Trick or Treat

We had fun this year with Tiffany. She definitely understood a lot better the whole concept and learned pretty quickly that if she said "twick o tweat" she would get candy. The week before Halloween it started snowing, so I knew the temperature was going to drop. I really wanted her to wear her Dora costume, but there was no way I would be able to keep her warm enough in it. So I went to Old Navy and found this adorable Bumble Bee costume that was already at a reduced price, and with my sweet discount got it for way cheap. It was a good thing because all that rain sure made it cold.
If they gave her the option to choose what she wanted, she would stare and the bowl and look for familiar candies or just go straight for the suckers. And then she would pop them right in her mouth. It took a while to get her bag to fill up.

She thought the whole thing was pretty fun, she loved seeing all the other kids dressed up and every time we would go in the rain, she would laugh pretty hard too.
She started to get sugar high pretty quickly and it was like that until the end of the day.
As you can see it rained pretty hard, and it was like that the entire time. It only stopped raining later at night, but then the temperature just dropped. I felt bad for all those trick-or-treaters.
On our way home, I wanted to take her around the neighborhood, but the rained decided to increase, so we just came home and she was content trick-or-treating from our own candy bowl.
I did take her across the street to our neighbors. They have two kids and Tiff loves playing with them. However they were both sick, so we tried to hurry out of there.
I couldn't believe when I found my FAVORITE Brazilian candy in a bag of candies at Wal Mart. Who knew we could find 7 Belo here??? I wonder where I can find more!
I put her back in her Dora costume because she was getting pretty warm and because I wanted to try and take some cute pictures...
Well...that didn't happen! She was just beyond wired up and sugar high. But in the end it was a fun day. We got to spend time together and Tiffany sure had lots of fun!

Halloween Week

Today the library had a Halloween Party during their Preschool reading time and all the kids went in their Halloween costumes. Tiffany finally got to wear her Dora costume that tia Anna made for her. It was definitely the most original one!

Tiffany didn't want to sit down with all the other kids...she still doesn't care much for the stories, but she sure liked the witch (buxa) that she now knows thanks to all the Dora episodes that have witches in them!
They always decorate the entire room and Tiffany just loved seeing all the different things.
After the stories they always have some craft and games for the kids. Today she got to decorate a spooky house with all these sticker foams. She loves anything with stickers so she had a blast!
Doesn't she look adorable in her Dora costume?!
And of course we couldn't go without candy! They gave each of the kids a bag with candy and she went straight for the sucker!

Tiff's room

This is probably the 10th time I move things around in Tiff's room, but I think I finally like it! Last time I went to Rexburg I stopped at Porters (oh how I miss that store!) and got some cute things to make for her room. I needed new letters because the ones I made when she was born got ruined with all our movings. I also got a cute hanger and the 3 flower picture frame thingy. It was fun decorating these things! I love being crafty!
The table and chair take a lot more room than I would like, but she uses them so much that I don't want to have to move them.
The purple part of the curtain is actually from my room back in Brazil, my mom brought when she came, and she also make the adorable little things that hang from it. You can't see it in the picture, but there are 4 of them, and it just adds SO much!
All the stuffed animals are mostly mine from growing up and from our engagement. Bryan would give me a new one every month leading up to our wedding. It makes her room a little crowded, but for now it works. I think her favorite part right now are all the books, and the little play food Jasmine and Eric (Aline's kids) gave her for her birthday.
I just wanted to show this lamp that I updated. I actually got it for my 15th birthday and it was black with white in the middle, and it was designed to be a picture frame. But I forgot that the reason I never used it here is because the part that plugs in the wall was different. But I wanted to put it in her room so bad that I just cut that part off, bought a new one from Home Depot, and fixed it! I was so proud of myself! But of course I had to make sure I was doing it right or I could blow up the house or something! (no, not really, but you never know!)
And here is Tiffany feeding her addiction! One day while I was at work, Bryan wanted to watch something else but Tiffany kept asking for Dora, so he brought our old TV from the garage and put Dora for her to watch while he watched his program. Yeah...I'm not very happy about it, especially because she sits inches from it and thinks she has to watch it all day long! I do all sorts of things to distract her, but she always brings it up!

Pumpkins

I finally got our pumpkins yesterday to add to our decoration. I wanted to go to a pumpkin patch or something, but it hasn't happened yet, so I just got these for now!
And today I thought Tiff looked so adorable with this dress she got from Aubrey and Naomi for her birthday (thanks Patty!) that I decided to take some pictures. It was her first time seeing the pumpkins so she loved playing with them.
She is just getting so big! She is finally getting used to nursery...she cries a little when I leave her, but them after I go check on her she is totally fine. I love seeing all her grow up and learn new things!

October so far...

I've been wanting to come back to my blog for a while, but never find the time/motivation, and then it just feels like I'm too behind! So I'm gonna try and just post little by little and see if I can do better!

Yesterday the Brazilians here in Utah got together to celebrate Children's Day (Oct 12). I remember it always being kind of a big deal in Brazil when I was a kid...we always got a toy or something and just had fun! So I want to make it a big deal for Tiff too! We took the kids to the farm country at Thanksgiving Point. It was my first time there and I really enjoyed it. I think it's a great place to take kids and just let them connect with nature a little.
We wanted to take a picture of all the kids that went, but these were the only ones that would fit so we just got them first! (Eric, Jennifer, Tiffany and Jasmine)
The pony rides are the big attraction there, so I was excited to take Tiff. I really thought she would freak out, but she held on the entire time and LOVED it (even though you can't really tell in this picture...such a concentrated little girl!) She kept asking to "wide" (aka ride) and wide!
The plan was to bring a little toy for each of your kids, so I found this Dora bubble whistle and thought it was the perfect combination for Tiff (Dora and bubbles are probably her top favorite things right now!) But I couldn't get the bubbles to come out right, so she had fund just blowing the whistle and laughing with Eric every time she made a sound!

On the 4th it was Bryan's Birthday, so Tiff helped me make cupcakes. She loves to sit on our counter and just help me with whatever I'm making and I just KNOW that I'm going to miss this... so I let her!

She quickly remembered from her birthday about the candles, so Bryan let her blow his candles two (twice!)

Gotta love birthday time and all the yumi stuff we eat! I might need another excuse to make more cupcakes now that I finally got me some cupcake pans to make them with!