Thanksgiving 2017

This Thanksgiving we spent at home with some great friends that came to visit us from Southern CO! We had lots of good food and conversation, and we're so sad that the Reeds have moved so far away!

Molly helping me make peanut butter pie!

Love these peeps!

The day after we went to the tree lighting down town. Molly loved watching the choirs sing! Carson was bundled up in his stroller.

Thanks-a-ween!

Gosh, I feel like I'm so busy lately... must be that time of year. Well here's a catch up post about Halloween, Thanksgiving, and some other fall activities!

We went to a pumpkin patch as a family and picked out some pretty pumpkins (which we never ended up carving).  Molly loved playing with the pumpkins, running through the kiddy corn maze, and being pulled around in a wagon.

Matt and I were able to get out on a triple date with some friends to Anderson Farms to play zombie paintball.  That was such a fun night out and we've agreed we need to do group dates more often!

Halloween was fun this year with a walking baby to dress up. We dressed Molly in this pillow of a zebra costume and she loved it. She kept patting her padded tummy with first time I put it on here which was for the library's treat-or-treat.  She didn't really understand the whole idea and would put the last piece of candy she got into the next person's bucket.  But she had a great time!

We also dressed up for the ward part and for the actually holiday. Molly got to try some smarties, but the rest of the candy was for Mommy and Daddy! Yum.

Grandma and Grandpa Kleinlein were able to come visit in early November which was a blast. We drove up to Estes Park and walked around and it was cold!

Thanksgiving was fun this year, except for the fact that our oven broke a week before! We already had a crack in the stove top so it was time to get a new one. Our new one has a meat roast setting so our turkey turned out delicious! We had Matt's sisters visit, and ate lots of yummy food. Molly's favorite was Jello, Matt's was the pumpkin pie I made, and my favorite is always the stuffing! It was a white Thanksgiving so we got to play in the snow too! Molly loved the snow, but hated her snowsuit.

 

Black Friday at Home Depot

Longmont Tree Lighting

Playing at the mall playground

Other mentionable things that happened this fall:

• Molly got really sick for the first time. It was sooo sad! She wanted to do nothing but cuddle, which is so not like her. 

• We got a new car. We have no pictures of it, but we love our Ford Escape!

• Molly has been learning like crazy, and I am so excited for her to start talking more and more!

One Year Old

Molly is now a one year old.  I can't believe how fast the past year has flown by.  I love being her mommy and love watching her learn and grow.  Her are some of her adorable birthday pictures:

 

For Molly's birthday we decided to try out the Denver Zoo.  We weren't sure how much she would get out of it, but it ended up being really fun.  She would only look at big animals that were moving, and she called all of those animals "dog" which sounds like "deeg deeg".  The weather was AMAZING and she was pretty happy most of the time. Afterwards we went to KFC for lunch and she had some yummy mac & cheese, and then we came home to open presents and eat another piece of that cute little cake.  She ate an adult size piece in about 10 seconds, and then cried for more! Looks like we got a dessert lover just like her momma.

Spoiled baby!

Playing with her new toys

 

Well here's what else Molly has been up to this month:

• Wears 12 and 18 months clothes and size 4 diapers
• Weighs about 22 pounds
• Walks like a expert, and is getting faster by the minute
• Is now completely done with bottles and just has her formula/water/juice out of a sippy cup
• Understands A LOT more words (and probably a lot more than I think she does) including shoes, kick, clothes, banana, head, hair, and book
• Loves shoes.  She carries around her shoes all day long and will search for shoes if you say the word.  She also likes to admire herself in the shoes she's wearing
• Is starting to "read"  books to herself.  She will sit and play and babble with a book for about 5 minutes
• Likes to hold one thing in each hand constantly.  And most of the time is has to be the same thing in each hand
• Went to her first wedding of her Aunt Carissa and new uncle Justin
• Loves to play peek-a-boo.  She plays with the people begin her at church, and plays with me when there is any clothes or blankets on the ground
• Loves to eat and her favorites are string cheese, cauliflower, and crackers
• Likes going to story time at the library and is very social... she mostly likes to go say hi to all the other parents in the room and especially the story teller
• Destroys everything! Haha.. OK maybe not destroys, but these days it's impossible to do laundry, or tidy up any room because Molly loves to follow me around and undo everything. 
• Loves pushing buttons and thinks every small round dot is a button. She also like to turn of the lights using the light-switch
• Takes one 2 hour nap during the day, and still sleeps so great at night
• Has 4 meals a day of finger food, baby food and milk, juice or water
• Loves to open drawers and door and take out all the contents.  Her pajama drawer is her favorite
• Is growing up way too fast and is such a joy in our lives!

Here's some more picture from this month:

We never know where the remote is

I can't ever get a non blurry picture!