Happy Halloween!!

BOO! We're a leopard and a monkey and we live at the zoo... wait til you see Mommy & Daddy - they're dressing up too! Happy Halloween, have fun!!
I know most of our family and friends on the East coast won't be celebrating Halloween today because of Sandy... we're just happy that you're all safe and we love you!! Be safe and have fun with the trick-or-treaters this weekend!

Pictures With Mel

Despite Miss Brynn having a major 2 year old tantrum during much of our photo session, most of our pictures came out really well! Brynn - 2 years

Brooklyn - 10 months

SISTERS! XOXO

I love this one of Bryce and I...

and something must have been really funny here ...

or maybe they were laughing at Daddy's silly faces!

"Are you coming?!"

My favorite out of the family photos

All in all, a success!

And She's WALKING!!

All of a sudden last night she just took off!

You gotta love the way that Brynn imitates her! It won't be long before she's chasing Brynn and getting her back for this one!

Mommy's Birthday!

We had a great day yesterday. We headed to the pumpkin patch at Tolmachoff Farms! Daddy and his girls before we left....

They had this new bouncy thing there this year and Brynn LOVED it! We stopped there first (which next year we'll go there last) because this is all she wanted to do!

Whoa! There she goes!

Then we spotted the pony rides...

She didn't want Brooklyn sitting on the horse with her - poor Brooklyn ... Next year she'll get her own pony to ride!

Heading to the pumpkin patch!

This girl had one thing on her mind and it wasn't pumpkins... it was the train and the bouncy thing!

Brooklyn was content being in the pumpkin patch and...

she kept trying to eat all of the pumpkins!!

Finally - the train ride! Brynn was so excited.

She's growing!

Our little pumpkins... This is the best I could do!

When we got home, the girls took a nap (well, it looks like everyone took a nap!) and Mommy went in to work for a bit. Brooklyn hasn't slept on us since she was a newborn so I had to snap a picture!

Time for cake!

Make a wish. Check out Brooklyn - she's planning her attack.

Yep, she got her hand in that cake and in her mouth so fast - before I even  saw her do it! Her first birthday should be fun!

She couldn't get enough!

The best part of birthdays... cake! and having the best family and friends ever! We love you all! xoxo

Can You Guess What We Had For Lunch?!

Spaghetti!!! All kids love pasta - I think they like watching us try to get them clean!

Such a ham!

Remember Brynn?! They are about the same age here... so cute!

Our Baby is 10 Months! Sorry the pics are late :)

Well she's 10 months now and still chooses to crawl over walk, although she is starting to take off and walk on her own a little more now without us making her. She gets so happy (& so does Brynn)!

Brynn wanted in on the action too so the oldest sticker we have is 24 months... just pretend it says 26 months!

Getting so big!

and... there goes that sticker! These girls are tough models!

Look What I Learned How to Do!

I've been wanting to figure out how to do this for a while... I know, most of you are probably thinking this is a piece of cake, but I finally figured it out today thanks to Picasa - and thank you Papa for putting it on my computer! Now I can write something on their birthday pics every year!

Fun at Pump It Up

We met up with our friends today at Pump it Up, the girls had a blast as always.

Taking a time out to drive the cars. Getting the two of them to look at the same time was not happening! That's Brynn's friend, Savannah.

She made it all the way up!

and then wanted help coming down!. 

Pigtails like Mommy!!!

PIGTAILS!!! So I don't know why it's taken me so long to put Brynn's hair in pigtails... maybe it's because I still have nightmares of wearing my hair like this Every - Single - Day!  Sorry Mom, I still love you! But I really do have a permanent center part from years and years of pigtails! She sure does look cute in them though!

Just one day out of thousands sportin this hairstyle! I think I'm maybe 5 or 6 in this picture and Brynn's hair is already as long as mine!

She's way cooler than I was though!

Brynn and Blondie...

So cute! Brynn was so proud of herself, I still can't believe she went through with it!

A Trip To Old MacDonald's Farm

This afternoon we headed to the pumpkin patch! Both girls look a little out of it... it never fails, the days that you have something planned, they would take a 4 hour nap if we let them! Here we are on the hayride that takes you out to get your pumpkin.

Once we got there, Brynn picked out her pumpkin right away

We tried to get a picture of "Smiley" Brooklyn in the pumpkin patch but she wouldn't smile for the life of us! She looks a little overwhelmed here... "whoa, so many pumpkins & too much hay... where am I?!" She's also 10 months old today!!!! I'll post a better pic later. Can't believe that we'll be having her birthday party in just 2 short months.

This is the best we were gonna get with these 2 today...

Good picture of all of us but I didn't even notice that we picked the port-a-potty as the background until we got home!

and then Miss Brynn spotted the horses!

She wanted to ride so badly so we got her all ready, I filled out the waiver and NEVER thought she'd go through with it. The first step was getting her to wear the helmet since she won't keep anything on her head... but I guess if that was the only way she was going to ride the horse, she was keeping it on!

I was shocked!

There she goes! You could just see it in her eyes, she was so proud of herself and kept giving little smirks and petting the horse. It was adorable!

All finished!

She even gave her horse "Blondie" a kiss before we left. SO CUTE!!!

Howdy!