First Halloween

We spent Halloween hanging out with our small group. We dressed up the babies and attempted to take pictures. I thought the group picture turned out pretty good! At least no one was crying.

Heather sent me this awesome picture of all the parents making fools of ourselves trying to get the group shot - haha I love it. 

In case you can't tell, we have...

A monkey

A pumpkin

A cupcake

A flower

A golfer

And Minnie Mouse.

Happy Halloween!

Fall Festivities

October has been so much fun. I have been enjoying all the fall festivities with lots of opportunities to dress up Cambry.

We went with some friends to a fall festival last week. Callie Beth, Jack, Cambry, and Max had fun playing with the ducks in the pool.

Then, of course we had to get the traditional pumpkin pictures. I think we got some great ones but it did not come easily. She cried at first, and would not let go of her doll, but we used it to get some good smiles out of her.

I recently joined our neighborhood mom's group and they had a Halloween party that we went to. Thanks to Shannon for letting us borrow Avery's adorable cupcake costume. I just love our little cupcake!

Ha, look how thrilled she looks here to be all dressed up!

These are my friend Joan's cute little kiddos.

Little cupcake going down to slide.

And she will still get to wear this cute costume one more time on Halloween and I am looking forward to seeing all the other cute little costumes as well.

First Piggies

She barely has enough hair to pull up but I am counting these as her first official pig tails. So cute!

I used the small clear plastic hair bands and they worked pretty well - at least for a bit before falling out.

Another Pinterest Fail

Ok, this is not exactly a "Pinterest Fail", but might as well have been. I didn't find this idea on Pinterest (although it's probably on there), but I had this great vision in my mind.

I thought it would be really cool to take a picture of Cambry sitting outside with fall leaves falling around her. I was imagining something really awesome, like the picture below.

We set her on the ground, then dropped leaves above her head.

Nailed it.

Asheville

We just got home from a wonderful vacation to Asheville, North Carolina. It was our first vacation of just our family of 3.

We left on Thursday morning, and had a direct flight to Greenville, South Carolina which was just under 2 hours. Cambry did great! She seemed nervous at take off. She ate yogurt melts and drank water, but then she just sat super still on Greg's lap clutching a water bottle. She stayed like that for a few minutes and ended up just falling asleep. She slept for an hour and a half and then was happy the rest of the flight.

                   

We drove to Asheville which is a little over an hour from Greenville. Asheville is a beautiful small town with an Austin feel. It really felt like fall with the colorful trees, the view of the mountains, and the cool air. The weather was absolutely perfect.

We toured the Biltmore, which was very interesting. People told us you could spend a couple days there, there is so much to see. They were right, it is huge! Although we only spent one day there since our trip was short. You aren't allowed to take pictures inside but we got some nice ones in the gardens and trails on the property.

We walked around downtown at some point every day. There are cute shops, places to eat, and often times live music.

One day we went to this place that had a corn maze, pumpkin patch, hay rides, etc. Cambry is a little too young to really enjoy it, but we had fun.

"Hey, take a picture of me frolicking."

"Well take one of me frolicking too."

We went on a couple of hikes while we were there. We rented this hiking carrier and it worked out great. I think many cities probably have baby equipment rental companies that you can rent things out - from cribs to car seats to a tub of toys. The one we used was just a family that runs it out of their house. They were very nice and easy to work with.

We got a suite at the hotel we were staying at, which I definitely recommend if you can. A not-as-nice hotel with a suite would be better than a standard room at a nicer hotel, in my opinion. But even with a suite, things aren't perfect. The first night we were up for about an hour and a half because she woke up crying and would not let us lay her down. Then she was not tired at all and just wanted to play. We ended up letting her sleep with us, which we have never really done, and now I know why. She moves so much! The other nights she did better though.

Cambry is so laid back and go with the flow. She was overall a very easy traveler. We had a great trip and I hope we get to take more before we have to buy her own plane ticket!.