Two Days to Halloween!

Two days before Halloween and we are getting ready for much fun on this terrifying and spooky holiday. We have been making treats for the some of our friends and neighbors and we have been getting the coldron filled with delicous treats for the trick and treaters. Adalines is looking forward to getting into to her super cute tiger outfit and mommy and daddy are looking forward to going trick or treating again!

Adaline has been busy growing up...she can now sit on her own completely as well as leap frog to where she would like to go. She can make it across the room in about two seconds flat. Mommy and daddy are in trouble because we still think she can not get into things but she is proving us wrong everyday.
 

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We had a fun time taking her picture...here she is dressed in a fun Halloween outfit that mommy pick up last Halloween 75% off. Doesn't she look cute in it.

We have been reading "Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Vern and Adaline loves to be read to. We try to read every day and we are just getting to the part where Professor Lindenbrook is getting ready to decend down into the volcanic pit. Once we finish the book then Little Girl and I will be watching the movie to see it on the big screen.

 

Mommy has been working on Personal Progress and so Adaline is helping by reading the scriptures with me. We are reading about 13 pages a day. We are trying to finish the Book of Mormon by the end of November so that I can finish off my Young Women's Recognition requires before Christmas. I have really enjoyed developing more spiritual gifts that our Heavenly Father so readily gives us. I have been trying to be more faithful in the morning and evening prayers and my scripture study and I am amazed by how that has affected my choices throughout the day. Often times I find that I have enough time to get everything done when I put the Lord first. I have also love reading the For Strength of Youth. There are so many gems in that wonderful guideline for the youth. I want to live by its principles and make sure that all my children have a great foundation of gospel truths as the move forward into the difficult but wonderful years of pre-teen and teenager.

Cory is doing better from his accident. He has been going to the chiropractor to get his neck and back in order. We have been working on getting things settled with the insurance agency and Cory will begin work on Betty this evening to get her road worthy again. We are grateful for Heavenly Father's tender mercies in letting Cory and the other driver not receive terrible injuries.

Though Cory would like to not have to fit Betty, he is an amazing mechanic and will do everything we need to get her road worthy again.

Adaline is such a ham sometimes. She is really fun to watch as she figures things out and explores the world around her.

She is so darling!

 Adaline and Daddy - she really loves to take hold of your face and put it where she wants it!

Daddy and Little Girl - the Fantastic Duo

 Each day Adaline takes her naps in her bassinett....yes she is still in her bassinett but I might have to move down into the playpin this week because she is starting to reach for things outside of the bassinett and we don't want to her fall.

As you can see she does not let her binky go very far.... here she is sleeping on top of it. You can just see it poking out from under her shoulder!

7 Month's Old, Car Accident, and Corn Maze what a week!

 Adaline is 7 months old today. She is growing everyday but little by little. She has had a few tough night and mommy and her have been a little tired and cranky but over all she is doing really well.

 So photogenic....she get's it from her daddy

 So cute

 

 That look is going to knock out the boys...what is daddy going to do?

 Having some fun with mommy

 Adaline is starting to get the crawling thing down....watch the sequence

 Up on the tip toes

 "What you looking at, mommy?"

 Crawling.... well almost mostly froggy leaping to get where she wants to go.

 Still loving the tip toe thing!

 Say hello to Adaline Von Trap... the hills are alive with the sound of Addi.. Aaaaa aaaaaa aaaaahhhh

 

"Wow, crawling is exhausting, mommy!"

 Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa Ross

They are so much fun and Adaline loves to see them

 Sleeping with her binky....she does not let it go very far

Mommy, you are so silly...what is that on my head?

 Little girl snuggled up to mommy.

 Mommy loves her little girl

 Daddy and his little girl

Do you see where she gets her good looks?

Hey, look. I'm taller then my daddy!

 Bath time... so many toys and so little time

 On Saturday, October 13, Cory was in a slight accident in Orem coming home from work. Unfortunately he was coming home in post BYU game traffic and got hit from behind. The other drivers car was total and "Betty, the Buick" look just fine and we thought she would get fixed but we heard today from the insurance company the Betty is getting totaled out. We are going to buy her back and fix her up a little and get her road worthy again.

 Luckily Cory was not hurt badly but he has gone to the doctor and chiropractor a few times to make sure that he is 100% ok from the accident.

 For Young Womens we went to the Hee Haw Corn Maze in Pleasant Grove, UT. We all had a really great time and as you can see we had a really good turn out of girls to the activity.. We even had some non-members come and enjoy the fun.

 

Here are the fearless leaders freezing in the Corn Maze

From Right (Aubrey Hardman, Kimberlie Kerswell, Tami Christian, and Ruth Kellersberger) The only one missing was Mary Barney, who got to go to Disney Land with her family for the week.

Here is Adaline all decked out in Halloween Finery. We are having a great time getting ready for the spooky holiday. Adaline is getting ready for her debut in her super cute outfit which you will see next week

The Blake Family Visit - Conference Weekend

 The Blake Family came to see us in Utah!  Well, at least Cody, Bridgette, and Brindy came to see us for October Conference Weekend 2012. We loved having them here. Even though were not here long we loved every minute we got to spend with them. We ate at the Red Iguana and we loved the special sauce on the enchiladas. We were sad to see them go Sunday but we know that we will get to see them in a few months at Thanksgiving. 

 
 Brindy played with Adaline and they had a great time together. I can see that Brindy is an amazing older sister because she was so good with Adaline. Adaline was really sad to see Brindy go Sunday and can't wait to see and play with her again.

Sunday morning we waved good bye but not without first getting a picture for memories.

Fun Pictures of the Mountains