October 2015

We went to the lake with Jared and Shanda Adams during mid-October and it was lots of fun. We were surprised that getting in the water wasn't actually too bad!

 We surfed and rode the hot dog tube! Even Abby got on the tube between Noah and I - but we did tip over and she was done. Poor girl!

Abby and Davis riding the carousel at kids club!

Sweet sleeper with her Minnie Mouse high heels on.

More kids club fun!

Abby & Grandpa Price trying to take selfies together!

 
 Abby's window was down so she thought it would be fitting to put her leg outside and relax! haha!

Abby already knows what she's asking Santa for!

We took Abby's binky away this month and made a new rule, that she only gets it at nap time and bed time. She has been really good about it and usually just hands it over before we even say anything to her about it. Every once in awhile though, she sneaks it and "hides"! haha

Celebrating Noah's birthday at Teriyaki Madness and then Jaxen's game afterward...

Ellie, Taryn, and Roxy with Lucy, Davis and Abby.

Now that Abby sleeps in a bed at night, she can get out and just come and climb in bed with me in the morning. I love the cuddles!

We did a family outing to TopGolf one night. Noah and Russ were supposed to go on a campout this night but we figured out that morning that we weren't prepared for it and it was going to be really hard to make it work. So we did TopGolf instead. We loved the food and the music and being together. 

The next day, Russ took the kids out for a Teryx ride while I stayed home and worked on more projects for Sophie's room. 

 

Abby is such a crack up - she finds weird ways to fit inside of cupboards and this time she was using my caboodle as a chair!

Just hanging out with some really bad bed head...

Abby & Davis on grandma & poppy's back porch, loving the iPad!

These are our cute neighbors / Abby's BFFs Kozie and Boston. They got to spend a day with us and enjoy a wagon ride around the neighborhood, in some great weather! (October / November are the best as far as weather in AZ goes!)

Abby in her huge bow!

Working out with mom :)

Abby wanted to be Daisy Duck for Halloween, which isn't sold as a set, so Russ and I made it a team effort to make her the cutest Daisy Duck you've ever seen. Russ made her this hat using a white hat and felt... it turned out so perfect!

The night before Halloween, we went to a fall festival at Noah's school. Sophie and Abby's favorite part of the night was just dancing to the music...

... and riding in the back of Dad's truck to and from the school. 

On Halloween day, Sophie and Abby went to Lucy & Davis's Halloween party. Here are some cute pictures Alisse took... 

I didn't love the way Abby looked for the party, so I decided to leave her hair down and put makeup on her for trick or treating that night...

Trick or treaters came to our door before we were ready to leave, and these 2 girls loved handing candy out.

Abby as Daisy Duck 

I'm never in to dressing up for Halloween but all month long, Abby asked us "who's gonna be Donald Duck?" She really wanted Noah to be Donald but of course he refused. He is 11 years old afterall. Haha! I found a Minnie Mouse headband and hoped it would make Abby feel better that Daisy Duck had her girlfriend trick-or-treating with her.

I took Sophie and Abby trick-or-treating while Noah went with his friends, and Russ stayed home to pass out candy.

The one block we collected candy from took quite awhile. With both girls wearing high heels, they were done after that one block. Abby in fact had me hold her all the way down our street at the end. We then cuddled up in blankets and helped Dad pass out candy. Sophie and Abby loved handing out candy just as much as collecting the candy. It was fun to see everyone's costumes, and Halloween is always the most fun with Russ by our side!

September 2015

Abby was able to be part of the great-grandkids musical number, "You are my Sunshine" at the cemetery, after Grandma Riggs's funeral. It was so sweet! This was one of grandma's favorite songs, and the words were changed a little bit to say "...You'll never know Grandma, how much we love you..." Every time we sing that song now, Abby wants to sing it with the new "grandma" words.

Our family spent Labor Day weekend at Grandpa Price's cabin. It was perfect weather and we had fun with the Teryx, a quad, and Noah's dirtbike. We spotted lots of deer on our rides and Abby also had lots of fun on the swing.

We took a drive on Sunday to see the Snowflake temple, then we spent a few hours there having a picnic and playing a little guessing game with each other.

I had to capture this picture of Abby... she was watching out the window and waiting for Dad, Kaitlyn, Sophie, and Noah to get back from their ride. She had been asleep when they left but once she woke up, she couldn't wait for her turn to join in on the fun!

