Happy Birthday Brighton!

I'll write more about Brighton turning two later, but I wanted to get some birthday pictures up for the grandparents.

Opening presents with Grandma & Grandpa Nelson

Eating her favorite meal - chicken taco!

Decorating her birthday cake - the orange sprinkles came out A LOT faster than the pink and green ones.

She pretended to be shy for a second, but was really happy to be sung to!

We didn't think she'd get the candles blown out - but she got one on the first try!!  We then of course had to re-light the candles 5 times and even then she wasn't happy when we took them out of the cake and put them away!

HALLOWEEN

Brighton & her pal Macey

Who needs to Trick or Treat when there's candy all over the ground?

Our new favorite hobby - jumping!

True love: Mickey & Minnie

I know it's a week overdue, but we've been a lil busy!  Brighton was Minnie Mouse for Halloween this year and absolutely LOVED Trick or Treating!!

Carving Pumpkins

Again, not exactly something that a 2 year old is into, but we had to carve pumpkins this year.  Brighton helped for a little bit, but soon lost interest.  It was okay though, Daddy took over and carved the pumpkin for us.

A Kind of Pumpkin Patch

There aren't Pumpkin Patches here like there are in the States - which makes sense since they don't really celebrate Halloween here.  But, there is a lady who sells pumpkins in the month of October.  Now, if you go at the beginning of October, there are hundreds of pumpkins.  But, if you wait until the end of the month, like Amber, Jill and I did, then you're stuck with about 10.  Oh well, we went, we got a picture and we'll remember next year to go earlier!

Halloween Crafts

Seeing as Brighton is still only 2, she wasn't too into doing any Halloween crafts this year.  But, I did get her to color a pumpkin with her two friends.

My Big Little Girl

Brighton's gotten really good at eating at the table in her booster seat.  She loves drinking out of a big girl cup, eating dinner with a big girl spoon and getting to eat at the table with Mommy & Daddy.  I have to say that dinner time is a lot better now that she eats with us and we don't have to coax her to swallo every single bite!  We still have fun dinners where she's not too into eating, but it's gotten a lot better.

Gavin's Birthday

A couple weekends ago we went to Gavin Naylor's 3rd birthday party. Brighton loved having all the big kids around to play with. She wasn't sure about the pinata at first, but once she saw what the other kids were doing - swinging a light saber and hitting something - she was all over it! Giving Baby Brynn kisses

The birthday boy Gavin

The GREAT cake Corby made!

Camping

We took Brighton camping this weekend for the second time ever. She selpt in her own sleeping bag and pretty much slept through the night. She woke up around 4 and I moved her into our sleeping bag cause I didn't want her crying to wake up our friends. She had a ton of fun walking around the fire, playing with sticks, drinking hot chocolate and roasting marshmallows. Tom & I were even able to have some fun!

Trying to pawn carrots off of Gavin. He wasn't thrown off by her cute looks.
Sitting with Miss "Apwil"

Buzzette Brunch

I hosted an impromptu brunch on Friday. Girls from the squadron came with their kiddos and we chatted and ate for a few hours. It was a nice release after the stressful week most of our husbands had.

The spread This is Brighton "playing" with Baby Brynn and Baby Libby. She normally does a great job playing with them, they both love to watch her run around and do stuff, but as soon as they started to play with her Care Bears, she became a lil possesive. She still let them have some, just not all of them. And yes, those are actually my Care Bears from when I was a little girl.

New favorite past-time

Brighton has discovered coloring and wants everyone to share in the joy with her. She'll start to color, then say, "Mommy, color with you?" Which of course means come color with me. The best part though is you can't pick out your own crayon, she tells you which one you'll be using. And, most of the time, she'll take it away and give you a new one before you even get the chance to color.

Ready to go

Brighton are you ready to go run errands? "I ready!"

Some more randomness

We drove up to Erto to check out some potential climbing and camping spots. Brighton loved having so much room to run around and kept checking to make sure Daddy was running too!

Random

I'm teaching a class tomorrow and one of the ladies needed help learning how to upload pictures to blogger, so here's a random picture from American Fork Canyon from 2 years ago that I used as a demo for you to enjoy. I know - you're really lucky!

Just chillin

B piled up all the pillows while I was changing the sheets."Don't mind me Mommy, I'm just chillin...."

Mommy's Makeup

You know it's never good when they're quiet for too long...apparently she needed to get ready for her day!