Nine months until Nursery

So I accidently gave Autumn some dark chocolate.  She loved it.  By accidently I mean I gave her a wrapped piece of Dove chocolate to hold on to, when Evan realized her warm mouth had melted the chocolate.  She was slightly annoyed when I took it away from her.

My little Peanut turned 9 months.  She is getting much taller and more active.  Autumn loves all foods and loves to put anything and everything in her mouth.  She learned how to sit up from lying down (8/26).  She also learned to open the cupboards and drawers in the kitchen (8/31).  She thinks she is rather clever.  She played "peek-a-boo" by herself (9/7).  Since she learned to clap her hands she does it all the time (9/14).  She crawls across the carpet, sits up and looks at me then claps.  She likes to swing at the park and even crawl around the play structure.  Her new favorite song is "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire and "The Fox" by  Nicklecreek.  She is also in awe for the above door hindges.  She has grown to love animals especially dogs.    

Oh yeah.  She is obsessed with the TV remotes, Evan's Ipod, and my cell phone.

Mom Do

I've been thinking about cutting my hair for almost a year now.  I finally did it.  I'm still getting use to it.  After seeing my "before" picture and how stringy and yucky it looks, I'm glad I cut it.

18 inches gone!

Aww Poor Baby

Autum likes to stand up in her crib.  I've know this for awhile, but wevdidn't get around to lowering it until today.   NO she didn't fall out of the crib, but she managed to give herself a pretty nice shiner this morning on the railing.

I guess my flash is too bright, but she has a really nice blue bruise under her left eye.

Now that the crib is NOT at her waist it looks like I need to get one of those  guards so we don't end up with a bunch of teeth marks in the railing. 

Ford Museum

A family in our ward has season passes to the Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, so they took us with them.  This weekend Greenfield Village was hosting an old car show.  There is lots to do, turn of the century craft making (glass blowing, tin shop, ect.), historical buildings (like a court house wear Abraham Lincoln practiced law), old car rides, 99 year old carousel, and much more (but not enough overly priced food-I had to ask someone wear I could get something to eat.)  We only planned to stay a few hours, but on the way out to the car Autumn fell asleep in Evan's arms.  Since she fell asleep we decided to hang out a little longer.  The pictures are out of order, but here is what we saw.

Autumn and Evan rode the Carousal.  Autumn enjoyed it.

Riding in a pink Flintstone like car.

Phonograph demonstration.  Henry Ford loves history so there are lots of  historic buildings that have been moved to Michigan for our viewing pleasure, including this building where Thomas Edison worked.

more Thomas Edison stuff

old car

This horse went up and down.

Train

I love this picture of her.  Evan is always telling me he thinks her hair has red in it.  I just don't see it, but there is no mistake in this picture it looks reddish.

Train depot

We are at the Museum in this picture.  Evan took this picture.  We are in an airplane.

Peace. 

Coolest thing we did.  We rode in an authentic (not replica) 1914 Model T Ford.

I love Evan because he is such a good dad (not for his photography skills).  Look at his face!  He is always so excited to show and teach Autumn new things.  Here she is on a weird old bicycle.

I think someone just cut her off.

YAY!!! The Oscar Mayer Wiener mobile.

Evan liked this airplane...I'm sure you can see why.

Labor Day

I have a blogger friend who says people who blog only put the perfect pieces of their lives on their blogs.  Well this ones for you Megan.

On Labor day we went to the Stake Picnic.  It was awful.  I don't want to say anything too negative about the people who put it on so I'll leave it at that. And the buffet table was set up wrong (sorry I couldn't help it.  That is one of my biggest pet peeves).  But isn't Autumn's white romper so cute?

Lions, and Tigers and PISTONS Oh MY

Is it me or does the fact that Detroit does not have a sports team called the "Bears" not bother anyone?  I mean we have Detroit Lions, Detroit Tigers we need the BEARS sorry the Red Wings and Pistons just don't cut it!

Any how, Evan and I went to a preseason Lions game last week.  I got tickets from Scorebig.com where you name your price for tickets, like some of the travel sites out there.  I would recommend to a friend. Two days after I bought the tickets I got a FedEX parcel with the tickets.  They were only $14 each.  Which I think is a great price considering we paid $15 to park.  Good thing we got there early enough to see some of the big name players before the 3rd string guys were put in.  We left after the third quarter because Evan wanted to watch the BYU game, so I'm not sure who won, but it was a very high scoring game.  Some friends from Arizona (who also had nosebleed tickets) happened to be at the game it was fun to sit and chat with them.

I've still got it!

I get asked frequently "do you still coupon?"  I think what people are really asking is "do you have 43 boxes of cereal under your bed?"  Yes I still shop with coupons, no I do not have 43 boxes of cereal under my bed (I would if I found a good enough deal though;).  Since we have had to move a few times in the last couple years and we will have to move a couple more times in the next few years I have let me stock pile get much smaller.  Also the last few months before this last cross-country move I stopped shopping all together to try and use up my stuff so we wouldn't have to move it.  Last week was like Christmas though.  I was babysitting for a friend.  Their baby was asleep so I was watching  listening to some Hulu and looking at Pinterest when I heard the words "Denim Sale this weekend at Macys."  Oh how I love the Denim Sale.  Basically you buy something denim and they give you a 10$ coupon to buy a sale or clearance item.  So I buy a denim item then use the coupon to buy another piece of denim and a clearance baby clothes item AND get another coupon.  Thursday I went to the Novi mall and did 17 transactions.  

I bought:

-1 pair of jeans for me

-1 pair of shorts for me

-11 pairs of jean shorts for my nieces/to give to other poor residents kids in our ward

-one baby boy outfit (hopefully at least ONE of my pregnant friends will have a boy because though plaid shorts are too cute)

-one birthday present for my niece

-Jeans for Autumn

-4 pairs of jean shorts for Autumn

-15 outfits/dresses/rompers for Autumn in various sizes 

TOTAL: $23.13 (plus one $10 coupon left)

 My credit card did get rejected once because of multiple "suspicious" $1.01 transactions.  Good thing I have more than one credit card.  The next day I went to Detroit/Southfield mall.  I only did about 8 transactions.  It is funny to see the different merchandise the different stores carry.  Instead of Ralph Lauren stuff they had Baby Phat.  Then Saturday the whole family went to another Macys and I did another 7 transactions.

So yes I still "coupon"