Apple Picking Year Two...

We found a new place to go and pick apples this year and we had a lot of fun. We went with our friends who have a son a year older than Tyler and a daughter a year younger. The kids had a blast. They had a raspberry patch also and Alexis LOVED them, she just couldn't get enough, I think she ate more than that got into the bucket.

Here she is with her little buddy Ryleigh.

What a difference a year makes!!!

The boys and their Ipods.

Again...last year she could only look at the apples.

Updates...

Words we think we've heard:

Mama

Dog

Hola

Tyler

She is imitating tons of actions and has a few signs she uses:

candy

water

all done

noodles/more

dog

waving hi and bye

She has also developed an ATTITUDE when you take things from her or something doesn't go her way...

She has started talking on the phone, using remotes, pointing them at things and pushing buttons.

Oh and she got her first haircut.

Here is her talking on her "phone". I was using the computer so she was watching herself.

She was fascinated and kept waving hi, or trying to pass herself the phone.

New Threads and Kicks:)

I had to post a picture of me in my new grown up attire that I wear to work now. I had to step it up because I can no longer use the excuse that I spend the day on the floor and covered in all kinds of fun stuff left behind by preschoolers. Ciara is having almost as much fun dressing me as I do dressing Lexi.

Speaking of Lexi I had to post a picture of her in her pink cowgirl boots (Thank you aunties Brooke and Perry!!!!!). It was much harder to get a picture than I thought it was going to be because she learned how to get around in them very quickly. When they would fall off she would bring them back to me to put them back on:)

Tyler Turns NINE

I didn't get a chance to post these because we went out of town the day after Ty's Birthday. Our first night just the family went to C.huck E Cheese's, and the second night of the celebration we had dinner and cake at my parent's house. He LOVED his presents, he got a PSP from my brother and some cash from his great aunt and cousin:) Oh and we bought him a skateboard.

Jackson Wyoming

We had an amazing vacation in Wyoming. It was to celebrate with my friends from college that we all turned thirty this year. Alexis LOVED the dogs and spent most of her time trying to play with them. She had no fear!!!

We got to do a ton of really fun stuff like....

Campfires with Smores

Making home made pizzas in a pizza oven

Canoeing...and we even went white water rafting.

Margarita Night!!!

Just a few images of the BEAUTIFUL houses and landscape!!!! It looks like a bunch of postcards...

1 Year Checkup

Lexi's Stats for her One year checkup today.

Weight: 18 pounds 14 ounces (20th Percentile)

Height: 31 1/8th inches (99th percentile)

Head Circumference: 17 1/4 (10th percentile)

Tall and Skinny!!

Vacation to Virginia Beach

We went to Virginia Beach for a week and had a great time!! Alexis and Tyler loved the water and the sand. Lex was teething which made for some really fun moods from her..but on the whole she did well. Unfortunately she has decided that she does not like to eat at restaurants and now screams bloody murder when asked to sit in a high chair, or really sit still at all!!!! I'm hoping its a phase she will be out of VERY soon, because sadly for our pocketbooks we love to eat out!!!

A bicycle built for four we rented on the boardwalk.

At a waterfront restaurant before Alexis became so opposed to them.

She was wiped at the end of the days.

She loved the water.

They actually played very well together, when Tyler wasn't out catching waves on his boogie board.

An outside fountain they played in after going to the Nauticus museum.

Tyler in front of the big guns on the USS Wisconsin.

More shots from the USS Wiscosin.