Halloween festivities

Halloween gets progressively more fun each year with kids:) This Halloween had PERFECT weather for trick-or-treating. We were super excited to get Kendall knocking on stranger's doors for candy!

 

 

Kendall first helped her dad pick out designs to carve in our pumpkin. (Thanks Mom and Dad Deighton for the pumkin!)

 

 

And here is the final result. Cool, huh?

 I dressed up Kendall in an owl costume that I tried to re-create from a picture I saw off pinterest. It turned out pretty good but Kendall was not a fan of wearing it (despite the smile you see in the picture). I may or may not have bribed her with lots of candy to get her to wear it.

 Matt took Kendall trick-or-treating around our neighborhood. We taught her how to say "trick-or-treat" and at first she would only whisper it but she got better at each door. But apparently we need to teach her what the "good" candy is because when given the choice, she would bypass the Snickers, Twix, Milky Way, etc and pick Dots or a Jolly Rancher or an eraser.......oh well.  Matt also said that there were a few doors where no one answered. Kendall would become quite distraught and look back at Matt, raise her arms, and ask "twick-o-tweet" as if she was asking "where the heck are these people? Don't they know that they are supposed to give me candy when I knock?!" Ha ha, I love that little girl!

Our chubby little football. I love that lil' guy!

Mini me?

So I never really thought Kendall looked too much like me when she was a wee little baby, but the older she gets the more I think she looks like me. The pictures go back and forth between my pics and Kendall's pics. What do you think?

 

 

An escape to Montana

So, I went up to Montana for just about 2 weeks. That was a much needed excape from the world and some good time that I got to spend with my parents. I got to catch up with some old friends, visited the ranch, helped mom declutter, got some sweet stuff at the free store, made Kendall's Halloween costume, stocked up on some Uncle Dan's ranch.....but mostly tried to sit back and relax.

 

Here is Cole giving a nice big crooked smile just like his mommy. He is really starting to coo and laugh and its just so stinkin' adorable.

 

 

We've got some awesome "Kendall art" on the chalkboard.

 

Kendall enjoyed helping Grandpa B set up some Halloween decorations. (My dad is REALLY into Halloween!)

 

Then, Matt got to come in from his PR conference in San Francisco and spend a few days in the great MT. We went to Famous Dave's, helped out on the ranch, went to some cool antique stores, etc.

 

 

I just couldn't stay away from those baby cows:)

 Its about time we got a complete family picture:)