CHRISTMAS

Aunt Jen sitting on Santa's lap with Harvey

More Animals!!

How does this work mom?

Harvey and Jordan watching a movie

Christmas was a lot of fun this year.  We were in St. Johns of course. Most of the siblings were home and we had lots of fun at our family parties and seeing everyone.  Harvey was really fun this year he was really big into Santa clause except when it came to sitting on his lap at Nana and papa's house.  He was like the kid on the "Christmas story"  he forgot everything he wanted until he was done talking with Santa.  Then he wanted to go back and talk to him again.  He added to his collection of animals and got a clear pack pack (as he calls it) to carry them in.  It had to go everywhere with us.  He wouldn't even take it off for Casey's wedding pictures.  Thanks to our parents and everyone for the great gifts and the wonderful company.  We had a great Christmas!

HARVEY TURNS THREE

Harvey with our friend Shared. More animals hooray!
Dinosaurs!!

Yes its a centipede cake

Harvey turned three on November 3rd. We had a little party for him and his only request was that I make him a centipede cake. I really don't know why it wasn't a snake or some other animal but for weeks before every time I would ask him what kind of cake he wanted he said a centipede so here is my best effort to make one. Harvey got a whole tool box full of animals, worms, frogs and dinosaurs along with a few trucks. He is also learning how to play his new memory game and has beat Jay and I a few times. When ever people called to tell him Happy birthday he would say first Happy Birthday and the cutest thing when we were eating breakfast that morning he blessed the food and said " thanks for the food and thanks for me Harvey" it was so cute Jay and I were trying not to laugh.

HALLOWEEN

Trick or treating

Harvey was a crocodile for Halloween this year. He was so excited to go trick or treating and to carve our pumpkin. We went to a ward party and he saw someone that was dressed up like captain hook and started attacking and chasing her and saying tick tock, tick tock ( like on peter pan) it was really funny. Any way he growled at every door we went to and tryed to scare people. It was a lot of fun.

JAY'S ELK HUNT

Jay went elk hunting in New Mexico twice this fall. He guided a hunt at his dads place and got a really nice bull, then he drew a tag and hunted at my dads place with some of his friends. This is the bull he got himself. He had a great time.

More Brazil Pictures

Eating crabs at the beach house. Paulo, Julia and Adelia
This is what was for dinner fresh lobster

Recife Temple

Juao Pessoa a city close to Recife

Marcelo's wedding,

from the left Juliana, Paulo, Kimberly, Jay, Manuela and Marcelo

Marcelo's wedding

BABY NEWS

Well its a little after the fact but for those of you who might not know we are having another baby February 2nd is the due date. We had our ultrasound and suprise suprise its another boy. We have all boys on both sides of the family. We are excited for Harvey to have a little brother and to add a new addition onto our family. I don't have the pictures to the ultrasound so you will just have to wait to see the end result in a few months.

SUMMER OF FUN

Christas in Rio
overlooking part of the city in Rio

pping on coconut water on the beach in Rio

(I will post more pictures of the Brazil tip as soon as I get them)

LAKE POWELL

Trey cliff jumping

Maren and Harvey
Trip home from Powell

Ride on the house boat.

(from the left) Parker, Janelle, Mark and Harvey

The big catch!
(from the left) Daniel, Trey, Kyle, Jay and Mike

Jay dove into the water and had a wrestling match with
this cat fish after the line broke on its way in. They were both a little beat up but Jay came out on top.

Harvey and Maren sliding off the house boat

Its been a while since I have had a chance to post some pictures and news. I will try and catch everyone up on what happened this summer up till now. In July Jay and I took a trip to Brazil for three and a half weeks. We had a great time seeing people from Jay's mission and a lot of our friends. We spent most of our time in Recife and surrounding areas in the north and then on our way home spent a few days in Rio. It was so awesome to see everyone and be there for our friend Marcelo's wedding. Thanks to both of our good parents that took care of Harvey while we were gone. When we got home from Brazil we headed to Lake Powell for a Platt family reunion. I had never been and it was so fun. Harvey was in the water from the time he woke up till dark. Everyone had fun swimming, riding on the boats, fishing, wake boarding and of course cliff jumping. After over a month of traveling we headed back to Albuquerque. School was already started and we moved once again into a new place and real life hits. I guess all good things have to come to an end and we were glad to be home.

WEEK IN ST.JOHNS

Jen's baby shower in SJ
Bath time!
Best friends
Popsicle Break
little Hawaiian boys More boys!!
Baby shower

We had a great time in St. Johns. Holly, Jordan and Jeniffer came down and we had a baby shower for Jen. Jordan and Harvey had a great time running in the sprinklers, eating Popsicles ,swimming, playing in Grammies bath tub and just running wild. Jen and Holly will probably kill me for putting the belly picture on the blog but I think it is so cute. Yes they are both having boys. It is going to be so much fun!

HAMBLIN REUNION

Chase doing the limbo
Kellie showing off her hula hoop skills at the dance
taking a little cookie break from all that dancing

We went to the Sherwood forest by Alpine last week for the Hamblin reunion. It was a lot of fun to spend time with all the cousins and Aunts and Uncles that we don't get to see very often. We had a great time camping, eating, dancing/all the activities and enjoying great company. Thank you Aunt Louise and family for putting on a great reunion.

UTAH TRIP

JAY'S LATEST TABLE



We took a trip to Utah last week to deliver a table. We were able to see a lot of our friends and spend some time with Maren and Mike. We went on a hike on memorial day with some of our good friends Mitch and Nicole and there little girl Arden it was a beautiful hike and Harvey really enjoyed the water fall and river at the end. It was so good to see everyone and catch up on the past year since we have been gone.