Claire and Hill love Utah!

The delay in posting comes from a little theory I like to call Supply and Demand. By deacreasing the supply of posts we hoped to drive up the demand and therefore the interest. Actually, Hill and Claire were in Utah, and they had the camera. They had so much fun seeing family and friends. The only downside is the results of Claire's sleeping schedule. She is a disaster. She was sleeping through the night with one feed at 11 pm. Over the past week she has been waking at all hours of the night. We are slowly working her back to her schedule, but it hasn't been easy. Mom has been pretty tired having to wake up. Nate still manages to sleep through her crying (needless to say she is throwing a fit right now - it is tough because are both now in young men/women and our thursday night activity goes late and it throws off her bedtime - I am sure all of you veteran parents out there are just laughing). Anyways, Nate is so happy to have his girls home. He spent the last two weeks doing his OB anesthesia rotation. He really liked placing epidurals in laboring women. He was the most popular man on the floor (most nights he was the only man on the floor), and he brought about many smiles. He pulled the 24 hours on 24 hours off schedule for two weeks and by the end of it, he was worn out. It wasn't even the most hours he had worked in a two week stretch, it was just a bad schedule. But I digress, on to what most of you are interested in... the pictures. (I was just mentioning to Hill the other night that she is lucky to have me around as I am a much better picture taker than her. There are alot of gaps in the trip. I apologize to all those who feel left out).

Aunt Michele drove all the way up from Los Angeles on short notice to meet her great neice. Claire was ecstatic to meet Aunt Shell, and just couldn't believe she drove all that way to meet her. Thanks for making the effort to come up. We love you!!!
Claire still loves her Grandma and Grandpa Dahle.
Not to mention her Grandma and Grandpa Carter.

Tried and true. Hill's friends have been around for a lifetime and are such a wonderful support. Hill had a great time getting together with the ladies.

Uncle Steve loves to play with Gabe, Kinsley, and now Claire.

Claire made one last visit to Grandpa Carter's work before leaving for Virginia. Grandpa Carter interupted a board meeting at work to introduce the entire staff to his one and only granddaughter. They all loved her.
Don't mess with me!!! If this isn't one of Claire's best pictures ever, I don't know what is. She wears her sunglasses at night!
If there is one thing that Nate misses, it's a game of croquet in the backyard (by the way, the lawn is looking great grandpa). Nate left to Virginia with a win and is considered the number 1 ranked player in the family. He was jealous to hear that there was a game going on without him and hopes to be back soon.

Keep in touch everyone. We love to hear from you. We are planning a trip back to Utah as a family around Christmas and are already counting down the days.