Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Halloween & A Mad Cow!

We hope you all enjoyed your Halloween celebrations!


Olivia enjoyed cutting (or pretending to) on the pumpkin.


Here is our finished product! Aaron is getting good at this.




Carter enjoyed spending some of Halloween Day in his walker for the first time.



Happy Cow!



Happy Witch!



Beautiful Witch!



Loving Witch & Patient Cow!



And here is the MAD COW!



Here is the witch checking out her collected candy!



Nothing like relaxing with Lady & the Tramp and some chocolate!

Friday, October 27, 2006

They grow up too fast...

I guess I have been getting caught up in preparing nursery lessons more than I thought. I didn't realize that it had been over two weeks since my last post until today! Sorry! I know that I must keep these posts coming or people won't be LOGGING IN to view;)
Not a whole lot is new from our house hold. I did come down with strep throat last weekend. After starting the antibiotics and getting rid of that, Olivia and I came down with colds. I haven't had one of these in almost a year and I had forgotten what a pain they can temporarily be. It could be worse though and so I'm not going to complain:)

Happy Halloween!


I'm not the best photographer when I'm trying to take a picture of the baby and get the baby to smile at the same time. At last - I succeeded!





I can't believe he can grab his toes already...didn't I just birth this boy a few weeks ago? Where does the time go?


It took Olivia a bit longer before she caught on to the toe grabbing thing.



But Olivia definitely had more hair!!!



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Last weekend we watched the Georgia Tech football game at some friends house (because we're still too cheap to get our own cable). Olivia and Dylan enjoyed each others company.
These two have been buddies for a long time (March 2004)



Olivia dressed up as a bunny, dressed up as a witch! Hop, Cackle, Hop!



Olivia gets in her 30 minutes of practicing every day! She's almost better than I am after 8 years of lessons!



This zonk out surprised me! He rarely falls asleep without comfort now.




Olivia wanted to nap along side Carter.
Nighty, Night!
and
Happy Halloween!

Thursday, October 12, 2006

1st Beta Post

Welcome! I apologize for the inconvenience of having to log in to view this site now. I have noticed some things that I really like about this new beta site and some things that I hope the Blogger people correct soon! You'll notice that a few of my pictures below are cut off on the bottom. I don't know what happened during the upload process - I obviously still have a lot to learn about this new site. You can click on the pictures though to see what got cut off.
Anyhow - things have been very busy this past week and that is why I didn't get to post as soon as I had intended to. Along with Aaron's new church calling as Sunday School president, I finally got a calling last week. It was getting to feel a bit strange to not have a church calling. I have been asked to serve in the nursery. I am excited about it - those of you that know me, know that I loved serving in the nursery in Georgia. The difficult part will be handling Carter for those two hours. I hope Aaron is up to the task! ;)
Olivia and Carter are doing great! Olivia now introduces herself as 'Cinderella' to strangers. Luckily she is still in love with Carter. Carter is really starting to enjoy his big sister. As long as she doesn't get down in his face with a loud voice. Carter is a very smiley guy and loves to jabber in conversation with his mommy.
Aaron is still working hard with school and keeping very busy with work. We live for the weekends now more than ever!!!
Aaron and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary on October 4th! Aaron is so great - he got me a beautiful white gold necklace and earrings with amethyst stones. My present to him wasn't near as exciting...at least we can laugh at it:) (Scrubs season 1)
I do still have video I want to post, but I have a feeling it's going to take some figuring out with the whole Beta site...it might be awhile.


This is one of those pictures that got cut off! We have had some 'residents' in our attic over the past month or two. Our landlord has been great to keep the trap out though. He's caught two possums, two cats and a.....




raccoon! (Another picture that got cut off)




Last Saturday we went to a fall festival at Iron's Fruit Farm in Lebanon, Ohio with some friends.




Olivia enjoyed the fire truck.



We took a tractor ride out to the pumpkin patch.



Trying to spot a good pumpkin!



Olivia and Aaron did a good job of picking out a small one for us. We couldn't get a very big one because our friends picked out 3 gigantic ones that Aaron also had to carry for them! haha - just kidding Karen!



Darn the cut off pictures! This was supposed to be a cute pictures of Jordan, Dylan and Olivia enjoying the pumpkins back at the farm.




Jordan and Olivia enjoying their fresh cinnamon apple donuts! It was quite the tail-gate party!




I've been Krogering!



This is how I often find my two children! How sweet!



Carter got read to by Olivia for the first time! He really enjoyed it.