Random pictures

Brooklyn loves getting into the cabinets! She usually just pulls the pots and pans out and plays with them, but this time she decided to get cozy in the pot!
Her "say cheese" smile
Now that Brooklyn is walking all over the place she makes even MORE messes!!! Her new favorite thing to do is unravel all the toilet paper into a huge pile and then play in it!

She was pretty proud of her disaster!Saturday we went to St. Johns Towncenter to see the carnival and Christmas Tree Lighting!Brooklyn was amazed by all of the bright flashing lights

The classic couple self portrait!Former American Idol winner Taylor Hicks sang prior to the Christmas Tree lightingThey had a cool firework show after the tree was lit! Brooklyn and her daddyBrooklyn and MeReading bedtime stories with dad Everything is still going great for us here in Florida!! The weather is still so nice and warm, it definitely doesn't seem like Thanksgiving time! Greg is busy studying and preparing for his finals which start up right after Thanksgiving break! Brooklyn has been walking since Halloween and zooms all over the place and gets into everything, but she definitely keeps us entertained! And I am just staying busy hanging out, playing with Brooklyn all day and enjoying my new church calling, 2nd counselor in the Young Womens! We hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving holiday!

It's Always Fun When Grandma Comes!

A couple of weeks ago, Grandma Baxter came to visit us for a week!! We had tons of fun hanging out and doing lots of fun things! Greg was at school and studying most of the time so Brooklyn and I hung out with Grandma!

Grandma treated us with Dunkin' Donuts for breakfast

Which Brooklyn totally loved!
While Greg was at school, us girls went to the zoo and while we were there
we got to ride the choo choo train!!Brooklyn made sure we knew where we were goingWaiting for the train to leave!Grandma and Brooklyn fed the giraffesBrooklyn was laughing so much The three of us by the GiraffesWe rode the carousel...Which terrified BrooklynShe thought the bird on my head was going to attack us!

We also went to the pier and had a picnic!

The best back drop for a picture ever!

Brooklyn and IGreg and BrooklynGrandma!While we were there this guy caught this HUGE fish!

And we went to Orlando and got to go to the temple!

The beautiful Orlando Temple

Grandma and Brooklyn hanging out at the temple

Those were just some of the great things we did while Grandma was here! We had such a fun week with Grandma and were sad when she had to go back home!!! Brooklyn especially loved having her here and loved all of the extra attention she got! Thanks for coming to visit us!!!! We are excited for your next visit!!!

Our Halloween Festivities!

One of our favorite holidays is Halloween and this year we did so many fun things to celebrate!! Here are a bunch of pictures to help illustrate all of the festivities!

First of all, we went to our ward's Halloween Trunk-or-Treat! Greg and I used the same costumes as last year and little Brooklyn was a lady bug ballerina!

Brooklyn liked chewing on her headband instead of wearing it Our friends the Lorz and our friends the Bradshaws Cute Nathan and Daniel enjoying their cupcakes Brooklyn and I handing out candy

Greg and Brooklyn (she wouldn't let go of the candy!)

We had Elder See and Elder Schroeder come over for dinner last Sunday and make Halloween cookies and homemade suckers. Elder See was the master at cutting out sugar cookies!

Showing off the Elder's awesome decorating skills

Greg and Elder Schroeder busy frosting

Then on Monday we went over to our friends Stephanie and Eric Anderson's house and carved pumpkins with them! Greg carved both his and Brooklyn's pumpkin!

It was nice and warm outside carving!

My awesome witch pumpkin

Brooklyn's baby pumpkinOur family of pumpkins!

On Halloween we went to the trick-or-treat Spooktacular at the zoo!

Brooklyn ready to do some serious trick-or-treating

She was the cutest lil lady bug ever!

The line from the freeway to the zoo was so long! We waited for over a half our on the freeway just to turn into the zoo's entrance!

Brooklyn decided she'd take a little power nap while we waited!

Getting ready to go in the zoo! I loved all of the orange Halloween lights wrapped around the palm trees!

There were tons and tons of people and cute little kids all dressed up! It was such a nice warm night!The Zoo had over a thousand pumpkins carved and lit up all throughout the path.

Some of the characters that were dressed up

I forgot to make sure the batteries were charged before we left, so I only got a few pictures while we were at the zoo! The spooktacular was a lot of fun and even Brooklyn loved it! She sat in her stroller laughing and saying wow, the whole time we were there! We will definitely be going again next year, and I'll make sure to have the batteries charged!