We are moving in two days. I can hardly contain myself. Cole is terrified that if we move we might just forget something and then he says he might miss it, whatever that thing is. When we went for our final orientation and walk through my children ran in circles around the empty house and I almost started to cry. Finally, all these years we have prepared for this time in our lives and it is here. Like I said, I can hardly contain myself. For example, my Mother's day which was wonderful, all I wanted to do was pack!

Our computer died:( I am very upset, all of our christmas pictures are on there...of course it happend the day that I didn't sync them to the network. Soon I will post more, but for now lets have a moment of silence for our first computer, the computer that came through for us for 6 years, the computer we loved and adored....

This is the lot that will soon be where our home is!
That is our sold sign!

It took a few minutes to figure out what this little teddy bear was, but once she did, well the picture says it all!


She walked too fast for me to get the picture of the Elmo box, but she was pretty excited, as you can see below.




Adria had her first birthday on the 7th. It was exciting yet a little emotional that my baby isn't a baby anymore, of course I'll still call her 'baby' or 'schnookie' until she is thirty or older!
She had a great day. Cole on the other hand didn't like the whole idea of baby sister getting the attention. He helped her eat her little teddy bear cake and open the presents. The pinnacle of Adria's day was, by far, opening up her new Elmo. We didn't even know that she liked him until about a week or two ago when she finally warmed up to tickle-me-Elmo. Before that she was terrified of the little monster, now she is smitten! All of the other presents have more or less been taken over by her brother, what are you going to do?

Check out my Slide Show!

Isn't she sweet? She is walking!


Cole doesn't like to pose for pictures, but I did manage to get the gist of his costume with this one.

Howdy little lady, Happy Halloween!

Mike and Adria at Cole's first school program where they sang songs to us and did a scavenger hunt.



My little butterfly! Of course it started to rain at trick-or-treat time so we only went to a few houses and the pictures were limited. I did a lot more with the video camera this time.

We finally carved our pumpkins today! Unfortunately, Mike was the only one that seemed to enjoy digging in and having some fun. Cole said he didn't want to touch it because then he would get "all gooey, Daddy you do it!" As you can see Adria didn't love the pumpkin either, she desperately wanted the camera instead.


Alas! We had two carved pumpkins...hey I never claimed to be a pro.