spooky!

we had such a fun weekend! bea is quickly getting more and more into this halloween business. we found some old orange and black decorative lights in the closet, we call them the "spooky lights", and bea asks me to turn them on every single day. when i turn them on she points and yells "FOOOOKY!!!!!" we haven't mastered the "sp-" sound yet. i'll try and get her to say "ssssssss-pooky!" and she goes "sssssss-FOOKY!!!!" it is very cute. so, after the spooky lights, she has been busy pointing at any other thing that can be considered spooky. at the trunk or treat on friday, she had a blast pointing out all the spooky stuff! some of it though, was a little much, and when we would get too close she just hid her face in my knees and said "no! noooo!!!!!" baby girl knows her limits.

we made bea frida kahlo for halloween. i knew not everyone would get it, but i knew it would be very funny to the people who did. i was right. about 60% got it and 40% didn't but the people who got it LOVED it! they asked for pictures and just gushed about how cute and funny she was. it was great because bea is usually a very cheery and smiley child but for some reason the night of the trunk or treat, she got really solemn and was very stone-faced the whole evening. it was PERFECT! she very much looked the part. she loved saying "trick or treat!" ("trickey beet!") at all the cars and was very excited to use her happy meal halloween bucket. she was even more excited when people started putting candy in it. she was a pro by the end of the night, picking the pieces up herself and putting them into her bucket. it was a great night. both of the wards we've lived in here were combined at the trunk or treat this year so it was a lot of fun for us in particular because we knew most of the people handing out candy. it was nice to be among so many friends (:

striking a serious pose

rocking the unibrow

very serious.

the next day was GORGEOUS and it was our first free saturday in AGES, so we seized the opportunity to finally go apple picking! it was a lot of fun. as opposed to all of the other times we had planned to go, we actually went without anyone else. i feel like a lot of the time we feel like we need to invite people to go places or be extra social but it was actually really nice to just have some family time just the three of us. bea loved picking out a "spooky pumpkin" ("fooky pungin!!") and had a great time picking apples. apples are one of her favorite foods so it was sweet to see her get excited about picking them. after we finished up at the orchard we went to the market part of the orchard where there was hot apple crisp, pony rides, and a carriage ride around the old farm community. we decided to just let her watch the pony rides and take the carriage ride instead. she got to sit right up front close to the horses and had a lot of fun watching them trot.

lyman orchards is SO beautiful!

almost there

finally got it!

the only one of these shots where they are both looking at the camera!

this is the stuff of postcards! no filter ya'll!

trying to sit on a pumpkin. 

she couldn't figure it out there, but now that we have pumpkins at home she sits on them all the time.

try as we might, we could just not get a great picture of her in the pumpkin patch!

our final picks. mine is the round big one, brad's is the taller thinner one, and bea's is the small one in front. good looking pumpkins if i do say so myself.

so. as you can see. fun weekend. today was stake conference and she was like.....really really good. it was a little scary how good she was. this whole week has just been a little magical. bea has slept past 8:45 each morning and been amazingly pleasant during the days and went down for her naps without complaint (which she actually always does but given that she woke up so late every day, i was a little surprised). i'm hoping this next week brings some of the same good fortune. i can't wait til halloween on friday when we can take her trick or treating for real! october has been such a sweet month for us, i'm sad that it's almost over but excited to see what next month brings!