Christmas Pictures

Ok this post is out of order from all the rest being that I have about 5 more drafts left to post but I am too excited about these pictures to keep them from you.

I took the girls to get their Christmas pictures taken today and boy do they look cute!!!!







We Got the first, second & last pictures.... I didn't have money to get anymore of the individuals otherwise i would have. We got the package of pictures of the first picture of the two of them and then a sheet with 4 wallets and a 3 1/2 x 5 of Olivia and the same for Rachel. I can order more prints if I want to from the site i got the proofs off of. If anyone wants to order yourself some like a bigger picture than might get sent to you, I can send you the login and pw to get into the site to order these pictures :D I think they came out really great :)

Ok off to bed.... nighty night! Xmas tree pictures to come as soon as I put my tree skirt on and get a good tree topper

Halloween

We did a lot for Halloween. The weekend before we Rachel and Olivia to the Gilbert Halloween Festival. It was cute and we all dressed up for it. Olivia was a princess, Rachel was a ladybug, Chris was a Winged Reaper and I was Dorothy from Wizard of Oz. The festival was cute but kind of a bust cuz the girls were still too little to do anything like the bounce houses.

Here they are - The Princess and The Ladybug

Olivia wasn't too sure about that hat and Rachel wasn't too sure about those wings.

As you can see these 2 are sans hat and wings at the Halloween Festival lol.

see her princess shoes? ^ :D I love them




On Halloween we went to the Arizona Irish Festival during the day for a music project Chris had to do for his Music in Culture class. We walked around the Irish cultural center and everything was really cool. There were people in period dress and people playing instruments and lots of little kids in costumes. It was a lot of fun.

(Hey... I didn't know Doc was Irish lol)


The main band we saw - The Knockabouts. They're pretty darn good :D



We got home in time to go Trick-or-Treating to the other town homes here and we had a blast. Olivia had her little Glow stick flower wand and her princess shoes and we were off.



We had lots of fun :D

Camping in Tonto National Forest

In October we went Camping with our friend Michele and her 3 girls and the babysitter. We bundled everyone up and drove about an hour and a half north east to the Tonto National Forest where it was about 25 degrees cooler than at the house. So it was pretty chilly that night but we kept the fire going and everyone had a blast. We made taco salad for dinner and we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows for dessert and had a blast. Idk how soon I'll go camping again though lol
Here are the pictures I took:

Rachel & Olivia banging on the picnic bench


Playing in the dirt with Sydney






Rachel probably walked on the cement beam for a good 30 minutes with Chris back and forth. I love this picture of them. / Sydney being cute / Rachel bringing her plate to Ray Ray (the sitter) ...somehow Michele's oldest, Tatum managed to escape my pictures lol


Olivia, Ray Ray & Aubrey / I love this picture of Liv & Aubrey - The girls fought over who got to play with and watch which baby. I love it. They love Olivia and Rachel so much & we love them.


The campsite. I particularly loved that old tree that has been used multiple times for firewood (we left it alone though and sent the girls to go get wood that was already scattered through the woods)

Random Pictures in AZ --- Take 1

Olivia's Birthday (NY & AZ)

On September 29th my baby girl, Olivia turned 1. It never ceases to amaze me how fast that has gone by and how much she's developed and how smart she is.

Well I moved before she turned 1 from New York to Arizona, so I decided to have a birthday party for Olivia before we left for Arizona. So she actually had her 1st birthday party a month early. Here's some pictures from her party day in NY.








Then after we got to Arizona and it was her real birthday we celebrated with a little cake that she got to eat a nice big piece of lol

Thank You

I promise I will blog some more about what we're doing out here soon. But I saw this video on youtube and It's really touching. So I wanna say thanks to all the men and women that serve our country especially my 2 brother-in-laws. Love you guys.

Arizona

Well yet again I am a bad blogger.... So I will try to be more faithful I promise.

This blog is dedicated to my favorite pictures from my trip to Arizona. Laura came with me and we drove for 6 days from NY to AZ. First we stopped in Virginia to see Colleen, Dan & the kids for 2 days. Then we stopped in North Carolina to see Rachel and Bea (Robert was camping). We made a detour through Nashville *side note* we were looking for one of those pressed penny machines to get ourselves an Elvis penny from Nashville but there was a festival going on in Nashville so we just drove through *end side note* And we stopped at the Cheroke Trading Post outside of Oklahoma City to get ourself some souvenirs.

The trip went smoothly and Laura and I switched driving duties. We stopped at a lot of rest stops to stretch our legs and let Olivia get some air and get out of her car seat. Olivia slept a lot with minimal screaming which was nice for the trip. We were smart and brought along the portable DVD player so she had something other than us to entertain herself.

And then we were in Arizona. It was beautiful and exciting and what a relief to know the end was almost near. I was sick of driving. Luckily everything is within a 5 minute radius here lol.

Here are some of my favorite pictures from our trip:

Fun Post

So my 2 youngest nieces decided when they walked in the house today that I needed to post a blog. Because, as they said, you haven't posted in a while. Which is true minus the blog from the other day. So I told them - if you let me take pictures of you then I will blog them!!! Of course they were all for it. So as I promised, here are the pictures of Olivia, Mitchell, Avery & Julia. (Excuse my camera's poor quality... idk what the deal is today :P)

Vacation...

I apologize for my BAD (and i mean HORRIBLE) blogging skills these last couple months.... just been doing other stuff i guess. Well I decided that if i don't post now about my vacation i never will.

Olivia and I took a trip to Arizona to see Chris (her dad/my boyfriend). We had a blast visiting with him and with her half-sister Rachel and it was cool to see the girls warm up to each other. Rachel is a lot shyer than Olivia so it took her a little bit but after hanging out together for a while Olivia was getting nice pats on the head and such.... Regretfully i was having so much fun on vacation that i didn't take nearly as many pictures as i should have.

The desert landscape was absolutely breathtaking and I honestly loved driving especially cuz that's when you saw it the best. The mountains and the cactus and the trees and the flowers... It was just beautiful. We saw little lizards here and there too. I love lizards so I thought it was cool.

Other than going to restaurants like Wienerschnitzel and Macaroni Grill and Jack in the Box and a few others that arent in NY and the occassional trip to Walmart, we went to a few of the Outdoor Malls like Desert Ridge Marketplace and my favorite was Tempe Marketplace. Friday was our most eventful day. We went to the Phoenix Zoo and then killed time at the Desert Ridge Marketplace and a beautiful park in Anthem before we went and had dinner with Carolyn, an old friend, and her husband and parents (and 4 dogs lol). That's the only day i took pictures lol so here are a few of my favorites.
The Zoo was hot but it was awesome.... Here are pics of both of the girls playing at the park.






And lastly a picture of Olivia with Carolyn.


....All in all im really glad we went and saw Chris and Rachel. I had a great time no matter how hot it was and I really can't wait to go back.

Hoppy Easter!

HOPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!!!!