6 months!

Baby B has reached her half-year mark!:)

Simply cannot get enough of this little sweetheart. 

Brielle is getting so big!

17 lbs. 13 oz.
27 3/4 in.

She twists, turns, scoots, and rolls to wherever she needs to go.
She sleeps on her tummy now, and switches corners of the crib throughout the night.

She's eating solid foods:
rice & oatmeal cereal
carrots, squash, sweet potatoes, peas
and her all-time favorite... avocado! (seriously, she eats it like chocolate ice cream)


She's learning how to sit and can sit for a minute at a time.

random pics: she loves to stare out the window

stories with daddy

snuggling with her doll

rolled over in my lap to stare out the window some more:)

can't remember if this was on purpose...

coordinating outfits!

1st Halloween

and just for kicks:

camille . brielle . brielle

cody . jaden . jaden

and for the grandparents:

Halloween!

The ward trunk-or-treat was a lot of fun.  They had a cupcake walk, carnival games, and costume parade.

Jaden loves his Batman costume, but was pretty timid about showing it off for the parade.

Brielle was adorable as ever in her little flower costume.  She's our social little butterfly and enjoyed being passed around the entire night.

It was raining, so they brought the trunk-or-treat inside.  The only thing Jaden cared about was getting a lollipop.  So we found someone with a bucket of suckers and then he was done:)

Jaden got bored half way through the cupcake walk and just walked over to the table and helped himself.  Luckily, they called his number next:)  His favorite of the carnival activities was the spooky fishing, box maze, and mini-golf.

Our friends know how to party it up.  The costumes totally rocked this year!

Best: Dumb & Dumber

Scariest: Vendetta

Funniest: white trash couple

We teamed up with the Wades to pull off Wayne & Garth from Waynes World.

Mikal and Cody were Edward and Jacob... ya know, from Twilight.

Such a fun group!

We ate out at Chili's Halloween night.  It was perfect.. kids ate free and Cody and I used a gift card:)

We passed the police station on the way home.  They had a couple fire engines out and were passing out candy.  Of course we had to stop!  Jaden loved it.  He met their resuce dogs and then trick-or-treated around the block real quick when we got home.  Again, he only had interest in the single lollipop amongst his candy:)

Happy (belated) Halloween!

October Fest

A look back at our October...

Aunt Monique is running for school board and invited us down to the Oktoberfest parade to help campaign!  It was a lot of fun.  We wore our red & white and decked out the stroller with campaign signs.  Jaden got to ride in the old chevelle with Uncle Danny and Ty.  He absolutely loved it and gave his best "rarrr" to all the spectators.  He said he was trying to scare the marching band in front of us because they were too loud for sister... silly boy:)

 

Jaden was stoked to find a fire engine was following shortly behind us in the parade... it took A LOT of coaxing to get him out of that driver seat.

After 3 lovely years of being in Young Women, I was called into Primary:) The kids are SOOO cute and I love the leaders I get to work with.  We did a fun little pizza party after our primary program practice (which went really well).  Excited to get to know these little sweeties better!

Indiana is so pretty this time of year.  I think October is my favorite weather month.  Our yard always fills with tons and tons a colorful leaves:)

ZOO BOO!

Our awesome friends, the Spoerls, invited us to join their family to the zoo and it was a blast!  Jaden loved wearing his Batman costume and playing with his dinosaur friend, Clark.

(Brielle was our adorable little flower and Charlie was a darling giraffe!)

:pumpkin bowling, velcro apple tree, bounce house:

checkin' out the animals

trick-or-treating

 Took the kiddos to pick out some pumpkins...

Jaden picked out enough pumpkins to fill his entire wagon:)

happy little Brielle

carving with the Merks and Wades

: more on Halloween to come :