Thanksgiving Vacation Trip to Utah

Started off on the Plane....

 She drove the people behind us nuts but they were good sports and claimed they didn't mind at all and played with Alyzah for hours.

I only took pics at two events of the trip so here they are...

Event #1: Aunt Kortney bought the kids little firework confetti poppers.....

Brinley trying to hold Tayson and Lyzah's hands

 Alyzah's outta there!

 Mr. Handsome

 My beautiful little niece Brinley! I love this photo of her.

 Brinley's Uncle-to-be; Congratulations on the engagement Kortney!!

 Tayson eating the fireworks (pretend like you didn't see this one Kasey; I am a good babysitter, promise! :)

 My favorite photo ever...eric told them to kiss and they did!!

  The two cuties holding hands playing in the yard on their own. (and no they were actually NOT even doing Ring Around the Rosy here)

 Playing together in Dad's House

 'Uncle' Dane teasing Alyzah with his Donald Duck voices.

Event #1: Hanging out w/ Maico, Masen, and Blain!

 Masen is such a happy giggly little boy who loves to hug people

 The BOYS!

 Kisses for Daddy.

 Maico is spinning on this toy standing up and wiped out like 10 times. :)

 Alyzah's first time playing w/ a balloon.

 Me and Blain took the kids to Mickey D's. Playing on the playground (forgot to take camera out till we were leaving). The kids were soooo much fun here! Maico sent some kid flying though when the kid hit Masen...it was pretty funny. And he stood next to Masen to 'guard' him incase the kid came back too!

 Maico was 'teasing' Alyzah having fun the whole ride home and Alyzah thought it was really funny and kept giggling.

 He kept touching the back of her head and she'd laugh. But then she decided to get him back...

 By licking his finger every time he brought it near so he couldn't reach the back of her head! Those two had a lot of fun together.

 And there is sweet little Mason just playing on his own.

And Shhhhh nobody tell Betty that we let the kids eat chicken nuggets, apple fries, tons of french fries, an entire chocolate chip cookie each (maybe 2 for Maico! HA), and soda (Maico asked for it so what could we do say no!)  :) :) :)

THANKS FOR HAVING US ALL DAD!! It was a lot of fun and Alyzah loved hanging out with her Grandpa!

Bath and Lettuce Mess

Bathtime Fun

Alyzah started screaming one day so I ran into the kitchen to find this....

 Somehow she got into the fridge, into my lettuce, and I'm assuming was having a hay-day until she tasted the 'yummy' lettuce at which time she started screaming. She was very mad that I got my camera out instead of saving her from the big bad lettuce.

Jungle Book

Alyzah is obsessed with the Jungle Book. This ugly brown chair is 'her' chair and no one else is allowed to sit on it. She goes crazy when the elephants come on.

Oh and I must say it's kinda embarrassing to post that ugly turquoise TV Stand from before I got around to refinishing it...it now looks like this and cost a total of $12 with everything...

Photo from 16 months old

If you're happy and you know it clap your hands...

My first crafts....ever

So everyone already knows I am NOT creative...at all. And I am DEFINITELY NOT crafty. Here are the crafts Alyzah and I did yesterday and today. I know they are simple and they are not perfect but wow am I excited about them...I did it!

Alyzah's Felt Board (which she hates so far HA) - stole this Idea from KC although i'm sure hers is 50 million times cuter (she's the creative one in the fam)

Photo Holder thing for Alyzah's bedroom wall

Mistakes: Covering the wrong side of the cardboard with felt so you could see writing from the box through it and started over, walked out of the room for 30 seconds come back to find Alyzah writing with a yellow highlighter all over the finished felt board, photo holder- not pulling the fabric tight enough. But hey this was a lot of fun. Maybe I'll even keep trying...

Halloween Party

We went to a ward Halloween party tonight. Alyzah was a Tiger and she loved it. She chased everyone around "scaring" them saying 'Roar!".

I'm one of those parents who seldom to never gives Alyzah junk food or candy. Well tonight Alyzah came home with a new word in her vocabulary that she repeats over and over again...candy!
Alyzah's Dinner = chocolate chip rice krispie treat + sweet corn bread + M&M's + Skittles + Tootsie Pop
It will be a miracle if she isn't sick to her stomach tomorrow.

 Sticking her hands out like a cat to Roar.

Trunk-or-Treat

 Trying to following all the older kids around to the next cars but she couldn't keep up with them.

And then the night ended with an egg on the head and a bloody hand when a Parent jolted to the side to grab their kid and sent Lyzah flying on the concrete. All and all it was still a great night. She still thinks she is mighty powerful with how she can 'scare' everyone with her roar....i'm kinda hoping this one wears off quickly, I'm getting sick of screaming every 10 seconds like she scared me. :)

Hair

Alyzah loves to put things in her hair. Everything sticks. At least this time it was crayon wrapper shavings and not mash potatoes like last night!

Daddy's Girl

Here are some shots of Eric and Alyzah posing. Alyzah will do just about anything Eric asks her to and she likes to mimic him. Eric hates putting his shoes away so he taught Alyzah to do it for him. Every night when he gets home from work, he takes Alyzah upstairs with him while he gets dressed and when he takes his shoes off he hands them to Alyzah who carries them from the bedroom, through the bathroom, and into the closet and puts them in the shoe box.

Farm Day

Last Saturday in between General Conference, Alyzah and I left Eric to paint the house hahaha and we went to a little 'farm' down the road to visit and feed the animals. Alyzah's of course loved the animals , but I must say that her favorite thing was being pulled in the wagon. She's never rode in a wagon and definitely thought it was awesome.

I didn't get many animal pictures because I was busy protecting her from the horses that kept trying to bite her hand off every time she tried to feed the goats and sheep. There was specific food to feed the pigs, horses, goat, sheep, cats, dogs, ducks, chickens, geese, and rabbits.

And when we got home the accent wall was done being painted! Thanks Eric!

Visit with CarolAnn

CarolAnn (one of my good friends and coworkers) was up in Spokane last weekend! We went to Riverstone Park and then out to dinner. Alyzah really liked Hannah - especially at dinner when Hannah kept passing her more food!

Riding the Carousel - we never realized how fast these went till we were trying to hold squirmy 1 year olds on it!

 Alyzah running around chasing the ducks. She LOVES birds. She wanted to just step right off the drop into the water to get them so I had to keep grabbing her.

 Daddy time on the big Red Wagon slide.

 Ok so I just love this little girl...don't mind all the photos, i just couldn't figure out which ones to cut out. I could have played with Hannah (11 months) all day long, really. This smile of hers is heart-melting.

 Alyzah thought she was pretty cool that she was older and kept referring to Hannah as a 'baby' - little does she know they're only 4 months apart! They were really cute together though and shared a few hugs and lots of food. Mostly they just stared at eachother trying to figure eachother out. All of Alyzah 'friends' are boys, so I think she was delighted to have a playmate who was nice and didn't push her down and tackle her every 3 seconds.

The End.