Jordan & Kylie

I just wanted a post for all the adorable pictures I've taken of Jordan and Kylie this month. They've had their challenging moments, but they've also been extra cute lately and I want to share that cuteness.

As you can tell by these top 3 pictures, Jordan loves to climb into anything.

My little cheerleader.

Kylie helped me make mini pizzas the other day and she did such a good job! She also helped me make some banana pumpkin bread. Today even, she helped make pumpkin cream cheese muffins. I've decided to try to have her help me make something at least once a week. I'd like her to get more excited about cooking and helping out in the kitchen. I love that she's able to be a bit more involved now and that makes it fun.

While shopping, Kylie made me stop so she could check out the makeup section. Haha!

Their favorite activity outside is playing in the garden together.

Digging into the grapes that I picked. I couldn't pick grapes while they were outside. They were magnets to the box.

Love.

Kylie wanted to push Jordan on the swing and he loved it.

The Costco employee made a life changing idea. She split the one smoothie into two cups! No more fighting! Genius.

Gardner Village/Fall Festival

Wednesday, October 5th Scott had a soccer game at 5:20pm. His games are usually between 7-11, so to have one that early was rare. Since it was early enough, the kids and I tagged along as well as Scott's parents and Andrew. Scott's team won and then we headed to Gardner Village (which is right next door) to walk around. We wanted to feed the ducks, but we only saw one so that didn't work out like we thought. It was a little chilly outside, so we walked quickly through and then headed for dinner at McDonald's.

Then on Friday the 7th we headed down to hang out with Scott's parents. The original idea was for me to work, but after practicing a violin number for Jocelyn's baptism (and I realized how long it has been since I've played) it just didn't happen. There was a little fall festival going on in Saratoga, so we went to check it out. We got there not too long after it started and it was already pretty crowded. They had this mini train, but it only held 5 people at a time and so the line for that was super long. There was a tiny, tiny pumpkin patch to buy pumpkins as well as a small maze for the kids to go through and get candy. There was also free face painting, but the line for that was long as well. Other than that, there wasn't much else to do. I will say that the park was pretty cool looking, but since there were so many kids there it was hard to enjoy it. We'll have to go back and check it out another time when it's not crowded. Oh, we did lose Kylie for a bit there and that got my heart going. Scott was smart and headed straight to the park since he figured that's where she would head. When he saw Kylie, she said to him that I lost her! Oh that made my mommy heart sad. Since having kids, going anywhere super crowded gives me some anxiety and I'd rather stay home than go out and deal with the crowd. We left and then headed back to Scott's parents house for some dessert.

General Conference

General conference in the fall is always the first weekend in October. Since I've got kids, it's hard to truly listen to every talk that's given. I'll have to read the talks again to get a true understanding of what was spoken, but here's some quotes of ones that I liked. I think it's good for me to post here to just have these quotes to look back on.

Jordan's 1st birthday!

We celebrated Jordan's birthday on his birthday, Sunday October 2nd. It was general conference weekend and so we didn't have to worry about going to church. That turned out nice since I could focus on getting things ready for the party without stress. Family came over for dinner around 4 and then we opened presents.

Kylie had a hard time realizing the gifts were not for her.

People showed up around 6 and once everyone arrived, we sang happy birthday and blew out the candle. We did Kylie's first birthday party on a Sunday and we did desserts and I liked how well that worked and so I decided to do that again. After looking at pictures of Disneyland, it only made sense to make his party a Winnie the Pooh theme. I had originally wanted to do dinosaurs, but I liked the softer aspect of Winnie the Pooh. We had simple decorations, a cake and smash cake (made by my awesome friend Janora), honeycomb treats and Tigger tails. I quickly put together a slide show of pictures that we put on the T.V. and then Scott put together a quiz about Jordan using the kahoot.it website again. Doing quizzes like this work great at parties. Jordan did great and he loved his birthday cake. It was a wonderful celebration of a wonderful kid.

The entry table when you walked in the door.

Piglet's punch. It was Scott's idea to make the honey pots.

Month by month banner.

Isn't this the most adorable smash cake?!

Was seriously in awe over how great this cake looked.

This sign got pulled down twice before we started the party. I had to tape the 'E' back together.

Jordan was making blowing noises.

Doing the quiz about Jordan.

Invitation that I made.