Virginia!

For my birthday, Dan, Hannah, my Mom, and I went to Virginia Beach for vacation. It was so nice to be able to go and see so many good friends and to show Hannah the beach. Our timing was kind of bad though. The weather was cold and windy with the after effects of Sandy, and then while we were there a Noreaster hit the northeast, and so we got a couple days of cold rain as a result. It was only warm enough to go for a walk along the beach the last day we were there, and even then it was pretty cold. But even with that, we still had a good time. I miss Virginia a lot. I get asked all the time what I miss most about Virginia. Well, here's exhibit A:

And here's exhibit B:

Trunk or Treat

A few days before Halloween, our ward and the other ward that meets in our building had a joint activity. There was trick or treating at people's trunks, but there were also other activities such as a cake walk, a photo booth, and Grandpa Whitworth's infamous Candy Cannon. Hannah wasn't much interested in the activities, or the trick or treating for that matter. She mostly just wanted to run around and be cute. We dressed her up as Lady Bug Girl, the main character from some of her favorite books- the Lady Bug Girl books. No one but us knew that's who she was, but that's ok. Shse was not very keen to let me take pictures of her, so I pretty much had to follow her around and get what I could...

 

 

                                This is one of my favorite pictures of Hannah like, EVER.

 

 Hannah went to check out the Candy Cannon and say hi to Grandpa, and that's all she wanted to do with it

 

 Hannah's cousin, Isabelle, was "Wonder Mowan" for Halloween. I kept trying to tell her it was Wonder Woman, but she didn't believe me.

Hannah loves Jack-O-Lanterns!

                                                        HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!

 

 

Backyard fun

Two weeks ago, we had our first taste of Fall when it only got up to 53 degrees! Brr! Hahaha. Ok, so it wasn't really that cold, but still. So we got Hannah bundled up and went to play outside. She had a blast. She had just recently discovered a love of slides a few days before at the park, and so this was the first time she really went down our slide. It was so funny to watch her learn to push herself down it and to see the look of joy on her face. The ground happened to be pretty damp that day, and so she also had her first taste of getting muddy.

This is how Hannah runs. She leans forward and charges. It cracks me up.

The Zoo!!! (Finally!!!)

This has been driving me crazy because our computer stopped letting me on to blogger again, and I've been waiting to do this post for a long time! So, A few weeks ago when we had one of our first days of nice weather, my Mom and I took Hannah to the Zoo. We had no idea what to expect from her, and I have to admit I was anticipating the worst. However, she did totally awesome! At first we were afraid to take her out of the stroller because we didn't think we would be able to get her back in, but she didn't mind at all. Near the end she would fuss for a second when we put her down, but no major tantrums. At first she didn't really understand what was going on, but she warmed up pretty quickly and would look at the animals. Her favorite animal was this wart hog-ish pig. I can't remember what it was called, and of course I didn't get a picture, but Hannah just watched it and laughed and laughed. Her favorite thing to look at, though, wasn't one of the Zoo animals. It was the other kids. All day long she was pointing and shouting "Baby!!" as loudly as she could.

Excited for the zoo, can't you tell?

Trying to get the monkey's attention

But he wasn't having any of it.

SO not impressed by the petting zoo. We couldn't even get close to the animals. It was a major bummer.

 Near the back of the zoo, they have an "old west" town with shops and such and animals native to Texas. They also had this indoor play area which Hannah really wanted to play on, but most of the things were too tall for her to climb on. In this picture she just spotted the horse drawn carriage seen below.

Forward ho!

Chillin in the Wells Fargo wagon

We had such a great time! I can't wait to go back!