Kennedy gets birthday balloons!

Grandma and Grandpa Hasse sent Kennedy birthday balloons and a white teddy bear! My, oh my, I didn't realize how much joy could come from one little bunch of balloons! She started going crazy running into them and batting them around....laughing all the while!

Today TJ is 5 months!!!

We broke out the Excersaucer for the celebration!

It's Kennedy's birthday!

It was such a wonderful day celebrating Kennedy's 2nd birthday!!! We went to the pumpkin patch and went on a hayride to pick our pumpkins...



















Then we went to Chuck E Cheese to have cake and pizza!








She loved the phone that MeMa gave her!




Then we went to "Zoo Boo"...everyone was dressed up and we went on a haunted hay ride through the forest....oooooh, scary!!!

kids by the corn field

Aunt Theresa just sent these to me from last week when she was here... I think they are so adorable! :)

Temple trip down to Chicago...

Brian and I went down to the Temple today in Chicago...it was a great "date" for us and we went to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner. YUM! :)

It is so beautiful in the fall!

bath time...a family affair!

So when the girls get rowdy, I just tell them all to get in the bath...Mackenzie and all! It really does help them get settled for bed time...

mommy time

So every morning around 9 am, I take a shower, put on make up and head out the door. I get in the BMW (aka Big Mormon Wagon - the suburban) and head off to "Don's Quality Market". It is less than 5 minutes away, just past the one street light (yep, the one and only) in Seymour. Ahhhh...how I love my morning ritual. I cruise the ailes and gather about 10 grocery items. It isn't a big store, but everyone knows me there, so I get friendly smiles and happy waves. I think, I plan, I relax, and I daydream. I have no one but me, for all of a half hour. Then I head back home and I am ready to greet the day, the business & the children.

Some women read, some relax in a bubble bath, while others get massages. Not me. I go to Don's. Or I gather my chicken eggs. Now, that's what I call small town living. :)

Feeling nostalgic

Every time fall rolls around I get sentimental when I think back to the time Brian proposed (Oct. 29th). What a life changing event that was for me.

Here is the movie that was played at our wedding:

****hint - you need to "pause" the background music playing on the blog - scroll down on the right hand side until you come to the music player

He is getting so big!

I just love the little *scrunch* faces our little man makes...he is just such a ham! He has the best disposition ever! :)

my little girl is growing up!

Everytime I look at her, I just can't believe my baby is all grown up...she is picky about her clothes and now she is starting to be really picky about her hair! Last night she wanted to sleep in the soft curlers...she looked so beautiful this morning!

nothing new...but some cute pics!

Today I had a photo shoot with a 6 day old baby next door...she was adorable, but man, I am exhausted!!! Babies are hard to take picutures of...but I love it anyway! :)

Here are some great pics that Aunt Theresa got of the kids today though!