Another Christmas Tree Gathering Adventure

This year we went up to South Lake Tahoe to search for a Christmas Tree to cut down. We didn't have any luck finding a nice tree but we did enjoy playing in the snow.

Thanksgiving 2010

The turkey was good.......



The company was great......


And best of all was white elephant bingo....

I love to eat, eat, eat, apples and ......

Actually, apples are the one thing that Grace doesn't seem to like. Grace started eating cereal at four months (I planned to wait until 5 or 6 months but nursing just wasn't doing it). When she turned 5 months, I decided to try solids and Grace couldn't have been more exciting. Avocados were her first food and she now eats several vegetables. She is a great eater and when I put her in her high chair, she gets really excited and starts kicking her legs and flailing her arms until I give her food.

Halloween 2010

Halloween was so fun this year. I was determined to do more things with Hannah so we started by learning the Five Little Pumpkin poem and then we made a five little construction paper pumpkins for our window. She cut out the eyes and noses for all the pumpkins all by herself. She is so proud or our little window (I'm not sure she's going to let me take it down).


We made lots of Halloween treats. Hannah loves to roll and cut out cookies.


We also made these yummy cupcakes (there's an orange filling inside, hehe).


Pumpkin carving is Brian's favorite part of Halloween (he usually grumbles a little at first but he really likes doing it). Hannah really had fun with it this year. She cleaned out most of her pumpkin all by herself and was very specific about how she wanted it carved. Here's how it looked.


After the girls went to bed, Brian and I had fun sipping apple cider and watching the original Frankenstein and Dracula while we carved our pumpkins.

After a year of talking about it, Hannah finally got to be a giraffe (thank you Old Navy). Grace was super cute as a BYU Cheerleader. Saturday night we went to our ward's Trunk-or-Treat. We decided not to go Trick or Treating on Sunday but Hannah wore her costume and really enjoyed handing out candy and yelling, "Happy Halloween" to everyone that came to the door.