4 months later....

Hi! we're alive :)  Here's a few photos of the past 4 months.  Nolden Family Updates:  Jake is in sunbeams and loving it (so proud of him-for being a relatively shy/hesitant kid, he really thrives in structured situations like preschool and church which makes transitions a lot easier).  Andrew is a few short months away from Nursery (yay!) and is walking around and loves wrestling with big brother and "wiley" (our dog).


Andy's first birthday:

This was the first time in a couple years that it was just us at home for Xmas.  We missed gma & gpa but it was fun to have a chill morning-so chill that I forgot to get the traditional picture on the stairs haha.  We had good amount of snow this winter.  

the boys Vday outfits :)

Halloween 2015

This year I learned something.  I learned that you can actually over-do-it with the halloween stuff.  I'm not talking decorations etc but just halloween parties/activities that the community offers that basically boil down to your kid wearing his/her costume and getting some kind of treat.  We did  so many things that by the time halloween night came, I was so over it, haha.  We did the ward trick or treat, his class party, the bean museum halloween party (Was lame), the Provo haunted riverboat ride (that was fun), and I feel like there was one more thing that I can't remember....anywho, I was tired of halloween by the 31st.  Jake had a blast though.

 our living room decor:

That's right, now I remember-we went to Jaker's pumpkin patch a bunch of times:

kid hay bale maze:

dad and Jake in the corn pit

in their lil corn maze

on top of the hay pyramid:

Provo Halloween river boat ride

we had the boat to ourselves with our pirate captain/tour guide

Picking pumpkins

we did a white one for Voldemort and the orange for HP and Jake's was a dinosaur

love how this one looked lit up!!!

Our ward does a lil quidditch match every year before halloween.  Our Invite:

Our response by owl:

game faces

going to ward trunk or treat:

Trex & Triceratops

Bean Museum Halloween Party:

with his teacher Miss Lynda after his class party

then we had our college friends halloween party with our kids:

Then our cousin Olivia's 2nd bday costume party

she was SUCH a cute alice!

See what I mean? we wore our costumes A LOT.

and FINALLY: trick or treating

the crew:

It was a fun one :)