Saturday, October 31, 2009

Chili anyone?

We had a great time carrying Adalyn around at our ward's Halloween "Harvest Festival" last night. The flier on Sunday said there would be games for candy, a pie eating contest, a root beer chug-a-lug, and a chili cook-off. We had a brilliant idea on how to capitalize on this after seeing a chili pepper costume online ... which we scored for $1 on ebay! So we figured ... let's have Addy be our entry into the chili cook-off! Right when we walked in the judges said that she won for sure. No contest!

Some people enter their kids into baby pageants ... we enter ours into chili cook-offs ...


Sure she's cute now, but when she's old enough she'll be saying, "did you really do this to me?" Addy ... that's just how your parents roll. haha!


Adalyn sitting next to her competition. (Don't worry, the stove wasn't on)

Don't we look like the Swedish Chef from the Muppets? Derby der--schmorgady borg borg! (that came from Seth) By the way, you'll be interested to know that it was way cheaper to buy actual chef uniforms online than it would have been to buy a chef costume ... by about half the price!

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Our little cupcake

Here are some newborn pictures of Adalyn...10 pounds & 10 days old! (She was born during National Cupcake week--I only know this because I wanted to go get a free cupcake that day from the cupcakery, but I was in the hospital instead, haha...I guess she'll do;)









Tuesday, October 13, 2009

update

While the little one sleeps, I decided to do a quick update with a bunch of pictures...I can't believe it's already been a month! After a crazy couple of weeks our little family is finally home together and enjoying each other.

A couple hospital pictures...

The proud grandparents...

My parents came and stayed with us for 4 or 5 days after Adalyn was born. They were HUGE lifesavers! They cooked, cleaned, washed, babysat, and my dad even bought shelves and organized our garage!!! (I think he got a little bored/cabin fever) Who knew all we had to do was have a baby to get this kind of treatment? haha, maybe we should have done this sooner...

The proud papa...

The other proud grandparents...Adalyn is the first grandchild on both sides, she won't be spoiled at all!

Adalyn likes her baths...

After a week of visitors we had a couple days before we had to make a trip to Utah. Adalyn and I headed up about a week before Seth so that we could go to my cousin's wedding, and he came up later for his sister's wedding the next weekend. We saw lots of family, I threw a bridal shower for Seth's sister, and went to her beautiful wedding...needless to say, it was a busy time.

Adalyn and great-grandma B

We got to go up to the cabin for Sunday dinner for my mom's birthday. The leaves were beautiful!

She also met great-grandma A (plus tons of aunts, uncles, and cousins she didn't even know she had)



At Sharley's wedding...she happened to cry through the whole ceremony!



Uncle Stockton...

My mom (and all of our family members) hated to see us go! (ok, they hated to see the baby go) We had such a great time but it is good to be back in our own home again. I got some newborn pictures of Adalyn taken by Jessica, the same photographer that took the ones at the hospital...I will post them soon, she did a great job!