Witchy Women

Happy Halloweener!

We had a great Halloween. The girls and I all went as witches. They were so cute! We had tons of fun eating candy and trick-or-treating and partying. We went to our ward party on Friday night and Ady got to play in the bounce houses and trunk-or-treat. Then on Saturday we did a little old fashioned trick-or-treating and then went to a karaoke party at our friend's house in Norman. It was an awesome party, thanks JQ. The only sad thing was that I couldn't get Zack to dress up for any of it. Oh well he has an eternity with me, maybe some day...

Ady with her nursery teachers.

I know you think those tights are super sexy, right?

We went trick-or-treating with some friends from our

neighborhood. Aren't they all so cute!

Ady and Hannah

Ady showing off her Trick-or-treating skills, with Drew close behind.

Super Slacker

Here is an update on us...

WARNING: very long and no pictures

We've had a pretty crazy month. To start of with, Brinkley got a really mild case of the swine flu. She had a low fever for three days, but she tested positive for it, who knew. Then Zack's parents and sister came out to visit for Brinkley's birthday on the 10th. It's hard to believe that she is already one year old! She is the cutest little one year old. I emphasize little, because she is so tiny. For weight she is less than the 3rd percentile, and for height she is around the 50th. She's just a skinny little baby. She's been crawling for just over two months, and is really starting to take her first steps by herself. She's been getting better and better at walking. She's really good and holding on to Ady's little car and walking herself all around the house. She is a fireball. Her and Ady have started to have some pretty funny little fights, she can be quite the ornery little fetcher. I'm all done nursing her; hooray!, but she won't drink milk, only drinkable yogurts. And she has to have the cutest little butt on the planet!

Just before Brinkley's birthday, Zack got bit by a tick in his belly button (we are true Oklahomans now, Zack got a tick in the backyard!). He didn't know what was biting him, so he reached down and yanked it out. Then he had to get tweezers to pull the rest out. It was really disgusting. Then like three days after that he started getting fever and chills. So he went to the doctor, who didn't test him for anything, and claimed he was getting Lyme disease. He prescribed him three antibiotics and sent him home. We are now fairly certain he didn't have a tick borne illness, but rather he had his bout with swine flu, because he gave it to Savanna while she was here. Anyway, Zack is plugging away at school and really not enjoying it. He has boards coming up around Thanksgiving, so he'll need lots of prayers.

Ady is getting so big and she is way to smart for our good. She talks like a four year old, but definitely acts like a two year old. She loves nursery and playing with friends. She loves nursing and changing her dolly's diaper. She really wanted to be spiderman for Halloween, but she's a witch instead. She likes to insult me and then hurry and fix it by saying, "you're cute mom". She is really good at pushing my buttons and driving me crazy, and she knows it. But she is a really good and sweet big sister; most of the time. She has decided to take up dancing with her daddy. Every night she finds some random clothing or blanket and tries to wear it like a dress. Then she walks up to Zack and holds out her had and asks him to dance with her. It's so cute!

She scoots

It's true, Brinkley is finally mobile!!  Last Sunday she finally figured out how to get around.  She scoots so cute-like.  She's getting really good at it too.  In fact she's getting so good it's almost a real crawl.  It's so fun to watch her scoot her tiny body all over the floor.  She is also pulling herself up to standing on things.  We thought she'd never be able too cause she's got such skinny legs, but she's doing it.  It's so awesome.  She is also the cheesiest baby ever.  The last couple days she has had so much fun grinning at other people and scrunching her face all up and breathing hard.  It's so funny.  She will also dance on command now, which is so fun, and she's pointing at things.  Her top two teeth are also coming in, so she's been mucho fussy.  Oh, and I finally got her nine month pictures done; which it turns out are going to be ten month pictures because I'm a procrastinator.  Anyway, she has been so much fun lately and we love her to death, and we are also realizing that she and Ady are going to be fighters.  They already fight over like every toy, and Brinkley is not as passive as we thought she'd be.  Oh well, I guess that's what sister are supposed to do.

Is it just me, or is Ol' McDonald a little crazy?

