Halloween and First Haircut

People keep telling me to blog more (my parents), but wow, there is just not enough time in the day to get everything done. Here is catch up from the last month. Hopefully I will blog about Ella's birthday on Wednesday.


Ella's first haircut! October 23, 2010

Begging Daddy for ice-cream!

We went to Boo at the Zoo last weekend.

Anna wanted to pose by Dora.

Fran and I took our kids to Cracker Barrel Tuesday.

We went to a trunk or treat Wednesday night.

Fran had a great Halloween party for all our kids! Thanks Fran!

Minnies and Mickey

All the kids..posing for a picute.

Anna wanted to bob for apples so bad, but didn't want to get wet.

Joe and I went to a Bible Fellowship Halloween party at John and Amanda's Saturday night. For some reason, I did not get everyone's pictures, but each couple were dressed really creatively.

The girls weren't sure about Mommy and Daddy.

50s couple...

Pirates!

Pregnant nun!

UPS guy and his "package"!

Amazing food and decorations!

We carved pumpkins at the Halloween party last night. I did this one for Ella's birthday!

11 Months Old

Wow does time fly....it has been a month since my last post and now my baby girl is 11 months old. She is growing up way too fast. This fall as I put new clothes on her (well new for Ella) I remember when Anna was this young wearing those same outfits and it really makes time seem to go by fast. Anna is approaching 3 and Ella is almost 1.

Ella is into everything now and one of the things I say most these days is "no touch". She is learning the concept well and recognizes what she can and cannot touch since we don't child proof our house. She loves to stand up next to the couch or anything else, but is not trying to walk. She has 6 teeth, but is getting 2 more right now. She is starting to sign back to us. She can sign "more" and "milk". She says "da da" all the time and also 'na na"m which I now believe is what she calls me. We are working on changing that though.

11 Months Old...Sunday, October 3, 2010

Ella LOVES standinG at this table now!

Preview for Halloween...

My great friend Amanda took some pictures of Ella in her birthday dress for her invitation. Can't wait to see what she got!

Not sure about Josh and his silly face.

10 Months Old

Ella was 10 months old on Friday. Now in less than 2 months we will be celebrating her 1st birthday. Her newest thing she likes to do is to mimic everything we do, especially her sister. Anna will squeal then Ella will do the same. They both keep getting louder and louder. I think it is funny, Joe, however does not like it. She also LOVES eating table food and is not liking her baby food much anymore.

Ella 10 months old...September 3, 2010


Grandma and Grandpa came in for Labor Day weekend. We had a great time visiting with them and playing outside all weekend.

Ella says, "Go Big Blue!"

Picture time with Grandma and Grandpa!

Playing outside with Grandma! The weather was so nice this weekend!

Painting with Grandma! Thanks for bringing paint Grandma!!

Hanging out by the pool. Thanks to Matt and Leslie for inviting us over to Leslie's Dad'd pool yesterday. We had a great time relaxing by the pool all day!!

La La and Joel

Ava is wearing Anna's old bathing suit. Ella was too big for it.

The guys and their kids!

Daddy and his girls!

Ella sunbathing!

Playing at the park before we went to the library.

We went to Baby Bookworms today at the library. The girls had alot of fun!

Anna LOVED the music part!

Catch Up

Baby Ava came over last week.

Poppy's girl!

Nana's favorite thing to do...

I went back to Campbellsville last weekend to play in an alumni soccer game. I took Abbey with me for a fun road trip. Joe and the girls stayed home. We had alot of fun playing, but was very tired after the game.


I have started babysitting Ashlyn this week. Anna has had so much fun having a friend to play all the time.

Anna says she likes to play "school"! Her attention span is not very long yet.

Swimming with Ashlyn!

Picnic with Joel.

Anna has been wanting to go to the zoo all summer, but it's been too hot. Today we had perfect weather and almost had the zoo to ourselves!

Picnic time!

I decided to go to the zoo even though we would be there during Ella's nap. She was such a trooper, but just couldn't take it anymore.

The girls enjoyed the carousel!

They all loved the pizza parlor!

Ella and Josh liked playing in the Infant Crawling area in Wee Play!

Josh liked climbing on Ella!