Just in Case You Were Wondering....

She LOVES this silly dinosaur!

Matchy-Matchy

Britni got me some cute penguin pj pants for my birthday, and while I was wandering around Target a few days later I found matching ones for Eden and I just HAD to buy them. She needed some warmer jammies anyway, so I didn't feel too bad. Here we are matching:

However, Eden was NOT happy about taking a picture:

Halloween Celebration

Since Halloween was on Sunday, we went Trick-or-Treating Saturday night with Jack around our neighborhood. Eden was a tiger and Jack a pirate! It was cold and rainy so we didn't stay out long, but they got a good loot for being so little.

Pre-Trick-or-Treating

The first door

A HUGE dog came to the door and scared Jack. He didn't even bark, thank goodness!

Eden enjoyed the idea much more when I let her walk.

What a cute pirate!

By the end the kids had a routine down. Jack would walk up to the door and say "knock" as he knocked. Then immediately he would say "trick or treat" before anyone came to the door. After he got his candy he would say "thank you, bye!" And....Eden figured out she could kneel at the step of each door and make people come down to her. Silly girl. She also figured out she could choose her own piece of candy from the bowl.

Eden was amazed by her loot and spread it all over the floor.

Sunday after church we let Eden where her Tinkerbell costume from Aunt Cooper and Aunt Cymbre. It is super cute, but it was WAY too cold to where it trick-or-treating. However, we had to get it in.

Even Tinkerbell needs a break!

Eden Turns One!

We celebrated Eden's first birthday with a small party the weekend before and then presents from Mommy and Daddy on her actual birthday. She was quite overwhelmed by the party, but really got into opening presents when it was just the three of us. I agonized for a good month or two before about the theme of the party, but finally found a cute jungle themed kit online to have a lion party. And....I think it was a success.

I spent the day before the party making two lion cakes. One for the guests and a small one for Eden.

The guest cake.

Eden's Cake

Uncle Caleb, Aunt Holly, Jack, Aunt Rachel, Uncle Kenneth, and my friend Keera and her boys were in attendance at the party. Eden was a bit overwhelmed...maybe it was all those boys!



After the presents we ate some cake. And after a moment of hesitation.....


Eden figured out just what she should do:



And so she went straight to the bath after her fun:


And after a good scrub she was exhausted and took like a three hour nap!


A few days later we opened presents from Mommy and Daddy and she was overwhelmed in a different way....she didn't know what new toy to play with!

Playing with her new purse. She eventually let Daddy get it out of the box.

A couple new stories to read!

She was awesome at opening the presents once we showed her a place to pull.

She LOVED her new teapot from Aunt Sissy....and I love it's English accent!

And finally, what could be better than a dinosaur with balls to play? Especially for $8 off of KSL!