Halloween

So our Halloween was a little crazy this year. We had a Halloween party at the Toonestead in Blackfoot and it was AWESOME (as usual)! And, as usual, Payden's brother Erin and his wife Utahna's costumes along with their children are THE ONES TO BEAT! They were Shrek and Fiona and the fairy god mother and the half dragon half donkey. Not that we have a contest or anything but seriously... they are awesome and Utahna makes them all by hand. It's not even that she just sews them, it's all the work and detail she puts into them to make them look EXACTLY like who they are dressing up as. You would think the characters shipped off their costumes to them for the use of them for Halloween. Seriously awesome! Anyway, the party was great! Mom and dad dressed up as cows :) Linzie was a good looking witch and her little boy Maxamus (sp. not sure how she spells it) was a gladiator. His mom sewed his AMAZING costume too and he was adorable in it!!! Payden and I were Peter Pan and wendy and Braylie was Tinker bell. Will was a hick (fit perfectly :) just kidding will :) ) and Kristy was the main girl off of Hairspray. Their kids dressed up too and Aubrey was a batarina :) haha Hali was an angel, Blake was a cowboy on a horse :) and little gauge was a nome haha complete witht the beard and hat and all! :) Everyone looked so goo and we had a lot of fantastic food and a really good time! :)

The sad part of this story is that we had ordered our camera off line and it hadn't gotten in yet before the party. So... we have no pictures of the super fun annual Toone Halloween party except for pictures that other people took during the night. :( We did however get our camera in the next day so on Monday Payden and I and Braylie got dressed up again and took some pictures outside of our apartment. So this really is the day after Halloween and not at a party or anything but I really wanted to get some pictures of my own. So here you are! Enjoy! :)

Peter Pan and Wendy and Tinkerbell

Braylie at 16 months old as Tink

Wendy and Tink

Tinkerbell and Peter pan with the pumpkins

Her pumpkin has a bat and says B.A.T. on it for Braylie Ashley Toone but also for bat. :)

It's HERE!!!!!

My camera FINALLY arrived today!! After an incident I had back in August of losing my camera on a four wheeler ride down in the river bottoms by Payden's parents house, I have a camera again! I feel whole. :)

http://www.walmart.com/ip/GE-X5-BK/14245324

I have really missed being able to take pictures of Braylie, and I have also missed documenting and sharing our family events and photos on here with you. :)

So hopefully if there will be more picture updates in the near future and updates in general. :)

Oh also, My blog was having SERIOUS ISSUES!!! I mean serious! And the willing Meagan Bodily Bigger came to my RESCUE!!! She spent a long time pulling out her hair over my little friend the blog and got it to finally participate and do what it's told. One little setting, who knew it could mess things up so much! I want to just say a HUGE THANK YOU to Meagan!!! YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!

After thinking about it for a minute....

I remembered something that Braylie learned to do recently! About a week ago she learned where mom's nose is (even though she still doesn't know where her own nose is) and she learned where her teeth are. Yesterday she learned where her tongue is and let's just say it is soooo cute when she shows you with a nose wrinkle little smile and her tiny little tongue sticking out. Payden and I love it. haha She also knows the word shoes and automatically looks at her feet. She has waved at people forever but associated it with the word hi or bye and now I can say, "wave you hand," and she will wave :) She also knows how to "Bring it to mom"/"can Mom have it Braylie?"

Let's see Let's see.... Lately she has been "cooking"... she will get one of my tupperware and get one of her favorite spoons or spatulas from my utensil drawer and she will sit there and stir her imaginary food forever! It's so cute and it keeps her entertained for a good amount of time.

If I think of anything else I'll update you... that's all for now :)

Long awaited update

So It's been a while... sorry for that. We have traveled A LOT this summer but i actually think that it has finally come to the end. It was a BLAST but I have to say.... it's really nice to just be home!
I lost my camera so there probably won't be picture updates for a while and if there is then they will be off my phone and not great quality.
So Braylie got on a new sippy cup this week and I'm really excited that she is no longer on a soft nipple :) She is becoming a big girl! :) As far as what else Braylie is doing... she now loves her baby doll and other stuffed animals. She totes them around the house and gives them hugs and kisses. :) She is here and there on eating and that's something that we are working on. If anyone has good ideas for food good for toddlers.. LET ME KNOW!!!!!!!!!!! Please leave a comment with your thoughts! I really need help on this topic. She already eats like a little bird and I have a hard time coming up with different things to feed her instead of the same old same old. Another thing is that Payden and I don't really eat during the day much so sometimes I just don't think about feeding her and give her milk instead. It's a really bad habit I have formed. As for all of our traveling... I am supposed to be getting pictures from my brother and sister-in-law sometime this week so i'll update you on all of that later. :)

Braylie is currently cutting her 7th tooth! :) She has been a little grumpier with this tooth but I still think she handles getting teeth really really well!!!! She is also in the process of moving to a different scheduale. She recently decided that she wanted to have only one to two naps a day instead of three to four and to also go to bed earlier. This all fine and dandy to me except the effects of these choices. The outcome is that she now get up at like 8 830 in the morning. Which isn't bad at all but where I was used to her waking up and 930 at the earliest and often until 1030 or sometimes 11. That was the life. And this would be fine I just need to get used to it and get her on a specific routine. :)
She now says buh bye and will say hi dad. Mostly she says these things on her own free will and not when prompted but it's something. And this girl LOVES to Dance!!! :) It's so cute! Payden and I absolutely love watching her. She mimics things really really well to down to actions or sounds or words we say. With words she just makes the sound of the tone we were using and the pitch. It's funny. :) We are so in love with our little girl and each day in an adventure watching her learn and grow!