Oh that crazy hair!

It has been getting nice outside and with nice weather comes humidity and with humidity unfortunately for annabella, comes crazy hair. Her curls have been OUT OF CONTROL! It's a good thing that she is the cutest thing ever so her crazy wild hair can be overlooked until we figure something out! God love her, she is going to curse me some day!

Happy Birthday Sara!

Saturday we went to our niece sara's 4th birthday party in Harrisburg. It was great to see the cousins get a chance to play together since they don't get that opportunity much. Here are some pictures from the day, as you will see everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Pat got some great pictures of the birthday girl having fun with her cousins, and of nolan, in classic nolan style, running, tongue out, looking for trouble! Enjoy, i really hope that we get to do this more often, and i'm sure it won't be too long before baby sadie is out running with everyone too.






This is my favorite picture that pat took of sara! I just think she looks adorable!









maggie striking a pose

pat thinks sofia looks like jack nicholson from the shining in this picture.






annabella popping off all of uncle scott's flowers! hehe hehe, secretly i thought this was really funny!

I wonder if the City will require me to have a permit to operate this zoo?

Yep, we own a zoo. At least that is what it feels like. Tiff and I now are outnumbered by dogs. With the addition of a labradoodle puppy on Friday, we now have three.

Meet Liberty, the latest member of the herd. She is pretty lively, but very well-behaved. You have to see the size of those paws - she's going to be huge! She's still in that young, awkward stage, so she is a little clumsy. And I don't think she ever saw stairs before, so she took a while until she decided she was going to try going up or down them. She's still working on that, but getting better quickly.

Sofia and Annabella certainly love Liberty (or "Lidtherby," as Sofia calls her), but Dickinson is not quite so sure yet.

Enjoy the first few photos!

Pat's Song Plug

I'm not sure how many of you listen to country radio, but for those of you who do (and for those who don't yet), be sure to call your favorite country radio station and request the newest song from Bucky Covington (former American Idol contestant). The song is a great one called "I'll Walk." You can hear it here (along with some other GREAT songs).

Right now, it is somewhere in the 47/48 range on the charts - and climbing!

Oh, yeah - the songwriter is a very talented friend of mine, who now lives in Nashville. Help him out by requesting this song.

Yes, I'm feeling Froggy......

Annabella flirting with walking!

Annabella has been using the walk behind "walker" quite a bit lately and it quite proud of herself too. She chasing sofia around the living room, and i think she thinks this is what real walking is. I'm excited because we are one step closer to a new found independence, even though i know it comes with it's own challenges. Notice some of her facial expressions in these pictures. For those of you who don't know, when i get upset, or mean business, i give an "the eyebrow". it's a thing that is passed down generations in my family. for those who can't "give the eyebrow", eye brow giving is mocked. well, my young daughter already has a gift of mocking me. i do believe i am in big trouble with this one!!!



annabella "giving the eyebrow"

Great Another Climber!!!

I look away for i don't know 5 sec, and this is what i find. my 11 month old, who i will add can't walk, but who thinks she can do everything her big sissy can, or at least she tries to. well, today, i looked down at my computer screen, and when i looked up a few seconds later, this is what i found. of course, my heart in my throat, i went running. don't worry, these pictures were taken after patrick got home, and with me standing very close to annabella. all i have to say is, thank God i get my hair dyed every 8 weeks, because i think the gray would definitely be showing. i think i need to go eat a brownie now!

Field Trip!

I joined a new club called Moms Club and this tuesday we went on a field trip to barefoot farms. Well I'm sure it won't be hard for those of you who know sofia well to imagine, but while all the other children were listening to jennifer (the owner of the farm) talk about how to care for the animals, or watching her walk from room to room, sofia was off exploring something. When we walked past the shed were the tractors were held, sofia was the ONLY child, crawling on the machines yelling, "i drive the tractors mommy". now imagine, this was my first event with these women, i had never met them before, and they had never met me, or my children. so, for our first outing, my child had to be the free spritied, roaming, daughter that she is. She did great with the animals which is better than i expected. she touched them on her own time and followed them around and laughed when they followed her. it was nice to see that she wasn't afraid. enjoy the pictures of her and leah and abby. these also come, via kathy because i forgot my camera, so thank you to kathy for taking pictures of sofia and capturing her spirit in all of them!

sofia escaping up a hill and leah and abby following her!
sofia riding a tractor and notice she of course has found a home for her cup!
staring at the animals.