Snow, Thanksgiving, Family and a NON Stop baby!

Boy did that snow really hit us all!! Really wasn't expecting to be "stranded" darn near three days. Kind of funny how the city shuts down every time that it snows but really I am not complaining as I got to be home with my family. Hannah had a blast! Mostly cold but still tried to make a snowman. She got the body and mid section together and then decided that she was too cold and we ended up with the headless snowman! LOL.  Unfortunately I never did get back out to take a picture of the headless snowman! Oh well, always next snow!

Here is Natalie wondering why the HECK she has SOOOO many clothes on!!

 My beautiful Snow Angel!

 She got up on the trampoline and just had a snowy jumpy good time!

 I accidently locked Hannah out of the house! She didn't take kindly to me finding the camera to take a picture of her crying and locked outside.  I couldn't help it though!!

 This is the extent of how far Natalie got in the snow.  She thought it was funny to laugh at but she wanted NOTHING to do with the cold part of it.

We had Thanksgiving at our house and while I enjoy entertaining I somehow let it completely overwhelm every ounce of my body! All in all I had a nice time with family! I was exhausted by the end of the night that's for sure!  I STILL have T Day left overs! ahhhh!!!!  Tried to get a couple pictures of the bug on her first Thanksgiving and she JUST wasn't having it!

The next day we relaxed during the morning and then headed down to Seattle in the afternoon to watch the Christmas Tree lighting and the lighting of the Macy (FOREVER BON MARCHE!) Star.  Afterward, we headed over to Grandma and Papa's hotel and the girls went swimming and had a great time! Natalie laughed her little head off and she just had so much fun!  It was fun to watch her enjoy swimming with Papa especially after her summer of growling every time she got in a pool! She has officially become my water baby!  The big girls had the pools to themselves basically! It was hard to get them to stop for a picture as those girls are most DEFINITELY my water babies!!!

 It was hard to get a picture while Ms. Bug was in my arms trying to grab the camera.  This is what we got! lol

 AND In a midst of all the snow and holiday bustle .. Natalie started to actually crawl.  She's been moving here and there for some time but man NOW she is everywhere!  We had to officially put up the gate we bought ions ago (never thought I would have to put it up as stubborn as she is lol).  She is up and under and around and into everything! Funny how you forget these things when your other child is seven! Never a dull moment in our house that's for sure!

Duckie and Witches OH MY!

So surprisingly .. here I am .. just one short week, and I am blogging again! I am telling you, this may become a new trend for me!

Fall is by FAR my FAVORITE time of year! I love the colors and everything that follows. Dressing up the kids, taking them trick or treating (even though that has become more of a Dad and Daughter thing lol) and then checking Hannah's Boo bag for "quality control". Hey, my parents did it to me, only right to pass on the tradition! ;)




This was Natalie's FIRST Halloween. She wasn't keen on it either. Did not want to be in the Duckie outfit, wouldn't really look at the camera while in it, and GROWLED as she sat in the stroller as we began to Trick or Treat. Needless to say, we only made it to four houses before Natalie was done and we went back to Grandma and Papa's as Hannah and her daddy trekked on. Natalie however LOVED to pass out the candy with Papa and would squeal with such delight at the kids in the costumes! It was too funny for us (and even a couple of the mom's that came to the door!)

Here are some pictures of my Duckie Halloween night:

I gave into Hannah's wish for the last THREE years .. she got to be a witch for Halloween. Now mind you, I'm not all ready to make my beautiful girl all scary for Halloween. I like to play dress up and what better time to do it then at Halloween .. so needless to say I have never let her be a witch as there were always FAR cuter costumes to dress her in. Well, we compromised .. she got her witch, and I got to glam her up as we agreed that she could be a glitter witch! :) I know .. only me! Alex's mom thought she looked like a Kid Model :) Here are a couple pictures of my glitter witch:

We didn't have Angel this year but she also was a witch! Her mom did an amazing job on the makeup! So Beautiful Angel Baby!

Here are a couple shots of them carving pumpkins the night before too! :)