Friday, October 18, 2013

Millcreek Canyon

Sunday after General Conference, we drove up Milcreek Canyon. It was so darn pretty. As we drove near the top, we noticed snow! We got out of the car to investigate. What a novelty snow is at the beginning of the cold season!


My handsome guy looks like a little kid on Christmas.

We walked down this gully to a little path by the creek, and it was breathtaking! The pics don't do it justice.



We threw sticks and leaves and snow and rocks off the waterfall until our little frozen hands were numb... then we threw a few more.





Daddy's girls.

My snuggle bug Myla showed off how darling and pleasant a 3 week old can be.

Witchfest

The girls went to Gardner Village Witchfest during priesthood session, and we had a spooktacular time!

Autumn looked good with the colorful leaves, fun decor and pretty pond.

My Cambry girl was so busy all night searching for the witches




What a darling little pumpkin patch

Hay cousins! Cambry, Gwenyth, Vienna, and Rylee

Veena and Grandma Beck next in line to donate a finger to the witch's brew. Cambry loved the witch hunt, but was extremely nervous to come too close. As soon as we found a witch display, she would immediately say, "Let's go find another witch."

All in all, a great night with the girls. 

Gaurdsman Pass

The last weekend in September we took a drive up through Guardsman's Pass to see the leaves changing colors. It was beautiful. Here are the girls taking it all in (Cambry wearing one of her ever present princess costumes)


It was super windy up on the ridge, where we planned to have our picnic lunch, so we improvised and had it in the back of the van. It was great- nice and warm, and still able to see all the beautiful scenery. And the girls actually ate since they couldn't be constantly running around.

Myla all snuggled in and happy to be along for the ride.

We pulled off to the side to explore the wide open spaces.

We decided to take out the covered wagon to make our experience a little more authentic... Ok we just found this while frolicking in the wild.

The girls capped off the experience by enjoying a little pow wow in the teepee. 

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Vienna's Birthday Party

To celebrate Vienna's birthday, we invited the Beck and Greg over for dinner, cake and ice cream. It was low key and a really good evening. After dinner, Vienna opened her presents. I don't know who was more excited to open presents Vienna or Cambry.





Since Vienna got a stroller, Cambry grabbed hers and girls put on a stroller derby for the Beck and Greg.

Vienna collecting her loot in the stroller.

We capped the evening off with peach cobbler and ice cream. Happy Birthday, Vienna!

Peaches and Parks

On Vienna's birthday, I started the day by taking Cambry and Vienna to my parents' house to pick peaches. My parents were out of town, so it was just us in the backyard.

They had a fun time exploring  and finding fruit in "the jungle."

They were both good pickers. Cambry was very particular about what peaches went into the basket. Vienna made sure that each peach was clean. By look on Vienna's face, you can tell that peach needed to be cleaned.

The girls' favorite part about picking fruit is eating it right off the tree/vine/bush or whatever.



We stopped by Murray park on the way home. I kept seeing it while at the hospital and remembered how beautiful of a park it was.

Vienna loved this fat little swing. What a loaf!

Snack Break.

The girls worked up the courage to try these spiny seats out. They liked it until they realized they just kept speeding up.

They loved throwing leaves off the bridge into the creek. Cambry is off running to get some more.


Vienna realized that she didn't have to run anywhere to get something to throw in the creek and began to throw her goldfish into the creek.

Grandma Ber called while we were there and sang happy birthday to Vienna.

Happy Birthday Vienna!

On September 14th, Vienna turned 2 years old! It's been a wonderful 2 years with our Veena Bug. She keeps us laughing and anticipating what she's going to try to do next. She is a happy child. She is the world's best at charades. A few of my favorites are: She moves one arm in a clockwise vertical circle while saying "eh? eh? eh?" It means she's asking if she can go outside and see the moon. Another one is when she puts both arms up by her arm pits and rotates her torso back and forth- it means she wants to run. Here's the thing- most of her actions can be figured out by anyone, not just her parents. She's so fun. She can say about 20 words, but is fluent in body language and facial expressions.

If she can do it on her own, most of the time she doesn't ask if she can, she just does it. Cambry is constantly wanting to do whatever Vienna is doing, because she makes everything look so exciting and fascinating. Often she completes something and throws her hands in the air and says "Dahdah!" (Tadah). She is very much an extrovert and is friendly to most people. She likes her baby dolls, snuggles and tickles, attention, pushing her limits, playing with Cambry and "helping" with Myla. She shushes us when Myla is sleeping... which is all the time. Vienna is the official binky police, and whenever she sees a binky out of Myla's mouth, V tries to put it in her mouth. She brings me fresh diapers and throws away used ones. The other day we were making a craft, and I turn around and Vienna was trying to help Myla swallow the scissors. Oh dear. Thank heaven for our angels watching over us! We love you Vienna
Stats:
height: 50%, 34"
weight: 50%, 27 pounds
head: 63%

She loves bundling up and taking her baby for a walk in the stroller. It takes us about an hour to walk one block because she needs to pick up every rock, examine each stick, and wave to every pedestrian and car, search for every cat, and take breaks in the curb piling dirt and pebbles on her legs. Good clean fun.

Here are the girls taking a break on the curb, feet full of gravel and happy as can be.

I seem to always have several of these pics on my phone. She loves taking selfies. I frequently catch her making this face and saying "tsee" (cheese) into my phone. Notice she's making the same face in the previous pic.

I was reading a book to Cambry, and Vienna waddles up the stairs in this tube and when she finally is able to stand up she just casually says "Hey." I laughed to tears. Love her. Look how staticy her hair is!

She's just loving the giant swing! Hello!