Harriet with a little Elna mixed in.

My favorite!  I love those smiling eyes—they make me melt a little.  This is a look I get all day long from Harriet.  She is a sweet sweet baby!

Apparently if my girls aren’t naked they are wearing their jammies.  Especially in the winter, I feel like they would be too cold if they didn’t have their warm jammies on—our house is pretty freezing.  Here are some cute pictures of them together:

This pose is really making me laugh.  I had nothing to do with it!

Sometimes I look at my girls and think they are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world, and then I think: are those just my mom eyes, because obviously every mom thinks their children are gorgeous?  But then I look at them again and know that even if I weren’t their mama I would think they were gorgeous little people.  They couldn’t be more perfect!

Okay, these next pictures crack me up because Harriet is going through a funny, but adorable smiling stage, which is turning out to maybe not be a phase?   It’s pretty priceless!

Those teeth!  Could she be any cuter?!

My sister-in-law, Rebecca, gave this cute outfit to Harriet when she was born.  I love it—especially the little heart on her bum!

Halloween 2013.

On Halloween day, the girls wore these cute orange/black/white combos (because I’m festive like that), and then I forced them to take pictures together.  Harriet was the wiggliest she’s ever been for pictures (as you will notice) and Elna was only taking them because I promised her chocolate chips.

Do we see ballet in her future?

On Halloween night we had Elna’s little friends over (and their parents) for soup/bread/dessert and then trick-or-treating.  I was surprised how well they all did for pictures!

All of the kids before heading out to get some loot—Mercedez and Sawyer were Tinkerbell and Peter Pan—such cute twins costumes.

I then took a few of just Elna and her doll—Elna was pretty much being the most darling girl you’ve ever seen.  Just minutes before our guests came over I remembered that my mom had made my doll a bumblebee costume years ago when I also had worn a bumblebee costume, so I rummaged in the attic for the costume and was lucky enough to find it quickly.  This doll also happened to be mine from when I was a little girl. 

Stacy came by to see us and to take a picture with Hattie—they were both ladybugs!

And then we went trick-or-treating!  I have never enjoyed trick-or-treating (or Halloween for that matter) more than this year.  Elna just made it magical!  She was the cutest, sweetest, most polite little trick-or-treater you have ever seen.  At each house we came to, before going up to the house, Elna would say “I like this one!”  We would occasionally have to explain that they weren’t home (when lights inside weren’t on etc.) and she would insist (surprisingly very politely) that she still liked the house and thought we should go.  We could usually dissuade her, but it was still pretty cute.  Even though she was usually at the head of the pack, she always waited for the other kids to get candy before she asked for some.  My favorite part?  After getting her candy she would say thank you and then very clearly say “happy Halloween.”  At every single door she said this.  I didn’t even know she could say it really, so it kind of cracked me up at first.  She would sometimes say it several times if the person didn’t hear her at first.  It melted my heart and made me very proud to be her mama.

We ended the night by trick-or-treating at Brian’s parents house, where somehow I only got pictures of Harriet. 

And just for fun, some side-by-sides of both girls wearing the ladybug costume:

Elna (left)—2011  //  Harriet (right)—2013

Elna (left) // Harriet (right)

Ward Halloween party.

The weekend before Halloween our ward had a Halloween party at the church—a chili cook-off and a trunk-or-treat.  I made a yummy vegan chili that turned out great—didn’t win a prize, but it was all eaten, so I’ll take that as a good sign!  Our girls looked so cute in their costumes—Harriet was a ladybug (Elna’s costume at her same age) and Elna was a bumblebee (a costume my parents gave her this summer at Yosemite).  They were absolutely darling!

Our cute little bugs!

Elna with Joanna—Elna loves Joanna!

Elna and Audrey (Joanna’s daughter)—two very serious bumblebees.

Harriet was a good sport, but pretty tired.

Tinkerbell and a bumblebee (Mercedez & Elna)

Elna loved being a bumblebee!  She loves to say “zzzzz” and then go around stinging people with her index finger.  It’s pretty cute!

We didn’t stay for the trunk-or-treat since Elna didn’t even know it existed and it was already way past her bedtime.  We probably won’t be able to away with skipping it next year, but we were ready to get the girls home and to bed and Elna had already had a great time!