Christmas in Utah

 

We stopped by Grandpa and Fae's house our first full day here. Bailey loved sitting with dad and watching Grandpa's train go round and round the village!

Sadly we didn't have our camera with us when we went to Provo so we didn't get any pictures. We also took a quick trip up to Idaho to visit Liz and found this enormous stocking!

but I daresay that Christmas day was her favorite! she opened all her presents and ate ALL of the wrapping paper!!!

over all we think she had a fantastic time in Utah visiting and meeting all of her family.

Getting ready for Christmas

Bailey has recently accuired a love for her stuffed puppy... while I was packing she was playing on our bed and getting a little fussy so I handed her the puppy to play with. She played contently for a while and then went silent... when I went to check her she had fallen asleep!!!

How cute is she!!!

Christmas

We're having a lot of fun dressing up Bailey, and she's having a lot of fun entertaining us with smiles, giggles, and lots of trying to flip over.

 

We went out this evening with our friends Tucker, Amy and Jill and saw the lights in down town Cleveland(sadly our camera ran out of batteries and we didn't' get a picture of them)

(if you notice my cheeks are all puffy from getting my wisdom teeth pulled Tuesday...ouch!)

Thanksgiving Break

This Thanksgiving we went to Wisconsin where Bailey was able to meet her Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa Gilman! They both loved her, of course, and she had quite a good time showing off...

We were really lucky to get a picture with Great-Grandma, Grandma, Mom and Baby

Bailey also had a good time hanging out with Daddy(he was sick most of our trip...)

playing with her cousin Aurora, and sleeping with her Aunt Cheryl.

Bailey Bear

Bailey and I were invited to go to the Zoo today with some of our friends and guess what we found...

BEARS!!! (daddy's favorite!)

You can't see the black bear very well in this picture, but the little white bear in my arms is sure cute!

Halloween

This year I decided to make Bailey's and Jared's costumes. Jared is a monkey and Bailey is his banana!

(Jared's costume is technically a Bear, and many people confused him for one, but his long tail is supposed to make it more monkey-like)

Before I was able to finish the costumes we went to a CADA (a club for dental student spouses) Halloween party with some of our friends.

(us of course)

The Perkins(Olivia, Jeron, Abby, and little baby Violet is pretty well hidden in the sling on her mom)

The Arnall's (Brandy, Jesse, and Seth)

The Flinstones, I mean the VanYperen's (Tucker, Amy, and Jill)

Canning

We decided to make apple sauce and grape jelly with the fruit that we picked.  We hadn't made either before, but we never let that stop us.

 My job was alot of work! I had so many apples to peel and slice for the sauce. We'd picked about 5 different types of apples so our sauce is definitely one of a kind.

Jared had his work cut out for him too. He had to peel half of the grapes for the jam recipe... lets just say it took a while.

In the end our work paid off! We have some amaizing jam and applesauce

(pictured above is only the jam!)

Packers vs Vikings...

As we all know Jared is a HUGE football fan. So when my parent's found this outfit they had to get it for little Bailey.

Unfortunately she didn't get to stay up to watch the game... maybe another time... but we had a lot of fun dressing her up and taking pictures.

Grampa Shelley stops by to visit

Knock Knock...

Who's There?

Is that GRAMPA SHELLEY?

It IS, it IS!

This is a Beautiful relationship.

Thanks for coming!

Country visit with the Lewis'

All smiles as we visit the pumkin patch

Maybe you can't see it, but Bailey is smiling too...

Words can't describe the feeling you get when you find that perfect pumkin.

When others saw our perfect pumkins, we had to protect them.

We also went apple picking...

Some people were more excited than others!

ZZZZZZ......

Here's to a job well done!  Thanks Uncle Aaron.

Pumpkin' Huntin'

Saturday we took Bailey out to pick apples, grapes, and her very first pumpkin. She was less than motivated most the day, but in the end had a great time.