ZooBoo!

We have always gone to the ZooBoo each year, so that the girls get to wear their costumes an extra time. It's always so fun, seeing them dressed up for the first time!

And the zoo is a GREAT place to go - somehow the weather is always perfect and the animals are so lively when the weather is just a bit cooler. Cami is finally getting to the age where she runs from one animal exhibit to the next because she gets so excited!

Here's a cute picture of the girls together - or should I say my witch and my tiger kitty?

Cami wore Alaina's tiger kitty costume - and dang it, she looked just as cute as Alaina did!! We got LOTS of compliments, just like we did when Alaina wore it. I wish you could see her tail - it's so cute! I'll have to make sure to get one showing her tail on Halloween night.And little Miss Witchy Witch - she LOVED spraying her hair with streaks of hot pink to match her costume. She is really looking forward to Halloween this year!I'm really looking forward to Halloween - we're going trick or treating with a bunch of neighbors. I'm excited to spend the evening walking our neighborhood with other parents and kiddos. I just love our community of friends - nope, family. They're our family. It's just so cool.

Pumpkins galore!

As most of you know, we historically have grown our own pumpkins - great, big, huge pumpkins! Well, this year, the weather messed with our poor pumpkins a bit too much and they weren't so great or huge. We kept them of course, but felt we needed a nice, good pumpkin to carve as well.

So we headed to the pumpkin patch! It was our first time and the girls enjoyed it so much - as did we! :)

The first think Alaina did was run up this HUGE pile of hay - she sank pretty quickly!

We then took a hayride to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkin. Cami didn't like the hayride too much!

Wow! So many to chose from!!!

Um, a little help here please!

Finally, we agreed on one...I think we may have started a tradition of growing our own AND heading to the pumpkin patch. :)

sixteen months ago

cami was born. wow. 16 mos. already. it's so crazy how quickly time goes. and even more so with the second child!

see the difference?

i'm truly and completely taken with her. she is the sweetest little thing. the way she smiles at me all the time. the way she looks at me from across the room and just stays put and says "mama, mama, mama" like she's saying "i love you." she's a great balance to the attitude of a growing 5-year old.

god is good. he knew i would want cami once i had her. he knew he had to make her extra special. extra sweet. extra loving. extra snuggly.

extra cami.

i pray for her heart. that when she's 16 years old, rather than 16 months old, that her heart is as loving, sweet and snuggly as it is now. that it is as much in love with god then, as she is with me now.

cami. alaina. my girls. then. and now.

Yea!!!

I found it! It finally came to me late last night. I realized the last pictures we took were of a recent family jaunt to Holiday Park. Then it dawned on me! It had to be in the picnic backpack!

And it was. Whew.

Here are a couple pictures from that trip....

So thankful!!!!

Lost

I have searched and searched. No camera. I can't for the life of me remember where it is, when the last picture I took was (to remind me where the camera was) or where it could possibly be.

Maybe Cami took it.

Pray I will find it.

I'm totally annoyed. I pretty much could lose my head right now if it weren't attached. I wonder what else I've lost...