stuck

how do you explain to a 21 month old that the baby doll truly is stuck and that even you, as mommy, can't get her "unstuck?" suggestions?

daddy-daughter date at lowe's

jordan took hadley to lowe's last saturday morning to the 'build with me' workshop. they were so cute working together. hadley loves to swing a hammer, and can hit just about everything but what she needs to! she was a good worker...received her "certificate of being an awesome builder" and made daddy proud!

snow

our house survived it's first "snowstorm." hurray! didn't last forever, but sure was pretty!

kasota park and corn maze

our good friends, tiffany and jon invited us to go with them to the kasota park and corn maze. hadley and their boy, hayden, are about the same age and they have become quite good little buddies! we started the night off with the corn maze. the boys were awesome at following the map but horrible at finding the posts that held the stamps to win us the sweet surprise! then we hit the slides. i was screaming like a baby. hadley loved them. jordan and jon were silly and went down the steepest one and landed in a puddle of water. they were wet. for the whole ride home. nice...guys...nice! and then hadley fell in the ball pit. almost was lost forever. thanks tiff for your efforts in rescuing the poor girl!

halloween night

by halloween night, hadley had definately gotten the hang of the whole trick-or-treating business and was ready to tear up the neighborhood. we stopped by a saw a few of her little friends. it was a fun night!

trunk-or-treat

between our ward and hadley's cousin's ward, we hit two trunk-or-treats and hadley did a fantastic job at collecting a TON of candy to share with her mommy and daddy! she actually did a great job at saying "trick or treat" and the only problem we had was that she was trying to eat the candy out of her bucket as fast as it was being dumped in! she didn't get the concept of "wait and you'll get more" that we were trying to get across to her!

warning, this cute little giraffe will have a not-so-cute, scraped up and maked-up nose in most of these pics! her costume was too fat to fit into her carseat, and so we had to dress her once we got to the church. as we were coming back out, i encouraged her to "hurry and go find daddy." as soon as the words came out of my mouth, i realized that was not a good thing to encourage. she obeyed (for once!) and she started to trot in this costume that has built-in fat pads throughout its lower half. before i could take the words back, her little legs tripped over each other and she fell flat on her face. i felt sooo bad and her poor little nose was scraped up and bleeding. i'm so sorry hadley. you were much cuter in the costume before you biffed it. lucky for mom, your still cute after, too!





















jordan tries to teach hadley the art of the pixie stick!







oh, and by the way, jordan's sweet haunted buck and hunter get-up for our trunk decorations won us first place in the "best trunk" contest and a sweet movie-night bucket full of goodies! good work babe!

our little giraffe

i couldn't resist this costume when i saw it sitting on it's hanger in the toddler section of target's halloween costume isle! i knew it would be perfect for her! although she was never able to successfully say giraffe, she sure thought she was hott stuff parading around in her new "hooves." we dolled it up a bit with the pink bows, and it was the most adorable thing on her. i love the built-in fat pads around her hips and waist!

carving "mumkins"

daddy found us a really good carving pumpkin at the pumpkin patch....see post below. when we got home, hads and mom were ready to put him to work! we found our favorite picture of minnie mouse and away he went. he's always soo good to let us do the super girly ones (see last year's pumpkin carving post as proof)! hadley had so much fun playing in the squishy "mumkin" guts. mom did not have so much fun cleaning up after her!