Happy Thanksgiving!

It was such a beautiful day on Thanksgiving...we all went to the park and the girls got to swing!

The girls in the double stroller going for a walk. We had to get outside before eating SO much!

Putting all of the dishes together! We had lots of help!

We are so thankful that Oma & Opa could be with us to celebrate the day! We've been with them for lots of years on Thanksgiving and we were so happy to hear that they could drive out to be with us again! (plus we needed all of Oma's expert cooking advice!!)

Uncles x 2

Ali is THREE and a half today!! Our big girl loves her sister, loves counting, putting the ABC's in order, anything princess, matching clothes with her sister, and she's so happy when any of our family comes for a visit!

Uncle Colin (from Portland, Maine) and Uncle Pete (from North Carolina) come to visit! We get to spend the day with them at the playground and then they went with Chris on their annual football weekend to watch a big game (this year in Kansas).

My girls!! :)

Beautiful sunset while we were grilling pizzas for our visitors!!

Pete and Colin dropped off Ali at preschool in the morning so they could see her room. What a lucky girl to have such doting uncles!

Newest happenings

Elizabeth is NINE months old now! She loves saying "Ma, ma, ma, ma!!" (I love it too!) She is waving, feeding herself her food (she won't eat that yucky baby food anymore), and of course STILL waking up lots at night. Hmmm...we're still working on that one.

Ali was writing all of the numbers on the calendar I had from my school stuff. She also pointed to all the numbers 1-100 on a number chart and said them all!! We set up a school corner in our unfinished basement and put the play house and tricycles down there...Ali loves playing down there now that it's cold!

Playing with shaving cream is so much fun!!

I love pizza now and Cheerios and spaghetti and quesadillas!!

I like to practice standing too!! Getting so big!

Happy Halloween!

Have I said that I love our neighborhood? We had 10 families over for pizza and pictures before trick-or-treating started. It was so fun to see all the kids dressed up! The weather was so nice that they all jumped on the trampoline and we got to eat pizza outside!

So many cute girls!! Ali is holding hands with her friend Lillian!

Ohhh...the cute lil punkin just woke up from her late nap! She was just watching everyone all night!

Chris had to show his mullet-sporting side to the neighbors!!

So, she was going to be a bunny...then a few days before Halloween she saw her friends' sparkly shoes and decided she wanted to be a princess so that she could have glittery shoes! We are so proud of her...she bought her shoes with her own money from her piggy bank. I said, "Are you sure you want to spend $10? You'll only have $10 left." And she said, "Then, can I go to the store and get more money??" Ahhh....if only!!! :)

Get Ready for Halloween!!

The Bunny and the pumpkin!!

Alexandra and her neighborhood friends carving pumpkins.

Daddy is so good at carving our pumpkins! Our neighbors invited us over for pizza, pumpkin carving, and roasting marshmellows over the grill!! So much Fall Fun! We love our neighbors and all of the traditions we are starting with our kids!!

Ali's preschool Halloween party...it was so much fun to be in her class and help out! We made spider treats with chocolate donuts!

SUPER SISTERS!

Alexandra is such a big helper...here she is feeding Lizzie some peaches and cereal. She started making train and car noises so Lizzie would open up....so cute!

Meeting our baby cousin Nora!

Lizzie and I got to go to AZ to meet our very first cousin...NORA!! She and Lizzie are 6 months apart and she is so cute! We got to babysit for her for a bit and she is a really content little one!
I am finally an Aunt! So exciting!!
Grandma and Grandpa and their two youngest granddaughters...Ali got to stay home with Daddy and they had lots of good Daddy-Daughter bonding time!
Nana and Lizzie at the pumpkin patch!
Emily & Lizzie and Erin & Nora...Isn't it so cute that the girls are holding hands??!!