Thursday, November 21, 2013

Halloween 2013

Halloween was pretty great this year! It totally beats last year when our pumpkins got stollen from off our porch before Halloween. We actually had trick-or-treaters come to our house! And we actually went trick-or-treating too! Well, we took Kimbri :) And she loved it! After the first couple of houses, when she figured out that people gave her candy when she said "trick-or-treat" she got so giddy and excited and was going crazy. It probably didn't help that she was getting to that tired loopy point in the night. But we had fun anyway! 

Kimbri dressed up as Minnie Mouse and Garrett dressed up as a cute little Dalmatian puppy costume that my mom bought him. Thanks mom!

Garrett was being pretty photogenic but I could hardly get Kimbri to sit still to get a picture of her! So that results in Garrett having a ton of pictures of him and not so many of Kimbri.



Our little puppy crawling away!






Tongue out and everything, just like a puppy!

She wouldn't stay still for a picture.... 


Already tired!


After snapping a few pictures we were off! We walked down our street and around the corner and that's when we ran into some friends from our ward! My good friend, Erin, and her daughter, Tessa, who is friends with Kimbri. We often go walk/running in the mornings with them. So we went down a few more streets and Tessa and Kimbri had a blast trick-or-treating together. Tessa dressed up as Cinderella. She is so adorable!

After a while the kids were getting pretty tired so we headed back home. We probably ate way too much candy, but we had fun! :)


Pumpkin Patch

Last month we went to a pumpkin patch called Mother Nature's Farm for a family activity and we had a blast! They had so many activities for little kids! 

They had bounce houses and I'm pretty sure Kimbri is in love with them now! We had to bribe her to get off so we could go do all the other things at the farm before it got too dark! 



They had a hayride that we all went on! 


Daddy with is cute little kids :)

Family Picture! We don't get many of these

Seeing the goats...

... and chickens.

I love Garrett's face in this pic!


They also a had a mini village with play houses the kids could go in: 



And each kid get's to pick out a mini pumpkin which is included in the ticket price!

The sun was shining right in Kimbi's face!



I love his shifty eyes in this pictures

Kimbri picking out the best pumpkin

And she's ready to go! Haha


I sure love this two kiddos! 




By this point Garrett was getting really tired!




She wouldn't stand still for nothin'


Kimbri riding the big ol' tractor. She loved it! 

It was a great family outing! We had so much fun and were able to just relax and enjoy each other. We also decided to pick up some yummy Cafe Rio on the way home since it was right by where we were. Oh so good! I'm sure happy they have a Cafe Rio in Arizona!! 

Garrett is Growing!

So I haven't updated our family blog for a while because I've had issues uploading pictures to the laptop... but now I have it figured out, I think, so here we go! 

A lot has happened in the past month!! 

- Garrett finally got 2 teeth! His bottom teeth came in at the exact same time just a couple weeks ago at about 10 months of age.

- He figured out the whole crawling thing a few weeks ago too! 

- And just within the past week or two he's been pulling himself up on all the furniture, chairs, and whatever else he can get his hands on! 

- Within the last few days Garrett has been walking while holding onto the little walker toy that used to be Kimbri's. He's just growing and learning so So SO fast! I can't believe it.

- Some other things Garrett loves are walks in the stroller, sucking on anything he can get his hands on, playing with a little plastic slinky to keep him entertained while I change his diaper, and FOOD! Oh my how this little man LOVES food! He hasn't turned down one single thing that I've put in his mouth. I even gave him cooked squash, zuchinni, onions, and red and green bell peppers with rice for dinner one night and he loved it!! I hope it stays this way :)

We also finally got Garrett into see Dr. Allen for his well child check up and he is a healthy baby! He weighed in at 20 lbs and is in the 50th percentile for weight and height. 

My happy little grocery shopping boy!

Garrett likes to sit in things. Whenever I do laundry I let him sit in the basket and he also likes sitting in Kimbri's pink toy bins. (Sorry the pictures are kind of blurry).





Garrett had just woken up from his nap!


And big sister came to say hi :)



Garrett is such a joy in our lives! I cannot imagine life without him. He is such a happy little guy and we love him to pieces!