August Photo Dump

Drinking pink milk and she wanted me to take a picture of her mini mustache with our neighbor Claire. A Saturday run in the mountain by our house.
Froyo date with my girl.



































The neighborhood gang of kids. She likes to sit on the counter while I do my makeup and steal lipstick and such.
She earned this microphone and brought it to a baseball game and was so cute singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game".

Harvest Moon Hurrah

A nearby town had a little free fall festival that Brooklyn and I enjoyed.  They had hayrides with a singers and guitar players performing, clowns making balloon creations, bands, food trucks, and arts and crafts for the kiddos.
My favorite part was seeing Brooklyn dancing around in her princess dress to one of the bands and her asking me to dance with her (of course I wouldn't turn that down).

Chalk the Block

One weekend we headed to Provo for their annual Chalk the Block event. There is a similar event in Boise so I was happy to find this here! I am amazed by all of the talent.

Thomas' White Coat Ceremony

In September Thomas had his white coat ceremony. Basically it shows that you are starting your dedication to serving others. They are starting to see mock patients at school so it seems to correspond with that as well. Kind of like a commencement ceremony but at the beginning of his second semester. Also, I haven't posted this on the blog yet but we got word back on a scholarship Thomas applied for through the National Health Service Corps and... HE GOT IT!!!! This is such a relief because it means all of his tuition, books, and school expenses will be paid for (which would have amounted to over $100,000!) Plus they give us a living stipend each month that will basically cover our rent. Such an honor and a blessing! In return he commits to serving two years in an under served area or with an under served population after graduation. We feel like we won the lottery!!!

Raspberry Picking

A friend from church invited us to go to a u-pick raspberry patch with her and her daughter. They had the cutest little buckets for the kiddos and beyond the fence there were deer.  Brooklyn even sneakily fed the deer some raspberries.  A bucket of raspberries was gone in a matter of days.  Yum!

Soccer for Brooklyn

I signed Brooklyn up for soccer for the month of September.  The session was twice a week for 45 minutes all month long.
Brooklyn's fave part was the cheer at the end of each practice.  She learned some new skills that she worked hard to develop.  The last practice they scrimmaged in teams and Brooklyn cried most of the game.  I think all the encouraging parents scared her and she didn't like it when someone took the ball from her.  She did score the very first goal and cried through that as well.
All's well that ends well though because as the last practice finished they each got a medal and a certificate and had a big cheer and she was all smiles for that. I asked her what her favorite part of soccer was and she said when they got fruit snacks.  Lol!
I signed her up for dance after that and she is in LOVE! I think we found her thing.

September Photo Dump

I found a really great eyebrow lady! She is helping me grow out my brows a bit and this time she helped show me how to fill them in and I loved how the looked. Thomas and I went to a sports bar where the BSU alumni was hosting a tailgating party when they were playing BYU here in Provo.  We had a blast hanging out there and watching the game.
We went on a little paved trail hike with my friend Lauren and her little ones.  The kids of my friends growing up become friends with my child.
Bri in our ward is just the cutest and craftiest.  She set up a fun little teddy bear picnic play date at the park.  Everyone brought a stuffed animal and she had a little bear hunt and honeycomb/teddy graham snack for them. And Brooklyn is just so cute and cuddly in her jammies. And her dolly is her most prized possession.