Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Sorry to have overwhelmed you with three videos in the last post (mostly for the grandmas), but the first one is pretty funny. Unfortunately, she is done with her growling phase which only lasted a few days. Now a few pictures of the little princess - can't believe she's five months.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Two new teeth! Can you see them?

Just chillin' - check out those cute tights

Happy as can be!

Hmmmm..

Funny faces

5 months old

Rachel just turned 5 months old a few days ago.  It is hard to believe how fast she is growing up. We feel like she has changed quite a bit over the past few weeks and so we wanted to post a few videos to make sure everyone is up to date.  It cannot be seen in the videos, but Rachel just got here first two teeth this week.  

Rachel being a Monster

Rachel laughing at Mom and Dad

Rachel in her new jumper

Friends with many talents

My friend, Kelly (worked with her at Tag), has a darling Etsy Shop and she's having a sale this weekend - check it out. See the link to the right under "Shop with Friends" and hers is "the urban thimble" or you can click here.

I am always impressed with all of your amazing talents - photography, handmade items, design, etc.! Leave me a comment with your link if I may have forgotten you (Cami - I couldn't find your site, can you send it to me please?).

Home Videos

Here is a video of Rachel being funny - she just discovered her voice and loves to squeal.



The video below is of her rolling over - she almost always flips to her tummy now when we lay her down on her back.

Halloween, Visitors, & Oprah

What a great weekend - Happy Halloween! My mom & her best friend and my grandma all flew in this weekend for the Oprah show on Halloween morning. It was a "Friday Live" show with the panel, so it was fun to see Gayle. David Foster also showed up and Andrea Bocelli performed - fantastic! We got Bocelli's CD and Foster's new book. Great fun!

We also hit up the ward party on Halloween night. Brandon was a teenage mutant ninja turtle (as usual - he wears the same costume every year). I have a green m&m costume, but opted to wear Brandon's Cubs jersey and I wore a bandage on my knee and said that I was a Cubs Fan who sprained my knee jumping off the bandwagon. Rachel was a pumpkin and you're not going to believe this, but this was the same costume that I wore for my first Halloween and my mom made it 25 years ago - so sweet!

We brought a friend's little four-year old, so now we sort of know what it's like to have two kids. We're good with one for now! Rachel was so tired at the party, that she fell asleep while I was holding her upright and the costume turned out to be a perfect pillow. Seriously, isn't this the cutest picture? (Don't mind the fact that she was also drueling profusely.)

Rachel & Grandma Elaine

We didn't make it to a pumpkin patch this year, but this shot will have to do. :) Brandon also carved a pumpkin with Rachel this week and they did such a good job!


Here are the ladies at Harpo Studios for the Oprah show. We also got to go see Wicked - amazing! (I know...it was my third time, but mom offered to buy my ticket, so I couldn't turn it down!) Thanks to the ladies for a fun weekend and a special thanks to Brandon for staying home with Rachel lots!