Granny's Visiting!

We all like to participate in tummy time so I thought I would try to take pictures like that...did not work too well, maybe when Lydia is a little stronger :)

I love Ross!  These little flatbed trucks with a car are a favorite every time we go through a toy section in any store but they are always a little pricey.  Thanks to Ross and $3.99 clearance!  The slippers were too cute to pass up too!

My favorite outfit right now, or should I say Mommy's favorite outfit right now :) 

Christmas tree shopping!  Granny's first day here!!  So much fun!

Just the right size!

Look what Santa left in my stocking!! :)

Decorating the Christmas tree, Julius liked our Harry Potter ornament!  It's the gargoyle entrance to Professor Dumbledore's office and Professor McGonnagal's voice says, "Professor Dumbledore will be waiting for you, Sherbert Lemon."

We celebrated Julius's 2nd Birthday with a Polar Express party!  Mommy really enjoyed making the cake, even if it took until 2am! :)

Julius had his friends, Josiah, Dylan, Nathan and Mikey over to celebrate with us.  

We decorated gingerbread houses.

We had lunch then cake, I promise :)

And he loved all of his presents!!

Granny and Lydia enjoyed the party too!  Actually, Lydia slept through most of the party! Her friends Caroline and Abby had fun though!

Working on the railroad!

Noisy toys are so much fun!

We took Granny to Seattle!!  This is a Christmas Train Village that is set up each year in the Seattle City Center building.  Julius loved having lunch and watching the train make its way around the city!

Mommy made Lydia a gingerbread house too!

Our one picture of Granny in Seattle with us...because I forgot my camera card and she forgot her camera :( But we had a great time visiting the City Center and Pike's Place Market!  Especially enjoyed our lunch at the Pizza Haven because the manager was kind enough to come looking for us when they realized they had charged us an extra $10 and he wanted to give it back to us!!  I need to pay more attention too!!

We are loving every minute of Granny's visit!!  Many more pics to come!

Thanksgiving

For some reason blogger won't let me type with the pictures...so you are on your own with explanations :)

Lydia's Blessing and Christmas Presents in October

We forgot to take our picture at church...so here we are in the kitchen :) Granny made Lydia's dress and it is beautiful! Nick will be mad that I shared this but...when we got to church that morning he asked me what Lydia's middle name was...as if that isn't funny enough! I told him Ruth and he explained to me that he had been thinking Ruthann or Ann all morning. I just laughed at him. Well, as he started the blessing he came to the part about her name and said Lydia Ann, then of course he paused and corrected it to Lydia Ruth, lol! So when they sat back down he said the whole way up to the stand he was telling himself "not Ann, not Ann..." hee hee! It was pretty funny to us! Everyone at church thought maybe he had changed her name! I told him it was Gram Vogel (Ann) trying to get us to name Lydia after her :) I guess my next girl will have to be Ann :) Ruth is my Grandma Kokinda's middle name :)

Sweet baby girl!

It's hard to decide which pictures to share sometimes! So I chose a few!

This is Lydia's routine at night...fall asleep on the couch while Mommy and Daddy straightened up the house.

Christmas presents from Daddy! We decided to give Julius his train set early, really wanted to enjoy the happiness together! While I worked the camera Nick practiced his multitasking!

Julius is saying "choo choo" at this point and is very ready to get those trains out of there!

Get this paper out of here!

And the train track!

"Whoa!" "What's that?"

Setting up the track!

It was definitely worth giving him his present early!! We have all enjoyed playing with the train track! Can't believe he is old enough to play with trains already!!

Helicopters and fall leaves! It was a blustery day outside, but I wanted to snap a pic of the beautiful leaves before they were all blown off the trees!

Lydia--1 month!

Hunting for Pumpkins--October 10, 2011

We decided to follow the sign for a local corn maze. Didn't know where the farm was and they didn't put signs up on all of the turns...so we ended up stopping at the Clear Creek Nursery to look at their pumpkins. Love Julius's surprise face! He does that little face all the time! Especially when he hears any loud noises outside, lol!

This picture didn't come out very clear but he was saying "cheese" and I love it!

We ended up purchasing a few crazy gourds to decorate the table at home. They have ended up on the kitchen counter, out of reach of our resident taste tester :) One little pumpkin was not as fortunate!

The nursery has a very large, very deep koi pond...with some very, very large koi! They know what people are good for!

As we were checking out I asked about the corn maze and we were pointed in the right direction so here we are at the start of the corn maze. For some reason Julius thought these pumpkins were the perfect size for sitting!

Just talking about the pumpkins.

The corn maze was lots of fun! We chose a great day to go, SUN! There were little pumpkins decorated throughout the maze precariously placed on tree stumps, wood, cinder blocks, etc. After very gently touching about 4 pumpkins amidst our cries of "be careful!" Julius finally succeeded in knocking one off. Well the corn maze is on a hill, we certainly don't live in a flat area, so of course it rolled down the hill through the corn rows...Nick got to go in after it :) I was worried we may get a fine, since at the start of the maze was a sign that read something along the lines of "living corn maze, stay on path, you break it, you pay for it"...something like that :) Needless to say, Nick was very careful as he went after the pumpkin!

The pumpkins were just asking to be touched!!

It wasn't too chilly in the maze, but there was a chilly breeze outside of it! Love the fall weather and long sleeves!

Pheasant Fields Farm giant pumpkin! And the resident farm dog :) Julius would have followed the dog wherever it went if we had let him!

Lydia was dressed very festive for our outing!

We actually didn't end up with a pumpkin this day. We got one from the commissary later in the month, but we loved visiting the farm and the corn maze!