Fall Fun

I love Fall!! Especially where we live, there are so many trees and leaves that fall.

I keep thinking that I need to take as many photos as I can of Kaitlyn and her friends so she can always remember her friends from Wymount.
When we were all outside playing in the leaves, I thought this was a great time to take some pictures. Enjoy!

My silly girl and Pumpkins

Kaitlyn loves to pretend to sleep and then have us say, "WAKE UP" and "Go to sleep" and back and forth while she closes and opens her eyes. It is a fun game at our place.

She put all her friends to sleep and then she was pretending to sleep too!

On Wed. we had some of our friends over and carved Pumpkins. We drank Root Beer and ate yummy Puppy Chow and Chocolate Chip Cookies.
It was so much fun and we are going to miss them a lot.

I didn't get pictures of us carving, but I did get the finished projects!!

The Richards did one together and theirs in on the left and mine is the spider on the right.

Alma did a creepy Tree with bats!

It was such a fun time!

Primary Program

This is more for my records but feel free to read about how Kaitlyn was in the Primary Program this year.

Since our ward is a Married Student Ward, our Primary has about 2 kids. But the Nursery has about 12 or so. So they invited the Nursery to be a part of the Primary Program.

They had all the Families with kids in the Program sit in the first 3 rows.

They had all the 3 year olds and older, even if the three year old was still in Nursery, stand up and say a Line. So while we were sitting (up in the front) each kid would get up and say their line. Since we live in an amazing place and we get to play with all of the kids in our ward everyday, Kaitlyn knows all their names.

So as each one took the stand and walked up to the Microphone, Kaitlyn would say, (pretty loudly) "Nathans Turn", "Joys Turn!" "Sharps Turn."

It was pretty cute to see.

Then she got to go up and sing 4 songs with all the kids. She would go up and stand right in the middle on the stools. It was adorable. We werent sure if she would go up without us, but she had no problem.

We practiced "Follow the Prophet" a lot at home for the week before the Program and she looked so cute singing along to it, especially the part that says, "Don't go astray" (cute little finger waving side to side)
After the 1st verse of Follow the Prophet, she yelled out, "BEAM?" which she does whenever we finish singing a song, she requests a different one. She wanted to sing Sunbeam next.

Then the next time she got up they started to play the intro to the next song... a softer song, and she busts out into a solo during the intro... singing "PROPHET! PROPHET! LAAAA LAAAA!" It was adorable.

Then as they started to sing the song that was next she looked at the Chorister with a very serious face and put her finger to her mouth and "SHHH'd" her. I suppose she was having them sing the wrong song.

Anyway, it was so fun to have her be in the Primary Program at such a young age and we were so proud of her.
We love you Kaitlyn!!

Attempting Pig Tails...

So the other day, Kaitlyn was playing with one of my Hair bands and so Alma took it and put a pony tail on the top of her hair... Gave me a thought... maybe we could do something. So I got little rubberbands for cheap and we did Pig tails.

She loves them... Always talking about her Tails, and checking herself out in the mirror.

My sister in law Viky gave me some curlers so we curled the back of her hair too.
Super cute.

It is still pretty short but it is fun to do a change, from her usual hairstyle... which is doing nothing.

The back
For FHE this last week we made Homemade Oreos and our lesson was on Gratitude.
So we made Thank you Cards to Kaitlyns Nursery leaders that just got relased and also the ones that we called. 6 couples. It was so fun to run around and drop off cookies and tell the leaders Thank you for their service.
I love FHE.
After making all the cookies, there were none left for us, and I was wondering if she would be sad she didn't get any, but She was ok. I guess Service feels better than eating cookies.
But I will admit, later this week we made cookies. :)

Helping us taste test the frosting!

All this fun must make you tired!!

Having fun with Grandma and Cousins

My sister went on a Cruise and was gone for about 10 days and so my Mom came up from Texas to Lehi to watch her boys while she was away. It was so much fun to have her around and get to spend time with her and have Kaitlyn hang out with cousins.

We went to the Zoo and then afterwards got a ice cream sundae!

You can tell them loved them!

Being silly and getting every last drop!!

We had loads of fun and I didn't take a ton of Photos, but we did have a movie party in our Jammies and ate Popcorn and watched Curious George.

Went to the Park and had a picnic!

Let Zach run with just a diaper.

Read stories with Grandma

Towards the end of the week my Dad came up too to help and it was so fun to get to spend time with them. It went too fast but it was a great time

When we were done with all of our fun with Grandma and Grandpa we all got a little sick and the weather finally changed to cool fall weather.

The only thing that Kaitlyn wanted some days was to sit in her infant car seat and watch Winnie the Pooh. I even had to buckle her in and put up the handle and the visor. Silly girl.

