The Wakefield Family: 2011

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Family Pictures

I have the most talented and amazing sister-in-law ever. Andrea was so great to take time and snap our family pictures and edit them. I think they turned out awesome. Thank you so much Andrea!!!

Monday, November 7, 2011

I talked Brook into being a cute Candy Corn Witch for Halloween. Jenna was a little skeleton, complete with glow-in-the-dark jammies. Brook got to dress up for her gymnastics party, 2 carnivals and for Halloween night and she was loving it. Brook loved that she got to wear makeup and get so much candy just for saying Trick or Treat. She can't wait til next year. For Brook's gymnastic party we made Giant Candy Corn Rice Kripsies and they were delish!!!

4 months

Jenna reached her 4 month mark on the 13th of October. She started on rice cereal about a week later and she LOVES it! Who would have thought? Jenna loves eating and gets really mad and will cry if I don't feed her fast enough. She is so funny and sticks out her bottom lip when the spoon is empty. Brook couldn't be left out of the action so we got some poses of her eating too.

FHE

While Cole was home we carved pumpkins for our family home evening. It was so fun to all be together and to watch Brook with the pumpkin guts. She dug right in and was a lot more brave than I thought she would be. Normally, she hates to be dirty and is constantly asking me to wash her hands but this didn't bother her at all.

Pumpkin Walk

We met up with some of Brook's cousins and went to the Pumpkin Walk in Logan. I am always so impressed with how creative people are and wish I was more creative myself. So here is some of the creativity from this years walk-

Cowardly Lion

Scarecrow

Rest of the Wizard of Oz "cast"

Dispicable Me

Bodee & Brook

Brook & Hallie in Candy Land

Brook & Tigger (His whole tail is made of pumpkins!)

Jessie (Brook) & Woody (Bodee)

Elastics

We signed Brook up for gymnastics to give her something to look forward to each week and to meet some new friends. She loves her gymnastics class. Her first day I asked her what she learned and she said, "I did flips, and walked on the icecream bar. I love elastics! Can I go to elastics again?"

Birthday Girl

Brook turned 3 on October 13th. I can't believe how fast those years have gone by. Brook got to have 2 parties. Her dad was going to be working out of town on her birthday so we celebrated with him the weekend before at his parents house. He had been hunting that weekend and so we met up on Friday night to celebrate. Brook didn't feel so hot that weekend. She had a bladder infection and was running a fever and so at times she just looked like she was ready for bed.

Grandpa Dan giving Jenna a bottle.

The next morning Cole promised Brook a ride on Boone and she got to try ou her new chaps and spurs. She loved riding Boone, but was happy to be going home. She just wasn't feeling so great and wasn't her usual spunky self.

I had to laugh cause Brook kept saying her real party was going to be with her friends "cousins". She loved her birthday parties and got spoiled. So on the 13th when Brook woke up, we started the day with a "birthday donut" and a little singing. She loved it and couldn't stop giggling. Brook kept singing "Happy Birthday to Me, Happy Birthday to Me..."

You'll have to excuse the sleepy face, us Wakefield girls are "face sleepers" so it takes us a while to unpuff in the mornings. :)

We spent the rest of the day making her 2nd birhday cake and being with family. Brook's one request for her birthday was to "have" Cookie. So I talked to Grandpa Kevin and he brought Cookie down so the kids could have pony rides. Uncle Ryan also let us use Bodee's horse Duke for pony rides. ***Some of the cousins. I wasn't able to get all of them for a picture. Too much excitement guess.