from Utah! Pretty impressive!


Dave and I always have a habit of being the last ones to leave
(anywhere) Well... this time it paid off! :)
We had our own personal golf cart!
The Michigan fans were seriously unlike
any others we've seen!
They were THE nicest fans we had ever met!!!
Thank you!


Here is our little UTE!!!
(This was taken at Becca's just before the game!)


This is in the hotel that night...
we were laughing so hard just trying to get everybody
in the picture!
You can tell that Madeline is really having fun...