Red Ribbon Week

This past week was Red Ribbon Week at her school. Thursday's theme was animal print day. I am so paranoid about making her look too young so when I found this outfit I couldn't decide if I should send her in it. I know it is my own hang up but she already shocks people when they hear she is three that I don't want to help in that by making her look younger than she is.

Overall...I am glad I put her in it. It fit the theme for the day. We tried to get her to put the hood on but she wasn't having it. It has ears on it so I thought she would love it. One of her teachers went ahead and put it on for her without asking. She grunted...pulled it down...and K and the teacher hugged it out. At least they got to see her with her hood on for a second.

My Gym

Thursday they had dress up day at My Gym. She ended up keeping her dress on for a little over half of it. That was good considering Mickey Mouse (Minnie's brother) lost his within the first five minutes and Batman just stayed in his mommies bag. Since this is not her actual Halloween costume I figured I could post it. Don't want to ruin the surprise before tomorrow. :)

Fun with grandma

On Saturday we were blessed with a visit from Grandma Chris. It was so nice to spend time with her and Kaylie loved her undivided attention. With Kaylie being older they were able to do so much more together so this visit we decided to paint pumpkins. This was grandmas first time to paint a pumpkin and I am pretty sure she loved every moment of it. Thank you so much for coming to see us grandma. We loved it and can't wait to see you again.

Giddy Up

On Sunday we took grandma out for dinner and Kaylie asked to ride the horse. She ended up chickening out going in but was ready to ride it when she was fat, full, and happy.

No words needed!!!

Kaylie's I-Phone pics

Surprisingly, her pictures are not too shabby. She is definitely taking after her mommy when it comes to her love of taking pictures. It is never too soon to start something you love.

A funny...the other day I looked to to see Kaylie pretending to take pictures with one of our old cameras. She will take a pretend picture, tell us what it is of and then make us look at it. On this particular day she was sitting on the kitchen mat holding Brown dog up to her cheek while doing mommy and daddy's signature hold the camera out with your arm extended to take a picture while saying cheese. I about died in laughter. Her imagination is growing each and every day.

Hug from a friend

When posting I am pretty OCD about making sure they are posted in order so the fact that I am posting this picture means I love it and didn't want to forget it.

I took this on 9-28. She passed out and when I looked back brown dog was hugging her. So sweet. She loves him so much. When she is tired she will hug him and rub his ears before giving into her exhaustion. Super cute!!!

10/10/10

10/10/10...Love that date. It just sounds so cool. For us it was our last full day in an absolutely gorgeous place I couldn't help but take a ton of pictures. As you can tell by my previous posts I had a hard time deciding which ones to put on so I just put them all on. Why not?!?

For us it was our last full day but for the Davis family they were having to head back early that morning. We were definitely sad to see them go. We all had a great time together and the kiddos really enjoyed being with each other.

After lunch and Lucas' nap we packed up and headed back to the park. We decided to try putting the kids on their very first paddle boat and thankfully both Kaylie and Fletch did really well. Kaylie insisted on paddling herself and surprisingly did a good job...with the help of one of us. The scenery was amazing and at one point we even had a turtle swim by us. Awesome. From there we decided to get some ice cream, ride the train one more time, and play at the park before going on one more hike and heading back to our cabin. It was so relaxing.

Once back the kids played before taking some time to sit back and relax in front of a movie. They had a blast but were exhaustingly done. It didn't take much to get them down that night. The next morning we woke up to a beautiful thunderstorm which stopped before we had to pack up the cars.

To finish up our trip we were blessed to be able to enjoy a Jolie's birthday breakfast of sausage, biscuits and gravy. I have never had biscuits and gravy before and now that I have I worry I will have it many more times. Yummy!!!

These fishing poles were the best $20 we have ever spent. Even though they never fished with them they easily spent a few hours playing with them.

Tony and Emma brought Golf Toss for us to play. This was the coolest game to play with a group of people. When you first see it you think it is going to be impossible. Once you get the hang of throwing it the game becomes quit fun.

Front porch. The back porch was even bigger than this. Much longer back porch made it great for the kids to be able to run around and play.

They were "reading" to each other.

K was so excited to ride in the paddle boats. I was concerned she would freak out once she got in but thankfully she did great. The paddling itself was incredibly relaxing. We were able to sit back and enjoy the scenery. The water was clear and clean. We even had a visit from our friend Mr. Turtle.

I was so impressed with how well both Kaylie and Fletch did on the boats. Since Jason and I were both on the boat the one who was holding Kaylie got to sit back and relax while the other one got the workout. I ended up with more of a workout than Jason. Even though she insisted on "helping" I still did the majority of the work. Thankfully, Kaylie let me hold her for a few minutes here and there otherwise, we may have stopped sooner than we did.

Once she was tired of paddling she asked to steer. I can not tell you how many circles she had us do.

Once we finished with the boats we decided to take a break to cool off with some ice cream and another train ride. The two enjoyed this trip even more than the first. On the first trip we saw a bunch of deer. This time around we were visited by a bunch of armadillos.

She had such a good time. She laughed and smiled the entire time. What else could you ask for?!?

Every time she goes to the slide she hangs on the bar before sliding down. She decided Kitty needed to do the same and left him here to hang as she went down. She came back to rescue him after she was done.

Her one souvenir from the trip. She kept it in her pocket the rest of the trip. Worth the 51 cents we paid for it.

I swear we are not pressuring them to get married in the future. We had nothing to do with them holding hands. If it makes you feel better Fletch pushed her away right after I took the picture.