October 2011

I'm going to blame October for making me so behind on my blog.

There were a gazillion things that went on! So it ended up being like a month-long photo shoot, starting with the Pumpkin Patch.

It turns out Moscow and Pullman have lots of fun free things to do on the weekends, including the Organic Farms at Washington State University. On this particular weekend they had a Fall Fest with pumpkin picking, hay rides, apple cider, and apple picking. Of course we only did the free things: taking photos of your kid at the farm.

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A Visit

Allie, Owen, and my mom came to visit us in October. I must say it was a little stressful, I'm not used to my house being so messy all the time: air mattresses, luggage, toys everywhere, doing jewelry in my bedroom, dishes all the time. Whew! But is was worth it, we had lots of fun! We went apple picking, saw the grizzly bears, library time, played at the indoor playground, and the usual hanging out.

I found out that Bailey LOVES apples. She will chomp all around the apple then give it to me.

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Leaves

I took Bailey out for a little photo shoot in the Fall leaves, I basically just let her play while I snapped away. These are some of my favorite photos of her.

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WSU Craft Fair

I did my first craft fair here in Moscow - well actually is was Washington State University in Pullman, and it just happened to be one of the biggest one around. My friend Lyndee shared my booth with me selling her bows and baby accessories. It was a pretty good turnout over two days, and I made a connection with a cute store in Potlatch so it's in there too! My favorite part was when Bailey and Mark came to visit.

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Everything is better with kids - so I'm finding out. Especially as Bailey gets older and discovers things for the first time. She absolutely loved pumpkin carving, from digging out the seeds, to drawing faces on them and watching them glow.

Apple pie and pumpkin seeds!

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Costume #1

I invited some friends to have a little photo shoot of our kids in their costumes. Cute little Clark and Cash came, and Emily later. You would never guess that this is the WalMart pumpkin patch!

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I think it was the next day or so that I invited friends to go apple picking too! I thought it would be fun for Bailey to get dressed up in costume #2, the chicken, and roam the orchard. The fun thing about this apple picking time (I think this was my 3rd time this month) is that they let us pick some fun Indian Corn. I love all the fun colors.

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Party

Our friends, the Nelsen's, threw a Halloween party for all their friends and our ward. It was so fun! They had contests, a photo booth, dinner, and dancing. I dressed up as the bride of Frankenstein, Bailey was a fairy, and Mark was...uhmm...a guy from "Swamp People".

All the girls! This is the best we could do for a group shot with my lens, it's two photos combined.

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Trunk-or-Treat

Our ward had a trunk-or-treat for all the kids, thank heavens. We all met at the church and opened our trunks for all the little kiddos to get their candy. Mark dressed up in a gorilla costume that he borrowed from our friend Brad. Most of the kids were scared of him and didn't want to get candy from him, Bailey however was used to it since she saw the costume in our house. The funny thing was that Brad was dressed up in a black version of the same costume, so when Bailey saw Brad a few cars down, she gladly went and sat on his lap! Silly girl! Oh, and Bailey loved grabbing handfuls of candy and putting it into her bag.

There is another story to go with these costumes.

I was walking up to my apartment after a night of shopping with the girls when I saw a man walking behind me, then he started RUNNING, I started running up my stairs and HE started running up my stairs! HE WAS RIGHT BEHIND ME, I SCREAMED and pushed open our door and yelled for Mark. Then I saw someone else in my apartment, turned around toward the door and saw a huge gorilla. Mark was the huge gorilla chasing me up the stairs, the man in our apartment was our friend babysitting Bailey. All part of Mark's scheme to scare me! It WORKED!!!

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Door and Dance

When I found out that our apartment complex had a door decorating contest for Halloween I was like, "Heck yes! I'm so going to win!" I love any kind of contest that involves dressing up or decorating.

October was pretty busy for me so I actually didn't even finish until the day before they voted, but I won first place! Thanks to the dollar store and bags from the grocery store.

The "theme" was a haunted forest so I made trees, bats, creepy eyes from egg cartons, a Grimm Reaper, ghosts from cheese cloth, glued spiders on the trees, and even made a grave yard with three shallow graves! It was pretty sweet.

One night at a girls night we all joked about doing a flash mob at a stake activity, then we actually started making up a dance. Well that didn't work out, but it did work out that we set up a flash mob at the mall and danced to Thriller on Halloween night at the mall trick-or-treat! It was so fun! We all just started dancing in the middle of the mall and everyone stopped and watched us. We had girls and guys from the ward and even students from the school. Here's a photo of some of us from the ward.

This picture makes me laugh every time! It doesn't even look like Bailey!

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Play

Of course I have to post some photos of all the fun Bailey and I have during the month. She really cracks me up sometimes.

She loved the homemade peanut butter play dough.

I think this is one is the best. It was Saturday morning and Bailey wanted her boots on, so I had to take off her pjs, then she put the bucket on her head and started dancing around. Mark and I just sat on the couch and laughed.