Books

To say that Kimbri likes books would be an understatement. She LOVES books!! And I so often find her like this, surrounded by books:

I love to snuggle up on the couch with my little girl and read books with her. We could read all day if Garrett would allow it. Haha! But of course that wouldn't happen. Maybe when he is a little older and will sit and read books with us :) 

Any guesses on what we are getting Kimbri for Christmas?? You got it... books! And I can't wait to see the excitement on her face when she sees them all. Thanks to Goodwill and their half off everything Saturdays! We scored some good ones! I hope her love for reading continues!

Our Life

Life is good. We've been spending our time playing dress ups...

Practicing letters with playdough... 

Lounging around, playing with toys and reading books....

And crawling all over the house, pulling up on everything! Garrett is getting SO strong!

Our life lately has been filled with going on walks all the time because the weather has been SO great! We've been going to a bunch of different parks. We visited the zoo last week over Thanksgiving break and we've just been enjoying life!

Here are some more pictures of our everyday life:

The big box was a hit! Who needs toys when you have a box??

I recently bought a toddler bed with a mattress off an online yardsale type site on Facebook for only $10! I know we won't be needing one for quite a while but it was such a good deal I couldn't pass it up! I just figured we definitely could use one eventually so I might as well get it while it's so cheap!

Garrett has been having the time of his life climbing up onto it! Yes, he can climb up onto it all by himself!

Can you tell how happy it makes him? He just knows that he's such a big boy now :)

More fun playing with the big box!

And sometimes we just get so worn out from playing so much!

And for some more pictures of our little boy! He is such a happy baby! And his smile melts my heart.

And here is that box.... again.

ATSU Founders Day Fall Fest

A couple of months ago (yes, I am super behind on our family blog...) we went to the Fall Festival that Rick's school put on. It was super family friendly and we had a blast! They had TONS of blowup things that Kimbri really enjoyed. You names it... bounce houses, slides for toddlers and the huge blow up slides, which Kimbri was brave enough to go down and loved! They also had several other things that Kimbri loved jumping, bouncing and running around on. It was great!

This is was the 'small' one, which was still huge! The
big one was even taller and steeper but Kimbri loved it!

This is a little blurry... oops!

They also had free everything! Free cotton candy...

Kimbri was a little unsure about it...

... but Rick loved it!

And they even had free face painting! I wasn't sure how Kimbri would react or if she would even let them do it but she did. Her friend, Tessa, went first and got a butterfly on her face so I think that made Kimbri less scared, having seen Tessa do it :)

Oh, and they also had free sno cones! 

It was a very fun family event and we had a blast! Kimbri was worn out by the end of it all but she had soooo much fun! I love that A.T. Still University is very family friendly and had such a great family event like this!

Dance Class

 A lady in our ward, Stephanie, has started teaching a dance class for toddlers! I thought it would be so fun for Kimbri because she loves dancing and I also thought it would be good to have a little bit of interaction with some other 2 year old girls. It's a 6 week course that's every Thursday from 9:20-10am and she's only charging $30 which seems really good! 

 On our way to her first day of dance last week. Can you tell how excited she is?!

And this is Kimbri's friend, Pearl, who is also doing the dance class. Pearl's dad is in medical school with Rick. And Kimbri was a little overly excited in this picture too... hehe :)

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! :)