My Little Bug!

I know, I'm late to upload these Halloween pictures! But with this on-the-move little girl, it's hard to get anything done! Have I mentioned she walks now?! I will need to upload some walking videos too!

Here's Emily in her ladybug costume! 

She would NOT hold still AT ALL. She kept trying to jump off of the couch...

Here's a good one of her sitting for a second!

...and now moving again...

I tried distracting her with a (wrapped) sucker...

But the sitting was short-lived...

I tried putting her down on the ground to see if that worked better but all I got were pictures of her running away from me, haha!

I tried doing the picture taking paparazzi-style by standing in front of her and walking backwards as she tried to pass me...

Okay, back to the couch. Jexi is a nice distraction. She loves her puppy!

Then I pulled her around in a laundry basket! 

She eventually got too hot in her costume so I took off the tights and shirt underneath. We passed out candy to some trick-or-treaters until she got too tired and cranky. 

I put the bowl of candy out on the porch while I got her ready for bed. After just a few minutes, it has been almost emptied....luckily I didn't expect any other outcome. I knew the bowl of candy was too tempting for them to just take one or two! But it's okay, I had to turn the light off and stop handing it out once Em went to sleep anyway. I'm just glad nobody smashed or stole our pumpkins!! 

All in all, it was a good Halloween! I got to dress Emily up and we had some fun. Michael already made sure to take next Halloween off so we can take her trick or treating together for her first time next year! It's going to be fun!

Happy October!!

Happy October!!

{Thank you for the adorable Halloween outfit, Grandma! We love you!}

It's hard to believe it's already October, especially since it's still above 90 degrees here. (Last night our AC and power turned off and it got up to 82 degrees in our house.)

I love October! It's time to bust out the fall/Halloween decorations! Who am I kidding? I already had my pumpkin warmer out!

On Saturday we had Emily's first birthday party. It was a great turnout! We had almost 30 people over. We enjoyed spending time together, celebrating our baby girl! 

I had my SIL Jocelyn and my mom take some pictures and I've been editing them so I'm hoping to start posting those soon. There are some really great pictures!! Thank you, Mom and Jocelyn!!

Happy October, everyone!

Our Growing Pea Pod and a Halloween Rant

You know, I used to think that when people used their babies as a reason to not blog anymore that they were over exaggerating about how little time they had to spare. Now that I have my own baby, I totally get it. Emily is a complete doll but there are days when she will cry if I put her down at all and I can barely get a chance to eat, let alone blog and upload photos! It's nice when she does take naps during the day that last a couple of hours so that I can have a bit of a break and rest. Unfortunately, most of the time "rest" means doing things around the house that have been neglected. Sometimes I get to take a nap while she does.

With Michael being back at work it is up to me to take care of her pretty much 24/7 for anywhere between 3 to 6 days in a row. This past weekend I stayed at Michaels parents house for a couple of nights because I was a little overwhelmed by it all after having Michael home for a month to help.

I love being a mommy, of course!! It's the hardest but the best thing in the world. I don't know how you "mommy bloggers" have time, energy, or the motivation to blog every single day with pictures and funny stories. I'm not going to apologize for my lack of blogging though because even though I do enjoy writing and reading your blogs, it's simply not my top priority! I'm sure you can understand that!

My daughter > Blogging

Anyway, now for an update on the fun stuff!! Emily is 5 weeks old as of Sunday! She's growing really fast. She is probably about 9 lbs now (she was born 7 lbs 3 oz) and she's starting to chunk up- I love it!! She's also starting to make more facial expressions. Sometimes she smiles a little but I don't know if it's necessarily in reaction to something yet. I love her little noises she makes, too!

Halloween was really fun this year! We decorated the house with strobe lights, black lights, cobwebs, orange lights, and caution tape. It was awesome. The best house on our side of the street...in my opinion :). Too bad you can't really tell in this picture how it looked when it was dark!

My mom bought Emily her first Halloween costume. Hilarious! Her face in this picture looks like she is thinking, "Uh...mommy? A lil' help here, please?!" Hahaha! Our little pea.

We also had some family over for burgers, a movie, and to help pass out candy to all the MANY trick or treaters we get. By the way...when did it become socially acceptable to go trick or treating without even wearing a costume? I can look past those trick-or-treaters who are way too old. I can also look past the trick or treaters who look more like they belong on a street corner than at my door. I can even look past the trick-or-treaters who don't even bother to say "trick or treat" and just hold up their bags, buckets, and pillowcases. But to not even dress up? That's just plain lazy. At least put a mask or a wig on!! Okay, stepping off the soapbox now :).

Jexi Says Boo!

This was our first year at our new house for Halloween and I was so excited to hand out candy! Michael had to work so I was a little nervous because, you know, someone could totally barge in and murder me. But it turned out to be a fun night! :-)

I set up the front porch with orange lights, caution tape, and cheap strobe lights pointing toward the front door. Someone ended up stealing one of the strobe lights. I guess that happens when stupid teenagers are out and hyped up on candy and who knows what else...

I set up the inside just enough so that when I opened the door they would see a black light making cobwebs and a skeleton (that I made as a kid) glow.

I decided to try to make Jexi a costume. I tucked tissues into her collar and I guess you could call it a ghost. It was a hit. The kids loved her!

I ended up running out of candy and started handing out twinkies and otter pops, lol! Next year I won't be stingy on the candy! I was just worried about having too much and then eating it all myself. We ended up running out of otter pops and twinkies and I had to shut down at 7:45 pm. Nobody came to the door once the lights were out. All in all I learned to watch over our stuff, buy more candy, and Jexi is the main attraction!

I hope you all had a great Halloween!

BBQ At Our Place!

We had our immediate family (those who were in town, anyway) over for a BBQ for the first time on Saturday! We hadn't showed them the house since back when we were painting so we were excited to show them how much we had gotten done. Plus we had started decorating for fall/Halloween.

We also got to have our friends Kristen and Daniel over! We got to meet their new baby, Samuel! He is only three weeks old but he is a big baby!

Here we are eating our delicious carne asada that Michael cooked! We also had beans, rice, corn bread, cookies, brownies, chips...a lot of great food, thanks to everyone who brought something!

We got a picture of us in front of the house.

  It was really bright outside and we were trying really hard not to make squinty faces.

And after a long day of fun and entertaining, we both crashed. Little did I know that starting that night, my health would plummet and I'd get a horrible cold! No wonder I was so tired.

Hope everyone had a good weekend!