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Oh sheesh, 

I'm having a hard time keeping 2 blogs updated.  I'm combining our personal blog with my photography blog to simplify.

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Love ya.

Happy Halloween!

Our little Pirate had no idea what Halloween was all about but he sure looked cute and his parents wanted to take him trick-or-treating.





While out trick-or-treating, we ran into some of Crew's fan club.  We looove these cute girls.
Crew spit out his passy when he saw the one in the big girl's mouth (who was dressed up like a baby) and kept grabbing hers, it was so funny.

Here are some other pics we took of Crew this month:

The end of summer

We finished the summer by getting to go to DC to visit Katie and her new hubby and Ben and his family.  We took a 2 day trip to visit my lovely New York.  I saw "my" lovely NY, because it was such a treat to get to show Scott my version of the city - where I lived, where I went to school, my favorite places to eat and to visit - tell him all my crazy roommate stories and crazy NYU professor stories, oh my.   It was so weird because I felt like nothing had changed - even the security guard at the front desk of the Steinhardt building at NYU was the same!  And he acted like he remembered me because he let me in without an ID.  Or maybe he's just been there too long and doesn't care anymore who gets in.  Or maybe the fact I had a baby strapped to me made me look very unthreatening:) I also collected some stuff I've had in storage in NY for 5 years.  It's just too weird to close a door, and open in 5 years later with a husband and a baby, and NOTHING has changed.  The only thing that HAD changed, was that I saw the city for what it was, rather than for what I hoped it held for my life....

Here's NY:

Brooklyn Bridge

Patsy's Pizza, mmmmmm.

Steinhardt NYU - Voice Studio

Central Park

Times Square


Dylan's Candy Shop

Central Park

Love Statue

Kisses:)

Crew was sooooo good.  He just put his little feet up on the stroller and took it all in, he is such a sweetie.  EVERYONE talked to him.  


Here's DC:

National Cathedral, we are dorks.

Lincoln Monument.  Scott and I left Crew sleeping at Katie's late one night, and jogged around the monuments.  They are so beautiful at night, all lit up, without the crowds, and it was cool outside.

Cupcakes with Katie.  I'm always up for a good cupcake.

Wright brothers airplane - Smithsonian.

We got to drive into Charlottesville VA to visit Ben's family and see where Katie is starting grad school (she and Ben are both at UVA).  We got to take little Cameron to Monticello and to a peach farm.





Virginia is so beautiful, I would love to live there.  Crew got to see his cousins, and I got to see my little nieces and nephews.


We took some professional pictures of Ben's cute family - you can see them here
What a fun trip.  I want to go back soon!

Summer...

 We took Crew and Drew to the BYU Creamery. Crew loved it and he doesn't even know all the Graham Canyon ice cream goodness that awaits him.




We went to lunch with Scott's siblings and had them over for a movie night.  Crew loved hanging out with his Aunts, Uncles, and future cousins.  Andrea is pregnant with twin girls!! Ahh! A dream come true!



We went to Sundance to watch a student of mine in Big River.  We love Sundance (one of our first dates, and also where we got engaged) and it was fun to bring Crew up.


Crew sat mezmerized by the music and the bright lights on stage.
Precious Boy.

Suzanne (Scott's momma) is so sweet and came to BYU every Wednesday over the summer to watch Crew in the office next to where I taught. He loves his Grandma and Grandpa Butler.  Suzanne said if Crew got fussy, she would play a recording of me singing on her phone to calm him down. This picture is funny because she is trying to calm him down with my voice, but he sees me in the mirror and WANTS me.


Crew sprouted a mohawk.  I love his strawberry blond crop of hair. And the big smile he always seems to have ready.



We went to my cousin Audrey's wedding, and Crew belly laughed when we danced with him.

We went to the roof for Daniel Mooney's (our new bro in law, he married Jennifer) birthday. We loved the view of the temple.  The food was very....Utah.

What should Crew be for Halloween?

When I was single I would put Halloween off until the last possible minute because it usually meant having to go to some lame party. 

Fast forward a couple years, and I can't WAIT for Halloween! We went and got Crew a costume in August before they get picked over, and then my mom said she had also bought a few.  They are all so cute, it's hard to decide! We are taking votes:)



Pirate??



Peacock?



Little Chicken?