If you look hard, you can see Sophie and Noah pushing Abby on the swing in this picture :)

Being able to stay home with Abby is one of the best things that's ever happened to me! I didn't get that luxury when Noah was a baby so I appreciate it every day. I do lose my patience with her once in awhile, but I feel like I am a much better mom to her than I might have been to Noah with all the stress I had in my life at that time. Anyway... Abby entertains me every day. On this particular day, I was working out with my free weights, so Abby went and found hers (that we took home with us from Grandma's care center when we cleaned out her room). She wanted to do what I was doing, but then she saw that I had shoes on and she didn't. So she ran and put on her Minnie Mouse high heels!

A little while later, I took a shower and when I got out, this is how I found Abby:

I told her she couldn't sit up there so she made a comfy little place to sit with her blankies and "panda boos" while she watched tv...

She is such a crack up! This is how I often find her when she's tired... holding her face against her blanket.

This is how I found Abby another day - changing her baby's diaper with HER diapers and wipes! the headband she put around her head made it pretty funny also.

Here she is hiding between the pillows on my bed. She wanted to be left alone and was ticked when I found her. Even more ticked when she saw I was taking a picture!

Here she is mad again. She wanted to just spend some alone time in the cupboard that houses our crock pots and bread machine! I don't know how she even fit inside there but she did and was able to close the cupboard even. It was when I opened the cupboard to see her, that she got mad!

One more funny picture of her... I thought she was downstairs with Sophie this night but as I walked by my bedroom, I saw a little light on. It was the light coming from my old phone. She was laying on her stomach and just surfing the internet. It looks light in this picture since I used the flash, but it was totally dark in that room and she was fine to just hang out in there alone, with the phone.

 

We spent a lot of time at the Gibbons' house this month, helping to clean up or organize as they got ready to move. Abby loved the time she spent with Roxy! Roxy was pretty creative on ways to keep Abby entertained...

One of the perks of Auburn's house is seeing her pets. Here's Davis and Abby looking at Rudy through the door.

Asleep on Auburn's couch

I took the picture (on the left) of Abby and I thought it looked so much like cousin Otto! I had to look through Megan's instagram account to find a picture of Otto for a side-by-side. I can't believe how much they look like each other!

I tried out curling Abby's hair for the first time and had to take pictures just to document how cute it was! It of course was messed up within an hour though.

One night when Sophie was over, we were getting Abby ready for bed. I was ready to sing songs to her to get her ready to be put in her crib. She didn't want me to sing her songs, and instead said to me "I cuddle Sophie" as she walked down the dark hallway and found her way into bed with Sophie. Sophie had already gone to bed and didn't know Abby was sleeping with her. I waited 5-10 minutes to check on Abby, and when I did, this is what I found. It was the sweetest thing! She had her hands wrapped around Sophie's hair. She has slept in that bed every night except once since then (2 weeks ago), even when Kaitlyn and Sophie aren't around. 

Russ was able to take the kids on a canoe-ing adventure at the salt river with Matt, Krysta, and their whole family. I had other plans that day and couldn't attend but I loved that Krysta sent me a picture! Russ said that everyone had a great time.

 

Earlier this year, our stake presidency challenged our stake to memorize the proclamation in commemoration of it's 20th anniversary since being read by President Hinckley. We worked on this thing for every family home evening over the course of 9 months. I am so proud to say that we met the challenge and memorized the whole thing in time! Abby even participated in this challenge with us. During our last "practice" before our deadline, we were reciting the prolamation without our poster hints. Abby knew something was missing so she ran into where we keep the posters and brought them all in to us, which wasn't easy for her. I love that she knew what we were doing!

Russ got Abby ready for bed... haha!!! Usually the shirt goes on under the pants but oh well. 

Ellie spent the night and Abby really wanted to sleep next to her. She found her way from my bedroom, downstairs, and up into the chair with Ellie (who was already sleeping). I love that she loves to cuddle!

We went to lunch for Suzanne's birthday and Abby had leftovers, so she got a to-go box. She told everyone that it was "MINE" and that she was going to take it home to eat it with her daddy. She would say "he sit next to me and eat it". Haha! I told Russ about her plans so he made sure to sit down with her when it was time to eat. At one point he got up from the table and someone else tried to sit down, but Abby said "NO! That's daddy's seat!"

This is Abby alseep on the church pew during Sunday School. What's significant about it to me, is that I have never been able to hold her as she naps or deal with her after sacrament meeting, until now. I was called to the primary presidency before I was even pregnant with her, and I was just barely released a few months ago. I am excited to be able to drop her off and pick her up from nursery more often now, and I am counting down the days until I get to sub in nursery with her (this coming Sunday).

Brother and Sister working on washing dishes together :)

We enjoyed having the missionaries over for dinner one night...