Girls Only Weekend

A few weeks ago, Corey went on a deep-sea fishing trip for the weekend. I gave my mom a call and told her we needed a "Girls Only" weekend. So she packed her bags and came up to our house to spend a few days. It was a wonderful time!!! I got to spend some quality time with my mom and the girls loved having Grammy around for several days. We didn't plan anything big, just to have fun goofing off.

We did make a trip to town to make the girls Christmas ornaments. Every year I do a ball ornament with the handprint on it. I love hanging them on my tree. This year, I definitely needed more help since I had 2 sets of little hands to paint.

Then we enjoyed good food together. What is a girls weekend without good food?!

But most of the weekend was gorgeous weather, so we spent it in our yard.

Here is Addison learning to drive her boat.



And Addison having fun in the swing.

Silly girls on the jumphouse/moon walk.

Audrey was "flying" like an airplane!

Audrey being pushed "higher" by Grammy!

My silly goose!

Audrey insisted on giving Grammy some golf lessons.

We all had a fabulous time! I can't wait for us to enjoy another "Girls Only" weekend very soon!

We Interrupt this Program...

Due to my computer crashing along with the busy holiday season in full swing, I've been neglecting my blog for way too long. Hopefully I'll be playing catch-up the next few days!

Addison- 8 months old

(And I finally get it posted....just before she turns 9 months--haha)


Sweet Addison: I want to be able to remember exactly what you were like at 8 months old...

You:
* weigh 18 pounds
* are 27 1/4 inches long
* wear size 3 diapers
* wear size 6-9 month clothes
* are still belly crawling. I don't think you will ever crawl the "right" way. You seem to think it is much easier and faster the way you do it.
* always want the toys that your sister is playing with, no matter how many times she gives you what she has and moves on to a new toy.
* are crawling into every room. I am constantly chasing you down and moving you to a "safer" place.
* get so angry and try to bite us when we have to take away a forbidden item or move you away from something. Yes, you are getting in a lot of trouble by doing that!
* cut your top front 2 teeth
* went to the beach for the first time. You loved smashing the sand castles and eating the sand.
* went to the pumpkin patch for the first time and had a blast.
* had your first Halloween. You were an adorable lamb.

We love you so much sweet girl!

Halloween 2010

I'm finally getting around to putting up the Halloween photos.

I made these tutus for the girls just because I thought they would be cute and wanted some pictures with them.

As you can tell, "Doggie" has to go EVERYWHERE with Audrey.

And here is a picture of my little "pumpkin".

This was Addison's Halloween costume. She was my little lamb. Isn't she just the cutest?! She even wore that on her head the entire night. Can you believe it?

Audrey was our beautiful butterfly. She was so proud of her costume. Isn't she just beautiful?! And growing up so quickly :/

My sweet girls in their costumes. I can't tell you how many pictures I had to take to get both girls looking at me and smiling.

Instead of the standard "Trick or Treating", we took the girls to a Fall Festival that Audrey's preschool/church was hosting.

It was so much fun. The girls loved it!

Audrey enjoyed a little cotton candy.

Seriously?!? What is Halloween without a sugar high? And you gotta love that sticky face :)

Addison was content riding around in the stroller and watching all the action.

Audrey ready to have some fun.

Butterfly turned Cowgirl. She had a blast riding the pony.

Digging for worms is always interesting.

Audrey's trying to win some candy at the ring toss.

That little duckie got Audrey even more candy.

Then she tried her hand at ringing the buckets.

She caught a winner at the "Go Fish".

Working on those golfing skills. Her daddy will be so proud. ;)

They even had a ski-ball game. Audrey hasn't quite got the hang of that game yet. As you can see her little arm is swung back ready to throw. And throw, she did, and nailed that guy standing there right in the wrong place :/ Everyone around thought it was so funny, that poor guy didn't share those feelings...bless his heart.

Finally, Audrey got her face painted.

Not surprising, she wanted a butterfly.

Little Bit and Daddy.

Beach Trip (Part 2)

The next morning we woke up to another perfect day. It was a little windy, but there was no one on the beach and it was about 80 degrees and sunny. BEAUTIFUL!

Once again, we headed to the beach for more playing in the sand, building sand castles, finding shells, and walks on the beach...

Audrey is a daddy's girl.

Addison laughed and played...

...then crashed for nap time.

More sand castles in the works.

After a little catnap...Addison woke up ready to play some more.

And eat some more...

Audrey got a kick out of throwing the wet sand all over Corey.

Addison wasn't really fond of the crashing waves so we hung out under the tent and played in the sand while Corey and Audrey splashed and played in the water.

After the girls got tired of the sand, we headed back to the condo and enjoyed a swim in their heated pool. Addison didn't mind this water. Audrey was getting pretty brave in the water since she had swim lessons this summer.

Before dinner that night, we went back to the beach to take a few photos. We weren't able to get a picture of the 4 of us, because, there was no one on the beach to take it for us :(. At least we got something.

I'm so thankful that we were able to go on this vacation together. It was a wonderful, fun, relaxing time and we made many memories to cherish forever.