All About Aubree

{22 Months}

-We feel that she changes so much every single day! 

-She got her 2 year old molars in.. the only hard thing about them was that she didn't

want to eat, but she was pretty good otherwise.  And they hurt too, poor thing.

-She always wants to go to the mall because they have a little play area for little kids.

She says "A mall, mama."  A girl after my own heart.

-She is starting to really like nursery. 

-She always wants to play with friends.

-She always talks about her Meme and Tami.  She loves her grandmas.

-She is obsessed with dancing.  We listen to the Tangled songs (and only the Tangled songs

to avoid a meltdown) and dance for a good hour!  I've taught her how to point her toes

and plie and twirl like a ballerina.  Cutest thing ever!

-We are trying to think of fun things to do when the weather is bad.  We have built forts, colored, done finger painting with pudding.. We will have to think of a lot more things to do!

-When the weather is nice, she loves to jump in the leaves that Dad worked so hard raking :)

-She hasn't ever attempted to climb out of her crib.  So we will see about putting her in a big girl bed once she's 2.

-We took her to the Monte Bean museum at BYU a few weeks ago.  It was actually really cool.  They had a ton of real stuffed animals and she loved it.. then got distracted by the stairs :)

-She is such a toddler now and such a blast!  We love the energy and spunk she brings into our family!





Happy Halloween!!

Aubree was Cinderella for Halloween this year.  We had just gotten home from St. George late the night before and didn't really go all out this year.  Aubree looked darling, but hopefully next year we will get a little more festive!  I wish she would have at least worn a bow.. Oh well.  We took her Trick-or-Treating to a few houses.  She loved all the candy people put in her Cinderella purse!

{Note to self: do not try to put make up on a 2 year old again.}

{Matt thought it was so cool someone dressed up as Darth Vader (Vador?)}

{Reaping the rewards}

Hope everyone had a fun Halloween!!

Pumpkins

The Zanders told us about a house in Orem selling a bunch of pumpkins, so we drove up to find us some to carve.  They had a ton and were cheap!  We each picked one out and were excited to start a little tradition with Aubree-- pumpkin carving.

We got home and got everything ready to go.  Matt and I even printed out awesome stencils.

{Aubree Grace LOVED painting her pumpkin!  Hers turned out better than her parents...}



The finished product.  Sad.  While we were carving with our steak knives, I was like "Matt, this isn't very fun."  We both started cracking up because we seriously botched our pumpkins.  Mine wasn't terrible, but still bad.  Matt tried to do a Gears of War carving which obviously didn't turn out haha- next year we will stick to paint or maybe use pumpkin carving knives!



Sundance

After dinner on Sunday, Matt thought it would be fun to go up to Sundance, so we packed up some hot chocolate and drove up the canyon.  We'll have to go again when it's earlier but it was so beautiful and fun to get outside. 

{There was a moose like yards away from us!  It was nuts!  Aubree started barking at it

and I got nervous because Matt said they hate people}



I wish I could get better pictures of the mountains and scenery, but it got dark really fast.  Still, nice to be out with our little family!

Witches Night Out

Steph and I had such a blast at at Gardner Village!  We accidentally went twice :) We thought it was Thursday, so we went all dressed up but then saw a flyer saying it was Friday and Saturday.  So naturally, we drove up again.. and so glad we did!  We made hit up all the darling shops and found some fun things!  The decorations were awesome and such a fun way to kick off the holiday season. 




Most everyone there was completely decked out and that made it so fun- I had no idea (obviously from how I dressed) that it was that big of deal!  Such cute ideas for next year :)  Thanks for going with me Steph!!



All About Aubree

{21 Months}

-She LOVES books- she has always loved them.  We went to the library and brought some home... bad idea.  I got home from work and she had colored in most of them.  Matt said he thought they were our books (um, we don't color in books anyways, Dear). 

-We are trying to get her excited about Halloween.  She says "howeena" and loves her costume.  I think she'll like trick-or-treating.

-She is obsessed with Matt's iphone- whenever she sees it she goes "baby!! baby!!" and wants to look through the pictures of her and watch videos he's taken. 

-Her favorite show's are "Little Eisteins" on Disney channel and her Baby Einstein movies.  Have you seen the Little Einstein's on TV?  It's like what I learned in high school... not really but they talk about Beethoven and Bach and all sorts of smarty pants things.  Far cry from what I used to watch when I was a kid!

-She loves when we Skype our families.  She shows off and jumps around and crawls all over me haha- she thinks she's so funny :)

-This has really been such a great age!  There are the occassional temper tantrums and she has her days, but for the most part we can understand her so much better and can help her not get frustrated.  We are all little buddies!

Other September Highlights

-Happy Birthday to Joy and Ricky (and me and McCall :)

-Matt sold his motorcycle... I thought he would be so sad like he was when

he sold his dirtbike, but I think the cold and traffic up here helped

him make up his mind.. He now has a red Subaru.

-Matt's brother Ryan, his wife Joy and their cute little kiddos came up with Juli to visit one weekend.

The kids were so glad to see each other and we had fun catching up.  This is the only picture I got and It's

not the best angle, but still cute!

{Cute cousins Aubree and Amanda}



-My mom and McCall came up for a wedding and played with us also. No pics but

we had fun with them!

-Matt's best friend Danny and his little friend Emily came and stayed with us over Conference Weekend.

We met Van and his adorable wife Kathleen at a trampoline jumping place, then ice cream and headed back to our place. Felt just like the good old days!

How can life not be fun when Matt, Danny and Van are around?  It helps that they have darling wives/girlfriends :)

{Me, Kathleen and Emily}

{Some things never change.. Van and Danny BFF's}



-We enjoyed a wonderful Conference. I made a lot of yummy food (I'm going to brag about it because I feel like my cooking skills have improved somewhat and it's been a loooong time coming. Mainly due to good cookbooks haha) Anyways, what an amazing thing that we have in our lives- I love everything about Conference and the uplifting feeling afterwards.

-September treated us great!  We've met a lot of fun people via school/our ward and feel so at home here.