Family Pictures 2013

This is going to be a relatively short post as far as words go. We had family pictures done in Oct. so I am just going to post a bunch of my favorites. I had the gal that did Adelyn's newborn pictures and my maternity pictures do them. They ended up turning out pretty good. It was fall so the colors were great. Enjoy!

She always furrows her brows and I think it is absolutely adorable!

She loves to "fly" and asks to do it all the time.

Adelyn blowing kisses to the photographer. 

Halloween 2013

I think I was probably being a little over zealous this year wanting to make Adelyn's Halloween costume. I mean I sew, and I have sewn a few skirts for her and I sew baby stuff but a costume is a totally different kind of "beast."

Casey and I had decided that as a family we were going to dress up together so that we would match. It could be a theme, or a set of characters whatever we decided we wanted to be that year. I came up with the idea of Little Red Ridding Hood , The Big Bad Wolf, and Grandma. I just thought that Adelyn would make the cutest Little Red Ridding Hood. 

After deciding this, I had this picture in my mind of how I wanted us to look, so I went to find a pattern that matched what I had in my head of Adelyn as Little Red Ridding Hood. This is what I came up with. :) 

Probably not the best picture but you get the idea. I actually loved how it turned out. Adelyn LOVED the hood! I am thinking I might get some crush velor in a different color so that she can have one to play with (probably purple because it is her favorite color)

After I got Adelyn's costume done I was on the search for items to finish Casey's and my costumes. I had decided that I didn't have much time to make them so I was going to just see what I could put together that would fit what I wanted us to look like. 

This is what I came up with. This is me as grandma, please forgive me for the background, we are refinishing the bathroom and the green on the wall was going to be the color and it has recently been decided that we were going to use a different color. 

 This next picture is of Casey, Adelyn and I right before we headed to the ward trunk or treat. Our ward had a wonderful trunk or treat with lots of people that participated, and they hot dogs and hot chocolate too which was great. That was the only place we went trick or treating which was plenty for Adelyn. 

 Isn't that face just priceless, she really liked her outfit and she liked that she got to carry a basket. 

I know this picture is a little fuzzy but I love that she is running from the Big Bad Wolf, they were playing in the yard and people kept walking by, and stopping and staring at them. 

This is Addi showing off her candy she had stolen from our Halloween bucket for people that came to our house. She couldn't wait til we went to the ward part. :)

All in all, I think it turned out to be a great Halloween. I got lots of compliments on all of our outfits, which was nice. Casey and I had talked about this next year and so far one of our ideas is a family of Gnomes. Adelyn loves Gnomeo and Juliet, so we thought she might enjoy dressing up as a gnome. We will see I guess. :)

It is officially catch up time...

I have disappeared for awhile and didn't realize how long until I went to my blog and realized it had been a little over 6 months since I had written on my blog and there is so much to catch up on I will write several posts in the next few days trying to catch up and hopefully I will be better at the whole blogging thing from now on. :) 

So I guess the first thing to start with is that on September 26th Casey and I celebrated our 3rd Anniversary! Man, I think about it and it seems like forever again and then again it also seems like yesterday. 

This is our most recent photo of the two of us. In Three years a lot has happened, I'm gonna do a little recap of our life the last 3 years. 

• We have officially lived in 3 different states (Arizona, Idaho, and Washington)
• Out of those 3 states we have lived in 5 different places which means we have moved 5 different times! I hate moving!!! Hate it!
• We have made it through our first deployment, it was hard (since that was when I was pregnant and had Adelyn) But I think in the end it has made us stronger as a couple
• We had our first child Adelyn and she is the greatest blessing in our life! She makes life interesting and she is so smart, it is always fun watching her learn new things. 
• We have gone through 9 different jobs between the two of us. 

I have realized that I made probably the best choice of my life when I married Casey, he is definitely my soul mate! We had totally had our ups and downs, but with those we have become closer to each other, I have realized that Casey is the only person I would want to spend Eternity with. He is the BEST dad to Adelyn, he is a better dad for my children than I could have ever hoped for. He provides for our family, he is a super hard worker and we have never gone without anything that we have needed which I am so thankful for. I am so happy where my life is right now and how it has turned out. I know that marriage is always sunshine and flowers but with Casey I'll take the ups with the downs, there have been more ups than downs and he helps me through them all! To the love of my life, these three years have been wonderful and I can't wait to spend many more with you.