24 October 2008

Maddie's Birthday Party and Pine Ridge Park

Although Charynn is a little slow at posting, as promised here are some pictures from Maddie's 2nd birthday party, and also some pictures from a week ago when we took her out to Pine Ridge Park.
She had an absolute blast at her birthday party, and especially enjoyed opening her presents and blowing out her candles. As opposed to last year, when she was frightened of everyone watching/singing to her, she loved the attention that the birthday party brought to her spoiled little self. She entertained everyone with a little jam session after opening her Hannah Montana guitar (and could have started a band with Clarissa or Charlie, because Auntie Charelle bought her the Hannah Montana keyboard too!). Charynn decorated the house with life-sized Mickey Mouse Clubhouse characters, and even made a clubhouse for the fireplace. She was excited that everyone thought that she bought the decorations :) Thanks to everyone who came and made Madelyn's party so special!
As for Pine Ridge Park...the kids and Charynn met Chris there for lunch last Friday. It was supposed to warm up a little, but the temperature hovered around 45 degrees, which was a little chilly for the baby's outfit. So Keaton camped out in the carseat covered with a blanket and watched his sister run around the playground and park. It was a beautiful day with the leaves changing, so Charynn decided to take a bunch of pictures to add to our fall collection. Enjoy!









11 October 2008

i'm quitting my job and i'm going to start planning kids birthday parties.

i am putting the finishing touches together for maddie's mickey mouse clubhouse party tomorrow, and i baked her cake today. i came up with the idea of making the clubhouse out of floral styrofoam shapes and covered them with icing to look like cake..so i thought i'd put a picture on here...sometimes i impress myself *snickering* ...

05 October 2008

Chris' Birthday

Today is Chris' birthday. This is Chris typing too so I guess the third person usage can stop. Anyway, we took a bunch of pictures of the kids. We keep watching Keaton to see when he is going to start really crawling. Today he started moving his legs with his arms but he kind of does the worm not true crawling. He has gotten really good at barrel rolling to get to where he wants.
Maddie is going well too. She has learned a bunch of words and can now tell you she will be two and then show you with her fingers how old she is. Otherwise the kids keep Charynn and I busy and we try to be as involved with them as we can. I keep telling Charynn that we are making little geniuses and she laughs at me and tells me we are just making happy kids. I will stop the rambling now. I must have gotten wore out with the celebrating today so look for new posts soon.

Some more pictures...







03 October 2008

Our 1st Fall Pictures

Here are some pictures of the kids that we took outside yesterday:















Hopefully we'll get some good pictures this weekend; it's supposed to be nice and it's IUP Homecoming and Chris' birthday!