The Pumpkin Patch

Yesterday the family headed over to the Pumpkin Patch since Julie and Alex were in town. It was the opening day and we figured it would be cold and rainy but it only sprinkled on us a little bit and it was a good cool 65 degrees... we got lucky! Tom was busy taking his LSAT test when we went and came to join us later with Aunt Sessie. We had a really good time and Dulany LOVED it. I'm annoyed cause my camera died right before she went down the BIG slide! Oh well.. i LOVE fall and this made me even more excited for halloween and carving pumpkins, etc.

oh. Dulany picked out a baby pumpkin which was actually a goard and it looked like a christmas ornament so she called it a "chrismiss punkin"... but the stem broke off after we bought it (for 50 cents) and she was heartbroken. she doesnt even like it anymore and goes around saying "it froken"... poor girl! she is obsessed with "punkins" now. its hilarious! (im wondering if she'll stick her hand in the goo this year when we carve pumpkins!)

ok ok, here are the pictures!






















and we finally got a few shots of our family (This never happens, and of course, couldn't even get a normal shot! haha oh well, good enough!)

2 year check up ... 3 months late!

(she stole my phone and got up on the couch and acted like she was texting or playing games! it was too funny!)

so i finally took D into the doctor 3 months late. Im not sure if i like her doctor too much... but oh well.

Anyways, she freaked out BIG time - did not want to get on the scale, did not want the doctor to get near her... everything. She took 10 minutes to even get weighed... she fought and kicked, etc. Poor girl was NOT loving this place. then again, the dr's office is in the hospital - not a very friendly place! (unlike the place where they have rooms with themes like trains and rocket ships, etc... which wont accept Dulany with her insurance.. Bah! insert - i miss rexburg for this reason, i loved her doctor)

She asked a series of questions, does she use a fork/spoon, does she jump/run...and then she asked if she knew 10 words... um... did you not just hear her? she just said "mommy, i want some juice" - i think so!

anyways. she was so exhausted fighting everything that when the doctor left for the nurse to come in to give her the flu shot - she fell asleep. and she only woke up a teeny bit to fuss because it bothered her and made her wake up... i was impressed.

and that was after the doctor said to the nurse "have fun with that" cause D was being a little difficult. (irked me quite a bit.. she didnt think that i heard her...)

anyways - she didnt get measured for height.. but she was 32 lbs, and im pretty sure she's 30 since she had big boots and a coat on.. oh well. Im excited when we can switch offices.

anywho - that was her 2 year check up - just a few months late!

she is saying a whole lot more and learning words everyday and saying sentances, she knows almost all the words to "i am a child of God" knows the whole "itsy bitsy spider" and "twinkle twinkle little star" and is repeating EVERYTHING so now i need to be very careful with words like stupid and freakin and things like that!

but seriously. she is too cute and i love her!

Pacific City, Oregon

ps. well i tried uploading videos of Dulany - they wont upload on here or on youtube, so sorry!

in other news - Dulany had her first sleepover at grandma and papa's. On friday night Tom and I had a "young married couples" group get together at the beach and we were staying at a girl's beach house with other married couples. We figured this would be a great opportunity to have dulany stay away from us. This was the first time she was away from us more then a few hours. I did pretty darn well if you ask me! We had a lot of fun and so did Dulany. Thanks grandma and papa and kaylee for watching her!

When we got to th ebeach - there was SO much fog. it was insane! ive never seen fog like that in my life. We went to the HUGE dune that is there and it was SO hard to hike. oh my word. We went back the next morning to take a walk before we left and i actually could see how big it was. (the night ebfore the fog was so thick you couldnt even see 15 feet infront of you so we couldn't see how big it was)

here are some pictures!







we hiked up that!!

Model Behavior

Yesterday we put Dulany in a new outfit. we got her these "jeggings" that look like skinny jeans but they're leggings and a new shirt (which was brown and white stripped and when she put it on she said "ohhhh i zeebra!" haha smart girl!)..

anyways i wanted to get a picture of her in this outfit because she looked 1. cute. and 2. big! when i pulled out the camera she found my winter beanie hat and put it on and started posing for me. Usually she says CHEESE but this was like... posing. it was hilarious! here is what i got..(and they are all out of order, oh well! like it matters)


Jumping pose


give a little hip



kisses for daddy!




(i tried to tell her to put her hands on her hips and this is what she did.. close enough!)

she had to grab baby and have her in the pictures


this is how it started (cheeese!)


(more jumping!)

and of course, have to get some cheek pinching in by daddy.

Miss Ballerina

we got some more of Dulany's halloween costume. (i think we're going to try to sign her up for some dance class as well, therefor im willing to buy the whole shabang). We got her little skirt which she loves to wear opposed to the toole tutu.. she just wasn't having it. We gotta find shoes but she might just end up wearing whatever shoes she has for halloween. i dont want her to wear little sippers out in the dirt anyways. She LOVED it though and did not want to take it off.


this is where daddy would be proud. he wants D to play softball when she's older - well she probably will as well. she went and got her little baseball mit/baseball.
(sorry these are awful pictures. my battery was about to die and i tried to get them really quick)