Merry CHRISTmas

Merry CHRISTmas from our family to yours.

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Christmas Time Is Coming...

I can't believe there are only 19 days until Christmas. (Really? Since when does 19+7=25? I've never been a math whiz. It's just shameful!) Which means Hadley will be 2 in less than two months. This year has flown by! Today we broke in my new Canon Rebel T1i by having a photo shoot for our Christmas card. How in the world can it be so difficult to get 4 good pictures of one child? I must have taken a hundred or more. I finally got a few good ones that we will hopefully be able to use. Here are a few of the shots I got today.

Isn't she just the most precious thing you have EVER seen? I may be a bit biased, but she IS so stinkin' cute!! None of these are the picture(s) that will be included on our Christmas card. You'll have to wait a bit longer to see that. It's gonna be adorable though. I can always count on Summer @ memoriestoo to give me an awesome design. She did Hadley's birth announcements and her 1st birthday invitations. They were both awesome. Her website is memoriestoo.com.

We have been so busy lately. Thanksgiving week we were in Orlando visiting Mickey, Minnie, & the rest of the gang. That post is coming later. It's way too late to get my thoughts together on a week spent in Disney World. I will leave you with this picture though...
See Ya Real Soon!!!

Big Girl Bed

Look where our big girl is sleeping these days!

Yes, it's still in our bedroom, but we're making progress!

"I Nekkid!"

Thursday, we took a trip to my sweet friend Sandy's house across the lake. The drive is a little over an hour & I guess Hadley got a little bored. About half way there, I looked in the mirror and this is what I saw...

My sweet, darling little angel had figured out if you untie the ribbon on your pillowcase dress you can just pull it right off your body. So, for the remainder of the drive I kept hearing her say, "I nekkid! I nekkid!" as she was pulling her dress down to expose her chest.

This is Hadley just chillin' in Sandy's living room watching TV. I wish I had gotten a picture of her when she stood up and her dress fell to the floor. Not to be stopped by such silly occurrences, she just stepped right out of it an kept on going.

Show Us How You Live: Halloween Costumes

Last year we were in San Diego for Halloween, but we didn’t want our lil pumpkin to miss out on Trick or Treating so we decided to look around & see if we could find anything neat to do. Halloween Day Hadley & I went to Sea World to trick or treat, but she didn’t wear her costume because it was about 80 degrees. That night all three of us went to Encinitas to walk up and down Hwy 101 while all the stores & restaurants passed out candy. It was awesome! We had a blast.

This is our very 1st Halloween as a family.

This year I had a really hard time deciding what costume I wanted for Hadley. I knew I wanted to dress as the Flintstones, but I also bought Hadley an Imagination Movers tutu to wear to the concert and thought that would be a great costume too. (considering how much she loves the movers) Luckily, we had a few different things to go to so we didn't have to choose just one costume. Here's the little cutie posing at the zoo. Isn't she the most adorable Pebbles Flintstone you ever saw?

This is our 2nd Halloween as a family. We’re a “modern stone age family!”

Hadley & Kiki

Well, like I said I had a hard time deciding what I wanted Hadley to be for Halloween and thankfully we had several activities to attend so she had several different costumes. I know! I know! It’s crazy, but it was SO MUCH FUN!!! So, for our Fall Festival she was an Imagination Mover. And she was THE CUTEST Imagination Mover EVER!!! Sorry Rich, Scott, Dave, & Smitty! Mover Hadley is in the house!

I don’t think you could get much more precious!

Not very happy for some reason!

Tell me this girl is not adorable!!

 

And tonight we had Minnie Mouse

I'm a Big Girl

Pumpkin Patch

Monday we headed out the door bright & early(well not so early) going to the Pumpkin Patch in Hammond. Complete in Halloween attire.

When we finally got there, we found these awesome tire swings. How cool are these? Hadley and her friends Anna & Jace loved them.

Then, Hadley found the playhouse.
There was so much cool stuff to do at Miss Heather's Pumpkin Patch. Hadley loved the petting zoo. The first thing she did was walk in the gate and hug the goat. Isn't this precious?

At one point I thought she was going to climb up on the poor cow. She just kept loving on her though. Petting her just like she does Fritz.
Look at all those pumpkins! And, those 2 cute little ones in the middle. Oh wait, that's Luke and Hadley.

Cheeeeeeeeese! How she is smiling & saying cheese all the while sitting on the pumpkin's stem is beyond me!

"Mrs. Scarecrow, may I borrow your hat?"

Hadley had a lot of fun at the Pumpkin Patch. I think the most fun was throwing things. It didn't matter to her if she was throwing pumpkins, dirt, rocks, or even hay. She just wanted to throw things. So much for the cutesy posed pictures like we got last year.