spook-tober...heh heh

october seems like it flew by! i got a really early start on her halloween costumes (yeah, i couldn't decide), yet still found myself finishing them up the night before she was supposed to wear one or the other. 

 here i am at thirty weeks!!

 we were taking a picture to send to my sister and i literally could not find an angle were i didn't look 56. so yeah, i think i'm getting there.

 as the weather cooled down, we started having tons of bonfires in the backyard. we did quite a few in the mornings, it was so much fun!

 texas has a program where babies get a free eye exam, so we made sure to do that. poor baby got her eyes dilated and they looked at them with flashlights, covered one up then the other, made her go crossed eyed, etc. turns out she is far sighted! more so than other babies usually are. they typically have you return at age three, but since she's far sighted we had to schedule an appointment for when she is 2 years old. hopefully she'll have grown out of it by then!

 she did so good at the doctor.

 another morning fire.

 guess what, we still have a cat! isn't he cute?....

 my in laws hit up carlsbad and the grand canyon and got me a puzzle from both! they were so hard and a welcome challenge although i did feel bad for my child for the few days i was working on it. i didn't ignore her, but i was pretttty happy when she'd fall asleep for her naps. 

31 weeks and getting some exciting new stretch marks on my sides. with prim i got stretch marks all around my belly button and no where else. i was hoping that since they got so bad, i wouldn't get more when i had another one in there but i was wrong!

jon saw an ad for the parade of homes! we were so excited because we've been wanting to go here (and in california) for five years, since we moved away from utah! it is very different here than it is there, but still cool. there were 7 houses all in the same neighborhood so we walked the whole thing. also it was military appreciation day so it was free! the houses were beautiful.

my favorite picture in the world. this little thing was being so cuddly and huggy on jon all day. we were on the way to our car from the parade of homes and she sat like this with him almost the whole bus ride.

we met with the patient coordinator at the hospital to register and get insurance and everything figured out for teeny's arrival! it happened to be on prim's 11 month, so we took a photo of her outside the hospital where she was born. we are getting so excited for teeny's arrival and hope that all goes better than last time so we don't have to be away from prim for long.

this picture breaks my heart into a million pieces when i look at it. jon says it's because she looks so innocent. the face of an actual angel.

little halloween cards for our family. she cried when i did the first few footprints and so i asked jon for help on the rest. when he helped me she didn't make a peep...psh.

we went camping!!! i would like a lot of credit for going camping with our 11 month old while 33 weeks pregnant. like maybe a high five or round of applause. 

the first night was pretty warm. we put her to bed in the pack n play outside of the tent so that she could get the breeze. when we moved her into the tent when we went to bed she woke up because it was beyond hot. it was supposed to downpour so we had the rain cover on the tent (as seen in the picture) but after she was awake for over an hour, jon finally took the cover off and we had a nice breeze through the tent. we all fell asleep pretty quickly after that. 

sleeping while off-roading. that's why its so blurry. 

we camped near big bend national park. the park itself was so beautiful! it was large too, i'm sure there were a lot of people in the park but we hardly saw anyone. it was as if we had the whole thing to ourselves. 

the second night was a bit rough. it took forever to get prim to go to bed, but once she was asleep she slept through the night good. we never sleep with her anymore, so it was fun having her in bed with us for a couple nights! overall it was a great trip, it's always nice to get away with one another and our little one(s).

when we got back from camping, kathy helped me finish her costumes. here she is as a black cat at the church trunk or treat. she loves her pumpkin and reaches for it and says "puh! puh!"

really getting into the role

little dolly at the park

on thursday we went trick or treating on base with john and kathy. she always has fun with them and likes having them around. they couldn't stay the whole time, so jon and i took her around for awhile. she tried saying trick or treat and please and was so nice to the people handing out candy. they'd put something in her pumpkin and she would pick something out of her pumpkin to put back in their basket. it was nice, a few houses gave out pretzels and fishy crackers which we appreciated (since she doesn't eat candy). she had her 'treats' and we had some of her candy, so it was like we were all enjoying it together.

