Project 365 Week 43

This is becoming a wee-bit tricky to have a picture for each day when I don't always have my camera and some days opt to just take pics with my iPod... nonetheless, here we go!!!...

Sunday, October 16 - no pic

Monday, October 17

Aunt Patsy is here!!!

Noah is drinking water from the toothpaste lid!  Hahaha!  :)  That little guy!  :)

Tuesday, October 18th

Off to Target with Aunt Patsy...

 chasing sunny...

Wednesday, October 19th - no pic

Thursday, October 20th

Kept Liliana out of school for a day of FUN with her Texan Auntie!  :)

Off to, GUESS!!!... