Decorating the Tree & Zoolights

On Saturday, December 5th we decorated our Christmas tree as a family. Brooklyn enjoyed watching us put the tree together and played while we put the lights on the tree. Once we were done she "helped" put her own ornament on the tree.

Later that evening we went to ZooLights with Uncle Corey, Makayla, Conner & the entire Perrius Family! Brooklyn was fascinated by all the lights and was having a great time watching all the activity. We visited the 'talking' giraffe who said hello to all the kids, watched the musical lights show and rode the carousel.

My First Thanksgiving!

On Thursday, November 26th we celebrated Thanksgiving Day with Tara's family. We went to Brooklyn's Great Granny and Grandpa F's house for dinner. We all worked hard making dinner together and then one by one everyone started drifting off to sleep:)

"Black Friday" we spent some of the day shopping with Grandma F., Aunt Becky and Uncle Corey. We got some good deals and were exhausted by the time we were done!

Sunday, November 29th Brooklyn and Mommy decorated the house for Christmas! Only 26 more days until Santa comes...

Nov. 22-23rd.

On Saturday, November 22nd Brooklyn went Christmas shopping with Mommy, Grandma & Grandpa F. We shopped pretty much all day and Brooklyn helped pick out toys for her cousins.

Monday, November 23rd Brooklyn went to her first movie "The Blind Side" with her Daddy. They pretty much had the movie theater to themselves and Brooklyn slept through most of the movie, but loved looking at the big screen when she was awake.

Nov. 13-21st

On Friday, November 13th Brooklyn rolled over for her Daddy! She was laying on her "island" playing and rolled from her front to her back.

Sunday, November 15th Brooklyn, Makayla, Conner and I went to the park in our neighborhood to play on the playground. Brooklyn loved being outside in the fresh air watching her cousins play. Makayla and Conner had a great time swinging, climbing on the mini rock wall and playing hide and seek through out the playground equipment.

On Wednesday, November 18th Brooklyn really found her voice. She had a lot of belly laughs while playing with Daddy! We made a video of her laughing and played it back for her which she thought was absolutly hysterical!

Finally, on Saturday, November 21st Brooklyn rolled from her front to her back for me! It was a lot of work to get it to happen again, but she rolled several times that day.

My 3 month photos...well almost 3 months!

On Wed., Nov. 11th (Veteran's Day) we took Brooklyn to get her 3 month pictures taken. We really wanted to bring the ASU Marching Band into her pictures since it was an important part of our history (that's how Dustin and I met) so we brought with us Dustin's trumpet and cape from his uniform, my uniform and a doll dressed like a member of the Sun Devil Marching Band! We were so excited about how our pictures turned out and the smiles we got that day!

Nov. 1st-10th

On Mon., Nov. 2nd Brooklyn spent her first "day" at the baby sitter's house. Dustin and I both dropped her off in the morning and about two hours later he and his mom went back to pick her up:) Brooklyn is lucky enough to be able to go with her cousin Conner (and soon to be new cousin) to the babysitter each day and it was much easier to leave her knowing he was going to be with her all day! Everything went great with the babysitter!

On Sat., Nov. 7th we started our day going to Makayla's soccer game. Then we all went to Great-Granny F.'s 75th Birthday party. Granny had a great time giving Brooklyn frosting for the first time and loved watching how much she enjoyed it!

On Mon., Nov. 9th Brooklyn spent her first day all alone with her Daddy! Brooklyn had a bit of a cold, but they did get out a little to have some breakfast and walk through the mall. He loved every minute of his day and was a little disappointed that I came home from work that day I think!

My First Halloween!

On Saturday, Oct. 31st we went to Uncle Corey and Aunt Becky's house to eat our traditional chili dinner and go trick or treating with all the family! After we arrived the kids all carved pumpkins (including Brooklyn-with a little help). Then it was costume time for us all!

Dustin was a hippie, Tara dressed as a character from the movie Grease and Brooklyn was a Monkey! Makayla dressed as a vampire bat, Conner was Thomas the Train and Rick (Becky's dad) was a clown! We had quite the entourage walking with us (Corey, Becky, Grandpa F. and Grandma M.)and the rest of the crew stayed behind to hand out candy.

The kids(and adults braved a haunted house and crazy teenagers, but we all had a great time and enjoyed the beautiful weather!