Sunshine at Last!

After days and days of torrential downpours from Hurricane Ida, the sun is out at last! Isabella and I caught some rays at Center City Park this morning!

Sweet

I just stumbled across this picture at work today that someone took at the Fall Family Picnic a few weeks ago. I thought it was sweet enough to share.

Nick's Busy Weekend

You may have seen my post earlier this season about the acorns. Well, they have finally stopped falling! Now, it is on to the leaves! With his day off on Friday, morning off on Saturday, and naptime on Sunday, Nick bagged up the remaining acorns (probably 6-7 bags) as well as most of the leaves that were in the backyard. As you can see from this picture, there are close to 40 bags of leaves there, plus the two piles, which represent our front yard and driveway. However, you will also notice from this picture that the trees are still nowhere near close to being finished dropping their leaves on us! Looks like we (we meaning Nick. Although to my credit, I did help with some of the bagging and raking during naptime yesterday) have a long road ahead!

Those cursed acorns though, the ones that weren't scooped up earlier have started sprouting, so now they are attached to the ground, and impossible to blow. Raking them takes more elbow grease than I have.

Walk 'n Wag

We had a great turnout at Walk 'n Wag last Saturday - over 250 walkers and 70 dogs!
Here are some pictures that local photog Cophia Lee took at the event.

This one is for the Partins, the PigPug!

Max won the costume contest - his entire family was dressed up as Musketeers!

And what would be a family blog post without a picture of Isabella?

You can see all of Cophia's pictures on her website - click on Clients, and the password is "wag". You can see other pictures from the event on Guilford Day's website.

ANOTHER GIRL!!

Most of you probably know this already from Facebook, but Baby #2 is a girl!

Hooray for sisters! :) Hand me down clothes are looking pretty good on the wallet! (even though their seasons are exactly opposite...oh well, there will be some overlap I'm sure)

All the measurements looked good yesterday on the ultrasound but she was too shy/stubborn/laid back to change positions very much, so I have to go back in 2 weeks for another ultrasound to see if they can see her face. We almost didn't get to find out the gender because the umbilical cord was between her legs for awhile.

We are naming her Bailey. We don't have a middle name yet.

It is definitely starting to seem more real now...

Trick or Treat!

We went to the Deasys for a family potluck with all of our old neighborhood friends. Isabella had a great time and decided to dress as a horse instead of a cow.

Here she is eating dinner with Riley the ghost, Leslie the princess, and Maddox the cowboy, as Allyn the lion looks on from the wagon.

Yes, even horses can go down slides! Her outfit had nothing to do with the horse costume, it was just what she wanted to wear that day!

Argh matey!

One of our many attempts to get the kids together for a picture. This is the best one I got, but several of them had gotten up already. In the front row we have Emma the bunny, Allyn the lion, and Maddox the cowboy. In the back row we have Riley the ghost, Leslie the princess, Emma the Belle, Liam the Wild Thing, and Isabella the horse. Paul the Pirate hadn't made it in the picture yet, Nevin the Bob the Builder had wandered away, and I think Sylvan must have already left.

Isabella loved trick or treating! She would take off down the street saying "more trick or treat!" Most of her friends rode in strollers or wagons but she insisted on walking the whole way. She is still talking about trick or treat.

Carving the Pumpkin

Ewww, what's inside?

Short attention span - off to try other things

(see above)
Just kidding - Daddy did all the work

I love my cat pumpkin, it matches my shirt!



Finished product - good job Daddy!