Attempted Photo Shoot

I am finally getting caught up on some of my slacking blogging. Hopefully I will be able to stay caught up this time.
Last week, my sister and I ventured out and decided to try and take our own pictures of our babies instead of paying a hefty price to have someone else do it. Well now I know why people will pay the high prices for good pictures. It is so hard to get a good picture of babies. We tried and tried and got a few good ones but nothing that was super exciting. So if any of you know a good photographer for a decent price I would love to get their info! If nothing else we had some fun trying to get them to look at the camera and smile.

BYU Homecoming Game

This last Saturday, we took Talon to his first BYU football game! And as you can tell by the pictures he LOVED it!! Well for the most part. I had a decent time until TCU really started stomping on BYU. It was a little bit of a heartbreaking game but I am so glad that we had the opportunity to go. I look forward to going to at least one game every year! And even though BYU lost miserably, I still love them! Go Cougars!!

Annual Halloween Party

Many people probably know that Halloween is one of my favorite holiday's. One of the things I anticipate the most is our family annual Halloween party that Allie throws every year. This year we had it a little early (17th) but she did such a fantastic job and it was so much fun. We ate some delicious homemade pizza's and we decorated our own little pumpkins, and we also did the traditional trick or treating to different doors in the house. For our theme on our costumes this year we went with Monsters. Josh was Cookie Monster, I was the purple people eater, Talon was a 3-eyed monster, and we even got Charlie to be Frankenstein. Putting together costumes is always so much fun for me so I am already searching for ideas for next year. Everybody else gets so creative with their costumes that seeing them is half the fun of the party for me. We can't wait for actual Halloween to come to, Talon gets to go do a little bit of Trick-Or-Treating for the first time!

The Jungle Family (I helped sew their costumes, YAY )

Mom is a skunk and of course the Rag Doll

Madison the genie and Marli Ariel

Becky the Rag Doll

Where have we been??

Wow have we been busy or what?!?! We have been back and forth from St. George 3 times in the last month trying to get a house in place to live in. With that, we have been trying to also move out of our condo in Lehi. So now we are moved out and we put an offer on an awesome townhouse in St. George. We are currently living with my mom until the townhouse is ready for us to move into. Or at least we hope that the offer is accepted for us on the townhouse! Time has flown by for us with all of this going on. In other exciting things going on in our lives, Talon is now 6 months old. He is getting more fun every day. If I knew that every one of my babies were as good as he is, I think I would have a dozen kids. He is just a lot of fun!! We are anxiously getting ready for Halloween. One of our favorite times of the year. So that is what is going on in the Doan world for us. Pictures to come very soon of some of our exciting adventures.

Random Business

Talon got ahold of a waffle when we weren't looking, he loved it!!

So for starters I just wanted to say that I have decided for the time being that I will leave my blog as is and won't put it to private, but I may still change my mind again and go private at that time.
That being said what have we been up to????
We have been ever so busy trying to figure out where we are moving next and what the next step in our lives are. As of right now the plan is to be moving to St. George and buy a house there. We are so excited and we know this will be such a great place to raise our family. I am most excited to finally put down some roots somewhere!
We are also getting ready to celebrate one of the best holiday's around. We have some great costumes in mind and adding Talon into the mix has made this even more fun. So stay tuned for that.
I have added some random pictures of Talon for entertainment. Enjoy!

This is what happens when you leave Talon and daddy alone for too long.

This is his newest smile. He is so cheesy and I love it!!

What's New??

I feel like so much has happened since I last blogged!! I don't even know where to begin....Almost a month ago now, I went with my mom and some of my sisters to Cedar City to take my baby sister to school. I really cannot believe she is old enough to be out on her own now! She is still just 10 years old to me. While we were in the area we decided to make a weekend of the trip and go to St. George! What a good time. A funny side story off this, Josh and his brother decided that Saturday to go hiking at Zion's National Park and had to be home around 2 o'clock that day. So as me and my mom and sister were on our way home, I see on the side of the road Josh!! Their car had broken down and they were just getting some help from a nice guy. So he just hopped in the car with us and we took it from there.
Also this past month I went to the Keith Urban concert!! WOO HOO. It was such a great time, he is a wonderful performer and I would pay money to go see him again and again!
Talon turned 5 months old a week ago and some of his newer developments include, almost sitting up by himself, eating vegetable baby food which he loves everything he has tasted so far, went from sleeping through the night to getting up two or three times (the Dr. says he is teething but I am not so sure), he LOVES LOVES LOVES Charlie. Anytime Charlie is around he has to stop and watch everything he does and he just laughs at him all the time! Love this boy!!!
Josh and I are moving again!!!! You would think I like moving, this is not the case. We haven't quite decided where yet but we think it might be a few hundred miles away down south!! More to come on this one as we know.
What a fun month this last one was! What a way to say goodbye to summer and hello to Fall very soon! With fall comes Football!! GO BYU!!

Private

Hey everyone, I really hate to do this but I am having to go private now! Too many creepy things going on here so I am going private. Please leave your information for me in your comments or if you would prefer email it to me at amandajodoan5@hotmail.com. Don't be shy about commenting to be added to my list, the more the merrier!