Catching up from November

Whew!  Long time no blog.  I have some serious catching up to do!

We'll start with November.

I got this cute outfit for Halie at a consignment store, but she did NOT want me taking her picture in it and would NOT smile for anything.

Lazy ol' Gretchen snuggled herself up in the blanket and caught some zzz's.

Halie and I made some cookies to contribute to a bake sale.

We took a few pictures of the kiddos one Sunday before church when, by pure coincidence, we were all dressed in similar colors.



Such a handsome little cutie!




Such a typical expression for him at this age...."Oh!"



I celebrated my 31st birthday.  Robert got me some beautiful flowers and a yummy ice cream cake.

We drove down to Lebanon, OH and celebrated Thanksgiving with some of my extended family.



Aunt Sheryll, Mandi, Me, and Uncle David




Uncle Bob (whom I hadn't seen since I was a little kid) and his girlfriend Charlotte




Aunt Kay and Paul

Halie had a blast playing with all her cousins.



Jaxon




The kid's table.



Robert keeping watch over the two little ones, Burl and Lucas.

This was Halie's "thankfulness turkey."  I drew it out for her and she did about 98% of the cutting out all by herself!  About 10 days before Thanksgiving we put the body up and one feather, and then each day she told me another thing she was thankful for and we added on a new feather.

She was quite proud of it!

I enjoyed some relaxing "me" time in the crisp, cool, Fall weather on the swing while the kids were napping.

Burl learned to crawl up the stairs all by himself.

He was quite pleased with himself.

Late in November he took his first steps!

We had a fun afternoon of playing in the leaves in the backyard.

Can you spot Robert?  : )

Halie had so much fun jumping off her picnic table into the big pile.

We had our first snowfall.



My beautiful little snow bunny.



Burl wasn't too impressed with the snow.

 

And last, but not least, Robert's sister Stacy had their 4th little girl - Karalee.

That pretty well sums up the month of November and pretty soon I'll start getting up the December happenings.



Fall Photo Shoot at the Park

I decided to take the kids to the park the other day.  The weather was supposed to be nice - sunny and in the 60's.  I figured it would probably be one of the last days of nice weather and we had better take advantage of it. 

So we took Gretchen and the camera along, and had a nice walk and a good time playing.  They had fun in the leaves while I took pictures.



Halie was putting leaves in Gretchen's collar




I love the look on her face, like she's saying "Why do you let them do this to me?"





Love those eyes!



Looks like he's saying, "C'mere, I have a secret to tell ya."



See the leaf in the upper right corner?  The wind started to blow and kick the leaves
around and he thought it was hilarious.





LOVE his cheezy-ness!!



A Halloween Parade

Monday evening I took the kiddos to a nearby town's annual Halloween parade. 



Waiting for it to start

 

It was a small parade, but they had lots of firetrucks which the kids enjoyed and TONS of candy!



All the band members were dressed up in costumes.

Both kids really enjoyed the bands and the music.  Halie was more interested in watching them than she was in picking up candy.



Burl really liked the fire engines.  He was wiggling his booty and clapping away!  : )




Halie, on the other hand, didn't like how loud they were.



Friends from church Aaron and Noah

 It worked out great because just that morning we had learned about firefighters in her school time, and then after the parade we visited the fire house and she got to see all the things we read about.

And even got to sit in a firetruck!

These two were so stinkin' cute bee-boppin' down the sidewalk together, little balloons trailing behind them, acting silly and laughing like crazy!

SO much candy!!



September/October "Stuff"

Filling in the end of September and first part of October.

We took a trip to Iowa for Robert's friend Darryl's wedding.

The day of the wedding we did touristy type stuff in the morning and visited an area called the Amana Colonies, where we came across the biggest rocking chair in Iowa.

October

The kids and I took a walk around the neighborhood to see the changing leaves.

Halie had fun painting/making a paper plate Jack O' Lantern

I took some updated pictures of the outside of the house.

Dressed up a bit for Fall.



HUGE beautiful mums for only $4.25 a piece, can you believe that?!?



An impromptu photo session with my lil' buddy.

He is just the sweetest thing ever!!



He loves to give things to me and jabbers until I take it from him.



Now you're all caught up.  Hope you enjoyed!

Don't forget to check out The Cozy Old "Farmhouse" to see what I've been up to in the crafty/decorative world.