Fall Fun & Halloween

We have LOVED having our awesome back yard this fall. Aliya especially loved playing in the leaves.  It was so cute to watch her really experience and enjoy fall this year.

We decided to paint our pumpkins this year rather than carve them so that Aliya could participate more.  We all had a lovely time, but unfortunately forgot to take pictures until it was all done.  But here are a few and Aliya in her costume. She LOVED trick or treating this year and I think she's asked if we can go almost every day since then til now.

Summer randomness

So, I'm getting tired of playing catch-up so this is going to be a random post of the assorted pictures I still want to post but haven't so I can actually get on to something current!  So, to begin, my baby turned 3!  I can hardly believe what a big girl she is! We had a lovely day, Daniel's Mom and John came down and our friends Jamin and Ta and their sweet girl Serenity all came to play with us.  We ate pizza and cake and then went swimming at the rec center.  It was awesome.  The only bad part is that the pictures didn't turn out so great, but here are a few.

Aliya and her new trike and helmet!

Birthday cakes, she picked these of the the ones I showed her online and they were super easy

Yum yummy!

Birthday dress

We were able to spend some time with my sister Heather and nephew Michael during my training and the trips back and forth.  This was labor day, we went to the park and had a lovely time despite the cold. Miss you guys!

In all our packing Aliya loved playing in the boxes, especially when Daddy would carry her in a box.

Hogle Zoo Trip

In August we were trying to do many things in Salt Lake before we moved, we managed to do most of them.  One was to visit Hogle Zoo.  So, while my sister was visiting we made a day of it and had a lovely time.  Amusingly enough Aliya's favorite thing was not any of the live animals, but a giant metal statue of an Elephant.  It has motion sensors in it and when kids sit on it's trunk it "sneezes" a small spray of water.  She didn't actually want to get close to it but loved watching the other kids get sprayed.

Aliya's main attraction for the day

Aliya and Auntie Bella hatching

Auntie Bella, Aliya, and Mommy riding the train

Swimming Pool!

So, we discovered that Aliya needed a swimming pools when one day I had put her in her swimming suit to play with water in the back yard.  We were putting water in a bucket and letting her play in it, well she was playing and I was reading.  At one point I looked up to find her standing in the bucket trying to splash.  That was when I decided we needed a pool :)  She was so cute and so much fun to watch with it.  Here's some proof! (Apologies for the sound on the video but it was too cute!)

Wheeler Farms May Day

So, as a continuation of my catch-up posting....one Saturday in May we went to a place called Wheeler Farms in Salt Lake for their May-Day Celebration.  It's an actual working farm in the city, it's owned by the city and they do all sorts of demonstrations and things. We saw all the usual farm animals, watched a sheep get sheared, and had a lovely time. We timed it perfectly because it started raining just as we got to our car to go home.  Here are a few pics.

Aliya and the Princess who was at the farm.

Aliya in an old fashioned play house.  She LOVED it! I think we were there for half an hour, and she still wasn't happy about moving on.

Aliya and Mommy riding a tractor