Happy New Year

Hope this finds everyone having a great New Year's Day! We have had a great long weekend. Here are a few pictures from Thanksgiving and Christmas to update everyone. We will now be getting ready to celebrate Ellyson's 2nd birthday in March...it seems very hard to believe! But super exciting!

One Little Pooh Bear....

We had a great time last weekend Trick-or-treating with our little Pooh Bear! Ellyson loved her costume, but was not so wild about her black nose! She couldn't understand why everyone's nose wasn't painted black like hers. We visited our neighbors and partied with the youth from the church who came over for a costume party. It was definitely an eventful weekend.

1st Annual Pumpkin Carving Party!

Eating cupcakes she helped decorate!

Can you tell what we made????

All Bella did was eat the insides and get in the way!

Whoa!!! That's a knife....

Pop cleaning his pumpkin out!

The finished product!

We had our first annual pumpkin carving party this past weekend! We had a really good time, but Ellyson's pumpkin didn't quite turn out like the cover of Martha Stewart! :) All the nephews and nieces had a great time and ate super good food...nice meatballs Auntie Cindy! We are getting excited for Halloween and going trick-or-treating. Ellyson can't say trick-or-treat, though...all we have so far is "knock-knock!" Pooh Bear pictures to come....

Pumpkin Patch 2010

We had a great time at the Chesterfield Pumpkin Patch on Saturday! It was a great, cool day to pick out pumpkins. Ellyson had a great time seeing all the animals and feeding the rabbits. We rode the hayride to the pumpkin patch and then Ellyson picked the perfect ones! Daddy had the hard job of taking them all back to the car! We can't wait for the upcoming weeks...carving pumpkins, Halloween party with the youth, and going to see Angela and Gran! Happy Fall!

Summer 2010

Daily "chore" of feeding Bella

Playing at the park and feeding ducks!

Spirit Day @ School

Wacky Hair day @ School

We are both sad and happy to see Summer come to an end. We are excited about football season and pumpkins, but sad that beach trips are no longer! Ellyson has had a full summer. We took another quick trip to Hatteras with the Baer's in August which was tons of fun. Anna Reid, Luke and Ellyson all had a great time playing together. Ellyson moved up to the toddler room at school the first of September and does all kinds of cool stuff...art, circle time, napping on a mat! We get lots of very wonderful art work that comes home in the afternoon! She is learning all kinds of new words, but her favorites are still "ice, shoes, uh-oh, momma, da-da, and of course....NO!" She definitely has a mind of her own and the temper that she gets from her daddy is already starting to show! Check back soon for pumpkin patch pictures!