Halloween costumes (LOTS of pictures!)

All Grown Up

We celebrated Hallie's 2nd birthday this past week. Where has the time gone that our little baby has turned into this amazing beautiful little girl? We love her so much and she adds so much sugar and spice to our lives!

Hallie got a new kitchen for her birthday this year and it is a huge hit! It is the first big toy we have put up in her room, and she is loving it!

She wasn't too sure about blowing out her candles, but after Calebs example she did great.

It was fun to have both grandparents on Skype to watch her open her presents and blow out her candles and just spend the evening with us!

LOVES her new computer!

Wears her new shoes everywhere...seriously she played at a park in them.
(They are dress up heels with a pretty decent heel)

Princesses...the new favorite toy of our little princess!

2 year old facts

*Hallie as shown above LOVES Princesses these days and is for hours on end playing with them (Everything is a princess too...she even put a package of candy to sleep on a tissue paper today..pretending it was a princess...hah)

*She talks in FULL sentences. We can carry on almost as good of a conversation with her as Caleb

*She is BOSSY...the only time she speaks in nursery is apparently when she is telling the boys she doesn't like what they are doing.

*She finally LIKES nursery and goes willingly and is excited about going!

*She climbs on EVERYTHING

*She knows quite a few letters and their sounds

*LOVES animals (every time we pull in or out of our development she points out the llamas and horses and cows)

*Loves getting her hair done..and will let me do quite intricate things to it...even though 2 mins later it looks like we never do her hair b/c of how active she is.

*If you ever visit her in her play kitchen she will make sure you don't go thirsty. she will offer you glass after glass of water.

*CHOCOLATE is her favorite food...wonder where she got that from??

*Walks around (and runs) through the house and up and down the stairs (much to our disapproval) better than I do in my stiletto high heels!

*Has an AMAZING imagination and can carry on a conversation between princess dolls for hours...as long as their noses are touching when they talk...they have to be really close!

*Loves having stories told to her to put her to sleep

*Loves tummy raspberries and will say "DO it again!"  in the cutest voice over and over again/

*Is amazingly beautiful and we love her to pieces!

Snow Bird

We had the opportunity to go up to Snow Bird for a free tram ride. The ride up to the resort was beautiful! We were sad about not being in Provo to drive Provo canyon, but feel like this was the prettiest canyon drive we have taken!

Once at the top the kids LOVED that there was snow on the ground. Every day since Caleb has told me he can't wait for the snow to be all over our grass...please can we wait a few more weeks at least?

Poor kids hands were FREEZING...we didn't expect quite as severe of weather as it was.

Hallie was fascinated with the snow. We would go in the warming hut for 5 mins to warm up then go back out to the"snowman" for 2 mins...repeat 10 times hah.

Our Tram back down. The weather was much worse than expected by anyone up there and it was getting really bad so they told us about an hour and half before the rides were supposed to stop that everyone had to leave the mountain now and that this was the last ride down. Scary...At the bottom we heard someone talking about the tram being broken... and our tram driver said it would be a little stop and go ride b/c there was snow on the line more than normal...who knows what really happened, but it was an adventure!

It was so fun, and hopefully it is the last snow we will see for at least a few weeks!

Pumpkin Patch

Hallie playing

My Tiny Dancer

....and no it's not Hallie

I was listening to this song earlier and Caleb started dancing...so cute! He even has good rhythm!

Praying Mantis

Caleb has a new best friend... The Praying Mantis that has been living in our slide/playhouse for the last 3 weeks.

He REALLY likes these things. Every morning Caleb runs outside to greet his praying mantis to say good morning and tell him he's so happy he's still there. One morning there were two praying mantis's...Caleb was thrilled! He held them both and talked to them for hours. Later on we went outside to "check" on his friends and found one of them eating the other! Caleb freaked out...broke down crying and was so upset. He kept saying "my praying mantis friend is being eaten by my other praying mantis friend." It was so sad to see him upset about this event so I gave him a straw and told him to go break up the fight. Caleb immediately went to work pushing the one away and making sure the other was ok. He made sure to tell the one that it wasn't nice to eat our friends and that he should be nice! Hah...Later we found out from some friends that females eat their mates after mating...oops. A few days later I found some remains...so hopefully we didn't ruin the process too much!

Eww...I can't believe he lets it crawl like this on him. Caleb say's it tickles and that his friend is talking to him when he is on his shoulder.As a result of this insane love for Praying Mantis's Caleb has now decided what he will be for Halloween and has bugged me daily about making his costume...stay tuned for pictures of that b/c I'm sure it will be made before Halloween if he stays this persistent.

P.s. If anyone knows of a store-made praying mantis costume please let me know I can't find one anywhere!