Unwrapping presents

Here are several pictures of Lizzy opening her birthday gifts.

Lizzy's 2nd birthday party!

We had Lizzy's birthday party on November 12. She will actually turn 2 on the 14th. She did really well unwrapping her presents and she loved her cake and ice cream. She got some new clothes, movies, a Cinderella play dress with light up Cinderella shoes, a princess bubble wand, a cash register, shoes, stuffed animals, a Clifford book, a baby stroller with accessories, a hair and makeup accessory play kit, and I have a Jessie doll from Toy Story that we will give her tomorrow on her actual birthday. We got an e-mail for Lizzy to get a free kids' meal at Red Robin, so we will be eating there on her birthday. It was snowing pretty bad in Driggs, St. Anthony, and Rexburg yesterday, so at first we worried that some people wouldn't be able to make it to the party. Thankfully the snow cleared up right before the party. We didn't get much snow in Idaho Falls, so that was nice.

Oakley's Baby Blessing

We went down to Hurricane so that we could be there for Oakley's baby blessing. While we were there, Crystal gave Lizzy her birthday present. She had made two matching dresses, one for Lizzy and one for McKinlee. It was so cute seeing them wearing the dresses together. Kathy made Oakley's beautiful blessing dress. She looks darling in it!

Trip to Hurricane

We went down to Hurricane to Bryce's sister, Crystal's, house during the first weekend of November. The kids were able to play with their cousins, and Bryce's grandma was there, too. Here are some pictures with her and some of her great grandchildren. There's also a picture of Crystal and her family.

Spongebob and a Fairy Princess!

Bryce likes to carve pumpkins for Halloween, and he usually chooses to carve some kind of Jazz symbol. (I'm sure that everyone is shocked about that!) He always does a really good job, so here's one of them with a little light that blinks inside of it.

When the kids got home after trick-or-treating, they started digging into their baskets for candy. (Bryce and I ate some, too.) Our excuse was that the kids got so much candy that it would start to go bad before they ate it all if we didn't help them. LOL!

Happy Halloween!

The kids got to go trick or treating 3 different times. On Friday, the 28th, they went to Melaleuca, where Bryce works, to collect candy. Melaleuca's home office always decorates the place really neat with different themes in different rooms. The employees dress up and they have a trail set up for the kids to follow. Then on Saturday, the kids went to a trunk or treat at church, and then they finally went door to door in our neighborhood on Monday. I told Devon that we could only go to houses that had their outside lights on, so he would scope out those houses pretty quickly. He would shout, "They have their lights on!" and go running off, leaving Lizzy and me in the dust. Bryce had to work late on Halloween, so that was a bummer. After we got home, the kids had fun handing out candy to other trick-or-treaters. They kept trying to give the kids more and more candy as they left, so I had to monitor that a little bit, or else we would have run out of candy really fast!

Fun in the Tree!

Devon scared me to death climbing in this tree. He has never climbed a tree before, so I was pretty nervous. Titan is a little monkey and does just fine, but Devon got a little wobbly at times. He would do well climbing up it, but he struggled sometimes with trying to get down. He improved, but I told him he could only climb it if I was right there with him in case he needed help getting down.