Sunday, October 20, 2013

The Scenic Route Through Beautiful Scenery

We drove the Alpine Loop yesterday and when we got out for our picnic we decided it was too windy. So I took a few pictures and we sat in the car to eat while watching Beauty and the Beast. It was pretty much the same thing.

PS- Sadie's friend Eli came over yesterday and they had the funniest interactions. Stereotypical interactions between genders starting at 4 years old. 
#1
Sadie: Guess what I got 2 new necklaces. I used to borrow my mom's necklaces all the time but now I have my own.....(keeps talking for 5 minutes about her new necklaces)
Eli: Can we play store?
#2
Eli: I want to go inside. Playing outside is kind of boring.
Sadie: But the trees out here are so beautiful!
Eli: huh?
#3
Sadie: want to know something really really special?
Eli: Sure
Sadie: I got a Snow White dress for Halloween!!!!!
Eli: Okay

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Scary Ghost Mummy Door

On Monday Sadie and I set to work making our door festive. We copied my friend Julia's cute idea. We used toilet paper instead of streamers, which doesn't stay taped too well, but who cares. Daniel says the pieces that are half attached make the mummy more authentic. Sadie loves it and Elise calls it a scary ghost and doesn't want to look at it. 

Sadie insisted on taking a picture of me too. 

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Tis the Season

It's officially Halloween season. This week the girls got to go to Hee Haw farms for FHE, the Thanksgiving Point farm with Hillary, and Jaker's pumpkin patch  for a playdate with the Faucettes. Sadie and I also made Halloween sugar cookies and brought some treats to our neighbors. 

Hee Haw farms did not disappoint. Elise didn't remember the animal train ride and cried a bit as it started. Check out Elise's adorable bob. (Ben & Toni- I was attempting to replicate Eliza's adorable hair)
 She was all smiles as they pulled back in. If we only went on the animal train ride all night I think my girls would be happy. 
 Sadie was excited to ride Bear the pony like she has the past 2 years, so we let her. Elise got the other pony, who is about twice the size. She wouldn't hold on to the saddle and we were convinced she was going to eat it the whole time. Elise was giddy and giggling and Sadie wouldn't stop talking about the horse poop. 
Sadie got nervous about the big slide, but after one time down with dad she remembered how fun it is and did it by herself the rest of the night.  
 The girls both participated in the hog chases. I went in with Elise during her age group and she loved it. I am convinced she would have won....if she hadn't fallen straight onto her face into the mud. Then she screamed. Sadie insisted she wanted to do it and she ran for about 15 seconds and then burst into tears. She told me all the yelling made her nervous.
 After a thrilling candy hayride we went back for one more animal train ride and a confusing walk through the corn maze during which both our children cried to go home. We drive by this farm almost every day since it is close to our house and Elise talks about the very scary corn.

No pictures of the trip to Thanksgiving Point. But Hillary took the girls one morning when she was babysitting. It was awesome. 

Jaker's Jack-o-lantern pumpkin patch never disappoints me. Because it is all free. And they have lots of fun stuff.  If you just take Emett and Sadie from the first picture and Hunter and Elise from the second picture we'd have a real Halloween winner. 
 This year Jaker's has added some slides, a haunted hall and a kids-size hay maze. 
Hunter and Sadie ran around laughing as usual. In the hay maze the 4-year-olds played along the top and the 2-year-olds wandered around the middle together. The only problem was that they were so short Kaylie and I couldn't find them a lot of the time. In the end I let the girls each pick out $1 pumpkins so the whole trip came to $2 and the price of gas to Springville.

Next up- attempting to copy an adorable Halloween-themed front door. I can't find white streamers anywhere! No stores around me have them. Someone please send me some. Thanks.

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Conference Weekend

Here's how we spent conference weekend:

Giving the girls haircuts and putting up Halloween decorations.

 Playing dress-up in the backyard. For some reason Elise has decided that dragons need swords to chase people. 





Saturday, October 5, 2013

The Septemberists

Here is how we spent the rest of September:

1. Sleeping under a pile of pillows. She got super sweaty under there, but she slept for over an hour so who cares.

2. Visiting dad at work and picking up some chocolate covered gummy bears from the bookstore.
Elise looks like such a thug in this picture.

3. Being "measure girls"

4. Getting older. The third picture below is some of the pictures Sadie drew me for my birthday. She also bought me some mascara.

5. Admiring the view from our front door

6. Attending gymnastics. Sadie is in the pink shorts
I love how you can see Elise's reflection in the window.

7. Walking around in mom's shoes. I don't know how many times I have put every pair of shoes I own back in my closet, but I gave up last week. My shoes have been spread around the house and I may never pick them up again. 

8. Learning how to read. Once Sadie grasped the concept of putting the letter sounds all together to form a word on her own she really took off. Sadie has moved from 3 letter words to 4 and 5, although she still gets lowercase d's and b's mixed up frequently. It is pretty cool watching your child learn how to read. 

Friday, October 4, 2013

So Long Summer

 We spent the rest of September trying to squeeze some sun out of the last bit of summer, although Mother Nature screwed that up with all the rain we got.  We went to Manila Creek pond one last time and frequented several parks. 


Hopefully the weather will stay good enough for another month that we can still spend a few hours a week at the playground. Elise has been very entertaining at the park lately. She pretends other kids are dragons and runs away from them yelling about emergencies. The other day she also came crawling up to me and told me she was a camel. When I was looking the other direction she ran her tongue along the side of my face. That's a sneaky camel right there. The park closest to our new house has a little rock climbing wall and "twisty balance beam" that Sadie loves to show off her skills on.

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Blue is the new green


An hour after we closed on our new house Daniel got a call offering him a position back at BYU with the women's basketball team. He started 2 days after we moved. He will miss UVU but this is a good step forward for his career. Out with the green and in with the blue!

I wanted a cute picture of the girls supporting their dad's new team, but when Sadie went to put her arm around Elise, Elise was not having it. 
So the best picture I got was this. This... is...cute?