My Sheep Sweater

 My little girl is big enough to wear my old pink sheep sweater that I wore when I was about her age! The temperatures have dropped a little bit and so we decided to whip out the long sleeves. As for a side note... we are going to freeze when we visit Utah for Christmas because we've been so spoiled with nice weather.

Anyway, I pulled out this old sweater and put it on Kimbri and thought it looked so cute on her! I'm going to have to find a picture of me in that same sweater and post it next to Kimbri's picture. I love her!

My Little Guy

Garrett is growing up SO fast. I know that I probably say that all the time. But it's true. I remember last year around this time, during the holiday season, I was anxiously waiting for the arrival of little Garrett. And now he is here and he is almost 1 year old! What?!?! Time flies.

He has had his two bottom teeth for about a month now but I hadn't captured a picture of them yet. That is one hard thing to do! Getting a picture of a baby opening his mouth at just the right angle so you can see his cute little teeth. Yes, I just called his teeth cute. :)

Here were my attempts in getting a picture of his teeth:

This one turned out kind of blurry but you can kind of see his teeth!

None of the following pictures really captured his teeth but they are still super handsome so I of course have to still post them! Also, those big brown eyes are sooooo adorable! Takes after his daddy ;)

And here we go! I finally got some pictures of his little stubby teeth!

Also, I'm pretty sure Garrett's top two teeth are starting to push through! I guess that explains all the drool lately! 

And here is what Garrett has been up to the past little while:

He has discovered how to pull all the movies off the shelves. It's one of his favorite things to do. Ha!

He loves playing in the floaty boat and loves to play with the piano toy. And as you can see here he is doing both of them at once:

He had to make sure to get every single last toy out of that cabinet... even if it meant crawling into it to be able to reach in the very back!

And Garrett loves to eat... as always. Shocker, right? Nope. I babysat for a lady in our ward the other morning and when she picked up her daughter, Layla, who is Kimbri's age, she brought us pizza for lunch. Garrett ate a whole slice by himself! And since he was still acting hungry I gave him some green beans and he at a tray full of those too! He's a growin' boy that's for sure!!!

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!