November 2011

To start off November we got together with some friends and (no kids!) and went to a KU Football game! It was great weather and we had such a fun time! (If there are any fellow Ute fans reading this, don't worry we have not converted to KU, we are still Ute fans at Heart!)

Happy Birthday to Jake!!

The girls were so excited to bring him breakfast in bed!

Here they are doing the "ssshhhh" sign, because we had just set up the birthday surprise for Jake to come check out! Thanks to my great friend Amanda, she helped me sew University of Utah Bean Bags to go with this Bean Bag Toss game Jake likes!

The girls helped me bake and decorate the cake!

How Fun! We now have two aspiring photographers in our house!

THANKSGIVING!

We had to do a pose showing off these adorable Turkey hair things our sweet friend Amanda made for the girls!

We had a fun Thanksgiving with the Brady's and the Knickerbocker's! We are so grateful to have fun friends out here! It makes me a lot less homesick when we have each other to celebrate with!

The Kid Table! We made them some fun Turkey Cups!

And here they are with their fun turkey blowers!

Now that Thanksgiving is over.............Samantha and Sadie are checking out the toy catalogs and making their Christmas Wish Lists!!

The Bird Feeders!

Since I am on a roll with posts, I thought I would put up these cute pictures I took of the girls today! They have been LOVING preschool so much! The other day, they got to make pinecones covered with peanut butter rolled in birdseed! BIRDFEEDERS! They have been ecstatic about these! So, of course we had to pose with them! Poor things, they kept talking all the way home from preschool about how we needed to come right home and hang them in a tree! Well....the shepherd hook will have to do since we sadly, do not have any trees!!! And since they were already posing we decided to do a few more!

They have always been cute to Shelbie, but it sure seems like in the last month or so, that they are so much sweeter to her! I think she is finally old enough that they can interact a bit better with her! I especially love the high pitch voice they use when talking to her! After listening to a few videos, I am sure they are getting that from me! I love how they are smiling down at her in this one!

Almost 20 Months Old!

HALLOWEEN!

Magnum P.I. and Punky Brewster!

Our "Good Witches" and The Cupcake!

When I was talking Sam and Sadie into being witches (because I had got their costumes on an awesome deal the year before) we had to assure them they could be "good witches", they were not a bit interested in being the "scary kind"!

This was quite the trick or treating experience, with Shelbie along! She was NOT happy about sitting in the stroller! She was happy as long as she was the one pushing!!! It made for an interesting and a little bit frustrating night! Thank goodness she is so stinkin cute!!

My best memory of her this night was when we passed a fun house that was playing the monster mash! She just busted out dancing! It was awesome! She would not stop!

Samantha and Sadie could not be bothered with wearing their hats! They kept blowing off as they would run door to door!

The Loot!! They were thrilled! We have enough candy to last us our whole life!!!

Pumpkin Carving Party!

Samantha and I starting our creation!

Sadie and Dad getting started!

Shelbie's cute pumpkin, that Jake carved in her honor!

Singing songs and doing scary sounds!

Trunk Or Treat!

Our Adorable Little Cupcake!

Grandma Casey's Quick Visit

We were so thrilled to get a visit from Grandma Cas!! Unfortunately, my sweet Grandma Chris ended up passing away while she was out here! It was such a blessing to see my Grandma be released from the pain she has been in! What an amazing lady she was! So, we got in as much fun as we could, and then Shelbie and I flew out with her back to Utah for the funeral! I am sad I did not get more pictures, but here they are making Halloween Jello Jigglers! We always love it when Grandma is here!!

And sadly, this is the one of the only pictures I have of being in Utah! But here are Briggs and Shelbie having a good time!! I am so so happy I was able to be to the funeral! To celebrate my Grandma's wonderful life! And what a great time, I had reuniting with cousins and Aunts and Uncles, and especially seeing my own family!! Can't wait to see everyone again soon!

Fall Sunday at the Park!

For Sunday dinner a couple of weeks ago, we packed up a picnic and headed to the park! It was such a great fall day! We had such a fun time playing in the leaves! We went on a little Nature Walk, we even crossed over a stream walking on the rocks! The girls kept talking about what an amazing adventure we were having! I am so glad we got out as a family to appreciate the beautiful weather! And made fun memories too!!

Pumpkin Patch

Well......I have done it! I have given up on posting in chronological order! Here is where I say that I really hope to keep up on this! Which I really hope to do! At least every other week or something! I just cannot stand to not have all the fun things we do, and my cutie girls growing up not documented!! I am going to be posting a zillion pictures, because really this is just a scrapbook for us, and I have the hardest time leaving pictures out, they all mean so much to me!! So be prepared! If anyone even still looks at this! So....here goes!

These are pictures from our trip to the Deanna Rose Pumpkin Patch! Funny thing...it was like 80 degrees this day! But it was fun to get us in the Halloween spirit!!

The Hayride!

So thrilled to have Shelbie actually looking at the camera, and smiling too!!

Our fun group! minus Shelbs, she was having too much fun pushing a stroller around!