Denver Art Museum

A couple weeks ago the art museum had a free day. We love free days! We weren’t able to see the King Tut traveling exhibit but we still got to see a lot of great art.

We saw some amazing things – like this mural made completely of sand. The detail was incredible. 

The foxes in the red room were a little interesting.

This horse was carved sometime between 25 and 220. That’s crazy old!

This dustpan and broom reminded me of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

After the museum we went to Quiznos for lunch. Lily discovered the joy of drinking Daddy’s drink from the straw.

Little Monkey Girl

Lily has moved on from crawling to climbing. She spends all day climbing up anything and everything she can. This has made life a little more interesting and Lily has experienced her first bumps and bruises. We love our little monkey girl and her love of exploring her world.

One of the Dental Assistants at Matt’s work gave Lily this rocking horse, uh I mean zebra. She instantly loved it and quickly learned how to pull herself up to play with it.

She still needs some help with balancing when she riding it.

what I’ve been busy with

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I’ve logged many, many hours working on this book for Lily and I’m happy with how it turned out. I hope she likes it too.

The best thing about…

the first snow storm of the winter

 

is the excuse to wear these snazzy socks,

drinking this,

and snuggling with my girl watching this.

Can it get any better?

…in case you hadn’t noticed…

I’ve been updating:

7 months

Piggie Park

Grandma and Papa Visit Denver

Pick of the Patch

More Chapman’s Come to Denver

The Farmer, His Flower, and their Ladybug

8 month

We can’t believe our little girl is 8 months already. Where is the time going?!

Lily, at 8 months:     

• you are CRAWLING!! You crawled for the first time on October 18th. We were thinking you would crawl while Grandma and Papa were here but you waited till the night they left.
• your crawling is still a bit awkward but you are getting better and better everyday.
• Now that you can get around, you definitely take advantage of it. You’re little knees are turning red from all your exploring.
• Gone are the days when we could sit you down with some toys and didn’t have to worry about you wandering off
• you are sleeping through the night again! YAY!
• you continue to amaze us on how well you do when we have a busy day and you don’t get your regular naps. You are pretty content to just go with the flow.
• we have started giving you some of the food we are eating. You love pieces of bread.
• Puff’s are like candy to you. They are our go-to move when you start to get fussy.
• we put you in the big bathtub for the first time and you loved it! You are getting so big.
• this was by far the hardest photoshoot yet. As soon as I would have you set up, I’d hurry back to the camera only to find that you’d started crawling toward me. Hence the need for a toy to keep you occupied. I can only see these getting more and more difficult as the months go by.
• I wouldn’t have it any other way.

The Farmer, His Flower, and their Ladybug

We went to our ward Trunk-or-Treat and Chili cook-off (I made an awesome chili!)

Lily didn’t take very good naps that day so she wasn’t quite herself. She did not like seeing us in our costumes and cried whenever I put on my petals or Matt put his hat on.

Our ward went all out with fun games for the kids and even a bouncy house!

We brought home a balloon from the ward party. Lily discovered balloons are the best! 

I didn’t manage to get any pictures of our decorated trunk but we got the prize for Best Trunk!

The next night we went to Dan And Jessica’s trunk-or-treat and helped them decorate their trunk. So you kind of get an idea of how ours was decorated. Their ward was much more serious when it comes to decorating trunks. There was one transformed into a dragon head, and another one like a treasure chest.

This guy was awesome! Lily’s not quite sure.

They were the characters of Bolt (The Green-Eyed Man, Penny, Bolt, and Mittens)

Halloween Day was beautiful. We spent time outside raking and playing in the leaves.

Then we made our house the coolest on the street! I found this sign at Big Lots. It says, Dr. Killer Driller, DDS. Perfect sign (and probably true too) for my awesome dentist.

Yeah, it was pretty awesome… You can’t see it very well but we had a fog machine right by the door. The kids loved it. We even had some people taking pictures of our house.

Living in a house is so fun on Halloween.

More Chapman’s Come to Denver

Jason, Candice, and Jaycee came to visit us!

 

Jaycee had the best seat in the house! She loved staring at the fish. Matt has been slowly adding life to our aquarium. We now have 2 fish, several crabs, snails, and some corals. It’s really becoming a fun thing to sit and look at.

We took our visitors to Hammond’s Candy Factory

The packaging room was packed this time with little elves getting all the candies ready for Christmas.

Before our tour started, Jason read The Polar Express with the girls. He is such a good uncle. 

We got so see some candy makers start some candy canes. It is a very interesting process. I thought it was cool that one person stays with their candy through all the different steps until it is all finished.

We went to our new favorite cafe for breakfast. We love it because it’s within walking distance of our house, it’s eclectic, and of course the food is wonderful.

 

Matt was there too but I guess I didn’t get a picture of him. Sorry babe.

That night the rest of the fam came over. Lily was having a blast when Sophie and Jessica were playing with her. They would spin around and Sophie would surprise her. The giggles were infectious.

Aunt Jessica is the best! Where’s that finger going, Tess?!

Matt and I don’t wear watches so Lily was fascinated by Jason and Candice’s.

Jaycee has the cutest little smile!

And, of course, we had to get some updated portraits of cute little Jaycee at 3.5 months. Look at that tongue, she’s got personality!

Bumbo Buddies 

 We carved pumpkins, always a favorite!

Sophie and Tessa painted pumpkins too. Their pumpkins looked great!

Matt carved the skeleton, Sophie and Jessica carved the cat, and Cami carved the tick-or-treating goblin

Monday we went to lunch at Which Wich, one of our favorite sandwich places.

That afternoon we went to Dan’s Swearing in Ceremony and then had dinner at The Cherry Cricket 

As you can tell, it was a very “attention-keeping” ceremony. Jason and Jaycee got a lot out of it :)