Saturday, November 5, 2016

October 2016

I took our family pictures this month. With my phone, cheap tripod, and a little help from Photoshop, I think our pictures turned out pretty good!
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 I love my family so much!!

Fall has been fun, especially enjoying the outdoors (when it's not rainy) and the leaves. Did you know we had a record month for rain in October? Crazy! In between the rain though we had some really nice days.
Grandma and Grandpa Wright have a great yard for playing in the leaves!
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 We carved pumpkins for Halloween. This was the first year that I really made more of an effort to let the kids do it now that they are bigger. They turned out pretty cute and we also had some fun little face things we could put into our pumpkins that cousin Elsie got for us.
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We got Owen a Robin costume for his Birthday back in August, so of course we had to get Dallin a new Batman costume for Halloween. They were a cute duo!
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Nana's Birthday is on Halloween, but we decided to go visit her Sunday night, the day before. I loved my view from the front seat looking back at these little munchkins all in costume to visit Nana and Grandpa's house!
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Halloween was awesome- just look at these cuties!
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Cousins Landon and Daxton came and trick-or-treated with us for a little while.
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Laila's first time trick-or-treating was a success! It was a little chilly, but she was such a trooper
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She was even giving our pumpkin kisses that night. haha
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Here are some more random pictures from the month:

This was one of the sweetest things when I saw these two playing the piano together. I hope they stay best buddies!
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Hailee dressed up as a "clown"
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I feel very honored to be this type of "specialist" (from Hailee)
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Cute little messy face Owen
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Hailee is thriving in first grade, although most days she says it's too boring. She even gets to go to 2nd grade to do reading because she is such a smarty pants! Here is a cute drawing she made at school. She draws all the time, but I was pretty impressed by her cute little frog and the details of the legs.
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I wonder who took a bite out of my lip stuff...
She wanted some, so I was going to put some on her lips, but she quickly took a bite out of it so fast I couldn't stop her. She liked it so much she wanted more!
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This girl loves to dress up. She is all girl. Here she is at the babysitter's house all dressed up. She loves necklaces "pretties" and bracelets "lets"
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Kisses from Laila. She'll say "tiss" with her puckered lips
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I woke up one morning to see the girls laying here watching Sophia the First. Cute sisters!
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Funny Laila
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I see someone's eyes (Hailee) peeking out of the hole in tent- Too funny!
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Cute little Laila grins
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September 2016

September came and went fast! We were all back in school, including this little guy that started preschool!
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We may have been in school, but we were able to make time to have some fun! 
On Labor Day we went to the Eastern Idaho State Fair. It was fun to see the animals and try some yummy food. The kids really liked seeing the different crafts and creations too. The older kids and I were brave enough to go on the giant ferris wheel and Owen rode a pirate ship. It was a fun, (crowded) day! Here are some pictures from our day. (going clockwise starting from the top left) 
1. They had a giant fake horse that Owen was able to get on
2. Dallin and Hailee on the Ferris Wheel. (this was Hailee's very first time and she did awesome!)
3. Hailee pretending to eat the giant potato in Blackfoot at the Potato Museum
4. Owen riding a little pirate ship.
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A week after the fair, we got to go to Spud Days! We played in the orchestra like we have for the past 7 or 8 years. It was a nice day for the parade and the free potatoes!
I wanted to be sure to get a picture in front of the giant potato on the truck. This guy has been traveling all around the country. 
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Here is our little orchestra 
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One special trip we got to take this month was to the Star Valley Temple Open House. The drive there and back was so beautiful with all the fall colors. It was a very cute little temple, and a really neat experience for the kids! 
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Here are some more random pictures from the month:
Shopping with Owen, and of course we had to get a picture with his face in the pumpkins
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This cute girl is so independent she always wants to feed herself now. 
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Sometimes she ends up like this...
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Or this...
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She's just a cutie whatever she's doing...
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Even after a day like this... (she had fallen off her trike, and it left a HUGE bump on her head) Poor little thing!
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I had a bruise on my face this month too. (not nearly as bad as Laila's!) The last time we went boating, Hailee bonked heads with me and gave me a black eye. It wasn't too bad, but kind of embarrassing when I started school with one. At least I could wear makeup!
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We've had some really rainy days this fall!
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Cute little Owen face :)
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Since Winter is coming, we've had several hobo sightings in the basement. Definitely nothing like it was when we first moved in, but more than I'm comfortable with, that's for sure. Even one hobo sighting is too much! Well, Hailee came running to me telling me there was a spider about to drop on her bed, and sure enough, when I went into her room, there was a spider dropping down slowly from the vent on his web string. So icky!! We definitely sprayed the basement and Hailee's vent like there was no tomorrow. And hopefully there wasn't any tomorrows for those spiders! We haven't seen many since, so that's a relief. Luckily Hailee is a good sport and it didn't phase her too much.
(She's posing for the camera in this picture :)
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Snapchat fun with Owen and Laila haha!
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Creepy much??
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This picture is evidence of the wrath of Hailee. She hit Dallin really hard and I could hear the loud slaps. We lifted up Dallin's shirt to see the damage, and sure enough he had little Hailee hand marks on his skin. And that was through his shirt! Dallin had been crying, but he started to laugh when I showed him a picture of his back.
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Here are some cute pictures of Laila in Hailee's dress up shoes. The look of joy on her face dancing around in the light-up Elsa shoes was priceless!
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I got new glasses this month. Here is a rare selfie of me in my new glasses. haha
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Last of all, we went apple picking at the apple orchard. There weren't as many apples as last year, but it was fun- and yummy!
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