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.

utah and homeward bound!

when we got back to salt lake, we celebrated our 5th anniversary! my dad and katie watched Prim and Jon and I went to bruges waffles and frites for appetizers which actually turned into dessert! then we went to the copper onion and shared a burger and fries which was soo good!

prim wouldn't go to bed as easily as we hoped she would, but we were secretly happy that she was awake when we got home. we took her outside and she helped us let go of each of the five balloons one by one. each one representing another year of marriage, each better than the last. 

my dad likes to get prim up in the morning and get her dressed (and i like to sleep in a little bit!). almost every night, even in normal life, i pick out prim's outfit for the next day and leave it on her changing pad so the morning is easy. when i came down to see my babe, she was wearing her headband on backward. ah but still so cute!

baby alex came to visit with mike and kim! they are the best friends, they always cater to us while we are in town. that really is not necessary, but we appreciate it so much. 

they are four months apart. don't they looks alike with their pale skin and bald heads?? so cute!

kim text me and said that mike got teeny a present (we told them a few weeks previous that we were expecting again!). i didn't think it was weird at all. i opened the card and it said something along the lines of "we know the perfect gift for your new baby..." i pulled out a tiny onesie and on it read "A new friend!!! baby bird coming december 2015!"!!!!! i was not expecting that at all and freaked out! i am so excited for them!!!! all four of our babies are going to be so close in age, i hope they love it growing up as much as we have so far!

amanda nanny's this sweet little boy named sam. we took primmy over to meet him and i think she liked him more than he liked her:)

aunt amandy

here prim is with her great-aunt nancy.

we always try to fit a good hike in with amanda while we are in town. this time we did the living room hike. it was both easy and hard and was the perfect challenge for us. poor jon was sick and was huffing and puffing in this crazy altitude that we aren't used to.

finally our babies get to meet! here is elliott checking prim out.

elliott with his hot mom and mom's hot friend. we walked from their house to a cute everything shop and got sodas and treats. 

elliott wasn't too interested in prim, but he did such a good job sharing his toys with her! even if she was playing with a toy he wanted, he would just go get another one for himself. so sweet.

love my ladies.

dads walking to little caesars/7-11 for firewood. 

a couple days before memorial day we went up to idaho for our usual celebrations.

happy memorial day!
we got pictures with the cousins and couldn't resist getting a few of Prim by herself. the flag was Jon's idea.

this was one of the first times we did this with Prim and she loved it, haha!

all packed up. katie blessed us with all her baby toys Casper has grown out of. As usual, our car was packed to the actual brim.

as we were passing Payson i remembered the new temple! so we did a very brief detour in order to pass it. so beautiful.

we drove straight to the grand canyon! neither of us had ever been before and thought that was a real shame. we only spent an hour or so there.

from there, we drove to John and Kat's which was a couple hours away. they are spending the summer at his parents house while John trains with Edward Jones. it was so good to see them and although they both had to wake up ridiculously early, they waited for us and stayed up to chat! Prim was an angel on the drive and visited with us until we were all ready to go to bed. it was pretty late so it took awhile, but she finally fell asleep between us. such a dear.