Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving we spent it in Santa Barbara, as usual, the only difference was it was the first time at Grandma's house without her :(. But I'm excited to see her at Christmas. Holly pretty much cooked everything, myself and her mom-in-law brought a couple sides. It turned out really relaxing and low key...no craziness in the kitchen ;). Holly decorated the table really simple but cute and all the food was soooo delicious. She made my favorite pies, Pumpkin Chiffon mmmmmm yummy (good thing I told her to make 2, cause then I pretty much ate one to myself, so much for losing weight during the holidays).
The next day we took our leftovers with us to the Santa Barbara Zoo, Kelsey had tons of fun seeing the animals. I love that zoo, so quaint and beautiful.
And a couple photo ops with Brooklyn and Logan, they are so cute together.
Brooklyn has turned out to be so similar to Kelsey as a baby, she is so smiley. I like that I have really smiley babies! :) Must be cause mom and dad are so happy (cheesy, I know).
Justin, you made it on my blog, arent you happy :). Even I made it on my own blog. Don't you love when you are always the one taking pics but are never in the photos. I made someone take a pic of me with Kels and Logan (oh and my dang diet coke made it in the pic too).

Brooklyn's 2 months

And she's really excited about it! Brooklyn weighs 11 lbs 3 oz, 50% (exactly what Kelsey was at 2 months) and is 23 3/4" long, 91% (only 1/2" taller then Kelsey was). Brooklyn favorites include smiling, being held upright, only sleeping in the swing or in the bed next to her mommy and taking baths. She is such a sweetheart and we love that she's interacting with us more and more each day!

This week...

The weather's been cooler, finally so we've been doing a lot more of just staying in. Actually, we are stuck at home because Kelsey is a runner and doesn't know how to behave in public. Anyway, she's been begging me to make these muffins so I decided that she should be my little helper. They were too healthy and didn't really get eaten, but it was fun.
Kelsey loves her little sister and always wants to hold her and cuddle with her and she is really very gentle and loving to her (most of the time). Here's just some cute photos I snapped.

Trick or Treating

Say "cheese"(this is the face she does when we say that...nice).

Cute little cowgirl (yes, she had two costumes, another last year purchase).

Lookin at the loot.

"Ok Kelsey look at the camera, no do a normal pose, no just be normal." Guess that's her normal. :)

Ward Halloween Party

Some pics from the ward Halloween party. Kelsey and her little friends were so cute in their little outfits, they were both Minnie Mouse's. Kelsey had so much candy her eyes were like that the whole night! And her favorite little cousin by marriage once removed, or however you want to say it (he's actually Evan's, brothers, wifes, sisters son...got that) William, she just loves him because he's so sweet to her.

Kelsey and Evan's first pumpkin carving experience...

Ya, I can't believe it either. Evan started reading directions on how to carve a pumpkin and I said what are you doing, cut the top of and scrape it out! He said "Well I've never carved a pumpkin before." Umm, what?! How could he be so deprived coming from a family of 5. I don't know if I believe that, maybe he was too young to remember. And I laughed at the pattern and the little tools that came with it because I felt like I needed to come up with the design on my own and do it by hand, but that didn't turn out so hot for me last year. This was much easier! Never going back to the ol' kitchen knife for carving.
So, here's a look at our beautiful pumpkins. Kelsey's is the mr.pumpkin head pig one. That was a good buy last year at Walmart after Halloween sale. :) I added a bow to my skeleton and cross bones....just because. And if I could have added rhiestones, I would've.

My little cuties.