Where to Start

Well....Where do you start after you haven't blogged for over a month? Well since the last blog, Steve has started a tradition of giving Brielle a rose on her birthday. Here she is with her first rose.


We decided to give finger painting a try one day, which unfairly I do when Brielle is taking her morning nap. Just thinking of two kids and the mess that could ensue makes me tired, but she deserves (and needs) these opportunities to grow too! So we all embarked on craft time. I have to say she had a much better time than Isaiah did!








I guess paint doesn't taste too bad either?

We were lucky enough to celebrate Thanksgiving with our friends and had a delicious meal, after the Packer game of course! Only in WI do you plan a meal around football! We sure are lucky to have friends that allow us to be part of their family!

The Saturday after Thanksgiving my whole family came to celebrate Brielle and Isaiah's birthdays as well as Thanksgiving and Christmas. I think this sums it up!



We had a great day long celebration! Cousins helped cousins open gifts, Reese loved playing tea with Uncle Steve, and cousins shared a frozen yogurt treat.









Well, that concludes November. Stay tuned for December!!

Happy Birthday Brielle

Well, it's official...we have a 1 year old. (and a 2 year old!)

We celebrated her BIG day with a little family party. Enjoy the pictures.

Big Girl

Well it's official, my little girl is quickly becoming a big girl! Today was the "official" switch...no more infant cereal, no more nursing, no more. I am taking this much harder than I did with Isaiah. I am glad that she will be eating more solids, which makes it easier to go places, but also more expensive. She is a tank! She can out eat Isaiah any day, and we thought Isaiah was a big eater!!!! Steve and I are going to each need to get another job just to feed these two!



Today we went downtown Sun Prairie to the Fall festival. Participating businesses had crafts and/or games in their stores, so we took in a little pumpkin bowling,


Some crafts where Brielle just liked eating the glue stick.





Then we played a pumpkin bean bag toss game. Isaiah tried to do it the right way and had fun, while Brielle just walked up to the pumpkin like she owned it and threw the bean bags inside, while eating her glue stick.





We also got to go on a horse drawn wagon ride. It was fun to watch the kids having fun. Since we went down main street, there were plenty of cars for Brielle to wave to.
And yes, I have one picture to prove that I was there too!



We topped off the afternoon by decorating a cupcake. Brielle was talking up a storm...must have been something good! Isaiah was allowed to eat it after nap, where he practically ate it in one bite!

Pumpkin Patch

Last week I took the kids to the pumpkin patch and it was SO much fun!!! It was a really hot day though! Who knew on October 10th we would be wearing shorts and tank tops?!

The pumpkin patch that we went to was part of our MOPS, Mothers Of Preschoolers, group that I am a part of. We have two playgroups a month, one of which is usually an outing. This month we had the whole farm to ourselves! There was a bouncy house, pedal tractors, corn maze, jungle gym, little kiddo maze, slide into a corn bin, duck races, and lots of animals. They took us on a tractor ride out to the pumpkin patch and we got to search for our great pumpkin.