October Photo Dump

This was the inspiration for Thomas' costume this year.

It was so nice training for a half this time of year. I had lots of beautiful long runs and a wonderful training buddy.

At one point during the month we took the childproof knobs off of Brooklyn's doors.  Big mistake.  She was in our room almost every morning around 5am.  Needless to say those went back on.  This is a pic she took with my phone at one of those 5am mornings.

Brooklyn really wanted to get a chapter book from the library and she was obsessed with pretending to read it.

Dress up is an everyday occurrence at our house and a lot of times you will see a little princess tagging along with me for errands.

One weekend we went over to Lauren's grandparents house to have a little tailgating party and watch the BYU game. Brooklyn was our photographer that night.

There is a park about a mile from our house that I will sometimes jog to with Brooklyn in the stroller and then do a little track workout while Brooklyn plays, runs around, or rides her trike. It's so cute when she wants to run with me. When she gets tired she will stop and then cheer for me saying "Go Mama!". This particular day she wanted to wear a dress over her pajama pants and her fairy wings.

She loves these little toys even when we don't have quarters to make it go.

Thomas' school had lots of fun activities for Halloween.

Brooklyn is becoming Miss Independent. She get's dressed by herself now and is even taking her dishes to the sink to rinse them off. Totally self motivated too.

Thomas did most of the pumpkin carving this year with a little help from Brooky bear.

You know when your candle wick burns out but you still have a half an inch of wax left? I saved a few candles that the wicks were burnt out and then melted and combined them to make this fun candle in a mason jar.

Every time we go past Build-a-bear she asks to go in and walk the cat on wheels around.

And this is so me...