Trunk-or-treat

Last night was our ward trunk-or-treat, here is Bridget in her ladybug costume! I wanted to take pictures outside but I knew it would be impossible for her to sit still.

She loved the feel of her dress, and chewed on it on the way to the church!

I gave her this for bribery, and before I knew it, half of it was gone! So I took the wrapper off and she ate the rest!

Bridget & I-Josh was getting the truck ready to pass out candy.

Lucky girl talked me into letting her have a lollipop. Everyone thought she was so cute, I would have to agree!

Yesterday we enjoyed the nice weather and did some more work in the yard. We laid a landscape fabric to block the weeds, and then put mulch over it. Here is Josh using his truck to it's fullest!

Bridget looks like a rag-muffin, but she LOVES playing outside and getting into whatever she can! And yes, that is dirt on her face!

Josh said it looked like she got into a box of oreos!

Pumpkin Carving

Tuesday night we carved pumpkins and Bridget LOVED eating the pumkin. I put her on the table with us and I thought she was going to be a pill, but she just sat there playing with the pumpkin guts! She saw us putting our hands in the pumpkins, so she wanted to give it a try!

This was right as she was throwing some of the guts at Josh!

She would pick pieces of the pumpkin off and eat it!

It's good for you, right? Here she is with a mouth full of seeds! At first I didn't want her putting the seeds in her mouth because I was afraid of her swallowing them. Later, she snuck a couple, and when I put my hand in front of her mouth she would spit them right out. She just loved the pumpkin flavor I guess!

Our final products!

Yard work

A couple weekends ago we were out in the yard raking leaves, and Josh put Bridget up in a tree! He got her positioned, she stayed still and we started snapping away!

Eckert's

Today Josh had the day off for Colombus Day. We decided to go to Eckert's farm in Illinois. It's about 45 minutes away, it has apples and pumpkins in the fall, christmas trees in the winter and peaches in the summer. The farm also had little carnival rides, and there was no height limit! They let us ride all the rides with Bridget! But first, we played on the swings! They had these cute horse swings

They also had these huge tire swings

Haybells make for great photos!

Bridget loved the petting zoo!

Josh bought some food for them, he gave a piece to Bridget and she just ate it. hahaha

Feeding the camels carrots

I could not get this girl to crack a smile!!

Have you ever watched a pig race? We hadn't, but it was hilarious!

Lovin' some apple cider!

Getting every last drop!

On the big swings!

I thought this picture was cute that Josh snapped. Bridget started putting her hand out and showing some excitement. It was so cute.

Saw this view of the city from the parking lot

Rodeo

Last night we took Bridget to her first rodeo! We wanted to go this summer, but with Josh being gone it didn't happen. So we found this one, about 40 minutes away and decided to go! We were nervous about how Bridget would do being up late, but she did great! We got there early to eat dinner, BBQ sandwiches and AWESOME garlic fries. We wanted the full experience! There was a playground right there so we let Bridget play before it started. Josh went to go get seats, and when Bridget and I got there he had this cute cowgirl hat for her

Don't worry, this was during an intermission

We sat next to this girl who had this cute little dog! Bridget loved it and would laugh so hard when it came near her! The girl's boyfriend rides in the rodeos and she travels all through Missouri with him. I don't know how she watches him get flopped around in every direction, she said it's very nerve racking!

This last picture is Bridget being her cute self. Momements after I took this picture, Josh went to go get her and a fireman walked by and said "Can you please teach your daughter to respect the fire line?" Josh came back to me, and was like "You will never believe what he just said to me!" We thought it was funny that he wanted us to "teach" our one-year old something like that.

Can't wait to go to more rodeos next summer!

Lead by example

I don't have any pictures to go along with this post, but I just wanted to share something really cute that happend last night! As I was trying to get dinner ready, Bridget was being pretty winey. When it was done she saw me put it on the table, but I didn't want to put her in her highchair yet because I wanted to let it cool. She started freaking out and hanging onto her highchair (I guess someone was hungry?!). So I put her in it. She sat there patiently and watched me get her plate ready and cut it all up. She and I were talking and then Josh came to the table and sat down. As soon as she saw him sit down, she was silent and folded her arms! We hadn't even said "okay, let's pray now" or fold our arms, or anything! She just did it all on her own! It was the cutest thing ever! I tried not to laugh, but it was just too funny. So immediately Josh started to say a prayer, and she bowed her head and closed her eyes for a few seconds. We are quickly learning how much she is watching us, and it keeps us on our toes! I hope she keeps this up!