Our Little Mermaid - Halloween 2009

So far, we have had a great week celebrating Halloween 2009. We definitely have been busy but it's been worth every minute.

Here is Lily below wishing everyone a safe and Happy Halloween. She completely chose her costume this year on her own. From the beginning, she has told me she wanted to be "mermaid" so we made a special trip to the Disney store where she had her selection of whatever character she wanted to be. I convinced her to try on Minnie Mouse but she wouldn't hear of it. She wanted to be mermaid and as you can see, a mermaid she is...She looks so grown up in her costume. It makes me sad that we are getting ready for her 3rd birthday party in 2 weeks - it's going to be a great one. I can't wait to share pics from this week and more party details soon!

Friends

Lily's sweet friend from daycare, Aimree just celebrated her 3rd birthday. She had a Strawberry Shortcake party, and it was so cute. Lily had the best time!

Lily and Aimree have been to daycare with each other since they were around 3 months old so they have grown up together.

Even though the weather was cool, Lily had the best time with Aimree. She's still talking about going to Aimree's party.

Wasn't the cake so cute?


I love this pic!


About to cut into the cake. They kept sneaking icing off the cake.


I just loved this pic. I am going to get it framed for Lily's room.

Meow!

Lily is now the proud owner of two new baby kittens. They are both precious and constantly tormented by a sweet almost three year old little girl. She loves them to death though. She is such a good little mommy to them.

We got them from BJ's uncle - Lily's great Uncle and Lily's request was to get a pink kitten and a purple kitten. He didn't exactly have those colors, but these worked out fine.

After going through all kinds of names, including "pink" and "purple" Right now, their names seem to be "Tootsie" and "Reesie" after Lily's two favorite chocolate candies.

Warning! Their names are prone to change at any time, lol..

Here is Lily with Reesie.


Tootsie up close.


Reesie again!


Tootsie


I am so careful so far with these kittens because Lily is in love and I don't want to have to tell her that another pet has gone to heaven. We are going to try our best to keep Tootsie and Reesie far far from the road.

Finally - Fall!

I am finally getting around to posting my fall post. This fall has been incredibly busy for us, and it seems to already be slipping by much too fast.

I have lots of fun decorating around my house for fall. I also love taking Lily to a nearby pumpkin patch and just basically doing everything fall we can find.

Here is BJ and Lily at the Pumpkin Patch. They were looking for their way out of the hay maze.


Lily and I on the train. It was made of barrels and pulled by a 4-wheeler that was made to look like a train, lol...


lily and her poppy on the hay ride to the pumpkin patch


In the pumpkin patch, searching for the perfect pumpkin. It was such a beautiful day in the 60's. We enjoyed it so much.


Lily has started just posing for me. She will just sit down and be ready for pics..So funny, I guess I have done this to her after taking so many pics of her.


Another pose.


I think this was her favorite spot at the Pumpkin patch - the corn box. Tons of loose corn for the kids to play in. She loved it.


Here is the Fall wreath on my front door. It's nothing fancy but I thought it turned ok pretty good.


Fall display in our front yard (as I am looking at this pic, i have noticed that several of my items are looking misplaced. I think the weather has gotten ahold of my display. The display has been up for over 3 weeks so I guess that explains it.)


We finally finished our fountain and flower bed on the end of our house. I thought it turned out nice.


I have these flower beds on each side of our driveway. Each one has a small display in it.


That's it for my fall decorations! Not anything fancy, but I have lots of fun with it!

Cousin-ly Love!

Lily's cousin Hunter stopped by for some playtime a couple of weekends ago. He is 5 and Lily thinks the world of him. She usually is busy playing with his sisters, Erin, 3 and Jayla, 1, but the girls were with their grandma so Lily enjoyed spending some quality time with "Hunner"

They had the best time! Here are some pics.

(I haven't forgotten my fall post, but I've been raining for it to stop raining here before I take pics of my yard and the fall decor, so maybe soon. We are supposed to be getting a cold front this weekend, and I'm loving it.)

Making their silly faces.

I love this one.

So cute!

Playing in the sandbox.

"Her Mexico Dress "

We got Lily a dress in Cozumel. I shopped around and got a great deal on it. I thought it was so pretty and being from Mexico with a story made it a special dress.

I ended up only paying $10 for it and Lily wore it to church last Sunday. She told everyone it was "her Mexico dress."

After church, she surprised me and let me take a few pics of her right before we talked in the door, so we got these pics on our carport. I only snapped for probably less than 3 minutes, but we got some great pics and it seems my little girl loves to pose lately, which I'm loving! Hope you enjoy!

(Side note: I'm so excited about fall. I have fair pics and some fall decoration pics that I will be posting very soon.)