Pictures, finally!

So thanks to Lisa I was able to get some pictures of Elliette on Halloween and on the beach with her little friend Isa and a bonus of some one day she watched Ellie while I was at a Dr's appt. Thank you so much Lisa! I have a few more of Elliette in her zebra costume coming from another friend soon which are just Ellie so you can see her a bit more so hopefully I will have a few more to post in the next few days. Oh, and I threw a cute one of Camryn sleeping in at the end.

1 month

Camryn went in for her one month checkup the other day and was 8 lbs 9 oz (50 %ile) and 22 inches long (90 %ile). She really is a joy to have around and smiles quite often which is great. She does have gas pains every once in a while that make her cry out but that normally doesn't last more than maybe 10 minutes at the most and then she goes back to her happy self just looking around and trying to hold her head up. Like Elliette she does not like to be swaddled and likes having free movement of her arms and legs and seems to be starting to get the hang of having them and moving them around a bit. Sorry the picture isn't the best it was taken with my phone while I was holding her and trying not to jostle it to much but doesn't she just have a beautiful smile.

I SUCK

Well I was hoping the title of this post was going to be "what did you do on your early November day ..." and then follow it up with pictures of Elliette in her cute bathing suit playing in the sand at the beach. Well I took those photos put the camera back in its case picked up the kids took them back to the car and noticed that the camera was no longer with me, somehow it fell out of its case and was taken before I could get back to look for it or it was just taken out of its case. I was so upset about loosing the camera because I was to tired the other night that I was posting that I hadn't finished and I hadn't copied the pictures onto my computer so I lost everything, pictures, videos, EVERYTHING! When I came home Justin was happy it was the camera and not something that happened to the girls since I was so upset. He double checked the bag and the car and then went back and double checked the beach for me finding nothing. We posted the camera under lost and found on craigslist and a guy offered to check the beach with a metal detector for me in case the sand ate it and ... nothing. I called the police station to see if someone turned it in and ... nothing. I had that camera for a week and a half and had nearly 100 photos and videos on it and I lost it. The old camera we had I don't think I could have lost if I tried, I get a brand new one that was a lot of fun and I lost it. So much for my early birthday, christmas, and anniversary present. I SUCK! and I am incredibly mad that someone would take a camera from a lady with one baby strapped to her chest and another in her arms. It wasn't a big beach and anyone who was there would have known who just walked in that area and where I would have been.
So, sorry for the lack of pictures to the previous posts but now you know why.
On a positive note, I did find 20 cents on the beach when the guy with the metal detector was there so only a whole lot of money minus 20 cents to go for another new camera.

Halloween Fun

I was so excited for Elliette's first trick or treating adventure. On the 30th the Aquarium had a Halloween party for members so we dressed Elliette up in her cute costume (she was a zebra, cutest one ever) and went down for the party and the fish. While we were there we saw stilt walkers, got a little candy, got our hands painted (she was to young for her face), saw a magician, danced a little, and looked at the exhibits. Elliette also had a really great time walking through the gift shop and looking at all the toys and books. She is pretty funny when she is shopping; she was looking around at everything and eventually picked one toy that she carried around with her for a little and then would put it away and find a new one until she was done. Camryn wore her cute little pumpkin hat and slept the whole time.
On the 31st we dressed the girls up again and went to the mall where we ate dinner and saw a guy carve a HUGE pumpkin to look like an old mans face, it was amazing. The kids could also trick or treat but we left to go to the ward trunk or treat and didn't think Elliette needed that much candy.
Elliette was so cute at the trunk or treat, I took her around to each of the cars while Justin and Camryn sat in the trunk handing out candy to all the cute little kids. The first trunk we came to where she was haned candy she looked at what got tossed in her bucket and then took off towards the grass so she could go eat it, I had to chase after her and bring her to the next car to show her that it was ok and I wasn't going to take things from her. She was probably the cutest Zebra there could ever be and very polite and would wait her turn at each trunk, people would even let her choose her own candy and she would look the bowl over reach in and pick out the one piece that she wanted. I had to keep reminding her to put the candy in her bucket so she would have free hands and not loose her candy. After each trunk she would turn around and run to the trunk we had just come from because she knew they were giving out candy so I spent a lot of time chasing after her and showing her which direction to go. She sure did have a giant smile on her face the whole time and at the end I had told her to say thanks to everyone so she signed thank you the whole walk back to the car. And in case you were wondering, no we did not eat all of her candy - we may not be the best parents in the world but we did learn that we can bribe a 14 month old to pick up her toys with smarties.
Again, we had the CUTEST pictures and videos of her and I lost them so I will try and see if I can get a few of her in her costume from some people in the ward and post them later.

Ellie and Isa

Ellie has a cute little friend here named Isa that we hang out with. It is so fun to watch them together talking and playing and then becoming selfish and not wanting to share and then feeding each other their treats. They seem to act a lot alike and even have some of the same tendencies which makes them even more fun to watch.
The other day Lisa and I walked the kids down to the beach to watch the boys run (Justin and Shaun are in the same unit here) because some of the unit was dressing up and we thought it would be fun. While we were down there we snapped a few pics of the girls on the beach but because I SUCK I lost them all when I lost my camera. I will try and get some pics from Lisa and post them later.

Pumpkin Patch

So about a week ago we took Elliette to a Pumpkin patch and let her pick out her own little pumpkin. She was so cute walking around and picking through the little pumpkins to find the one she wanted. Camryn was also very cute wearing her little pumpkin hat that is to big for her little head. They had some really cute wagons that I wanted to load up with pumpkins and get pictures of the two of them in with the pumpkins but Camryn was sleeping and my camera was having MAJOR issues and eventually died so I am lucky I got the pictures that I did. Elliette and I also turned her pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern with the use of a crayon (I was being a party pooper and didn't want the mess or have to buy an itsy bitsy knife). I did the face and she did a great job coloring and adding the little marks around the face.

This is what happens when ...

Your 14 month old finds a box of packing peanuts.

Happy early birthday, christmas, and anniversary to us

So for our Christmas, Birthday, and Anniversary we decided to get something big and combine them all. Well this was actually Justins plan but it was great. My laptop has been dying for quite some time and so Justin got me a new little netbook and I LOVE IT! I have also been wanting a new camera for a while since ours is about 5 yrs old and HUGE compared to what they have now and takes poor quality pictures and I had to keep the batteries out of the camera until I wanted to use it or the batteries would always be dead when I wanted it. That made it very hard to capture the quick cute moments when I had to hurry and find the batteries, put them in the camera and hope Elliette didn't notice or I would miss the moment. But since it still worked we just dealt with it. Well the other day it decided to poop out on me and I had to push the power button at least 10 times to get it to stay on long enough to take one picture and then it just completely died so we got me a new camera to go with my netbook, isn't Justin great.
Justin has wanted a new TV since his was a bit older and it had a lot of burn in causing it to have shadows everywhere so we found a good deal and got him a nice new tv. Now we are both set and content on presents until next year.