Happy birthday

Happy happy birthday to Grandpa! We can't wait to celebrate!!

Happy birthday!

Sending happiest birthday wishes to Grandma Lisa. We hope you have a wonderful day!!

Happy Halloween!

Between preschool parties and a nursing home visit, we had a few opportunities to dress up this year and Owen and Grace loved it!

Well, Grace wasn't so sure at first. But once she understood the candy part of it, she got alot more into it!

We visited Pop's office for some extra trick-or-treating too!

Owen got to really help carve the pumpkin this year.

And again, Grace was really into the candy... found her hiding out post trick-or-treating with a Milky Way.

18 months

This month we celebrated Grace's half-birthday!

It's hard to believe she's now closer to 2 than 1, and growing up so fast. At 18 months, Gracie knows what she wants and goes for it. We're having so much fun discovering her personality! She loves her babies, "Momo" (Elmo), running, shiny shoes, monkeys, birds, "yayas" (bananas), peas, "googies" (cookies), wrestling, hugs and most of all, her big brother "Awa".

Happy 18 months sweet girl!

Pitching in

We have discovered our sweet girl is very clean. She doesn't like dirty hands and feet and she likes to throw things away. Alot. It's been pretty helpful at times but we also have to double check what's getting tossed. We've rescued plates, cups, toys, socks, clothes, you name it from the trash can and I'm sure have missed many more. For awhile I couldn't figure out why we were always buying new pacifiers!

Here's some video of her in action...

And now that we've paid attention to it, she thinks it's a big hysterical game. Hold onto your stuff!

Decisions, decisions

a happy birthday for mommy

Big thanks to family and friends for making my "thirtysomething" birthday so special. It has been a wonderful weekend!