Monthly Archives: November 2012

Winter Walk of Lights

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This year at Meadowlark Gardens (where Justin and I were married :)) they had a Winter Walk of Lights.  I drive by it on my way home from work every night and when we passed by it again this weekend, Justin and I knew we had to go.  Tonight was the coldest night of the season thus far at 37 degrees.  We bundled the girls up and they seemed to have a pretty good time despite their super red cheeks.  I was really hoping to get a good picture of the girls for our holiday card but they just don’t like to sit still and look at the camera.  Here we are enjoying the holiday music and watching the light show. 

Reaching up to catch the lights!!

Freedom to Run

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The girls LOVE the freedom that their walking legs gives them!  Since we don’t really have an ideal yard to let the girls roam freely, we like to take them to the park or open green areas whenever we can.  So this past weekend we walked up to Wolftrap Elementary School (my old elementary school) and let them run around in the field.  It was very sunny and Avery wouldn’t keep her glasses on so she was squinting quite a bit; however, it didn’t keep her from  having a great time.  Emerson loves to throw the ball!

And Avery takes off….

But Daddy isn’t too far…..

Daddy captures Emerson first!

Mommy then captures Avery…

…Only until Daddy captures both!

Emerson thinks Daddy is SO MUCH fun!

But DADDY, DOOOON’T put me down!

And then it was time to go home for our afternoon nap!

 

Halloween

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We celebrated Halloween twice this year!  We visited our friends Stacey and Cooper and their little girl Lindley this past weekend.  They moved to Raleigh, NC a few years ago and have a beautiful single family home in a great neighborhood.  It makes me very excited and eager for the day that Justin and I finally have our single family home; at the same time it makes me enjoy our time in limbo living at my parents that much more since our household responsibilities are minimal compared to what they will be when we are finally homeowners (renting our condo doesn’t really count). So with little household responsibilities it makes going on weekend trips such as these that much easier and actually enjoyable, knowing there isn’t a whole lot else at home that I really should be doing.

Saturday morning they had a neighborhood Halloween Parade which was kicked off with a short walk following a fire truck and ended with games and crafts and each kid receiving their own small pumpkin. Here we are following the fire engine…we were the very last group of people….

The girls were a little too young for the games and crafts; however, they still had a fun time running around freely in the streets.  Neither girl wanted to hold Mommy or Daddy’s hand and they just took off!  Don’t worry the road was closed for through traffic!

We had a great time and when we got back to Stacey and Cooper’s house we decided to take a few more pictures of the three girls together.  Here are the results!

LOVE Lindley’s facial expression in this one!

What you think you lookin at Ms. Lindley?

The girls had different nap and night time schedules so they didn’t spend that much time playing together, but when they did they seemed to have a fun time.  We can’t wait to go back and visit again!

 

Halloween was a few days later.  We dressed the girls up and took them trick or treating.  Now incase you are wondering what the girls were dressed as, they are mice impersonating cats…DUH!!!  Yes, so THIS mommy bought these cute shirts at Target thinking they had CATS on them and thought “CATS, what a great Halloween costume”.  So over the next few weeks, I found black leggings, a tail, whiskers, and ears and I thought my little cats were all set to trick or treat!  Well the night before Halloween I decided to try on their costumes and as they were running around the house all so cute, Daddy informed me that their shirts had mice on them….MICE!!!!!  I was never big into cartoons or Disney Characters growing up, but SERIOUSLY how did I miss this!!  So my babies became mice dressed up as cats…LOL!  And I was the mama cat who they were trying to run away from!  The girls wouldn’t keep their ears on or their whiskers so I finally decided I would draw whiskers on them.

  They didn’t seem to realize thy had tails on so they thankfully kept them on most the evening.  Mama Cat and her mice (aka CATS) went trick or treating at 7 or 8 houses in the neighborhood.  Mama Cat even let the girls try their first piece of candy…a Kit Kat, which they both seemed to enjoy!

This Mama Cat better start planning early for next year and run the costume idea by Daddy in advance!