Owen's 2nd Birthday

Owen turned 2 years old the end of August also!

We had fun at home, with just our small family celebrating.

He had a fun day with Mommy while Daddy was working and Riley was at school.

We bought balloons, went shopping at Target, stopped at a playground and headed home for lunch.

After school, the kids had some more playground fun!

At night we went to Applebee's for a kid friendly dinner and came home for cake and presents.

Our big boy is 2 now!!

he woke up as a 2 year old!

shopping with Mommy

balloons!!!

Playground fun!

snack with Riley at the playground

a new big wheel :)

at Applebee's for dinner!

make a wish!

present time!

We love you baby (big) boy!!!

1st day of Kindergarten

Riley started Kindergarten the end of August.

She was super excited!

We still can't get over how big she is now.

She has learned so much in Kindergarten already and is on her way to reading all by herself very soon.

Way to go, Riley!

Riley's 1st day of Kindergarten

a ridiculously HUGE cookie Mommy made her
(it was actually disgusting and we threw it out - but it looks cool!)

summer fun

We had a visit with Hannah for one month over this past summer.  The kids loved having their big sister around!  We don't get to see her very often now that we are in FL.  We enjoyed seeing her and getting to do some fun things with her like the aquarium, beach, zoo and Busch Gardens!  Aaron also took the kids to the movies and bowling.  The pool was fun to do too!  We miss Hannah very much and look forward to seeing her again next year!

We also had a visit with my brother-in-law and niece over the summer.  They came during the time Hannah was here and stayed for a week.  We tried to do fun things while they were here too.  I'm pretty sure the best part of the visit for Riley was having her cousin sleep in her room - sleepover!!  I posted a pic of our highlights with them on the previous post.

In August I flew with the kids to MD.  It was the kids' very first plane ride!  I was SO stressed out about it since I was doing it alone.  I have always thought far too much about the negative - just the way I was made.  But, everything turned out just fine and we survived.  Ha!

I went to a friends wedding in NJ while there...one of my very best friends!  I also got to see another bestie while there - we were each other's date.  :)  It was such a fun time to see them both again!  I miss these girls!!

In MD we got to do Farm Fair, play outside A LOT, visit (two!) zoo's, see Ian's family, go to Longwood Gardens and play with new fun toys at Grandma and Granddad's!!  The kids and I had such a fun and relaxing trip and we miss it so much there!  I took a ton of photos while there so will just post some...

O at the playground

R and O in their grandparents' yard

petting zoo
Me and O

Granddad and R

Farm Fair!

indoor play

visit with Ian's family
(Me and Ian)

Riley and Owen

Jackson, Ian and Julianne

R and Grandma
(the animal girls!)

Owen and Julie

at Longwood Gardens

Granddad and Owen

Owen and Mister

Owen and Riley on the gator 

diggin' in dirt

I'm BACK!

I'm baaaaaaaaack!

Maybe.

In all honesty, I'm not sure if I'm going to keep this blog up or not. 

I found it time consuming and just something that fell off my priority list.

The fact is, is I want a site - something - to share with family and friends updates about us, with pictures and some videos.

I thought I found an alternative but I'm not sure I'm in love with that either.

So!  Here I am for now.  Until I figure it all out.  :)

Looks like I last posted in July so I will blog from there.  We'll see how it goes.

Thanks for sticking with me!

XOXO

Visit with family

Here are highlights from our week with Aaron's brother and our niece.  We had a great time and miss them already. 

Caterpillar and tooth

Pic of Riley and her caterpillar friend and a pic of Riley at the zoo right after she lost her fourth tooth!

Owen's blocks

Owen loves blocks. All different kinds. I thought his little towers he built were cute because they were all the same shape!