Halloween

We had such a fun time this year at Halloween, Sophie is at such a fun age.  Sophie liked carving pumpkins, but when I first put a knife in her pumpkin she freaked out!  After she realized what we were going to do, put a happy face on it, she was fine and even helped clean out the pumpkin for baby Molly.

Our finished products.

Sophie was so excited to go trick or treating.  We attended the trunk or treat our church put on.  Travis participated in this, so Sophie and I went there first.  After she made one round, she wanted to go again!  We stayed for a while to hang out with daddy and then I took Sophie to a few houses of people from our church until Travis was done.  When Travis was done, we headed over to another churches trunk or treat.  Sophie loved trick or treating so much that she asked the next morning if she could go trick or treating again that day!

Story Hour

Today I started taking Sophie back to the library for story hour since it is getting cooler out.  They had firefighters there for a special guest, but they freaked Sophie out and we had to go look at books and movies during that time.  After they left she was much better, but she kept saying, "I was scared of the firefighters."  At the end, she got to make a firemen's hat and we ended up having a good time at story hour.

Trick or Treat

We were just going to dress Sophie up as a cheerleader this year for Halloween, since she already has a cheerleading outfit, but she kept saying she wanted to be a princess.  I went online to look for costumes/ideas and decided to make a costume for her since costumes can get pretty pricey.

 Below is a costume that I used for inspiration when creating Sophie's.  I found it on the Family Fun website.

Below is a picture of Sophie in my creation of a princess costume.  She loves it and it was so cute to see her dancing around in it!  She was ready to go trick-or-treating tonight!

Baby Girl #2

We cannot believe we have been blessed with another healthy baby girl!  She'll be here before we know it too.  We are all so excited and Sophie is going to be such a great big sister.  Two girls, we can't believe it!  

Spearfish Canyon

Last Thursday we left Gillette and headed for the Black Hills of South Dakota to stay in a cabin in Spearfish Canyon.  We had so much fun together.  We took Sophie to a couple of the waterfalls in the canyon and she absolutely loved them.  She wanted to see more waterfalls!  The leaves were beautiful and definitely got you in the mood for Fall.

The reason we decided to take this little mini vacation was to go to Spearfish to see our good friend Scott Simmons as he was in town for a Wesleyan Youth Convention.  It was so great to see him and catch up.  Sophie instantly became attached and keeps wanting to know where Scott is and what he's doing.

Here are a few pictures from our trip.

growing, growing...

Sophie has grown so much over the summer and everyone always talks about how much she's grown since the last time they saw her, so I finally decided to measure her.  She has grown over 2 and half inches since May!  She is now a little over 38.5 inches tall.  We are going to have one very tall girlie on our hands, better work on her ball handling skills, she's not going to get stuck in the post position just because she's tall, haha!  :)

Something that I forgot to post last time is that Sophie is now using the potty!!  I had been trying to convince her for a while, but she wasn't having it, so I just decided to pray that she would have the desire to even do it and one day she said she needed to go and the rest is history!  I'm glad God cares for the little things in life too!  I'm also glad I'll have a small break from changing diapers!

On that note, I'll be 17 weeks pregnant this week and on October 6 we get to find out if we are having a boy or a girl.  We're all so excited and can't wait to see what the baby is!

Where Did Summer Go?

Ok, so I know I haven't posted since June 25th, but we have been so busy and some new and exciting things are happening in the Shannon household.  Let's just get you up to speed...

Travis and Sophie dressed up for church on July 3rd.

At the 4th of July parade downtown.  Sophie loved it!

Sophie and her buddy Cameron on the 4th.

This Summer we made a lot of trips to our city pool.  We had a lot of fun.  This time, daddy even got to join us!

Sophie in our camper at youth camp.

Playing in the pool at camp.

In July, my sister Vanessa, her husband Chad and their little girl Shelby came to visit.  We went to Yellowstone...

...over the Beartooth Pass...

...the National High School Rodeo...

...the Rec center...

...Bear Country USA...

...and Mount Rushmore!  We kept them busy :)

At the beginning of August we took Sophie to the county fair.  She got to ride the carousel...

...and the Ferris Wheel.  She had a blast!

At the end of June we found out that Sophie is going to be a big sister, we kept it a secret until recently and baby number 2 due March 9th!!!  Sophie is excited about being a big sister.

At the end of August and the beginning of September we got to finally take a mini vacation down to Colorado, just the three of us.  

We took Sophie down to the Denver Aquarium.  She really liked all the fish, but her favorite thing there was the TIGER!!

This past weekend, we put a tent up in the basement for Sophie to play in, she loves it and says she wants to go camping in the Big Horns.

So what have you been up to?