Taking a Big Girl Nap

...with legs crossed and her paci. Silly girl!

Christmas Craft Fun

We've been having fun doing some holiday crafts. Starting at the top...

We made cinnamon scented play dough. The Cheerios on the spaghetti is an idea I got off of Pinterest. (I'm currently addicted to pinterest!)

Then, we made a Fridge Tree out of wrapping paper so she could decorate a tree using magnets. A big hit!

Last, we made salt dough ornaments. This went alot better than last year. Mainly because she didn't eat the dough!

Merry Chistmas and Happy Crafting!

Half a Year

Mmmmm...I'm six months old today!

"I Do It Myself!"

I call this picture "independence". Yes, Evie is at that lovely stage where she wants to do everything herself. Even if it means putting one bow in the middle of her forehead and the other above her piggy tail. And even if it's something she doesn't know how to do or some 10 second task that takes her 10 minutes, such as buckle her carseat. I try to remind myself that she is learning and to be patient. We're getting there...slowly but surely. And we're having a great time!

Santa 2011

We went to see Santa Saturday morning. I looked to see what time it started and we were there on the dot! Only one family was ahead of us so there was no wait. Evie didn't get scared and Mavery didn't spit up on Santa. Over all, a peaceful experience. Ho Ho Ho!

Happy Thanksgiving

We hope everyone had a happy thanksgiving. We have much to be thankful for this year!

Like Father Like Daughter..

Happy Five Months

Cereal mmmm...

I gave Mavery her first rice cereal the other day. She was starting to give us the look at the dinner table like "where is my bite??" Needless to say, the girl likes to eat and she took to the spoon real well. I had forgotten how wonderfully messy it is to spoon feed a baby. It's even more messy the second go around because I have a cute little helper.
Let the fun mess begin!!

Sisters

We had fun getting dressed for this morning for a blustery fall day!!

Trick or Treat

Happy Halloween! We went Trick or Treating monday night. We joined up with Abigail and her folks. She was a Lobter!

Evie was good and held Daddy's hand the whole time. And saying "trick or treat" at the door and "we go to the next one" after each house. She caught on quickly.

Mavery snuggled down and slept in the baby carrier.

We had a great time and mom and dad are enjoying all of Evie's hard work.

Mini Road trip

This weekend we took a spontaneous road trip to Mineral Wells Texas. We watch a quirky show on PBS titled The Daytripper, and the host takes short day trips that feature small towns in Texas. A while back the show featured Mineral Wells, which is only about an hour from us and we decided that when the weather cooled off we wanted to venture out that way for a day. We were somewhat apprehensive since Miss Mavery does not travel well in the car. But since the holiday season is approaching and we will be doing some traveling, we decided to do a trial run. This is the first time Mavery and Melissa have been out of the city limits since she was born in June. Yikes! Yes, car rides with Mavery are that bad. But we are getting there.

Our first stop on our adventure was the Clark Botanical Gardens. We pretty much had the place all to ourselves and it was gorgeous. The morning air was a bit cool, but we sure enjoyed looking at all the plants and the miniature train set.

After our journey through the botanical gardens we enjoyed some good ole' Dairy Queen.
Mike is pouting because Evie won't share her Dilly Bar.

On our way home we stopped and bought some Crazy Water, which is the mineral water that Mineral Wells is "famous" for.
It was a great road trip and good to be out with the girls on a beautiful fall day.
The rest are some random pics from the past few weeks.

Spending some time in the Bumbo Chair.
Miss Mavery has no interest in learning to sit up on her own, but she LOVES to be on a blanket and roll around everywhere. I think she may crawl before she learns to sit up!
Chillin'

Who says that lime green socks and hot pink sandals don't go together???
Or rain boots and swim suits???

Evie's "Sic 'em Bears" Halloween Costume

Oh Lolly Lolly Pop!

Happy Harvest

We visited a local pumpkin patch a couple of weeks ago. Evie refers to it as the "Punkin Match" and it's too cute. We got to climb on big tractors...

...and small tractors.

Faster Pops, faster!!

Mike and Evie did the corn maze.

Evie and her "map"

I think she got a little tired towards the end.

Peek-a-boo!

We did take Mavery but she slept in the stroller the whole time... And we were ok with that!

This is little Maves enjoying the Baylor vs. A&M game. Silly girl!

Ode to Umbrella

Let me tell you a little something about myself...

I love umbrellas... and when I say love, I mean I LOVE Umbrellas. Grama Susie and I had a great time with our umbrellas and we could have kept playing with them for hours!

Check it out.

Nope, still not raining... but we had fun with our umbrellas.