"I'm a Big Girl Now!!"

At least that's what Aspyn would say if she would talk. She has had a lot of changes in the past few weeks. She is out of her high chair and in a booster seat. And last weekend we switched her crib into her toddler bed. It was a rough first night but she is doing much better now and loves that she can get on and off her bed by herself. Here is a before and after of her room.

BEFORE

AFTER

18 Month Pictures!!

Thank you Tiffany!! She took these pictures for us when we were down in October!! I took her in for her 18 month check-up today and here are her stats Weight: 20 lbs 15.5 oz. (10 percentile) Height: 32 1/4 inches (75 percentile). She is still tall and skinny!! She went to nursery a couple of weeks ago and she loves it and it's nice for Josh to be able to listen in class now. Here is our 18 month old!!

Pumpkins and Halloween

Okay, so I am really late in posting this but I still want to do it so here it is. In North Logan every year they have something called the pumpkin walk. People put together a scene using only pumpkins or other kinds of squash. Here are a few pictures from that night.

Noah's Ark

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir

A pond and waterfall coming out of the pumpkin.

They had a whole bunch of these cut outs to take pictures in. Here is Aspyn as Winnie the Pooh.

Aspyn as Snow White.

Aspyn sitting on Clifford the Big Red Dog.

Aspyn and Daddy inside a pumpkin.
The day before Halloween is when we carved our pumpkin. Aspyn was interested for about 2 minutes and then she was off doing other things so it ended up being Josh's project while I made sure Aspyn stayed out of trouble. Here are a couple of pictures from that night.

Aspyn one of the only times she was at the table to watch.

The finished product.
On Halloween we went to our wards Trunk-or-Treat. Aspyn wasn't quite sure at first and someone with a Fred Flintstones mask really scared her but by the end she was loving it and knew that she was suppose to reach in the bowl, get a piece of candy, and put it in her pumpkin.

Standing by our trunk.

Getting ready to go around and get candy.

This is what she did after we got home. Sat and tried to eat all of her candy. She got really mad when we took it away.

Our Little Snitch

The other day I made bread. Josh was washing the dishes and Aspyn has to help with everything so she was up on a chair by the sink. The bread was on the counter under a dish cloth while it cooled. I was clearing the table and looked over to see Aspyn eating bread. I thought that she had just gotten some crumbs off the counter but saw that it was much bigger than crumbs. Then I saw this...

She had just had a whole piece of bread but I guess she wasn't done yet. And the funny thing was that she would take a little bit and then cover it back up so that we couldn't see the chunk missing. She's too smart for her own good.

Fall Break!!

For fall break we went down to Utah County and had lots of fun. We spent time with Josh's family who all came into town and we took family pictures. Then Tiffany brought all her fun props and backgrounds and took lots of fun pictures that I will post as soon as I get them. Then while Josh was hunting with his dad and brothers I took Aspyn down to see my sister Jerilee and all her animals. She was in heaven there and I am pretty sure she would be totally fine if I had left her there. So here are some pictures of all the fun we had.

There was only one baby swing and so they had to share but they really didn't mind at all.

They had so much fun together.

Feeding the ducks. It was Aspyn's first time and she didn't quite get it, she kept eating the bread instead of throwing it to the ducks. Kind of a hard concept to get I guess.

I'm not sure who was more willing to pose for this picture but my guess is Aspyn.
She really likes to pick up rocks and sticks but unfortunately it wasn't rocks or sticks on the ground here.

Petting the horses, a dream come true.

She has the best face in this picture. She loved this dog and chased him everywhere.
She really wanted to go and pet this cow but it didn't really like Aspyn and she was drinking so I figured it probably wasn't a good idea to sneak up on her. Aspyn didn't like me taking her away.

None of the cows really liked her and kept mooing at her to get away but Aspyn just loved it all the more when they mooed.

Her first experience on a tramp and she wasn't too sure about it.

Here is the dog and cat which kept trying to hide from Aspyn.

By the end she loved the tramp and kept wanting to get on.

We Have Hair!!

So, when Josh was doing homework last night Aspyn and I (okay, it was mainly me) decided to experiment with her hair and it didn't turn out too bad.

Here is the back view (it was actually really hard to get her to turn for me). It actually is really cute and make her look so much older!

Here is the side view and here you can see where she doesn't have much hair. That would be on the sides and the front. But it still works so I think that we will keep doing it.

Top of Utah Marathon!!

Holy Cow!! Josh ran a Marathon!! It's amazing and I am still very impressed! He ran the Top of Utah Marathon on Saturday Morning. His time: 4 hours and 10 minutes!! We waited for him at mile 25 and half and at the finish line, just because of transportation issues we weren't able to go and see him any other time during the race. So here are the pictures we got of him.

This was at the end of the race, you can't even tell that he's tired!!

Random Things!!

Here is just a couple of random things from the last couple of weeks. The first is some babysitting that I did for a couple in our ward that just had a baby, they have twin girls that are just a little bit older then Aspyn and she loved playing with them. And yes they are twins even though they don't look like it.

Here they are all reading books. Excuse the mess in the background, it's hard to keep things clean with three toddlers running around.

They found a great place to play underneath the piano. They thought it was great!

Here is Aspyn "helping" Daddy with his homework. She doesn't like to be left out of anything and has to be up at the table if you are. So we just gave her some crayons and coloring books and she was happy sitting with Daddy.

Miss Independent

Aspyn is getting so big. She has such a personality and loves to show her independence. She won't let us feed her anymore, she has to feed herself no matter what it is. Here she is eating dinner the other night. She got really messy as you can see.

She also knows how to get into everything!! There isn't very many places anymore that we can put things anymore that she can't get too. Yesterday we went to the bank and they gave her some smarties. I had been giving her one at a time and she was loving them. I put them on top of my laptop and left the room to start some laundry and since she was watching one of her Baby Einstein movies she didn't follow me. I came back and found this.

She climbed up on to her toy basket and got to the smarties. She was standing there watching her movie and eating her smarties.

Camping!!

We went camping last weekend and had lots of fun. Here are some of the pictures that we remembered to take while we were having fun.Here is Daddy carving us some roasting sticks after we realized we forgot our grill.

Here is Mommy and Aspyn roasting the hot dogs over the fire.

If you look really closely you can see how dirty her face is. She would fall down and then take the dirt from her hands and rub it on her face. I think she really liked that.

Can you see how puffed up her cheeks are? (Stayed tuned to the next picture to see what was in her mouth).

That's right, a big marshmallow. I gave one to her while we were roasting them and she decided the shoving the whole thing in her mouth was the easy way to eat them.

The next morning. She looks really happy for how much sleep she got. She woke up at 1:00 and wanted to play. She loved the tent and the fact that Mommy and Daddy were sleeping next to her.

Right next to our campsite was this bridge over the Logan River. Since Aspyn loves water so much (see previous post) this was her favorite thing to do.

Daddy thought it would be fun to take her shoes and socks off and put her feet in the water.

It was just a little too cold for Aspyn.

Since she was teething she wasn't all that happy so while Daddy cleaned up camp Aspyn pretended to drive home. Here she is shifting...

and here she is steering.