Fun in the Crisp Air of Fall

 We decided to visit Peterson Farms to pick out our pumpkins for this year. Aubrie had fun playing in the dirt and touching every pumpkin she could get her little hands on!

 Aubrie decided she wanted all of the pumpkins!

For our anniversary this year and since it fell on a Friday, we decided to celebrate it on Saturday and treated ourselves to a couple's massage, dinner at PF Changs, and spent the afternoon with our sweet girl at Cornbellys.
Here is some of the fun we had at  Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving Point. I can't believe how big of an event this has become. We got ourselves lost in the U of U vs BYU corn maze, Aubrie danced to Gangnam Style with lots of kids, she played in a barn full of corn (up to our ankles), and had fun on the slides.

Some of the things Aubrie is doing at 13 months:
  * She can now tell you what sounds a cow makes and a dog
  *Is walking everywhere and doesn't like to be held anymore
  *If you turn your back for one second, she is into everything. For example: eating cat food, playing in their water dish, unloading the laundry buckets and toy boxes, and her new trick is unrolling the toilet paper and then tearing it into little shreds throughout the house.
  *Is drinking whole milk now but still likes it from a bottle. She still won't drink juice but loves water from a sippy cup.
  *Is becoming more and more independent with feeding herself and doesn't want baby food anymore
  *Loves to sing during church songs and dance to any music, with her very favorite being 'Gangnam Style'. If she hears you even say that name, she gets hyper and wants to watch the video. She even started doing the dance moves with her arms herself one day! She also loves a new song called 'What does the Fox say'.
 *Will come up to us and lay her head on us to give us loves. I especially love this :)
 *Loves her 4 wheeler and still says "Vrrromm" when she sees it. She also says vrromm when we push her in the shopping cart
  *Is learning to love going down the slide at the park...we had a new park built in our neighborhood that we are looking forward to spending time at.

Yellowstone and a new car

 In September, we visited Yellowstone for our first time with my family. My parents rented a trailer and we stayed in West Yellowstone at a nice campground. Unfortunately, the weather wasn't so great (like 30's and 40's with rain) but we made the best of it and had lots of fun seeing the animals and geysers, especially Old Faithful.

Aubrie and me at Bear World in West Yellowstone.

 It was fun to watch these huge grizzlies flip over rocks and logs like they were nothing to find their food.

 On our way to Old Faithful, this buffalo was walking along side the main road and as we drove up to him, he was the size of our SUV.

 Aubrie all bundled up and waiting for Old Faithful to explode.

 Visiting all the geysers around the park. It was neat just driving around and seeing the steam coming off of them all over the mountains and in the trees.

 Aubrie just learning to walk...a week or so later, she was walking on her own (9/20/13).

 We saw lots of elk and babies.

 These are some stairs on the side of the cliff that lead to a lookout point for a huge waterfall.

 We saw 2 black bears while driving and came across more buffalo in the road.

 On our way home, we visited Bear World in Rexburg. This park is neat because you drive your car through 60 bears just roaming around. We had a few walk right next to the car which was a little scary.

 We visited the petting zoo there which was fun to see and pet these animals so close.

In other news, in August we decided we couldn't wait any longer to sell the Mazda since we were having one problem after another and were wanting to get something a little bigger anyway. We sold our car on KSL and found a 2011 Chevy Traverse at Car Max for a pretty good deal.

First Birthday Party

 We celebrated Aubrie's first birthday party at our house with the Evans side. The theme was ladybugs and Aubrie even wore a ladybug shirt and cute fluffy red skirt with black poka dots. We decided to buy fancy cupcakes from 'One Sweet Slice' a bakery that won Cupcake Wars TV show. They were really yummy. For Aubrie, I actually made a cake but had to buy special gluten and dairy/egg free cake mix since she has never had milk or eggs yet. I made a giant cupcake cake and put tons of frosting on it.

 I made this banner (it was cuter in person) that featured a few pictures from each month old. It was fun to see how much she has changed from month to month.

 I even made a 'ladybug' fruit tray.

 The birthday girl loved attention from her family....she was so hyper.

 Opening presents with daddy.

 The people who attended your party: Grandma/Pa Evans, Grandma/pa Pearson, Grandma Joan Evans, Dave and Cher and Jake Pearson, Shannon, Sterling, and Amanda.

 This girl got spoiled on her birthday with lots of fun toys and books including: a pink 4-wheeler daddy picked out right after you were born, a Minny Mouse couch/bed (which she wouldn't get off of), a big yellow ball, barbie tent, dolls, a cool playhouse from my parents, books, and some push toys.

 Aubrie's first birthday cake and sugar overload:

 She loved massaging the cake and frosting in her hands and started licking the frosting off the cake.

Happy Happy Birthday to my sweet One Year Old!!! We love you and have enjoyed your sweet and fun personality and the joy you have brought us!

We had another party with Jeff's side of the family at a park the next week. Lots of parties and sugar for this girl :)