November

Yep we are at the tail end of this month and I haven't wrote once. Not much has happened besides Huntley turning from my sweet little baby girl into a sassy two year old who thinks her name is "mine." Any tips on teaching your child their own name would be greatly appreciated!

We started off the month with Huntley mastering the art of climbing out of her crib and Chris and I experiencing our first encounter of waking up to someone starting at you in the dark. Creepy. Lucky for us she now has a big girl bed that is high enough off the ground she doesn't dare climb down.

In January we are going on a cruise to Mexico. You're all jealous now right! Well don't be. One particularly blustery day I thought I'd get online to see all the fun things we could do in the nice warm weather. Of course the pool was number one until I read all children must be potty trained in order to go in the pool. We had Potty Training Boot Camp the past few days that ended with both Huntley and I in tears. I don't think it's going to happen in a month. Now our options consist of dealing with a screaming Huntley who can't go in the pool or taking her in without a diaper and hope she doesn't pee while swimming. Doesn't that make you want to tag along.

Costumes in Advance

The day we found out Huntley would be Huntley instead of Wyatt Earp my mom happened to be in Disneyland. I am extremely greatful for the invention of cell phones so I could call and let her know that she was going to have a granddaughter. Of course she was thrilled and would do what any soon to be grandma would do and went to the closest gift shop and bought her a cute little Minnie Mouse dress. I'm also greatful Disney has their sizes messed up and size 3T Huntley now finally fits into the size 12 months Minnie Dress. So now when we have a stubborn little girl who again refused to be a pumpkin princess or a bee we were able to pull out the Minnie dress and she was thrilled to put it on.Happy Halloween!

No Treats for Huntley

Last night was our ward Trunk-or-Treat and Huntley was supposed to be a gorgeous pumpkin princess.When we tried to get her in her costume we discovered she didn't want to be a pumpkin princess which left us scrambling to find a costume at the last minute and what better to use than duck tape of course.

Originally I'd bought black pants and a shirt to wear under her costume so we figured three stripes of yellow duck tape and voila she's a bee.

Apparently having your parents try and wrap duck tape around you is traumatic so we ended up enjoying cereal rather than giving out the $20 worth of candy I had bought. Now we are extra prepared for the trick'or'treaters that don't come to our house and I'll probably be able to document myself growing larger each week.

Pumpkins

Sometimes I wonder about traditions and where they came from. I'm sure there is some fascinating story behind jack'o'lanterns and I'm sure one day I probably heard it in elementary school but for now I think the whole reason behind pumpkins was so people could have a nice prop to take pictures with in the fall.


I just wish my pumpkin pictures included this as my pumpkin patch. I'd say someday but I don't think fireman make that kind of money.
Instead I'll just be glad there are crazy people like this so someday Chris will get a job!

Food Storage

The past month we've been spending a lot of time canning, freezing, drying to get ready for the winter. Poor Chris isn't a big fan of celebrating "corn day" or substitue any fruit or vegetable of your choice and decided we'd spend this weekend doing "food storage" his style.

Advantages of doing food storage Chris's way are getting to see the mountains freshly frosted in all their fall glory.

Disadvantages of his way are almost falling asleep standing while enjoying the view because he starts food storage day at 2:30 in the morning.

Winning advantage of Chris's food storage methods: One day fills the whole freezer plus some instead of one shelf of the pantry!

2

It's been 2 whole months since I last wrote on this thing! In honor of those 2 months I'm devoting a post to the number 2 and the best way to start it off would be by showing this little lady who turned 2 years old! In honor of Huntley's birthday we had 2 special visitors spend 2 hours on a plane to come celebrate with us. We love when they come to stay and wish it would happen more often.

Since our Xterra was stolen Chris bought this huge 250 (that I'm still way too scared to drive) and now we've been able to start using our camper again. We've went camping twice to Hoop Lake in search of the elusive moose.

We had a lot of fun in August taking advantage of 2 dollar Tuesdays at Thanksgiving Point. We went twice, first to the farm with cousins and the next week Huntley and I spent a fun evening walking around the gardens with the Gonzales's.

Last but not least we have to show the 2 makeover pictures below. We ran the Dirty Dash with our other fellow Great Googely Moogilies and way 2 much fun.

Yes mud is still coming out of Chris's ears!

For Real!!!

This is our neighborhood:

This is our house (well not our house but the house we live in the basement of):

This is where we parked our car:
Key word here is "parked." As in past tense and no longer happening. If you get what I'm saying my car is gone, missing, STOLEN!!! I know that cars get stolen but I always thought that was just something that happens in the movies and honestly couldn't believe it had really happened. Neither could Chris as he was riding around the neighborhood on his bike wondering where it went, but yes it is gone and may never be seen again by us. Which I'm actually hoping for after the police officer told us it was more than likely being used to smuggle drugs, who wants to drive their child around in a car that was once full of meth!

You can imagine the pitty party I've been throwing for myself today, yeah it was big. Not necessarily for the car but the items in the car, Huntley's car seat, Chris's textbooks, fishing rods, and our video camera that I've neglected uploading the videos off of from Huntley's first steps on. Right at the moment I was feeling most sorry for myself a coworker came to my office. I immediatley thought of the trial he has been dealing with of the recent loss of his daughter and realized my simple trial of a stolen car really wasn't all that bad. I may be carless and can't watch videos of Huntley as a baby but at least I still can watch Huntley in person.