Claire is six months!

In honor of Claire's first six months of life on November 2, we did a little photo shoot. She was in such a great mood! Be prepared for a little bit of cuteness OVERLOAD!!!

I love how well you can see her two little teeth in these ones...

I grabbed a hat box that I'd received at one of my baby showers and put Claire in it...she loved it!

"Mommy, do you like my bracelet?"

She loved examining Mom's jewelry

We love this girl more than we ever knew possible. We are so grateful she is part of our family.

One hot chick!

Claire was a chick for Halloween! Notice that she already knows the purpose of Halloween...candy! We took her to Nate's work in the afternoon to show her off ...

Then that night we just took her trick or treating to a few friend's houses. Here we are right before we left...

Playing the in wagon with our neighbor, Carter.

Overall I would say this was a pretty successful first Halloween. But this was Claire by the end of the night...DONE!

Cali trip

We went to LA last weekend to see Nate's family and had a BLAST! It was Claire's first time on an airplane and she did pretty well. But by the end of the flight she was ready to get off. I felt bad for the nice lady sitting by us...she said, "My, she's a busy baby isn't she?" Nate said, "That's an understatement." That girl just needs to constantly be playing with something...

We got there on Thursday night and Nate's uncle, Joe, took us to this amazing restaurant called Marmalade Cafe. The food was so yummy! I can still taste the halibut...yummm. Then on Friday we left Claire with Nate's mom and aunt Susie and went to Six Flags Magic Mountain for the day. Can I just tell you that if you are looking for a theme park with thrill rides to look no further? Magic Mountain is awesome roller coaster after awesome roller coaster!

We had so much fun spending the day together with just us. The weather was great and the park was pratically empty. We walked onto almost every ride. Here is my favorite ride, "X"!!

One of our other favorites was called Tatsu and they strap you in and the flip you onto your stomach, so it's like you're flying. Nate snuck our camera on and filmed the whole coaster...here it is if you want to watch.

PS-you'll notice all my screaming in the background. I'm such a wuss. :)

Then the rest of the weekend we just relaxed and hung out. Here's Claire when she thought she was really funny and put a diaper on her head...

Here she is with her cousin (once removed, I think), Ryan. You can tell she doesn't want to share her pumpkin. :)

Claire even got piano lessons from her talented Grandma! We'd never put her on a piano before and when Nate's mom put her hands on the keyboard it took her a second to understand. But after showing her what to do, she LOVED banging all those keys!

On Sunday the weather was so perfect that we went in the backyard and took some cute pics of Claire. The outfit she's wearing is the outfit that Nate went out and bought when we found out we were having a girl. It was always too big for her, so we're glad she was finally able to fit into it!

Nate's aunt thought Claire looked like a little flower, so we put her in a flower pot for some pics...so funny!

Walking with Daddy...

Smelling flowers with Mom...

Here are some with her favorite pumpkin!

Thanks to Nate's grandparents for putting up and feeding us all weekend! It was a great trip!

Sweet Exersaucer

We got Claire an Exersaucer and let's just say it was love at first sight. I finally got it put together yesterday and she can't get enough of it! Claire is SUCH a busy baby. I have to put 4-5 toys in front of her at a time just to keep her entertained. Solution: EXERSAUCER.

The second she got in it she was twirling around and around. She'd start with one toy and two seconds later moved on to the next and so on. She didn't quite know what to do with herself. It was hilarious! I'm so glad we got it!

A Witch Hunt

This weekend we took Claire to Gardner Village for the Witch Night Out! We'd never been before and thought we'd check it out. It was actually a lot more fun than either of us thought it'd be. It's the perfect fall activity. The weather was great and there was so much going on. Almost everyone there had dressed up as witches. As we were leaving, Nate said he thought he was out numbered by women 50:1. He was probably pretty accurate.

We also got in a little bit of shopping. They have this little baby boutique called Elsa Belle and I'm pretty sure it's my new favorite baby store! I got Claire these darling beanies there. I'll post a pic when I get one.

We also got some really cute pictures of Claire...shocker right? :) She loved the pumpkins!

This last pic I loved - I can just hear Claire thinking, "Come on Mom...seriously? Another picture?"

Cheap entertainment

We are constantly looking for new things for Claire to play with...she's such a busy little girl! Well, one thing that she is always obsessed with is our keyboard. Whenever I'm holding her at the computer she reaches as hard as she can to bang on it. She'll twist and contort her body in a myriad of ways just to hear the click of those keys. So I remembered that we had a spare keyboard from our old computer and brought it out. You would have thought I'd dipped this girl's pacifier in chocolate!! She was in heaven!

(I'm not sure about her finger in this picture...she tends to make this gesture often...usually towards one of my brothers.)

Busy Weekend!

This turned out to be a really busy weekend for the Plowmans! We had a dance party on Friday (see post below). I had my Book Club early Saturday morning, then we drove up to Logan where Nate's cousin, Emily, was baptised and then I went to my cousin, Katie's, baby shower. We finished off the night by driving back home just in time for the Ward Fall Festival! Whew! I was glad to just have a relaxing Sunday with church and then naps for all of us! :)

Nate's youngest cousin on the Plowman side was baptised this weekend in the Logan Tabernacle, which was beautiful. We're so proud of you Emmy! The weather was perfect outside. I couldn't believe the color on these red bushes (and I love Claire's face in this one!)

Then I just have to include a few pics from the Ward Fall Festival because it was so much fun! They had tons of different booths set up for the kids...and I guess we're still kids at heart because we had to participate in the doughnut eating contest!

So Barbie totally took us all, but as you can see from the close-up, I was a close second!!

And here are the guys just as they started...open wide! Kyle (in the stripes) ended up with the biggest mouth of them all! :)

And finally, here's my sweet Claire with the pumpkins. Of course, she loved the hay too. Man, I LOVE this girl!