somewhere along the way she lost one of her little wrist cuffs. sad!

so we bought these packs for camping. we knew there was sugar in it but also knew there was milk (and protein) so we bought them anyway. big mistake. whenever we gave them to her, she turned into satan and wouldn't let you touch the pack to help her with it. she'd drink them so fast. unfortunately she lost her privileges to them-haha. we started to give her fruit at 11 months and it has been pretty fun.

we made root beer with dry ice for halloweenie!! 

we signed up about a month ago for a halloween morning 5k! jon was kind enough to walk it with me and pushed primmy the whole way. it was actually hard for me, which is sad-haha. it was a lot of fun and we had perfect weather. it was at the local marriott by our house.

this is what she wore on real halloween.

our little cowwie! she was in a good mood almost all day. we trick-or-treated in a neighborhood in our ward and she loved seeing all of the other little kids!! the older kids would point to her and say "mom, look how cute!!" it was so sweet. she wore her costume to the grocery store earlier that day and a few different youngish guys came up to tell us how cute her little outfit was. i'm guessing they were around 30. i love when guys say she is cute without being prompted by a woman.
overall october, and halloween was a success. we had a fun vacation and enjoyed our little one who is getting bigger everyday.

anza borrego, ca.

at the end of january, jonathan had planned a camping trip for us. i am not one for camping. when he finally gets me to go, he makes sure that he's the nicest to me and that i am catered on so that i'll go with him again. that's how you do it, my friends!

 this picture is really important. it's important to jon because he likes seeing all of the off roaders getting ready to go on trails, and it's important to me because i fell in love with Gordo who's running towards to photographer who i wish was me. on this vacation, i realized that i love dogs of all shapes and sizes. i think that's a really good thing because in June we are moving in with my in laws until we find a home and we are bringing two dogs and a cat and they already have two dogs and a cat. we've been joking that we are going to start a petting zoo.

 they really do think i'm joking.

the first thing we did when we got to anza borrego was explore a cave. these caves were cool, but they were a bit of a downgrade compared to what we saw in texas last year!

jon is totally in his element when we go camping. he enjoys being out in the wild breathing in fresh air, but he mostly loves to test his cars limit. sometimes i close my eyes.

we were driving through the desert when we heard a weird noise. then we heard the car get louder. we should have known, but we didn't think anything of it until jon's buddy was honking behind us. jon's muffler fell off!!!

here he is trying to get it untangled from under his car. the worst part about this was that it was really hot and we couldn't just leave it in the desert. so we had to wait until it cooled off and then put it in the back of the car with all of our stuff. 

the darndest things...

it was a fun and beautiful day. i can appreciate the outdoors, i really can. i just wish there was a really nice personal bathroom following me around (kept at a 40 ft distance of course).

here is my main man, cooking up some luxury breakfast for us. 

we get patchy service while we are out there, but i was lucky enough to receive this photo from my sister. she and audrey had a sleepover the night before. cutest.

pumpkin patch. 

 ever since we went to anza borrego last year, i've been wanting to see these mystery statues in the desert. this man placed all these statues throughout the desert (not sure when), but they are awesome! they are so detailed and i can't help but wonder how long each one took.

 this one is awesome. the road runs in between the humps in his back.

it was a fun trip and i'm so glad jon is patient with me when we do things like this. i'm liking it a little more each time.....but not enough to not have him worry about me the whole time. ;)

the next weekend we got to enjoy this ones company! she is working as an assistant trainer for the BYU rugby team. they had a game at SDSU and one at UCLA, so jessie finagled a way onto the bus here and got to stay with us for the weekend! she came to school with me and everything, it was so fun to have her here. it was cool to see her in her element at the game and jon enjoyed it, too. (he played rugby in high school) we even saw someone at the game from church, which shouldn't surprise us, but it always surprises me to see people i know out and about here!