So, one of Ady's favorite songs right now is Ol' McDonald had a farm.  She calls it "i o i o" which is obviously really cute.  But lately the farmer has had some pretty weird things on his farm.  The other night at bed time she ask Zack to sing it (and when she asks for it she also tells us what animal to sing about on the farm).  First she ask for an octopus, and told us it says "blolel blolel" (with a funky tongue thing).  And we thought that was so funny, because like a farmer would have an octopus.  But then she ask for it again, only this time he had a cookie, and the cookie says "yum yum".  Next he had a princess that says "pretty pretty".  And my all time favorite, he had a bucket on his farm that said "pick pick".  I don't even know where she gets this stuff from.  

    Ol McDonald had a farm, e i e i o

    And on this farm he had a bucket, e i e i o

    With a pick pick here and pick pick there

    Here a pick, there a pick, everywhere a pick pick

   Ol McDonald had a farm, e i e i o

I get the princess saying pretty and the cookies saying yum, but I'm just not sure why the bucket says pick.  If you ask me, it sounds like Ol' McDonald is a little tipsy.  Ady is so funny, we just can't get enough of her.

Also, lately she likes to tell me I'm cute.  At first I thought it was so cute and sweet, but now I know why.  She only likes to tell me that after she has done or said something naughty.  Like she'll say something mean to me and I'll say "what?" (you know, in the tone of voice so she knows she's done something wrong).  And instead of repeating herself she looks and me and says so sweetly, "you're cute mom".  What a stinker.

Can I just say that I love summer

I am so great... at blogging!!!  Well and other things too, but specially blogging.  We have had a really sweet summer so far.  Right after the semester ended for Zack we headed to Utah for my cousin's wedding.  Congratulations Ali and Matt!  They are so cute together.  

The girls in Manti.

I love my family, and I'm so glad we got to be there for a week.  Then we headed off to Lake Powell with Zacko's family.  And can I just say that I love them too!  We had so much fun.  Our girls and Lake babies.  They loved the water and the sand and the sun, and they really loved the boats.  Plus we ate a lot of delicious junk food.  Yum!  I love junk food!  The highlight of the whole trip to Utah was that I got to eat lots and lots of Extreme Moose Tracks ice cream!  The biggest unhighlight of the trip was that we drove.  Not so fun with two babies named Ady and Brinkley.  We even drove at night so that they would sleep the whole way, except it backfired and they didn't sleep that great.  So anyway, I vowed never to do it again, and yet we are, planning our drive back for Christmas.  Anyhow, after Lake Powell we went to Moab for my family reunion.  It was so fun to see most of my Mom's family, they are so awesome and sweet.  All in all it was a great trip!

All the Grandbabies at Lake Powell.

In other news.  Brinkley is now in the 5th percentile for weight, and the 50th-ish for height.  She's so un-Ady.  She is also starting to get pretty sassy. She gets a little fired up when the Ady sister touches her and bugs her.  She is finally eating rice cereal, and other human food (as opposed to baby food).  Cereal is the only baby food she'll eat with out gagging.  She loves goldfish already and it makes her dad so proud.  She is also really close to crawling.  She's scooting around a little bit for now, and working on her crawling form.  It won't be long now ...    

The most incredibly awesome, cutest, sweetest amazing playhouse ever!

For the last three weeks, Zack has been completely occupied with building a playhouse for the girls.  It is so awesome.  I've helped a little, just painting and planning, but Zack has done the rest.  He did have help a couple of days from our friend Jordan; Thanks Jordan.  It's also incredibly incredible because he has built almost the entire thing from scraps.  We've been scavenging the neighborhood where they are building new houses and taking the scraps to build it.  We even found some sweet carpet in one of the dumpsters.  Anyway, see for yourself how awesome it is.  Beware you may "go blind from over exposure to Pure Awesomness" (kung fu panda). 

Both the girls love it.  Brinkley thinks it's so fun to look out the windows

 and play peek-a-boo with Ady.  

It's obviously not done yet, but it's getting very close.  I picked out the purple, isn't it awesome.  The inside will be a sea foam green color when we're all done.  There is even an upper level on the inside, it's so sweet.  Enjoy! 

It's Official...

Zack is exactly one quarter dentist today!  He just finished his first year of dental school today.  It's been a crazy year for him, but he did so awesome.  In the last two weeks he saw his first patient.  He was nervous about it, but he said she was really nice and everything went pretty good.  He still has an amazing GPA, and is ranked pretty high in his class.  I'm so proud of him!!