Rory is 2 months old!

We had Rory's 2 month appointment today! She was 9lbs 13ozs and 22.5 inches long. Girl is TINY compared to her big sister. She is SUCH a good baby. Here are some cute pictures I took with the crappy camera. I hope to have some good ones up soon!

Halloween

Here is our Halloween saga...

Earlier this year Cadence wanted to be the Little Mermaid for Halloween. I looked and looked and finally found a costume and ordered it (got a pretty good deal with free shipping...can't beat that!). It arrived and Cadence was in total love with the costume and wore it all the time. I thought we were good.
About three weeks before Halloween Cadence started telling everyone that she wanted to be a witch. It got to the point were I finally took her to look for a witch costume. She picked one out and was excited about it. We gave the kid that worked at Party City the number and 20 minutes later they brought us the costume (it was busy...REALLY BUSY). We pull it out of the the bag and there is no hat and the light up sparkly part doesn't work. I ask if they have another one. Nope. So they sell it to me for half price. On the way home I remember that there is another Party City close to where we live so we stop by to see if they have a costume with a hat and that works. We wait and wait and wait (they were busy too and on top of the busy part they were very un-organized). Finally they have one for us and it works and has a hat! Yay! We go to exchange it and the kid working there just traded straight across for the new one. So I still got the complete costume for half price. Pretty nice.
We take the costume home and try it on. It was hard to get on and very itchy. Cady was upset. I fixed what I could and bought a leotard for her to wear under it so it wouldn't itch her. Night before our trunk or treat she wouldn't put it on. REFUSED very VIOLENTLY to put it on. Brady and I were at a loss, and I was a mess since it was unlikely that we would be able to take it back now. The next morning I pulled the costume out and Cady started to bawl.
Off we went to Target so see if maybe we could find another costume. Lucky for us they had a really cute witch costume in Cady's size.
That afternoon Cady let me curl her hair with the curling iron for the very first time. Here were the results. As my sweet sister-in-law would say, "Trouble on two legs."

She got to wear some of my make up as well. She was in girlie heaven! Here was my witch!

Rory was a witch too. I found the little beanie at Target in the dollar bins. Love those things. The onesie says "This is my costume."

We had a blast at the trunk or treat! Rory chilled with Dad the whole time and Cady had so much fun as we went from car to car. She also got to have some cotton candy, a hot dog, and a scone! I hope that everyone had a great Halloween!

Carving the pumpkin

Last night we carved our pumpkin! It was super fun and lasted all of 30 minutes thanks to Brady's rad pumpkin cleaning skills. Cady picked out the pattern and watched as her picture was carved. She LOVED it just like last year. I can't wait for the Trunk or Treat tomorrow night (Thursday). Cady is going to have a blast! Here are some pictures...

Also I finally got Rory smiling on camera...here is her normal camera face...

And her adorable smiling face!

Hope that everyone is having a blast getting ready for Halloween!

Our house...

Here is our house. Don't mind the mess, we are still working on getting things organized. Also these pictures were taken with my crappy point and shoot. I can't up load any pictures from my good cameras to this computer for whatever reason. So we are working on that. In the mean time I wanted you all to be able to see the house and how it is shaping up!

Here is the view from the front: (with my mom's behemoth of a truck in the driveway)

Yes that is my mom on the balcony. She was using her new miter saw (sp?) to finish cutting the chair rail for Cady's room.

Here is our guest/workout room downstairs. We have a day bed with trundle and our handy dandy treadmill.

There is a full bath downstairs which my sister Whitney and her husband Cord can attest is very nice. :o)

In the hall leading to the bedroom downstairs there was a little inset area that we decided would be perfect for half my book collection.

Our living room.

And Dining room...

And here is the kitchen. We love that the downstairs is practically one big room. Easy to keep track of the kids!

Here is what you see when you come in our front door...

Up stairs we have the loft...which has become the toy/craft/computer room.

Here is the third upstairs bedroom. It is officially our "crap" room. All the stuff we don't know what to do with yet is in this room. The other half of my book collection is up here as well.

Here is a close up of the gold chair rail in Cady's room...

