Celebrating Lacey's 2nd Birthday

Happy 2nd Birthday Lacey!!!

A little video I made for Miss Lacey on her 2nd birthday...

Mommy and Daddy love her more than everything, we have been so blessed to have her in our lives. :)

Lacey's birthday party

We had a small birthday party for Lacey this week. It was a little early due to the fact that Daddy unfortunatly has to work on her birthday and we wanted him to be able to be there when her birthday was celebrated. Lacey had a great time. She grinned from ear to ear the entire time we sang her happy birthday!

Her birthday dinner was 'pitzy' she loves her pitzy.

She looked like this the wholetime we were singing to her...

She could hardly wait to have a piece to the 'birday cake'. Hmmm, wonder if she enjoyed it?

Cute picture with daddy

'Reading' her book.
Trying to get her Micky Mouse movie opened.
She had a great time! She even had to have some 'birday' cake for breakfast. Hey, if Bill Cosby can give it to his kids it must be OK right?!

Kylie Ballet Dancing

Kylie has been taking ballet lessons for two weeks. She absolutely loves it! This is the Halloween routine the girls learned. We are so proud of her, she picked up the routine fast.

Watch for Lacey's grand finale!

Pumpkin Carving!

Our pumpkin carving experience went a little something like this: Kylie started off taking the stuff out of the pumpkins, then decided that it was too yucky,

she decided that coloring the outside was much better.
Lacey thought about taking the stuff out and decided that it was yucky also
so she opted to stick stickers on her perfect pumpkin

and color Mommy's little pumpkin.

After all was said and done Mommy was left to carve and empty out 2 pumpkins. And to be quite honest I really do not enjoy carving pumpkins. So next year it will be back to painting and decorating just the outside...no carving.

Halloween Parties!

Today I had the pleasure of attending not one, but two Halloween party's! First up, Lacey's party. They played games, decorated their candy buckets, stamped and colored pictures. Then it was time for the grand finale of the party...trick or treating! Lacey had lots of fun getting the candy. She was, however, NOT happy about the fact that she was only allowed one piece of candy! This really upset her. She finally got over her frustration of only being allowed one piece and then it was time for me to go back to work. This did NOT go over well at all. The good news is she took a great nap and was in a great mood when I picked her up!

Her and another little girl in her class were both Minnie Mouse. There were 2 Minnies, a Mickey, a Firefighter, and a Frog. They were all super cute in their costumes.

Then it was time for Kylie's party. They also had a parade of costumes, they had an afternoon snack that included: fruit, vegetables, cheese & crackers, and cookies; made finger puppets; played musical chairs; and freeze dance. They had a ton of fun. My personal favorite part was watching them play freeze dance, something about watching little kids dance just makes me smile. They are so carefree!

There are only four girls in her class, there were 2 witches, a spiderwick princess, and a ballerina. I remember there being two warewoves, Obi-Wan Kenobi, a vampire, two skeletons, thomas the train, and Darth Vader. Lots of interesting costumes!

Great times were had by all...including Mommy :)

Minnie Mouse!

Lacey, aka Minnie Mouse :-)

Kylie, The Good Witch

Kylie, the Good Witch

The Good Witch and Minnie Mouse

I took the girls to our church's annual Trunk or Treat today. It's so great to be able to let them get dressed up in their halloween costumes and go trick or treating in a safe enviornment. Honestly I'm not sure Kylie knows that some people go do to door trick or treating as she has never done it that way...and I'd like to keep it that way as long as I can. There are a couple of other Trunk or Treat's this weekend that we will go to also. The girls have so much fun, and of course they look so darn cute in their costumes!

I have some pictures of them individually that I will post later, you know equal opportunity :)

Lacey's Field Trip

Yesterday Lacey's daycare went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch. Lacey was so excited that when we left the parking lot at daycare she started crying 'go to punkin patch, go to punkin patch' she didn't realize that is where we were going.

The first thing they let her group do was jump on the Jumping Pillow. I have to admit I was a bit taken aback since there is sand everywhere and it was in the 40s...all the kids were bundled up, and now you want me to take off their shoes??? I did take Lacey's off and let her jump (obviously) and she had a blast!

Then it was time to take a hayride to pick the perfect pumpkin. Lacey chose the first one she walked up to, and I for one, think she did find that perfect pumpkin. She is very proud of her pumpkin and reminds all of us who's pumpkin it is.
After the hayride they walked through a corn maze and did a scavanger hunt to find all the animals they could. Lacey's class of two year olds did a great job! They also got to look at the animals, which Lacey loved.
Then it was time for the cow train and sliding into the corn pit. All of the children had a great time and I'm sure most if not all were wore out by the time they got back to school. Lacey took a well needed nap!

A field trip to "The Patch"

On Tuesday the Kindergarten and First Grader's went on a field trip to The Patch. The kids had lots of fun.

They went on hayrides, picked their favorite pumpkin, learned about some the fruits and vegetables that grow at The Patch. The kids helped pick up some of the bad apples that had fallen from the apple trees and they also got to sample a GOOD apple too!

learned about some of the animals at The Patch and got to feed a few of them too!

Some of the kids schucked the corn off the cob to give to the animals outside. They fed the bunnies the carrots they picked in the garden. They also got to hold a freshly laid egg. they kids loved it!
Overall it was a great educational field trip! I along with the other parents that chaparoned had a great time too!

Mom & Me

Me and my beautiful daughter Kylie.

I love her so much!

Pile of Leaves!

This weekend Kylie and I raked up all the leaves we could find in our backyard. There were quite a few but this isn't even a 1/4 of what will actually fall.

We raked them with the idea of jumping into them not cleaning up the yard. Both girls had so much fun, as you can see for yourself.

One of the many, many times Kylie jumped into the pile:

Lacey's attempt:
Lacey's was actually pretty funny considering that she would fall right at the very beginning of the pile and barely hit any leaves at all! That did not deter her at all, she loved playing in those leaves.

I loved watching them have so much fun. They both just had looks of joy on their faces as they played in the leaves. Something so simple, something so fun!

What did you do this weekend?

Mommy and her girls

It's always tough to get one good picture, but when you do the effort is so worth it. And I think we got at least one. :-)

Belly Pictures

Here I am! Some belly shots:

25 Weeks...taken by Greg

16 weeks...taken by Kylie
I think its so fun to be able to look back at these pictures.