Catching Up....

When we went home to St. Louis a little over a month ago, Daddy went and talked with the first graders at the school where mommy used to teach. He taught them the tornado dance and all about severe weather safety. While he was talking, the kids had a blast playing in another first grade room. They were the hit of the day!

From the start, Addie helped herself and hopped up into this little girls lap and started using her supplies. Does that surprise you?

Candid Shots

Finding time to take pictures these days is still quite difficult.

However, every now and then we are able to grab a few shots.

Keeping Addie and Alex out of all of our decorations has been rather interesting. Addie is in love with the scarecrow bear that you see in the picture below.

But, for the most part, all she does is kiss it :) Christmas will be interesting. I don't know what daddy is thinking as he wants to put up a few trees.

Apple Picking

APPLE FUN 2009

Another hard part about moving to Huntsville has been not having a place to pick apples.

A few weeks ago, we finally thought that we had found somewhere to take the kids. However, when we got there, we were told that they do not allow you to pick apples from the trees. We were very disappointed. However, we made the most of our trip!

Here are some images from the trip to the apple orchard! Both Addie and Alex LOVE apples!

They had a blast running up and down the orchard! It was hard though to watch them all the time as they were wanting to eat apples off the ground...

Trip to see Old Grandma

About a month ago, we made a trip back to St. Louis due to a death in the family.

This trip was jammed packed with appointments, visits, and lost of activities!

Here are some pictures form our trip to Old Grandma's house!

Alex was too busy eating cookies to be in the pictures.

We are so happy to have the barn and the blocks at home with us now to play with.
Old Grandma was so glad to have the kids over!

Daddy's Dream

With living so close to a home town airport, Addie and Alex have come to LOVE airplanes!

We can be sitting in the sunroom, and they will just go crazy watching the planes out the window.

A couple of weekends ago, the airport had a fly in. Daddy had to go and do a story for work and was able to go up in a plane! Mommy stayed very busy chasing us around, but Daddy had a blast! Here is a picture of Daddy before take off!

Visit to Big Spring Park

Addie and Alex love going to the park. We have an awesome park here in town that the kids just love. There are days where you can drive by the park and they will ask to see the ducks. Even from as much as a mile away, they know their route very well! When we visited the park a few weeks ago, here is what we saw next to some shrubs.

Going to the park next time will not be this easy. On this trip, they sat very well in the wagon. Now, they are all about walking!

Fancy Fairy

In August, Addie had a few opportunities to have her picture taken at mommy's work. We do promo shoot pictures to show our clients what sets will look like for our Limited Editions. It is always a nice way to get current pics of the kids :)

Addie made a beautiful fancy fairy. You should have seen her getting her hair fixed and jewels put on her face! Such a big girl now!