Thanksgiving weekend

We had a great Thanksgiving weekend in St. Louis with Mark's family. We had a delicious Thanksgiving dinner (which I forgot to take pictures of), took Sarah to the Magic House, played lots of cards and got to see some good friends from college. And for the first year in a while, I slept in on Black Friday instead of going shopping.

Sarah helping Aunt Lisa make scrambled eggs for breakfast

Grandma helping Sarah make music at the Magic House

Checking out the letters

Taking a picture of mom

Shopping for food in the market

Checking out the little Liberty Bell

Working on the construction site

She loved the bulldozer

Daddy and Sarah drawing

Making bubbles

Playing with the sand and water tables

Feeding a baby in the nursery

Snuggle time with grandma

Enjoying some pumpkin pie...check out the size of that bite! She LOVED it!

Playing matchy-match with daddy

Playing dolls with Aunt Lisa

Sarah and her new friend Lucy (the daughter of our friend Kevin from college)

Having fun with Grandma and Aunt Lisa

Sarah and Uncle Kurt

Welcome to the world Leila Faith!

My newest niece, Leila Faith, was born November 12th at 2:53pm. She was 7 lbs, 1 oz and 21 inches long. We are so happy for my brother and sister-in-law...they are going to be great parents! Future family get-togethers should be lots of fun...between my siblings, we have girls ages 3, 2, 1, and newborn. Sarah and I went to visit them a few hours after she was born. She's absolutely gorgeous and we can't wait to see her again!

I think she was tired of the flash already

Annaliese holding her new cousin

Sarah loved holding Leila!

Uncle Josh and Leila

Aunt Ashley and Leila

The proud papa!

I forgot to have anyone take a picture of me holding my niece, but we'll see her again soon!

Fun fall weekend

Grandma Diane and Aunt Lisa (Mark's mom and sister) drove in from St. Louis for a visit this weekend. It was a beautiful fall weekend and we had a great time. We ate lots of bbq, played lots of cards and even helped Mark clean up the leaves in the yard...or maybe we just made a bigger mess :) Sarah had lots of fun playing in the leaves and even the puppies got in on the action.

She thought it was fun to bury daddy in the leaves

Mollie and Lucy decided to get daddy too

We even tried to get a picture for our Christmas card this year. We got a couple of good ones. I'll save those for later, but here are a couple I thought were cute.

I love how Sarah is leaning on Mark...so cute!

Apparently Lucy was done with picture taking...

Sarah trying to run over grandma with her big wheel

Picking some flowers for grandma and aunt Lisa

Snuggling on the bed with grandma

Playing kitchen with aunt Lisa

Isn't that the sweetest!

Playing cards with grandma and aunt Lisa

Soccer, hockey and a haircut

Looks who's sporting a sassy new haircut! Sarah's hair was getting a little on the shaggy side and since she won't let me do anything except put a bow in, she was due for a little trim.





A new hockey season has started which means daddy has lots of smelly hockey gear stinking up the garage :) Mark had an early game a few weeks ago, so Sarah and I got to go watch. We had gone to something else that afternoon and Sarah had to catch a nap in the car. There's nothing sweeter than a sleeping little one!

Sarah loved seeing daddy in his hockey uniform

Our Parents as Teachers group had a free soccer session for toddlers last week and we actually remembered to sign-up for it :) It was kind of mass chaos, but lots of fun!

Scoring a goal!

Jumping over the noodle

All the kids under the parachute

Checking out her soccer ball stamp on her belly

They also gave us a tattoo with their logo on it, which is two little dinosaurs in soccer uniforms. Sarah insisted on putting the tattoo on her belly, just like the stamp...and you can still see it a week later :)