Trip to New Mexico

My dad does a lot of traveling for his job!  He goes to Texas a lot so his last trip he was going to be in El Paso for 3 weeks.  We decided to make a trip halfway to meet up with him for a quick weekend.  We met in Santa Fe New Mexico.  We had so much fun!  We did some site seeing and just enjoyed being together!  We drove to the top of this mountain to see the view and all of us got altitude sickness!  My room booked an awesome penthouse for us to stay in!  IT WAS AWESOME!  It had a fireplace so we sat in front of the fire, watching tv, and eating pizza for the night!  It was so much fun!  Im really glad that we were able to make the trip to see him and the best part was he got to meet Kaitlyn!  I think she really likes Grandpa!  But hey, how wouldn't.  He is the best!  So grateful for the opportunity we had to meet up and spend time together!  We will have to do it again soon!

 Meeting Grandpa for the 1st time!

Happy Halloween!

This year was the best.  Since Noah was born I always took him trick or treating so I was never home to hand out candy!  This year Chris took the kids with some of our neighbors and I got to hand out candy!  We had the cutest little trick or treaters come to our house.  I loved seeing all the neat costumes and cute kids.  Living on post means KIDS EVERYWHERE!  We had a ton.  I went through 5 HUGE bags of candy in one hour.  That is totally crazy!  Noah went as some nasty scary thing and Kaitlyn was a cute little Pink Lamb.  Our Halloween was a big success!

 My handsome husband with our adorable and scary kids!

 Im ready for some trick or treaters!

 Noah and two of his crazy friends!

 My pumpkin!

Kaitlyn 2 Months

I cannot believe my baby girl is 2 months already!  Where has the time gone?!  Kaitlyn is getting so big.  She rolls over, smiles a ton, makes the cutest noises, eats like a champ, farts like a man, loves to be held and snuggled, lovers her bumbo seat, swing, and bouncy seat FINALLY, focus' on moving objects, responds to all kinds of sounds, and is a joy to be around!  I love to dress her up and put hair bows on her.  We were able to get her ears pierced finally which wasn't too bad except one ear was a little low so we had to take her back the next day so they could redo it.  She was a champ at that too.  She got her 1st set of shots.  She got a total of 3 and did pretty well but slept most of the day!  I love watching her grow and change.  I love having a daughter!  It's just as great as having a son!

Aunt Catherine came for a visit

Catherine had told me this summer that she wanted to come for a visit.  Then we got word that we were going to get the opportunity to adopt a beautiful baby girl the end of August.  That sealed the deal.  Catherine was already planning that trip.  We had a few things planned but ended up mainly just hanging out.  

Chris had work and Noah had school so Kaitlyn and I head to the Denver airport to pick up Aunt Catherine.  I always like to go in and wait for them to get off the plane and help with the bags.  When we saw Aunt Catherine, I almost cried.  I am such a sap.  I was so excited for Kaitlyn to meet her Aunt Catherine.

Here she comes.....

Ok I was fighting back the tears!  Our family has waited so long for Miss Kaitlyn so Aunt Catherine meeting her for the 1st time was emotional for me!

We had fun hanging out at the house, going to lunch and dinner, and just being together.  We took Catherine to Garden of the Gods. If you have never been it is worth going to.  It is natural rock formations and they are just really neat.  The bad part of that was we saw a RATTLE SNAKE!!  Yeah, I almost had a panic attack.

This morning I had to put Catherine back on a plane back to her family.  It was sad but I know that she was excited to be back with her husband and kiddos.

Thanks for coming to visit Catherine.  Hope you come back soon!

Pumpkin Patch 2012

We made it to the pumpkin patch.  It was fun.  Not the best pumpkin patch we have been to but then again Thanksgiving Pointe in Utah is very hard to beat.  

We had fun.  Noah got to play a few games and ride down a cool little slide.  We got our pumpkins and called it a day.  Not the best but being together as a family was great.  Kaitlyn slept most of the time but I am sure she liked it too.

Fall is one of my favorite seasons!  I love pumpkins and baking with pumpkins!  I love decorating the house for Halloween with fun little things!  Noah insisted this year we get a blow up thing for the front yard.  We got us a blow up Frankenstein.  He is awesome!  We are going to have one scary costume and one adorable costume.  Stay tuned to see what our kids are going to be this year!  

Kaitlyn 1 month old

I cannot believe that my baby girl is already one month old.  She has brought so much joy and happiness to our family!  Noah loves being a big brother and helps out so much.  He holds her, changes her diaper, feeds her, and plays with her.  He is the BEST big brother!  I knew he would be because he is such a great kid.  Chris spoils her rotten.  He holds her all the time and wants her to sleep in the bed with us (I have only let her once because we all sleep better if she is in her own bed).  I absolutely love her.  We hang out while Noah is at school and Chris is at work.  I love to dress her up and put bows in her hair.  I love to sing to her and read to her.  She loves to sit in her bouncy seat and listen to me play the piano. 

She is so much more alert now.  She is holding her head up really well, smiling, making funny noises, eating more, trying to roll over, and tons of other funny things.  She keeps us pretty busy but we love every minute of it.  Kaitlyn is our miracle baby!

Fall Family Pictures

Since moving to Colorado I have had to opportunity to set up our home.  I love to decorate my house to make it feel welcoming and cozy.  Decorating is a passion of mine and have so much fun creating new ideas of how I want things to look.  As I was decorating our home I realized I have a ton of pictures of me, Chris, and Noah but had very few of Kaitlyn.  I also noticed that I didn't have a family photo of the four of us!  (doesn't that just sound GREAT...the FOUR of us)  I love it!  So I made an appointment to have our pictures done so that we would have some great new photos for our home.  I love how they all turned out.  I have the cutest family!  My husband is hotter than ever and my kids are absolutely adorable and so photogenic!  Here are some of our pictures from the photoshoot!