Christmas is in the air

The gang all dressed up and headed to Dalton and Brian's band concert. It was really cool to see both the boys on stage playing their instruments!



It was freezing cold and snowing at the parade but soooo worth it!

Dalton with the marching Pirates

Allie has fallen for Fall!

Thought I would head outside today and grab a few shots of Allie playing in the leaves. She absolutely loves being outside and exploring every corner of our yard. I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! Love goes out to my travel buddies. Miss you guys!!


I told her to give me a big smile and this is what I got! So funny.

Happy Halloween

Dorothy and Toto enjoying Halloween


Dorothy and Scarecrow


This is Allie one year ago, my how she has changed

Happy Birthday Girls!

She hasn't got the go/stop thing down but she is working on it!



Our two beautiful birthday girls!

Let's get the birthday weekend started!!

This weekend we will be celebrating Allie's 2nd birthday. We started today by joining her buddy at the Elmo show in Norfolk. The girls really enjoyed the show and afterwards we went to the mall for lunch and play time. Saturday we will being heading over for J's birthday party and Sunday the gang will come over for Allie's party. WOW, a lot of partying ahead of us!

Nature walk and Football

She didn't like the bear at first but once she saw Dalton and Brian near it she wanted her picture made with it.



I'm ready for some football Mom.

So here is what the gang has been up to lately. Brian is staying busy with football, Dalton with band and Allie...well she has been busy with being our princess. Here are a few shots from Brian's football game yesterday and a few from our nature walk that we went on today.

Allie Update

Enjoying my friend's birthday cake!

And chips!

And mints

But enjoying my big brothers beats it all!


Sleepy Head

I know I have bed head, but I sure did sleep well. I love my "new" bed.

Sorry it has been so long since I have posted. Since school has started I hardly have time to do anything that involves sitting down. My morning usually starts around 6 and ends around 1030. Between band practice, football practice, helping with homework and doing my own homework, blogging was put on the back burner. Not to mention reading what feels like 50 books a night to Miss Allie.

She has recently started having issues sleeping in her crib. She would go into a panic when I would put her down. This is not the sweet loving A that never had any problems going to bed. I was convinced that it was just more than her being stubborn. She also started to not like the stroller, shopping cart or anything that would strap her down. Luckily, I had a twin bed already set up in her room. So yep, she is now sleeping wonderfully in the twin bed. I will ask her if she want to get in the crib and she will give me an adamant "NO" and point to her twin bed and say "Allie's bed". As long as she is sleeping and is safe, she can sleep where ever she wants.

We have birthday number two coming up. I plan on having a little get together for her at the house. I also plan on taking Allie to see Elmo with her best buddy Julianna. The girls should have a great time together.

Kings Dominion

I'm ready to ride mommy!

She could barely see over the truck.






We decided to take the day off yesterday and take the kids to a huge theme park about 3 hours away. We left Thursday night and drove outside of Richmond and stayed the night. We were up bright an early and had a wonderful pancake breakfast. We headed over to the park around 10 and stayed until 8pm last night. Allie had a blast and was able to ride a lot of rides. She did take a long nap in the "deluxe" stroller so she was in a great mood the entire day. The boys were so helpful with her. It finally cooled off around 6 so we got our second wind and rode more rides.
We a wonderful family day.