TWO!

It's hard to believe our little girl is two already! We have had a wonderful time celebrating her birthday this week. Here she is the morning of her birthday showing me how old she is :)

Playing outside

Zachary loves having someone who can play with him now

Blowing out her candle

We celebrated with family yesterday. We couldn't have had more gorgeous weather in March! The theme for Olivia's birthday was 'Minnie and Mickey' - it was super easy and fun!

Happy Birthday sweet girl! We love you!!!!

Naughty or Nice?

I couldn't have a better picture capture the personalities of the kids right now. Zachary is mostly agreeable and pleasant and Olivia is, well... see below.

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Trick or Treat?

We've been enjoying the fall weather, well up until the snow this weekend. We went to the trail last week and I snapped some pics of the kids. The trail was so gorgeous with all of the leaves everywhere.

Then, this weekend we got SNOW! I told the kids we would get to dress up this weekend, I didn't mean in snow gear! It really was a nice weekend surprise for them. Olivia loved playing in the snow and Z could stay outside all day if we let him.

We had a lot of celebrating to do for Halloween this year, too. Zachary had a party at school and Olivia had a "party" at StoryPlay. Then we all went to Rich's work for a Halloween lunch, and finally we went Trick or Treating last night. I had only planned on taking Olivia to a few houses, but she was a trooper. She caught on quickly and grabbed candy and ran off to the next house. It was a lot of fun for all!

Fall Fun

We've been enjoying the beautiful fall weather the past couple of days. Last Friday I took the kids to the zoo. We had a wonderful day exploring and looking at all of the animals. Z was the map holder and kept track of where we were going all day. This was Olivia's first time going to the zoo and she loved looking at the animals. When we would leave an exhibit she would wave and yell "byyyeeee." It was really cute!

Yesterday, we went to Weber's Farm with Rob and the girls, Carmen, Dylan and Juliana. It was a little warm but the kids has a blast running around. It's safe to say we were all exhausted when we left.

Class Trip to Brown's

I have to be honest, this field trip was stupid. I'm not sure why we went to Brown's (which is pretty much just a market to buy orchardy type things) and why I had to pay $3 for said trip. I'm also not pleased that it was scheduled at 1 pm and they canceled class for the day, which is from 9 - 11:30 am. I think this was just a ploy for the teachers to have the day off.

So, we went to Brown's. The kids listened to a lady talk about the "orchard" and the lame honey house that "once had bees, but no longer does" and then they got to pick 1 apple, that they didn't even get to take home with them, and do a "secret tour" that the parents couldn't participate in. (I assume they went into the market and got brainwashed to tell the parents to do all of their shopping there.) Then, they got a cup shot of apple cider and were sent on their way. 1 hour. That's how long this "trip" lasted. Apparently the teachers of Z's new school are unaware that we live in Amish country amongst 9 million different farms, some even offering HAYRIDES!

I digress. I guess the kids had fun.




Here the kids are listening to the orchard expert talk about apples.

Bees have 5 eyes... circle your eyes with your hands and look like a doofus to demonstrate this. Oh and it was 900 degrees and I dressed Z like it was 60. Mom Fail!

Inside the magical Honey House. Really, 4 year olds don't want to see pictures of bees. Just sayin'

A cute kid with an apple! That was worth $3

Z's class. they were saying "apple" - a bunch of hooligans! Note: there are 13 boys and 4 girls - Yikes!

Tailgate Party!

Zachary's school had a team tailgate party last Friday. Everyone was to wear their favorite teams colors. Obviously we chose to wear our Raven's gear!

Zachary spent the entire time hanging out with his best friend, Ethan.

The boys got their hair spray painted. Ethan wanted his sprayed black and Z went with the purple mohawk.

I would just like to note that Ethan is 6 months OLDER than Zachary.