Aunt Krista and Uncle J's Wedding

Last year, thanks to Facebook, I was reunited with an old friend I had lost touch with over the years. Krista and I met in 1990 in middle school and were very very close friends for many years. Once reunited, it was like no time had ever passed. We were always that kind of friends
Krista and I actually knew each other before Patrick and I met.

This past weekend, we had the honor in sharing a very special day with Krista...her wedding day! She married an amazing man that has also become a very good friend, Jeremy.
Patrick was a groomsman and Sydney was the flower girl and Parker was her escort.

Here they are when we were getting them ready. Love these pictures. If they were only this sweet all the time.


Look how handsome.
Fake smile.

Making it down the aisle.So sweet.
Krista and I. What a beautiful bride...

My mom and I.

My handsome hubby and I.

A really cute video clip. I was keeping the kids busy as much as I could before the ceremony to ensure two happy kids during the ceremony. We were waiting for the bride to arrive at the church.

Car Show

One of PaPa's cars was chosen to be in the 8th Annual Concours d'Elegance in Winter Park. It is a pretty prestigious car show in Winter Park, FL.
We went out to show our support and also to spend a beautiful day in downtown Winter Park.

Here is Parker "driving PaPa's Corbette". That's how Parker says Corvette.



And here is Syd taking Parker for a ride.

Camping

This past weekend we went camping with our friends, the Lauvers: Kenny, Monique and their son Kristian. We went to Blue Springs. This was only our second camping trip with the kids. The last time we went with them was back in January of this year.
We had a great time! Good food and fun. We even got to see manatees.
It did get pretty cold(think when we woke up it was 49 degrees...brrrrr)that night. Parker woke up crying, "I'm told!!" Yes, "told" thats how he says cold.
We stuck him in between us for the rest of the night and he was fine.
Check back at the end of the month for all the November pictures in a slideshow.
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Just getting set up..

Time for smores...Parker preferred to eat all the ingredients seperately.

BRRRRRRR. Can't believe Patrick was wearing shorts and flops. You can't tell but Parker has double layers of PJS.

Gloves made it a little better....

Powdered donuts....a camping tradition.Coming back from seeing the manatees with Kenny and Daddy.

Bragging again....

Ok, so I know I brag a lot but remember this is the only record I have of what the kids are doing at any particular time. And seeing how I can barely remember what happened a couple days ago..Anyway, you know what I am saying.

So I knew that the kids could identify many letters but I never really had them go thru the whole alphabet.
Well, this weekend I got them alone(without the other one shouting out the answer OR distracting.) We used the letter magnets on our fridge and went letter by letter. The letters are all mixed up om there so we did them all out of order.

Parker was able to identify 19 of the 26 letters:
A B C D H I J L M N O P Q R S T U X Y

Sydney was able to identify 17 of the 26 letters:
A B C D I J K L M N O P Q R S T X

I can't believe it!!!!

Halloween 2009

This year for Halloween, Elmo made a another appearance but this year he was joined by his very good friend on Sesame Street, Abby Cadabby! I know it's silly to do the Elmo think again but last year he wore it because Mommy thought it was cute, this year he wore it because he wanted to be Elmo SO bad! By the end of the night we were all begging him to take off the costume because we wre so afraid he was headed for a heat stroke but he refused to take it off. Poor little guy was soooooo hot!

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Here is our beautiful fairy, Abby Cadabby.

Here are the two of them..couldnt get them to smile together.

Here they are with Nana.

And a picture with Chloe(aka Sleeping Beauty).

A quick video...

Smarty Kids

Here is some video of the kids showing off some of the stuff they know. Its hard to catch it on tape but here is some cute stuff.