Photo Mash Up

 There are always a hodgepodge of photos leftover that have no rhyme or reason, but capture the sweet and silly sides of our baby.

 Wishing on her first dandelion

 We planted two trees in our barren yard. I also planted tulips that I hope show up come spring. 

 Sophie and I went on an adventure and walked all the way to "downtown" Kuna. It took about forty minutes each way and we played at the one park in town. 

 Last weekend we took family photos. The week before was spent shopping every day for coordinating outfits and texting pictures to our photographer. It was extremely stressful and even taking the photos makes me worried that we won't have one picture of all of us smiling and looking at the camera. {I tell you Sophie will sit still for nothing!} There was lots of running after Sophie, jumping out of the frame, and tricking Sophie into smiling and looking at the camera. At one point I got her to stand still while I sang songs from Frozen very poorly and onlookers passed by. Embarrassing, yes, but it worked. I ended up loving our outfits, our photographer, and our location, so now we are dying to see them. The worst thing that happened was Sophie smacking her face with her binky on the way there hard enough to make her gums bleed. *Sigh*

 After photos ice cream treat 

Babysitting

I've started watching two little kids down the street one day a week. They have a little girl who is 14 months and a two month old boy. Sophie loves going over there and for the most part Sophie and Tessa have fun together. Sometimes things look like this:

But sometimes things look like this: 

And this guy is pretty chill. I have a feeling that we are going to be good buddies. 

Fall Fun-tivities!

Daniel had two running weekends back-to-back in September. Needless to say he was little gimpy for two weeks. Both events were really cool. One was up in the foothills and the other was through downtown Boise. 

 The nice part of living out in the country is that just down the road is a big farm with a big red barn that also has a pumpkin patch, corn maze, petting farm, etc etc. We headed down there one Saturday and Sophie had a blast. The problem with Sophie having a blast is that she also cries about every activity when it ends. There were lots of tears on the hay ride as she screamed, "Buh-bye pummmkin!" Such mean parents we are. And that kid moves so much I couldn't get a single cute picture of her just chilling in the pumpkin patch or sitting on a bale of hay. That's our life right now, constant running and chasing.

 Then we threw a Halloween party with some friends. We did it at their house with lots of food and pumpkin carving. I didn't get a lot of pictures, but it was a fun night. Lots of kids like usual so there was lots of craziness as well.

 Sophie's face after touching inside the pumpkin.

I tried a fancy technique of drilling whole holes into my pumpkin. Some others tried it with more success. I apparently didn't make enough holes or make them large enough because it didn't really light up. I'll have to work on that.