Here is Cady's room. She wanted a princess themed room. Once the chair rail is up we have a bunch of wall stickers of the Disney princesses that we will be putting up as well. I will take more pictures when it is finished!

The kids bathroom:

The master bathroom:

And the Master bedroom. I LOVE my room.

So that is the basic tour of our house! I will post more pictures as we finish things and get more organized. So far my favorite thing is having my own bedroom! So nice! We also have a small back yard (not too small) which I will post pictures of once we get permission to landscape it.

Mail box keys are hard to come by...

So since we moved in we have been waiting to get our mail box key. We had to take our title documents down to the post office and they would check that we actually owned the house and then they give us our key. Sounds simple right? Not so much.
I went down the first Saturday we lived in the house (I don't have a car during the week since Brady's died on us). I waited in line for 45 minutes and then waited for another 20 while the guy at the counter looked for the key. He came back and told me they didn't have it yet and to come back in a week. Bummer. So I came back the following weekend. Another 30 minute wait...still don't have it. The third weekend (this past weekend) we decided to call first. They still don't have our key and then told us that the builder had yet to release it. Ummmm...right. Called the builder. They have no idea what USPS was talking about but said that they would look into it and to call back Monday. I called Tuesday and the builder tells me that they don't have keys to release since the post office is the one that installs our boxes and then mail themselves the keys to give to us home owners. Great. This is getting FUN now. So I call back the post office. The chick that answered the phone was great. When I asked about our key she immediately asks me if I live on Headrick. I say yes. She then explains that they are holding out mail at the post office since our box hasn't been installed yet (there is only one on the street and it only has 12 boxes in it...there are about 20 finished houses on the street...yeah didn't add up for me either and I suck at math). So once the box has been installed we will get a key. For now we have to get our mail at the post office. I asked if they were going to reimburse me for gas. She just laughed...I think she thought I was joking.

*Sigh*

All the babies...and some about our house

Well! Things have certainly been crazy for us lately. Rory was born September 2nd and our life was turned upside down. I then got sick with Laryngitis. So fun. (Yes that was some sarcasm) Then we finally got to sign all our documents and got the keys to our house! That was an awesome day! We moved in September 27th with some help from family, friends and some wonderful guys from our ward (who really should just be counted in the friends department...I owe you guys some cookies or something). Our house is coming along just great! I will have pictures up soon I promise. Then on September 30th we got the great news that Ryan and Megan had their baby early! We drove up the Sunday after he was born to visit. Aidric is super cute and Cady talks about him all the time. We can't wait for them to come and visit us now that we have room for people to stay with us...we even have a bed for visitors to stay in! Here is a picture of Cady with her new cousin.

Rory was a month old on the 2nd. She is growing like crazy and cooing a bit now, though she prefers to watch everything around her. She loves to be cuddled, swing in her swing, and sleeps very well so long as mommy or daddy is near by.

These pictures are a bit older, but I wanted to put them up. Cady was outside learning to hit a ball with a bat with Brady and Grandpa Randy shortly before we moved. Eventually it degenerated to this...

The next two pictures are just plain funny. The first one was Cady and Rory crashing on their dad one night. I don't think it was even that late at night, but Cady had apparently decided that it was time for bed.

This one is great too. Rory was probably three or four days old in this picture. We hadn't slept the much the night before and Cady crawled right up next to us on the couch and decided to take a nap with us. Brady found us all like this when he got home.

And here is one of adorable Tyson. That kid just gets cuter every day.

Anyway, two days after we got back from visiting Ry and Meg I got the worst head cold I have ever had...and I still have it. Darn cold won't give it up. Stinks. Other than that things are awesome for us. It got really cold here in Vegas and I had to go and buy Cady some jeans and long sleeve shirts since all her stuff from last year is WAY to small. She is in 4T now. The child just won't slow down. She really is going to be 6 feet tall or close to it. Rory is growing the same way. Looks like I will be the shortest in my family yet again. It's all good though.

I hope that you all are doing well and that everyone is looking forward to the holidays! Halloween here we come!

Busy Busy

I just wanted to say that we are doing well. We moved into our new house and are busy getting everything painted and put away. Cady loves her new house and her room. Rory is gowing like a weed and very observant right now. I will have pictures soon!