Park Pics

It was sunny and 65 today, so the girls and I went to the park to play. Ayla loved the swings, and Lara quickly found a friend to play with, and didn't want to leave.

Lots of giggles

Winter is coming....

I tried to get some pictures of the girls outside in their winter coats and hats, but Ayla was starting to get tired and was staring off into space more and more with every picture that I took.

Ayla is finally eating cheerios and Gerber puffs without gagging on every one. : )

Fall Fun

The girls and I spent the weekend up in Siren. We didn't do a whole lot, but still ended up staying busy. Papa bought a couple kites while they were still on their Virginia trip, and we had a really windy day on Saturday, so we went out on the golf course and flew one of them.
Papa also made a big pile of leaves for Lara to jump and play in.
She also made some cut-out cookies for Halloween with Grandma.
They also carved a pumpkin, but I didn't take any pictures. If it is warm enough out tomorrow I will try to take the girls outside to get some pictures with all the pumpkins.


I took Ozzi to the Siren pet store to get his nails trimmed. While he was getting that done, I noticed a bunch of signs in the store about a free ride in a cop car, you just have to shoplift to get the ride. So of course, as we're walking out the door, Ozzi snatched a big dog treat out of a basket and just took it with him. Good thing it was something that needed to be chewed on and he couldn't eat it up right away, so we were able to bring it back in before we ended up taking it home on accident. (Actually I made Lara bring it back in.) : )

Mike is flying home again on Thursday, so he'll be able to go Trick or Treating with us for the first time ever. The last time he was home on Halloween was when Lara was 6 months old, and we obviously didn't go then. We are planning to go with Peyton and his family, so it should be a fun time! Hopefully it doesn't get too cold.

Tug o War

Lara and Ayla were having fun playing with a towel, so I got some video of it.

My Loves

Here are a few pics of the girls taken this past weekend and today....

Ayla is really good at sitting up now, and is ALMOST crawling. She can get back into sitting position if she's moving around on the floor, so it won't be long.

We got Ayla this hat in Virginia.

VIRGINIA

A couple weeks ago I went on a trip to Virginia with my mom and dad. Mike's mom took the girls for us so I was able to go. We had a really fun time and the weather couldn't have been better. It took forever to get there! We left on Wednesday the 8th, and got there Thursday night at 11:00. The first thing we did Friday morning was go to Busch Gardens Europe, in Williamsburg. My mom and I ended up going there 4 times. We love rides! My dad sat on the sidelines and watched. : )

This is the Griffon, a floorless dive coaster, their newest ride. We went on it a couple times the first day, then we found another coaster we liked even better later and rode it a bunch of times.

We got him to go on 2 3-d rides and the bumper cars.

These are the Budweiser Clydesdales. The Dalmation was there too from the commercial, but I didn't get any pictures of him because he was always behind a little fence.

We also went to Colonial Williamsburg. That was pretty interesting. They shot the cannons off a lot, and had some demonstrations. We also did little tours of the jail, the Capitol, and the governor's palace. Here is a room in the Capitol.

Here they are shooting the cannons. It was hard to get a good picture because there were 3 and we never knew which one was going to be going off.

This tree was HUGE. The limbs coming off the trunk were the size of the trees around here.

We went to the Jamestown Settlement one day too. We watched a little movie there on the history, then got to walk around and explore.

I'm not quite sure what I was doing. Scraping the hair off with a shell I guess.

On Monday we made our way to Norfolk. We went to a beach where they have the longest pier in America. You can fish off it, but we didn't stay long enough to do that. Then we went to the Naval base and did a boat tour, and went on the USS Wisconsin battleship. That was pretty cool but I was not a fan of all the steep steps.

After we got off the USS Wisconsin we headed towards DC so we could spend the night near the airport, since I was flying out the next morning and my parents were going to continue on with the rest of their trip. I couldn't wait to get home to my girls. I had a lay over in Atlanta. That wasn't too much fun, but it was $700 cheaper than taking the direct flight, so I really didn't have a choice. It was good to get home but I definitely miss Virginia.

Crystal's wedding

This past Friday I was in my friend Crystal's wedding in Eau Claire. It was a really fun day, and it felt good to have some girl time without the kids, even though I missed them like crazy. Our day started bright and early, getting our hair done together, and we seemed to be busy every minute after that.

Weddings

We had a couple wedding receptions to go to recently. I didn't dare take the kids to either ceremony, so we showed up for Lara's favorite part. : ) We had 2 in the same day, so we went to the dinner of one, and stayed for a little while after, then headed over to the dance for the other. Lara's friend Josh was there (his aunt got married) so those 2 ran around and danced like crazy.

Josh's dad helped them dance. : )

They had to take frequent water breaks.