9.29.2011

I LOVE hiking with my family.
Last night we hurried through dinner so we could race to the mountains for an evening hike.
The weather has been perfect lately and we live 5 minutes away from this little trail, so we thought we would take advantage.  Dru complained all the way there and Liv whined about her shoes.  By the end, they were begging us not to leave.  They had a blast.



 Dru and Owen are buds!













 Dru's leaf collection on a spider web she made at her book club. (Charolette's Web)



9.19.2011

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Faces I never want to forget.




 Anytime Owen hears a noise, he makes this face and points to the sky.  Love it.

9.15.2011

Rylie's first day of preschool.




Rylie ran right in and never looked back!

9.14.2011

Rylie's ladybug party

The invite


The birthday girl

 The food
(just ignore all those ugly pizza boxes)
 Ladybug strawberries
(mini chocolate chips)
 Ladybug watermelon
(thanks mom for the yummy salad and watermelon)
 All our ladybug guests!









 We played a couple of games.
#1 Throw the ladybug on the leaf.

 #2 Find all the ladybug spots.
 Blowing out the candles!

Opening presents!

Darling clothes from Aunt Rayne & Uncle Tom.
 Rylie LOVED all her new clothes, especially the cheetah cape, boots & purse!!
 Gma Martin made some adorable outfits for Rylie's favorite doll, Dora!  Gpa Martin found a cute little purse to store all those new clothes.
(Dora in her wedding dress)  :) 
 Megan & Daniel gave her Dora goggles, bubble bath and a bath book.  She loved it.
 Gma & Gpa Fenton gave her a Cinderella set.  She loves to talk to all her little princess friends.  She has such a great imagination.  I love to spy on her when she is playing!
Rylie loves Aunt Elisabeth!  
We missed you Alex. 
 After the party, Rylie was changing into her pjs and pulled her dress down around her waist.  She took one look in the mirror and ran to get her new goggles.  She screamed, "I want to be a mermaid."  I thought she would put her goggles over her eyes.  I was wrong!
 Finally, after all the kids were asleep I started to clean up.  As I was taking out the trash I spotted a REAL LADYBUG in our house!  I have never seen a ladybug in our house before.  What are the chances???