2 Years Old!

Baby Allira

24 Months Old

A Few Of Your Favourite Things:

Slides/Swings/All things playground
Running
Climbing on EVERYTHING
Being chased around the house
Dancing parties with mama
Lilo and Stitch (her fav movie)
Puddles
Showers
Baths
Swimming
Basically anything to do with water
Wearing Gloves
Lollypops
Sleeping in mama and papas bed
The color yellow (yewowowowowowow)
Painting
Playing with her dolls
The 'tickle monster' (Grandpa)
Singing
Cookies
Bubbles
Snuggling with mamas soft blanket
Stickers
Wearing your pink poncho
Brushing and flossing teeth
Jumping on the bed/trampolines

A Few of your Not-So-Favourite Things:

Eating Food
Being told off
Sitting still
Long car rides
Shopping
Sleeping in your own bed
Growing teeth
Taking off your hat or gloves
Having your nails trimmed

New Tricks:

Knows ABCs
Knows Numbers
Knows colors
Knows Shapes
Talking a lot (hard to understand but she is getting there)
Going Potty
Can obey instructions (but doesnt most the time)
Watches and copies EVERTYTHING you do
Can stack building blocks like a beast
Decided she is right-handed
Loves to share

Halloween and 27!

The past 5 days have been so fun! We had our ward trunk or treat on Friday night, Alex came back from Portland on Saturday to help celebrate my birthday with me, Sunday I drove 10 hours so I could drop Alex back off in Portland for work where his new car was waiting for him (and by new we mean really really old but new to him), Monday was filled with Halloween festivities where we took Allira trick or treating for the first time (she totally got the whole taking candy and putting it in her bucket thing down haha), Tuesday my family celebrated my birthday with me (they are on their way to Utah today) and today Allira decided to spoil me for my real birthday by taking me to all her favourite places!



We were missing our Prince Phillip and 99% of the time Maleficent horns but we had so much fun and Allira was in love with all the lollipops in her bucket!
On the Monday we took her to the mall for trick or treating. It was packed and no wonder because it was freezing outside!

We had lunch at the teapot on wheels in Gold Hill on Saturday. Its British themed which is about as close to Australian as you can get in this tiny town.

So this morning Allira was amazing and slept in until 8.30 which is unheard of so I had a nice hour and a half to myself before our fun birthday day together. Baby number 2 helped me pick out my outfit, seriously my belly is getting so big my clothes are already looking ridiculous on me! Im going to have to whip out those maternity clothes sooner than I thought!
Allira decided we should go to our favourite park (Don Jones Memorial) for a couple hours before we went out for lunch with Grandma and Grandpa.

This is probably my favourite picture from the whole day! Haha she loves the swings!!

She loves road trips (obviously)

After lunch at an amazing Mexican restaurant in Central Point Allira and I went to the mall to do some shopping! She was so good the entire time which is basically unheard of, it was amazing. 

I loved my mummy-daughter day!

Bye Bye Dallas

Once upon a time the Copes bought a house. They took a war zone and with their blood, sweat and tears (literally) turned it into a pretty, livable house! Then they decided to sell it and move state.

We are so so so sad to be leaving Dallas, we have loved it here so much! Texas has given us lots of adventures, yummy food, some awesome friends and even a baby in there somewhere, but its time to move on to the next chapter of our lives.... OREGON!

This mama wants to live closer to her parents (free babysitting. duh.) and this papa misses his mountains so we are packing up all our belongings once more and moving this Friday night. Yeah we just cant seem to settle down in one place! Basically we are playing vagabonds and just hoping for the best.

Alex has decided that teaching is not his calling and is going to apply for some tradie jobs once we get back from Australia (yay Australia!). But the sad news is that he has to stay behind in Texas to finish up this semester at school, so we will be apart for a whole month! We didn't plan on selling our house so soon but the market is so hot in Dallas right now that we got an offer the first day it was listed for above the listing price, which absolutely floored us. This sped things up a bit but we are almost done packing and excited for what's to come!

I've attached the progress pictures we took of our fixer upper, before during and after. It was so much fun and cant wait to do our next one!

Cant wait for you Oregon!!