This pic was taken before we went on our hike up to Albion Basin a couple weeks ago. She's got her adventure pants on!
"Adventure's Out There!" Love that smile! It's showing up more and more these days.
This one was before Barbara's birthday party. This is the cake I made. It's the best angel food recipe, frosted with whipped cream and garnished with strawberries. Allie wasn't a huge fan...
...but I'm proud. And it was delicious.
Allie with G-Gma Barbara on her birthday
Allie meeting Josh for the first time
The furry kids! Because they like to party, too.
I realized right before bedtime on October 24th that it was Allie's 2 month birthday. So I wanted to snap a proportion shot so I can start comparing her size as we hit these milestones. She was still pretty much asleep and not thrilled with me.
Now she's happy in tucked in her our bed :)
Last Friday morning, we decided to take Allie to a pumpkin patch and get some pumpkins. She's super excited!
Unfortunately, she wasn't excited when she saw the pumpkin patch charged $18 for her parents to get in and the pumpkins were tiny. So instead, we drove out to a farm in South Jordan.
...but those pumpkins were also crappy. They'd been sitting on the ground too long and the moisture was rotting most of them. Allie is not amused. Also, she's hungry. So Daddy paid for the two decent pumpkins we could find while Momma fed her in the car. I love this outfit on her. I sing her a song about her jeggings that she loves, and if she knew how to laugh, she would be laughing, because she makes the facial expression for laughter. Just no sound comes out.
Here we are with Daddy and Allie on her activity mat that we got from Steph and Josh! She likes the dashboard, which has a crinkly noise like cellophane wrap. Daddy plays too!
Just so happy and easy-going!
This past Sunday, Allie and I met Uncle John for lunch at Chili's and then decided to hike up to First Waterfall in Bells Canyon in Sandy. This was the view from the rock I sat on about a quarter of the way into the hike, where John ran back down the mountain to use the restroom. It was pretty and I got to watch AirMed circle the canyon and then land in that neighborhood. Some dude fell and broke his leg on the trail and had to be lifted out. We could see the command post set up with a bunch of emergency response vehicles waiting. They looked pretty bored. We decided being S&R must be one of the most physically strenuous jobs, because you basically have to speed hike off the trail and then bring down someone without killing yourself or them. I found out later that night that it was a busy day for S&R: seven people had to be rescued across the Wasatch Front. Dummies. It was nice and warm out with a breeze that was blowing Allie's hair all around. She didn't quite know how to feel about that.
Here we are waiting for John.
And we continued on! We made it to the reservoir, but then took the wrong trail. So we never actually made it to First Waterfall, but the scenery was nice, the company even better, and it felt good to get some exercise.
I've also started recording video of Allie. Having had so many family members pass on, I'm grateful that my own family did record a bunch of things, because then they're never really gone. Pictures are one thing, but through home movies I can now show my daughter what some of my departed loved ones were really like. So here is Allie, with her first diaper change of the day. She is always very smiley at this time, because she's well rested and happy to see her parents and get fresh panties on.
Thursday we'll have a more thorough update, it being Halloween and Allie's 2 month checkup. Can't wait to show you her costume!
I couldn't figure out if Allie was upset about the mushiness of the pumpkins or that her parents were too cheap to take her into the high end $18 pumpkin patch. Either way, it did allow us to get her first crying shot!
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