Golden Gate Bridge

Since we packed so many fun things into our trip to California, I have decided to do a bunch of mini posts instead of one huge one. So, the next few posts will all be from our trip.

We spent a night in San Francisco and the next day we headed out to Muir Woods. In order to get there, we got to drive over the Golden Gate Bridge. We stopped so we could walk over it; however, the sidewalk on teh end of the briedge we stopped at was closed, so we couldn't walk across it without driving back towards San Fancisco and paying the toll. Oh well, we got some fun pictures anyways and now we can say we drove over the Golden Gate Bridge.

My newest favorite picture of our beautiful girls.

Devon on the walkway to the bridge.

The Golden Gate Bridge

Our Family

Driving over the bridge.

Chloe

Fairy Tale Town

When I was a kid, one of my favorite places to go was Fairy Tale Town. It is a park that is themed all around different fairy tales. Thus, when I knew that we were going to Sacramento for my cousin's wedding, I knew that we had to make a special stop. So after 9+ hours of driving, we arrived at Fairy Tale Town and had a few hours of fun.

At the entrance with Humpty Dumpty

Riding on Cinderella's pumpkin carriage.

It was pretty much the same as I remember it, just a lot smaller=). The crooked mile was one of my favorite places to play and the three blind mice's cheese was also a big hit for me as a kid. Chloe loved it all. She told me that she liked Mary's lambs (Mary had a little lamb) and Owl's tree house from Winnie the Pooh.

The Old Woman who lived in a Shoe.

In Sherwood Forest

Sitting on Mother Goose's lap

The Three Blind Mice's cheese

It brought back tons of fun memories and I was glad that we got to go!

Pumpkin Patch

We went with our neighbors today to the local pumpkin patch, and of course I had to bring my camera to document it. The weather was a million times better than when we went to Cornbelly's last week, so the kids were able to enjoy it much more. I love that I am a stay at home mom and can just do fun things like this whenever I want!

Abby

Chloe and Bentley

Chloe in the corn pit

Just us girls

The BFF's

My cute girls. What up with that face, Chloe?

Cornbelly's Corn Maze

One of the main things Tawna wanted to do while she was in town was to go to a corn maze. The weather was not too cooperative, but the sun did come out on Saturday, so we all bundled up and headed to the Cornbelly's in Lehi.

Our Family

On the cow train

It was my first time going to this particular corn maze, and I was amazed at how many things there were to do. We spent two+ hours there and didn't even get to the corn maze itself! I don't know if there was a favorite activity that Chloe liked best, but I do know of one that she did not like at all! There was a clown house that had fake severed clown heads hanging from the ceiling!!! Yeah, there should be a warning for parents before entering that kind of attraction!

On the Pumpkin Princess' Carriage

Picture with the Pumpkin Princess

Despite the cold weather, we all had a great time and it was a great way to kick off the Halloween season.

Chloe...what a ham!

Who do you think liked the corn more?

Grandma and Grandpa with Kiara

GO COUGARS!!!

On Saturday night, we braved the cold to go to the BYU vs. San Jose State football game with Tawna, Tim, Amber, Casey and my parents. It didn't start until 8:15 p.m., the temperature was in the low 40's, we had two tired children and we were literally one row from the top of the stadium (and Lavell Edwards Stadium is pretty darn big)...sounds like a recipe for disaster right?

We didn't think we would make it through the whole game but we did and had a great time. Abby fell asleep and Chloe sat on Tawna's lap the whole time. At one point we thought Chloe was falling asleep because she looked totally zoned out, but it turns out she was just looking for Cosmo (BYU's mascot). When she finally found him, she gave Tawna his play-by-play for the rest of the game.

We won the game, which made it even more fun. We finally got home and put teh kids in bed at midnight! I know, we're just fabulous parents. =)

Cookie Time

One night while Tawna was in town, we got together and decorated Halloween sugar cookies with all the kids. Chloe literally spent 30 minutes working on her cookie making sure that she put on every topping that we had. It was a huge hit and we all left with frosting on some part of our clothing.

Chloe

Abby

Chloe, Kayden, and Tawna

Us

Abby's Nine Months

Our little Abby is now nine months old...where does the time go? She has two personalities: extremely happy or extremely grumpy. It is rare to have her just be mellow and calm. She absolutely loves to eat! If someone is eating around her and she doesn't get any, she gets so mad.

She is just crawling all over the place and loves to play with Chloe. She crawls back and forth from our room to Chloe's and takes off whenever Chloe calls her name.

We went to the doctor today and she said she is perfectly healthy. Here are her stats:

Weight: 15 1/2 lbs. - 4.5 percentile

Height: 28in - 62nd percentile

Head: 17.3 in - 62nd percentile

Teeth: 1 with another on the way

We got the idea for this picture from our neighbor (thanks Lauren!). I couldn't get her to smile because it was nap time, but oh well, she's still cute!

Chloe's First Day of Preschool

Chloe started preschool yesterday and she loved it! We are doing it with five other neighborhood kids and rotating who is in charge of teaching that week. It is only one day a week for an hour and a half, but I think that is just about right for her age. I am excited for her and can't wait to see what she learns. I can't believe that we have a child old enough to start preschool! Man, I feel old =)

And yes, she wore all that jewelry the whole time!

Weekday Zoo Trip

Last Monday, Aaron woke up with the desire to take the day off to spend with our family. I told him that if he was going to take the day off we were going to do something fun. So we went to the zoo. We headed up to the Hoogle Zoo and had a great time. The weather was perfect, not too hot and not too cold!

Abby was mesmerized by all the animals and just sat in her stroller bouncing around with excitement when the animals would move around.

Chloe's favorite animals were the giraffes and the gorilla. She liked the gorilla because she thought it was funny (and gross) that while we were watching him, he ate his poop! Yep no joke, it was pretty disgusting to watch, but Chloe though it was hilarious. It is one of the first things she will tell you about if you ask her about our trip to the zoo.

Abby's life at Eight Months Old

OK, so technically she is almost nine months old, but I couldn't think of a better title. =) Abby is such a little character and it has been so fun to see her little personality start to develop. Now that she is crawling, she will follow me all around the house and she gets into everything. Last night, she was trying to play with one of our decorations and when I told her no, she looked back at me and laughed!!! NO joke! We are going to have our hands full with this one.

She also loves to put anything and everything into her mouth. The funny thing with this is that once she gets it in there, she will just use her gums to hold it in. She will be sitting there with a toy/piece of food hanging out of her mouth and have more toys/food that she is playing with in her hands. She also loves to stick out her tounge...it's pretty cute. =)

Chloe came in the other day telling me to go look at Abby. I knew she was asleep, so I figured there wasn't anything to see without waking her up. But Chloe kept telling me to go see. So when I did, this is what I found. Abby was totally asleep with her leg sticking out of her crib.




Abby also loves to stand up to things. If she can pull herself up to something, she will and she will get the biggest smile of satisfaction on her face. Which is also cute because she has her first little bottom tooth!