HAPPY HALLOWEEN! (I know I am a little slow)

So last year was sooooo much easier to take pictures of my kiddo in her Halloween costume! She just laid there and I could take all the pictures that I wanted. This year was another story... I chased that girl down forever trying to get a good shot! I couldn't get the little stinker to hold still long enough to get a good picture, oh well. At least I did get some even if they aren't the best.

As usual Scott worked all Halloween weekend, so he totally missed out in seeing Paige in her costume and Trick or Treating. But even though we missed Daddy we had tons of fun!

Here's my cute little Strawberry Shortcake:

(these are for you MOM! :)

Only way I could get her to stand still...

Running away!

Look at that cute face!

So this is the run down of what we did for Halloween this year...

A few Saturdays ago, October 23rd, Scott and I went to an awesome Murder Mystery dinner that our friend Barb put on! It was so fun! Our two characters were secretly having an affair and Scott proposed to me during the evening... How many times can a girl say that she was proposed to by her husband twice! So fun!

Formal Shot...

Playin' our characters...

My brother Seth and his wife Tara and their kids happened to be up in Boise for Tara's niece's soccer game, so they offered to watch Paige for us. THANKS SO MUCH YOU GUYS! You are awesome! We really appreciated it. Then they stayed over at our house that night and we watched a movie and just hung out. It was a fun day!

Friday we went to our ward "Trunk or Treat". Which was amazing! Probably the coolest one I have ever been to. And Paige won "Best Girl's Costume" (in 0-5 yr age group). She got a fun little prize complete with Halloween socks, candy and a light-up skull head that she played with for the rest of the evening, she thought it was pretty cool.

Then Saturday we went to some of our friends "Trick or Treating in the Park". Oh the girls all looked so cute! Yes, all of Paige's little friends are girls (here in Boise anyway)... maybe one of these days one of us will have a boy, but for now we are still havin' fun with just the girls! :)

With one of her best buds... Brenna! Cute girls!

Her other best buds... Rylee and Chloe~

I didn't pick-up any candy for Paige... She had a few pieces at home (and REALLY... who is going to eat the candy... Her or Scott? No, ME!!!! Since Scott doesn't really like candy and Paige won't eat much, I tried to get a very minimal amount, I still think I got too much!) Anyway, so what did she do?

She ripped into the girl's candy!!!! :) Oh, Paige! Sorry girls ;)

Then after we went over to Mike and Barb's for some homemade root beer! Super yum! I don't normally drink carbonation (tummy aches), but I absolutely love root beer! It is my one weakness when it comes to soda. Oh, and was it good, totally worth it! Then we decorated some Halloween Cookies after. We had so much fun! And Paige loved it!

Fall Has Arrived!

Fall is officially here! YAY!!!!

And I LOVE it!

Fall is so beautiful with all the leaves changing, the smells & the fun activities.

I just love everything about it. :)

OK! So it is about time for a post!!!!! Haven't posted in forever! As always, we have been super busy! Can't imagine how busy we will be when we have multiple children!

A few weeks ago we went to a pumpkin patch/corn maze here in Meridian. They had all sorts of fun things to do... We walked through the corn maze, picked out some pumpkins, looked at the farm animals, played in the corn box (kinda like a sand box, but with corn kernels), and scott even shot off some corn cobs in a corn shooter (Paige didn't like the the loud bang sound that it made, so we only did that once :) But we sure had fun!

Here's some pictures of our corn adventure...

Paige absolutely loved the corn box!

She really got into playing and watching all the other kids :)

Here's a pic of Daddy playing with Paige!

Love this shot! We took some pictures looking out one of those figure thingies. This one was a scarecrow, so cute!

Picking out our pumpkins...

So since it's fall all the leaves have been falling off our trees. They were getting a bit out of control so I went out with Paige and started raking them up. Plus I thought that Paige might have fun playing in the leaves. And that she did!!!! She thought it was so cool :)

She loved having her legs covered and then kicking as fast as she could to get all the leaves off her legs and feet.

Once I finished raking up one pile, Paige would go the pile I just finished and play in the big mound. To say the least I probably raked up the piles a good half dozen or more times :) But it was so worth it!!!!!

At one point she just laid down in the middle of the pile and started throwing her legs and arms around, throwing the leaves everywhere! She LOVED it!

I got some pretty cute shots.

This one is kinda creepy... she is totally zoned out! HAHAHA! :)

Love these!

So adorable!

Lovin' every minute!

OK! So I am offically in love with the stage that she is in right now! She is starting to cuddle more, and LOVES just about everything (with the exception of food :/ little stinker!)

Right now she absolutely loves to draw! You give her a something to color with and a piece of paper and she will color forever! I was working on my talk for church a couple of weeks ago and she sat there next to me coloring for a good half hour. She loves to have us help her draw different shapes, letters, and numbers. Her very favorite shape (or picture, I guess) is a smiley face. She laughs every time we draw one for her. So fun!

So excited to be coloring!

And of course still getting into everything!

We have this drawer full of cookie cutters (like 100 of them) and she loves to take them all out and back in and sometimes she even wants you to stand right there as she hands each one to you. And we usually find her climbing in and out of that drawer to reach the ones in the bottom better... I know what you are thinking, don't worry it is the bottom drawer! And she is very talented in getting in and out without any incidents. I will have to take a picture of her doing this before she gets board with it, so I can post one :) !

Paige Now:

Walks (she can but she just prefers not to, little stinker!)

Draws/Colors

Still LOVES books (her favorite right now is Frosty the Snowman, man do I get tired of singing that over and over! Cute book, but she likes to read it over and over, so after about the 6th time, I am definitely ready for a new one :)

Goes to the fridge and tries to open it when she wants her milk

Shakes her head when we tell her no

And says...

Mama

Dada

Ampa (Grandpa)

Mmmm

Hi

Bye

Fishy

Uh-Oh

Digh (Light)

Eye (as she points to her or someone else's eye)

Eaaa (ear)

Nana (Banana)

Aco (Taco) -scott just recently taught her that one

and I'm not sure that she has ever even seen one, let alone know what it is :)

Emo (Elmo)

Carecow (scarecrow)

Speaking of scarecrows... we bought a cute little scarecrow for our front porch because every time Paige sees one (usually at the craft store) she gets really excited and starts saying "carecow!". Well, little did I know how obsessed she would be about the one out on our front porch. She was so excited that we had one of our own, but she was so concerned about it being outside. She just sat there next to the front window pointing at it and saying "carecow? carecow? carecow?" over and over and wouldn't leave it for quite some time. That has now died down some but oh, how funny that she was so concerned about that scarecrow!

Anyway, all is going great here. Staying super busy! We just got home from Disney Land last week. When I get a few minutes to sit down and pick through our favorite pictures I will post some! This has been one of the first times since we got home that I have had a few minutes to sit down and write. Well, Paige is up from her nap... so until next time :)