Winter Wonderland

Scott and Ann went and played out in the snow... she LOVED it! She must get that from her daddy because i HATE being cold. she was bundled up really well and she made the snow man and played and still was a little sad to come in. Everyday i think... how is this our little baby? she's such big girl.

All bundled up and ready to have some fun!

With her little nose after plying outside. This is straight from my childhood... my mom always made us hot coco and toast when we came in from playing in the snow. So i had it ready for them when they came in. Thanks mom for being such a great mom and a good example for me to follow

So as you can see Ann was not huge fan of her snow pants when we were inside. she kept saying off please off and neck ouch because the zipper comes up to her neck. It is pretty funny when she say neck or anything with a hard K sound because it is HARD 'K'!


SANTA... i know him!!

We saw Santa for the first time! This is about as close as we got to him. Still even though she was terrified she says SANTA!! Ho ho ho! In every picture and statue we see.

Philippi the small city we live in has a parade for pretty much everything and i mean everything! A Halloween Christmas, whatever the holiday they have one and i love it! This is the Christmas parade and it was the biggest one yet. Here is Santa!

So yes, if you look close there is man dressed like Jesus. This was a church float and i had to take a picture because i thought it was kind of odd... who does that?

more floats... still i love it! We had hot coco looked at all the crafts and watched the parade.

aww our little family supporting the town parade

we are cutting down our tree. i remember doing this as a child ... and i loved it!! have i said i loooove Christmas. love the smell from the tree. i just love it all!

Ann loves to help with dishes. we are soaked by the time we are all done

oh the job of a daddy dragging the tree all the way to the car... what a good da ddy

they gave us this cart to put the tree in and we rode in it until it tipped over because we live in WV with all the hills :)

kinda of creepy... i think that's what he was going for

paint paint and more paint

Ann loves hats loves them on her dolls and in her books pretty much anything with a hat she loves. she will stand in a mirror & just watch herself

Halloween, Pumpkin Patch and so much more...

Peter Pan, Wendy and Tinker Belle

Yes Yes Happy Halloween! I have been into sewing like crazy and i made all of our costumes. It was so much fun and under 26$$ hooray!! We went to a trunk or treat at our church in these pictures with all of the kids running around.

Our little Tinkerbell and somehow she didn't really mind the wings... who knew?

This picture is at the college (AB) where scott attends. it was just for kids so we didn't dress up. yes yes we went to all this with ann and she loved it... but she doesn't eat candy really so scott and i were munching on all the treats!



We went home for Cindy

's shower(my sister) she is due middle of December and hoping to have it soon!



We went to a pumpkin patch and corn maze. no one told us there was so much mud that our shoes pants, stroller was covered. we couldn't even push the stroller it was stuck just sliding in the mud. Of course independent Ann wanted to walk every where so she was covered... what a day. Will we go again? OF COuRSE... i am all about fun places to go. i think it is a great experience and i love to get out. we had to drive about an hour but... it was worth it!

Ann kept saying cold buuur cold buuur look at her little red nose.

I know my one eye looks a little creepy but i thought it was cute picture of Ann and I

I thought this barn was awesome!

We went with some new friends of ours called the Higbee's and there 3 cute girls

This is Scott attempting to study and Ann trying to help him :-)

Sorry i couldn't turn this tree the right way. I loved the fall here... it was amazing!!!

Priceless

We went to the Forest Festival in October

Sorry fellow bloggers i have been terrible at updating our blog! I keep telling myself i need to get everything in order in my house and than i realized... it may never happen. The basement is orginized the kitchen is clean i am up on scapbooking, journaling annd my calling, our tree and decorations are up i feel like i am doing ok. i have a few mins so i will try and up date everyone.

We came to this lumber jack competition like the lumberjack thing on espn... we LOVED it! Yes we woke up at 6 am to see people chop down tree's ... really fast!

When you're in WV be like a Virginian we always Say :-) So here we are...

This picture is of Ann chasing the goats and pigs in the little pen. It was so hard to get a good picture because she is chasing after them saying baaaa babaaaa super loud it was awesome!

Here is one of the tree cutters now... this is one of my favorite things they did. They make a notch and stand on the board and it holds them and they climb the tree. it is pretty cool. Ann was such a trooper. She seems to LOVE being outside and the animals. She loved all of the cool little booths and it was a great and FREE family activity!

These are our friends that
came with us, Ashley and Brian Barton. Brian is the the PA program with Scott and is also a 1st year. They are our new friends and anyone who is willing to wake up that early for a lumber jack show is a keeper :-)

Ann and her daddy. Now that Scott is in school and studying she has turned into a full fledged daddy's girl! Every second dad walks through the door she yells DADDDDYYY and runs to the door. Before scott can get his shoes off she is saying Book! Book (she want him to read a book to her) As he enters to the living room she says sit daddy sit as she is furiously patting the floor!

Our family. I almost didn't put this picture up because she has her passy and it is ONLY for bed but she had it then because like i said it was 6 am and she should have been in bed. Don't judge me :-)

Ann saying a few words

We have been trying and trying to get Ann to say something.... anything on video for family and friends but she is so camera shy. FINALLY, she said a few words. She says like 30 words now and 15 or more animals noises but these few are a start :-)

fun with eric and jaime

And So it BEGINS... Ann took the whole roll of toilet paper off. She pretty much loves it!!! When i walked in she was putting her stuff animals in it and hugging the TP. So it was pretty fun for a day to use unrolled toilet paper... i thought we had a longer time before she would get into stuff like this...

We went to go see some of the sights in philippi. This is a pretty cool river with these huge rocks you can walk on.

I love this picture because i feel like Ann looks like a giant!!! She has such little feet. the shoes she is wearing are sized 6-9 month and most kids aren't walking so they don't have any soles on them if you look at the bottom.