{ farm country ... }

last year we got a pass to the aquarium, and we loved it! our pass just expired, so we decided to get a pass to thanksgiving point this year- and it's perfect for us. jord has been traveling a lot since we moved into our house, so it will be a fun activity for the girls and i. while daddy is away, we needed something to do this morning, so i decided to take them to farm country. usually i would have called up a friend to go with us, but it was last minute, so we didn't. and i enjoyed it sooooooo much! maybe i'm hormonal and emotional, (which is a huge possibility), but i needed today. i was able to enjoy and soak up every minute with my girls without being distracted by a conversation with someone else. just the three of us girls. i love them so much, and i'm so lucky they're mine.

riding the ponies was our main goal.. and it was a hit! i was actually surprised how well they both did. greer was giddy and just kept saying "woooooow!" the whole time. and rowan was brave and rode all by herself while i helped our little sister-sue.

the lady gave us a stamp on the way in, and greer was sooo happy and excited. she kept showing it to me the entire time we were there. (and wouldn't let me wash that hand when we came home ;)  oh the simplicity of life when you're little! 

"mom, these horses are fabulous!" - rowan

{ thankful.. }

our thanksgiving 2014 was not as lovely as it has been in years past, but it still was a very sweet day being surrounded by our family near and dear, and remembering all that we have to be thankful for. unfortunately we had a very sick babe on our hands... and so most of our day was spent being worried about/taking care of her.... ( my dinner was cold, sigh). she really was the sickest that she's ever been in her young little life. it worried me all day long. and even though it was sad and a bit of a hard day, i still couldn't help but get emotional when i thought of what a lucky girl i am, for many reasons! holiday's, since jord and i have been married, have gotten so chaotic. it's trying to figure out going here and there, and not missing this family's thing while trying to make it to that family's thing. it sometimes takes away from the spirit of the holidays. and thanksgiving morning, i just thought that it was much better to have too many places to be, than none at all. we're so grateful to be able to be surrounded by soooo many family members that we love sharing the joy and spirit of the holidays with!

i love this time of year.

especially feeling thankful for these little turkey's, who make me feel so complete.

at the staples for dinner..

and how cute are these table decorations made by my cute SIL katelin?

  rowan enjoyed her turkey dinner verrrrrrry much! she ate just as much as i did.

 giving thanks for all of our bounteous blessings!

{happy halloween!}

we had a fun halloween this year! since i was so focused on greer's birthday, i dont know why, but i just wasn't that into halloween? i hope its not like that every year. but i was definitely ready to have it come and go. however, it was still alot of fun. our costumes weren't the most creative, or the funniest. i just found this cute shop on etsy that sold animal ears/tail sets. so i got a set for each of the girls and decided we would be hunters. (truth be told, i was supposed to be a deer, but couldn't pull it together). i promised rowan that if she would be a wolfe to our halloween party, that she could be a princess trick-or-treating. DEAL! and she was great about it. that girl is way too funny. 

she did, however, keep changing her mind from a princess to a blue spider-man a couple times a day. (she only has boy cousins, mind you.) but in the end, she decided to go with the princess. 

good choice, rowan girl! ;)

our foxy lil' lady, and our 'scawey' wolfe girl.

happpppppy halloween!

{cornbelly's}

for greer's birthday we decided to finally cross off cornbelly's off our 'have-to' list. we loved going with our cousins, and rowan had a blast. and i think the birthday girl had a good time as well!

hours and hours of fun! we love that place.

i thought i told you no more pictures? -greer

{ first birthday pictures }

i took some pictures of rowan for her first birthday in my kitchen, on the floor.
don't get me wrong, i am glad i have them. but when greer's birthday started approaching, i knew that i wanted to have someone else take them. ideas, ideas. well, flower crowns are big right now, and i love them. so i decided that's what we were gonna do. and as i was trying to research pictures and such, idea's just started circulating my head of "maybe rowan could jump in a few of them... maybe i could jump in a few of them... maybe we could have a mini "mommy and me" session with my girls" and just then, my friends Brooke & Michelle, whom i loved and adored up at utah state, said they were starting out a photography business, at a killer deal. so i started talking to brooke about my ideas and she totally went with them. we took them a little over a week ago. the whole thing was kind of stressful (family pictures always are), rowan was being a little bit of a pill, she wouldn't smile, she was so whiiiiiiny, and we were losing light so fast, and it turned cold so fast, the girls were freaking out. so truly, i didn't know if any of them would turn out. well.....

i just got them back this weekend, and i couldn't help but cry looking at them.
call me emotional. i was feeling a little under-the-weather, i've been a single-mom alot more than usual this month, my calling was stressing me out, and my baby MY BABY, is turning one.... but i just bawled. these pictures couldn't mean more to me. brooke & michelle captured my girls so perfectly. i just love their sweet and precious little faces in these pictures. and i love being a mom. i love being their mom.

and my little greer, oh i can't even explain how emotional i am about her.

thank you brooke and michelle for your amazing talents and abilities! here is her website, GO CHECK THEM OUT! i'll try and narrow it down to my favorites. but brace yourselves.

happy first birthday to my little lovie!