Brielle is 6 months!

Today Brielle is 6 months old. I cannot believe how fast time is flying by. She is such a great baby.

So some new things...we haven't measured her yet-her appt isn't until the 10th so we'll see soon. But as of last night, she's officially mobile. She isn't crawling per say but does the inch worm which is hilarious to watch. She gets so excited over things in front of her now and goes crazy trying to reach for something in front of her. She's interested in table food and watches intently as we eat. She had her first french fry about a month ago and she loved it. We've attempted baby food and just like all my other babies, doesn't like it. So we'll have to see what happens.

She is a great sleeper. She is now sleeping all night and even sleeps in till about 8. I wish my other kids would take after her :)

She has yet to laugh...I know weird right? I don't get it. She wants to and loves to talk and squeal but do anything to tickle her or make her 'laugh', she just gets a huge smile on her face like she might...and nothing comes out.

She makes this grunting noise all the time now that sounds like she's constipated. Its hilarious because people that don't know just think she's making a diaper all the time..when nope that's just her.

She's very close to fully sitting up by herself. She just still gets too excited at times and falls over but she's almost there. She loves her siblings and they love her so much. Brecklynn especially loves Brielle. Almost too much at times. We will find Brecklynn in Brielle's crib in the morning or after naps a lot. She's just talking to her and 'keeping her happy'. Very cute.

So she's still an amazing baby. We are so lucky. I think back to now 3 months ago to where she was and how she cried all the time etc. and can't believe how she is now. I love her so much.

Here's some fun pics of her at Halloween. Still as happy as ever!

Halloween Night!

Here are some pics from Halloween night. We didn't go trick-or-treating house to house this year. We just hit family members houses. Kids still had fun. Brecklynn however was in rare form so I got no pictures of her in her costume. I am glad I got what I did from the Halloween parties.

See...there is Brecklynn as happy as can be!

With Great Grandma Dowdle

With GG

And finally with Aunt Tesia

This past week Tesia asked me to take some pics of her and her roommate. So I took advantage of the moment and grabbed some of the kids. Nothing great but still fun. I am hoping to get their Christmas pics done sometime this next week if the weather permits.

Halloween Parties

This year-since we are finally in our house and have space, we decided to host a Halloween Party for some close friends. It was a lot of fun and I had a blast putting it on. Whitney Romney co-hosted it with me and helped plan and put it all together. It was fun having someone else get as excited as I do about these kinds of things.

We decided to hold it Saturday when our ward Trunk-or-treat was supposed to be. So we planned it for 4:30 to 6:00 with a potluck style dinner and some games for the kids.

Here's sweet Brielle playing in the grass. She wants to crawl so bad. She's so close. She just can't seem to figure out how to make her hands move forward. I give it not too much longer though and she'll be a crawling machine.

Here's the other cuties all dressed up. They were so excited for the party.

As part of the fun, Whitney found an amazing deal on a jump house in town. We had to get it. It was worth every bit of it. The kids LOVED it!

It was a huge jump house too...

Here's the set up outside. We scrambled to get tables for 40 adults but the funny things is, none were ever used :) You live and learn.

We had fun making these juice boxes for each kid. Took time but they turned out pretty cute.

Our first guests....Chace and Rachel. Yep that's Chace. Hard to tell huh? I couldn't stop laughing at him.

Here's a couple other guys that dressed up, McKay and Michael.

Captain America enjoying his mummy juice

We are planning on doing this again next year as an annual party but we'll open it up to anyone and everyone probably. We had 15 families confirm and I think we counted on maybe 7 that came so it will just be easier to not have formal invites and just let everyone come. We learned a lot from our first year :0 So next year should be much better-

This year for the preschool Halloween party- it went so much better than last year. We did have the same ol' wind issue but we survived ;) The kids had a blast and it was a lot of fun. I had 4 parents come this year to host a game or craft and it was perfect.

This was one of my kids with his mom and sibling. So stink'n cute. I couldn't resist sharing.

Then of course we had them all sing their Halloween songs for everyone.

Pumpkins

This year I took the easy way out of pumpkin carving and decided to do it with Mr. Potato head parts. Cambree went to a volleyball game with her Aunt Tesia so I took the time with Ridge and Brecklynn to decorate their pumpkins. It was a lot of fun and they turned out super cute.

Church

This past Sunday we enjoyed a much cooler day and that meant we could break out the leg gins and cute sweater dresses. So I had to take a quick second to capture the cuteness :)

Halloween and life lately!

Halloween is here...I am so excited. I love the start of this time of the year. Its finally starting to cool off and I love all the holidays that come with it as well.

My mom asked to take the kids for a couple days over Fair Day break. I took full advantage of the break to get some projects done that I've had my eye on. I love them. I still feel like the sign needs something else so we'll see. But I think it just adds to the overall feel of this time of year.

I actually decorated just before conference weekend but just never got around to posting or even taking any pictures. I still can't believe all these things fit into my other house last year. Its so fun finding all these new places for things during the holidays!

We had some exciting things happen-WE HAVE GRASS!! This was taken a couple days ago so it looks even better now but I cannot tell you how happy I am to see greenery outside. The kids love it too! We haven't been able to step on it yet and the kids ask several times a day to see if they can step on it yet but hopefully soon.

The kids have been so funny lately. Cambree is reading so good now and loves to read to her siblings...even Brielle. I just loved this. I came in from my room to find this scene and had to take a picture of this sweet moment.

For preschool each kid had to decorate pumpkins for class. Ridge was very proud of his.

All the kids showing off their pumpkins in preschool

I just love this time of year and all the fun it brings. So there will be more pictures soon I'm sure!!