November - 2014

Ok, so I know that the last few posts have just been big photo dumps but it has been the easiest, fastest way to catch up with my blog. I still have tons of photos from June through August but they aren't uploaded to my computed yet so I'll have to do those later. 

Here are the random pictures I took during the month of November! 

Kimbri and Garrett's tower that they built.

The rose bush in our back yard finally grew a rose! And it smelled amazing! 

There was this one time that Garrett tried pouring his own milk when I wasn't watching. Yeah... at least it mostly all stayed on the table so it made cleanup a little bit easier!

He is in the middle of saying "Uh Oh".

I love Arizona winters!! It's amazing to me that during winter in AZ, the grass is all green, the weather is warm and we can go to the park and be outside and have it still be great weather!

Kimbri got a hold of my phone and somehow snapped over 100 photos of herself. Mostly of just her eyes like these 2 pictures:

Once again... I love AZ winters! Short sleeves and shorts in November! 

Garrett sitting in a little sand hole.

Driving with the windows down in November!

Dress up time has been a daily occurrence at our house lately. Kimbri loves dressing up like a ballerina, a fairy, a princess... pretty much anything! She sometimes even dresses Garrett up in a tutu and beads... I guess it's time we start getting some boy dress ups in the house! 

Sometimes this is the only way I am able take a shower.... they stay put on my bed and I can see them from the master bathroom shower, which allows me to keep an eye on them, especially if I lock my door so they can't run all over the house! Garrett sure looks comfy, haha :)

Garrett being silly with his paper plate from dinner. 

He was being sneaky and got ALL the graham
crackers out of the box!

Sometimes they can be the best of friends. Kimbri can been so cute with Garrett, reading stories to him, giving him hugs, and she also has been way in to rocking him in the rocking chair, even though Garrett isn't quite as fond about that idea. Haha!

I sure love these two :) I'm so blessed to have them!

One of our babysitters, Emily, made these with Kimbri one night. Little stick figures made from pipe cleaner! I thought it was such a cute idea! Kimbri loves playing with her little "stick people". She is an awesome babysitter!

Halloween

We had a get together at our place to carve pumpkins with some of Rick's family that lives here in AZ. Can you guess which one is our family pumpkin?? What can I say? We love Disney! So Mickey Mouse it was!

We didn't really have any halloween decorations and since we are on a tight student budget, the kids and I took a trip to the Dollar Store. We got one package of spider web stuff that came with three spiders (Garrett is a little obsessed with anything to do with spiders) and a pumpkin decoration to hang on the door.

We also got a spider decoration and hung it from the fan/light fixture in our living room. Every morning the first thing Garrett would do is point to it and say "pie-o" which is him trying to say "spider". I could be cooking dinner in the kitchen or doing laundry in the other room and he felt the need to constantly pull me into the living room and point and tell me that there was a spider. Haha! He's so funny. I'm glad he was so in love with our $1 spider!

We also went with our friends Erin, Tessa and Peyton to the pumpkin patch just a couple miles from our house. Tessa's preschool was going so we joined in on the fun! They had slides, a big bounce thing, a couple train/tractor rides, and animals. I think the kids had a blast. 

This turkey was doing some CrAzY gobbling! It was hilarious. The kids would try to gobble at it and it seriously would gobble back!!! It was SO funny!!

We also went to our ward's Fall Festival! They had booths with games and activities for the kids, a bounce house, dinner, and a hay ride. 

Kimbri dressed up like a pirate fairy. She has been way into the Tinkerbell movies lately and there is one called The Pirate Fairy that she loves so that was her costume for the year!

Garrett dressed up like Curious George and Rick was the Man in the Yellow Hat. Yes, I wrapped felt around a hat I got from Goodwill. It was kind of tacky looking but I think it got the point across as to who he was supposed to be dressed like... haha :)

On the actual Halloween night we went trick or treating in a neighborhood just down from ours and the kids got so much candy! I think we still have a bowl of it hidden in the pantry somewhere... I think they were on a sugar high for a few days after that night.