And she is getting more hair and so today for church we decided to put in a clip. Her hair is pretty long in the back and sides but not in the front. It was no longer in when we picked her up from Nursery, but I was not expecting it to. But it is kind of fun. We curled the back ends too.

Can I have a ____ egg?

I love that Kaitlyn is learning everyday.

She talks a ton now too which is such a blast. Saying sentences more and more.

Like, "I opened it"

I can't remember them all but I love that she can actually tell me what she is thinking.

She has been working on colors and it is so fun to see her getting them. Now everywhere we go it is, "Mommy, Blue car, Red bike, Green Ball"

Here she is a video of her pulling out different colored eggs as Alma asks for them. Too cute!

***And those of you who really wanna see the video of the Maceys Challenge:

I remembered that Alma posted it in his Facebook Videos so you can watch it there. Don't make fun of me too much though~***

Would you do this for $100?

So in August there was a Grocery Store challenge with their coupons.

Alma came home from work around noon, after checking the mail and wanted to do this challenge to win $100. I was a little hesitant, because:

1. I would be the one singing, making a fool out of myself.

2.I didn't know a lot of the songs.

3. It would take like 2 hours to search for the songs and figure them out, and learn them, then put the grocery store lyrics to the songs.

So, after convincing me, we "youtubed" lots of videos, figured out and learned songs that we didnt know and got ready to video tape. We got the coupons on the 4th of August and submitted our video to them by 2pm on the 4th of August. We felt really confident that we would win. The 1st 3 people to send in a video to their email, would get $100.

That day we checked Almas email every 2 mins. Thinking they would get back to those who responded first.

Then... 51 days went by... still nothing.

UNTIL TODAY! We got an email that we won!!

Whoo HOO!

I said that I wouldn't post the silly video of me singing unless we won. I tried to post it but it was having troubles. Maybe it was too big.

Would you have done all this for $100?

And what should we do with our money?

Buy lots of Yummy groceries? (it actually comes in the form of a Gift Card for their store) Dinner? Gas money for a Trip up North-West for Thanksgiving?

Fun Saturday!

Our Apartment Complex put on this HUGE, FUN, FREE BBQ/Party!!

It was so much fun!

There was Tug a wars... by wards

Trains

Inflatables

Games

Cookie Decorating

Door Prizes

It was such a blast!

And Rootbeer Floats!

Then later tonight they had a Stake Chinese Festival, where we ate Chinese food and Ice slushee desserts. It was so much fun. I didn't get a lot of pictures of that since we were helpers with the Ice Slushees but there were a bunch of kids that took the little flags in the grass and threw them up in the tree to see who could get higher. I am sure the Maintance people will come and be like, "Where are all the flags??"

Funny thing some of the Parents were doing it too.

Hope you had a great Saturday!

Did you know that the Bates are.....

... having another BABY!

This Friday (tomorrow) I hit my 13 week mark and we are due March 25th. We are super-duper excited!!

So far in this pregnancy, I have been more sick than with Kaitlyn. No throwing up but just a constant nauseous.

I have been not wanting to eat ANYTHING! Everything just tastes awful!! Except cereal and PB&J's and fast food... which is not a good thing for the wallet.

We bought a Topsy Turvey this summer and grew wonderful tomatoes but for some reason Tomatoes have been something that makes me the most sick, which has been sooo sad. NO BLT Parties for me. Hopefully that Tomato sickness goes away after a few more weeks, or sometime. I would be crushed if I coupld never eat Tomatoes again.

I have been SUPER tired. Which is a challenge with a toddler.
But she does nap every day for around 2-3 hours and I am right there with her when it comes to keeping my naps!

I am starting to get a little more energy now that we are coming to the end of the 1st Trimester, and we are super excited to find out what we will be having the beginning of November!!
Kaitlyn is going to be a super super big sister and we are excited to add more to our family.

"Those Summer Nights"

Not too much new as of lately. We really enjoyed our summer and Alma started school back up this week. It is good to be back on a busy schedule and I cant believe this is our last semester until the REAL world! We haven't posted for awhile not a lot of pictures taken, but here is Kaitlyns new babysitter :)

Just kidding. She is a hoot to see what things she will get into next.

The Monday nights in August they did a movie at the park. It was so much fun to go to. Kaitlyn loved it and stayed wide awake and sitting up watching the whole movie, "Enchanted"

It was so much fun to do as a family.

Here she is all ready to go on her blanket. By the time the movie started there were people everywhere around us. It got really crowded!!

This is her face as she was watching them inflate the movie screen! It was pretty cool to watch!

And of course, before the movie started they did Karaoke for FREE MOVIE THEATER POPCORN! no one was signing up at first so I jumped up and sang. Yes, I am in my PJ's.

Here she is hitting herself with a pillow. She loves to make us laugh!

And one Sunday evening she was just singing away and so we got it on video! So cute! She loves to sing like her mommy!

And here is one more... she puts a little more dance moves into it.