Cruisin' with Big Brother

Seriously how incredibly cute is this!

She was SO excited to be in the Jeep with him- she was touching everything! He even asked to have her ride with him....and this sweet kiss...all on his own!

Absolutely...melt...my...heart!!!

Miss Independent

Miss Independent has not been eating her baby food very well these days but she has been chowing down on her puffs. I decided she was probably getting bored so we've been experimenting more with finger foods. So far we've tried avocado, banana, strawberries, shredded cheese, cottage cheese and baby rice cakes. My grocery trip this week included a lot more things for her to test. I really thought we'd still be on baby food at this point but little Miss Independent had another plan.

Halloween 2012

Happy Halloween from our super cute trick-or-treaters!!

Jaxson the fighting Power Ranger to the rescue- fighting off evil night and day brings strength to his super awesome muscles!

Bailey bug the Ladybug- flying around the world bringing happiness to the world through her incredible cuteness!

Seriously how adorable are these two!!

We did a quick stroll around our street with the princess in her chariot...she didn't last long, but enjoyed the little bit that she was out.

The reality of trying to capture the cuteness of these two costumes was quite challenging...the real moments played out as....

Bailey trying to get into the candy basket...

Whining because she wants to crawl away and Jaxson telling me "mom she's leaving"

Bailey catches eye of the pumpkins and plots her next steps to destroy them...

Pumpkins lose their body parts via the hands of the baby and daddy attempts to fix them

Daddy makes the executive decision that we are done and trick-or-treating needs to begin...

Ahh the joys of two kids, great memories. We have tummies full of sugar and plenty of sugar for weeks to come. Halloween 2012 was a success!!

Funny Stuff

When Jaxson was a baby we would rock him to sleep and then lay him in his bed. I guess we missed the tip where that's really not a great plan...so baby #2...new plan. Since we lay her in her bed and she puts herself to sleep there's a lot of activity in the bed before the sleeping actually happens. Bring in the video monitor and you have instant entertainment! Now that she's mobile its so funny to watch her. She sits up, dances, claps her hands, scratches/bangs the wall, crawls around, kicks her feet...you name it. I love to watch her. This past week she was working on getting to sleep and I saw her sitting up- then she folded herself over and fell asleep. Ouch...how can that be comfortable.!

Today she was rolling and flipping all over the place and landed like this. All that bed space and she wedges herself in like this! We just laugh and laugh at the crazy girl!!

Colorado Girls Trip

I'm a little behind on this due to sick kids and a busy life- but a few weeks ago mom, Stephanie, Bailey and I headed out to Colorado for a girls trip to visit Nikki and do some wedding planning. We'd had this planned for months and we were so excited to be there to see the fall trees, have a little vacation and of course see Nikki. Well a few days before we board the plane Bailey comes down with a virus and my grand plan of how this trip would work out...pretty much unraveled before me. I'll spare the many details but she wasn't exactly a happy traveler and I'm pretty sure she had altitude sickness. So needless to say I could have kissed the Texas soil when we arrived back home. So...onto the details of the trip. The flight out there she was excellent, she had a fever so she wasn't her normal wild loud self and wanted to cuddle which is great when you're trapped in a plane for two hours.

We got there late Thursday night and got settled into her cute little house in Boulder. Friday morning we relaxed and took our time getting going for the day. We hit up some dress shops to finalize the bridesmaid dresses and got some crafts to work on the centerpieces. On our way back Nikki took us up to this area to see the mountains and take in the beauty of Boulder. Not that you have to drive far...beauty is everywhere in Colorado!!!

Nikki and Gabe wanted to do some engagement pictures while I was there and Friday was a PERFECT night. Just down the road from Nikki's house is this gorgeous area with a trail, the mountain in the background a little creek...and God gave us an incredible sunset.

Saturday brought a bridal shower for Nikki at Gabe's parents house. It was so nice to meet his family. Nikki got SO many nice things, made me wish for a upgrade on a few things we have  :)

Saturday night Nikki took us to this super cute little town near her house to this INCREDIBLE Italian restaurant. It was so nice to have some time during our trip to make little stops like that and take in some of the really unique areas where she lives. The fall trees were incredible and literally one week later she was texting me pictures of snow covered trees. I'm sure glad we were there the week we were so we could experience the beauty of fall. Despite a little challenging traveler and situations we could not have planned for...it was a very nice trip and so great to see Nikki and participate in the prep to the big day!!

Pumpkin time!

It's pumpkin time...which means Jaxson gets super excited to carve the pumpkins and then five scoops in he gives up. This year we managed to get the biggest pumpkin in the patch..we had pumpkin goo every where! GROSS!!
Despite two times the pumpkin goo this year these two pumpkins turned out way too cute!! Just a few days from sugar day... I mean Halloween!

She fills...

She fills my days with smiles

She fills my heart with joy

She fills my ears with giggles

She fills my arms with her beautiful chubby body

I am beyond thankful everyday for the incredible gift of being the mommy to this adorable little girl!