Fall

Here's what we were up to this fall (that didn't make it into other posts.)

Berkley attended the cutest Alice in Wonderland themed birthday party in September for her friend Delilah.  She had so much fun and loved meeting Alice.

(Side note: She loves this shirt.  She calls it her ladybug shirt and wants to wear it all the time.)

Her mad hatter hat was very popular in our house for a while. 

The girls found the party hats. 

And played with markers.

Berkley said, "Look at my picnic, Mom!  I'm having fried people!"

I had a little day date with Berkley.  This grilled cheese place even has gluten free bread. 

Putting the girls to work. 

Watching a train from the bridge on the way to preschool.  It was louder and windier than they expected. 

Ready for a sleepover at Grandma's!  (A few hours early...)

Berkley sang a solo in the primary program.  Here she is during practice the day before.

And a picture the day of. 

Peyton wanted her picture taken too. 

We finished our basement and Peyton was the first one to use the new toilet. 

Girls weekend in Park City with my Mom and sisters.  (I'm 24 weeks pregnant.)

We had a fun date night with Misty and Devin and Lindsay and Joe.  (25 weeks pregnant.)

Berkley reading to Peyton. 

My parents went on an African safari and kept texting us pictures of animals they saw.  They sent one of some little monkeys that were hanging around their camp so I sent them this one of some little monkeys that hang around my house. 

Zack and I both swore we would never own a minivan.  With baby number 3 on the way we needed a bigger vehicle so we test drove at least 5 different SUVs.  We found out that some Toyota Siennas have AWD so we agreed to at least look at it.  We were so amazed by the amount of room, auto-open doors, etc. that we ended up buying it.  It's SO convenient with kids in carseats but it definitely killed our pride a little to be minivan owners. 

We call it the swagger wagon and the kids love it because of this commercial. 

Berkley likes to do her own hair. 

We got to help celebrate Grandpa Toolson's birthday. 

I got my hair chopped off. 

We finally got a tiny skiff of snow and I couldn't keep the kids inside, they were too excited. 

I gained a small obsession with jamberry nails. 

Playing in the "snow" again.  There was only one tiny patch of it in our yard but they wanted to play in it. 

Zack is actually quite good at fingernail painting. 

One night for family home evening we made turkey hands to decorate the mantle. 

Before hanging them up, the girls did a little puppet show for us. 

For another family home evening activity we made a "thankful turkey" and each wrote things we are thankful for on the feathers. 

We went to Thanksgiving dinner at Grandma Toolson's.  Berkley brought her Indian costume from preschool and performed some songs for everyone. 

Halloween

We love Halloween at our house.  The girls were dressed in Halloween attire pretty much the whole month of October.  Berkley especially loved this outfit that matched her doll. 

 We spent an evening at "Scary Hill" and the girls loved it, especially the spooky wagon ride. 

 Glasses for the shooting game. 
We had our annual pumpkin carving night with the Morbys. 

(Which included jumping in the leaves with Grandma Lisa.)

I'm fairly certain that for every piece of candy that made it onto Peyton's cookie, at least five made it into her mouth. 

And here are the finished masterpieces. 

On Halloween Day we went to Black Island Farms for Berkley's preschool field trip.  The girls always have a blast there. 

The slides are always a big hit. 

Dani and Berkley. 

Everyone but me went down this giant bumpy slide.  (At 27 weeks pregnant it just didn't sound fun/comfortable.)

Halloween was quite warm this year but it was SO windy on the farm and there was so much dust blowing!  That didn't keep the girls from riding the cow train though... Or Zack. 

Then the girls thought it would be fun to have corn in all their crevices. 

Check out those smiles. 

We even went on a wagon ride around the farm, tasted their fresh cabbage, and picked out our own pumpkins to take home. 

Then it was costume time.  Peyton chose to be Cinderella and Berkley wanted to be an Elsa butterfly (which is basically just Elsa with wings.)

A silly face and a curtsey. 

Sassy princess poses. 

 How many two-year olds do you know who can pull off a bun like that? 

Berkley was super excited about her white Elsa hair. 

Peyton has that princess smile down. 

After our ward trunk-or-treat we went down to surprise Grandma Leann and trick-or-treated around her neighborhood. 

This is as crazy as my costuming got.  It's too bad we didn't get a picture of Zack's strange ensemble.  He was going for "white trash" but most people thought he was "Weird Al." 

And here's a video of Peyton singing "Mean Old Witch."