Three is the New 2: November 2010

Monday, November 22, 2010

Holiday Pics

This past weekend we got all dressed up to have our annual holiday pictures taken. I only remember one family photo of me growing up so I try hard to keep this tradition. Plus, Mikayla is practically a Christmas baby so I double up family photos with getting her age photos. This year we went to Portraits Today Studios (which is where we went last year), and they did a great job. I love finding great deals, so of course when they became the deal of the day on Living Social Deals I jumped at the opportunity knowing what a great job they did last year. The only problem we always have is deciding which ones to get. Here are a few of our favorites.

My personal favorite

I love her expression

Too cute

The hand is just too much :)

Love, love, love this one

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Good Night Moon

Just a cute little story that I want be able to remember... Tonight when I was taking Noah to his gymnastics class we needed to drop my mom off at my brother's on the way. My mom pointed out the moon to Noah and made the comment that there was a cloud in front of it. We dropped her off and headed towards gymnastics. At a stoplight Noah made the same comment that my mom had made about the moon. Then he we on to say good night to the moon and sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star to it. He said good night to it one more time. It was just to sweet.

A "Fun" Attempt at Christmas Pictures and a Deer

Yes, you read that correctly. It may seem early, but really it is just around the corner. In hopes of getting a head start on our Christmas cards for this year we took the kids to the park this past weekend to take some pictures. We got there kind of late and to say the least the kids were not being cooperative with the picture taking. There were a few good shots, but it looks like we will be going out again sometime. While we were there we did see two deer crossing the street. When we were walking back we saw one of them just standing there. Other than almost hitting a group of them with my car, I have never been so close to a deer.

Halloween

It has been really busy for us, so here is a late recap of our Halloween weekend. On Saturday we braved through a traffic jam on our way out to the zoo for a beautiful day at the Boo at the Zoo. Mike had homework to do so it was just me and the kids. I got them all dressed up in their costumes in anticipation of doing some trick-or-treating there and possibly participating in one of the parades. This was the first time this year that we made it to the zoo. We were all really excited to go since they now have a polar bear on exhibit. It is really cool to see it swimming around and it comes right up to the glass. The kids enjoyed seeing all the animals, but agreed that the polar bear was the best. They also had fun getting candy from all the tables set up around the zoo. We were even able to go on a hayride. We ended the trip at the zoo by visiting the Haunted Valley. I'm sure the kids would have loved to have stayed there longer to play, but I needed them to conserve their energy for the walk back to the car. That afternoon we came home and lounged around until movie night. It was Mike's turn to pick and appropriately he picks "The Nightmare Before Christmas."
Sunday we had a lot of errands to run and things to get done around the house before taking the kids out trick-or-treating. At night we made a quick dinner and got the kids into their costumes. We had a lot of fun trick-or-treating. We took the kids around the neighborhood following the path that we normally go on for our walks. Mikayla thought it was fun as we kept running into one of the kids who rides her bus. Noah kept me smiling the whole night. He was sure to say trick or treat and thank you to each house, sometimes even helping to close the door. But it was so fun to see his face light up as he exclaimed that he had found the next house. Too cute!