9 month Elly

 Here is our not so big 9 month old Elly. She weighs 16.3 lbs and is 26 inches tall. So in short (hee hee) she is a very petite little girl. Her height is in the 3rd percentile and her weight is in the 17th. We sure do love our little Elly bug! Her teeth are so cute...and sharp as everyone can attest to that. She also likes to use her fingernails on our faces. She loves her dad the most and I'm ok with that. She gets so excited when he comes home and prefers to be with him.

 As you can tell, she is one happy girl, when she isn't she only cries a little, but she screams and yells to let you know that she isn't happy. She's got a temper!

 We got the crib up for her and she absolutely LOVES to be in it. When I first put her in it she rolled from one end to the other giggling the whole way. What a goof!

 She likes to eat anything on the ground...bark, grass, rocks, and even sometimes dirty diapers if she can get to them. She has learned to tip the garbage can over to get to them...no worries, she hasn't been very successful with that. It's the effort that counts.

 I love that she is so photogenic and I can get really good pictures of her any day, and pretty much anytime. She must know that makes me happy :)

 If she doesn't have her binky, she's chewing on her fingers, mostly her thumb on the side, because her 3rd tooth has broken through...it's one of her eye teeth. Not the two front teeth. So now she has a fang.

 She has discovered all kinds of tastes this month...Sweet and sour mostly. Mustard was probably my favorite face.

Her facial expressions crack me up. Enough said...

Audrey's 1st concert

Audrey is in the select treble choir this year and she absolutely LOVES it! She is always singing her songs at home. She was pretty excited about wearing her very pretty dress to the concert this time too. She looks amazing in her dress and she did an excellent job singing at the concert. So proud of her and so happy that she has found something she really enjoys doing...not to mention, I absolutely LOVE going to high school choir concerts. Those kids always do an amazing job ;)

Pumpkin Harvest

I have always loved growing pumpkins. This year was especially good in the pumpkin patch. We were able to pick 30 pumpkins! Yay for lots of pumpkins! So fun for the kids and for me to be able to freeze some and make pumpkin stuff throughout the year.

Elena's Birthday

Elena turned 12 on September 27th. We had so much going on that day that we couldn't do her birthday party, so we had her party on the 1st of October. It was fun watching her open her presents and as always so fun to have family come over. Ame and her kids, Grandma and Grandpa Flores, and Mike were able to come. Poor Mike really wanted to hold Elly, but she cries whenever she looks at him. So sad! We are working on it though :) I'm glad Elena had a good birthday!

Family Time

Good times! So we have decided to do better about family time and individual time with the kids. We went over to the kids' elementary school and just had a good time playing and swinging. Good family fun. We came up with a Family Home Evening for every week for the whole year...We have them on pieces of paper and the majority of them are a free activity. We pick them out of a jar for the month so we know exactly what we are doing. It is nice to be able to know exactly what we are doing. Look at us being rock stars!

Botanical Gardens

So this was a very fun day :) There happened to be a free day at the botanical gardens...and it was a bonsai and Koi fish exhibit. So I packed the girls up, headed to Boise, and just hoped that someone would like to have a fun day with us. It was our lucky day because Grandma, Steph, and Cameron and Dillon were able to come with us and it turned into a great day of fun. Sometimes it is nice to do something fun...and luck would have it that day that it was free!! Win, win! We all enjoyed looking at the fish, and the plants.

Elly is 8 months old!!

 Miss Elizabeth is 8 months! This month she is crawling!! WAHOO!! She has learned lots of cute things that makes us smile everyday. Her personality comes out every day and as she gets older she has shown a huge love for her daddy. She loves when he comes home...she wants him and prefers him when he's home.

She has also graduated to the big girl tub. Yay for Elly!! We sure love her and all of her funny little things she does.