Playing in Water and saying families names!

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Yesterday I let Hannah play in the water at the sink. At first it seemed like a good idea, but very quickly my kitchen floor was covered in water as well as Hannah. My trash bag apron did nothing. Oh well my floor needed to be mopped anyway and Hannah had lots of fun throwing the water around.

The video may be hard to hear, but she is good at saying everyone's name in our immediate family. She really tries to pronounce everyones name. I will try to get her to do this at Christmas for family so everyone there can hear. She is getting so good! As you can tell I am a proud Mommy!

Snow, snow, snow, snow, snow!

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Well, I finally got the snow I wanted! Now I am worried we won't be able to get home for Thanksgiving!! We leave tomorrow afternoon, so keep your fingers crossed!

Yesterday it finally started snowing. Hannah loves to watch it and can actually say snow and knows what it is. So after we had about an 1 1/2 on the ground I decided we could go out and play. We got all bundled up which Hannah also thought was fun and headed outside.

She loved it. She loved having the snow fall on her face, she loved eating the snow, she loved that you could make a snow ball and we both loved that we could be outside playing!

I am so glad that she enjoys it because I have plans to go out again today, especially since now we have about 6-8 inches! It will be "snow" fun!!!

Ready to go!! Cheese!

Our cute little snowman!

I can't put my arms down!

The Next AMERICAN IDOL!!

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She plays piano, she dances and she sings!!

Halloween Fun!

We have had a fun week getting ready for Halloween! Here we are as the Wizard of Oz family. We went to our ward party last night, which was lots of fun. It was Hannah's first time trick or treating, so it was cute to see her walk around. She loved getting candy!

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They had a craft table which had these pumpkins. They had this black feltish stuff on them, but when you scrapped it off there was color underneath. It was pretty cool.

Fishing for prizes!

Golfing with Daddy.

This was also Hannah's first time carving pumpkins. Well we let her color a pumpkin and help me with mine.

She didn't like it too much!

Notice her mouth...she decided to eat a marker!

My ugly little pumpkin! The smallest knife we had was a steak knife, which did not work out for a small pumpkin! Next year I will know better!

The Painted Hills

At work Chris saw a picture of these hills and had to find out more. They are called the Painted Hills and are about an hour outside of Prinville....in the middle of nowhere. Literally! They were beautiful! It was amazing to see these hills just randomly in the middle of the normal central Oregon landscape. How did they get there? and why is it only random hills? I still really don't know, but they were very cool!! Hannah did amazing too. She was in such a good mood yesterday and considering we spent the whole day outside and we were surrounded by rocks, she was in Heaven!

Here is the best view! This was the first place you see. They have a few trails around, so this was the first one we went on.

The colors, just look at the cool colors!

This was the second place we went to. You get to walk right up to the hills and they have a cool trail going through them.

Here they are up close. It is just dry clay/mud all cracked. Sounds silly, but the colors were very cool and from far away they look sorta furry!

It was a very fun day and nice to get out and see some more of Oregon that I have never heard of!!

Funny and Gross!!

So I will spare you the pictures of my eventful morning, but I just had to share the story. Hannah needed a bath today, so I got it ready and put her in. I was letting her play while I finished my hair and I noticed that she was grunting. So I turned around to check and at first saw nothing, but yes she pooped! This is the first time she has ever pooped in the tub.

So I grabbed her out so I could clean it up, but as I set her down she took off running and escaped out of the bathroom before I could trap her. As she ran down the hall she continued to poop, leaving 2 more piles for me to clean up. Gross. Then as I get her back into the bathroom, before I can stop her she sits down, leaving a nice large smudge.

Wow this is a gross story! Anyway to sum it all up, there was Poop everywhere!! It was gross, but we got it all cleaned up and the best part about it was that it made me laugh pretty hard! So at least I was laughing as I was cleaning up the grossness!! I hope you all have a fun day too!

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Thank you Lindsay S.! I thought you title was very clever!!!!

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So I need a new title since we are no longer in the Beaver Pond. Hallelujah! any ideas??

New words and dream craft/sewing station!

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Isn't she cute!!!

I just found this picture as I was looking for organization ideas and I fell in love! I wish I had a room in my house to have such an area! It would be my dream to have a room all to myself where i could make a mess without having to clean it up if i am not done yet! One day I will hopefully get such a thing but for now I guess the kitchen table is fine!

Hannah can fetch!

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This is such a random post, but I thought i would let you all see that Hannah's new favorite game is to play fetch!! The video is pretty bad, but oh well!! it was with my phone. That is my excuse!

Lots of new...keep going down!

Wow I have a lot to update. Sorry it is such a large post, but bear with me! This is what we have been up to this summer. I hope you enjoy!

#1 Here are pictures of our new apartment finally!

pay no attention to our lovely curtains pinned to the wall, oh wait those are blankets!oh well!

We love our new place! We have twice the amount of room from our last apartment! We have a dishwasher, washer and dryer and air conditioning!!

#2 We were able to go to springfield about 2 weeks ago. We had lots of fun seeing lots of family and my 2 best friends!!

Here is Hannah with her cousins on the Blevins side

We had the chance to go and play with Andrea, Sarah, Lindsay and their kids. It was so fun to see them all together!

Here is Hannah playing with her cousin Cooper. She just loves Cooper and would follow him anywhere.

#3 There are so many beautiful parks to go to around Bend. Here we are at Smith Rock in Redmond. It was so beautiful.

#4 Here we are at Tumalo falls! It was really a pretty area although we were attacked by mosquitos!

#5 Here are just a few random pictures of Hannah.

Hannah loves to wear our shoes. She is always trying to put them on and walk around.

Hannah let me paint her fingernails and toes which i never thought would happen. But it was fun and she liked it!

#6 Heather, Jeff and the girls came to visit last week. We had a lot of fun! Here are pictures from when we went to The High Desert Museum.

There were chipmunks everywhere. This little guy came right up to us, begging for food, I probably could have picked him up.

#7 A few more random of Hannah.

yeah we finally have her hair in pigtails!!

...and hair after pigtails came out!! Scary!

#8 So I am proud of this one. I have really been wanting to get my food storage going. It has been gnawing at me for some time. I just new some disaster would strike and I wouldn't be prepared. So I finally made a list and went shopping. I am far from done, but my goal right now is to have at least 1 month to start and then i will work up from there. It was fun buying all the food and thinking of how I could use it all. I made sure to buy foods that I knew I could use and that we would eat without gaging! So here is my start to feeling prepared!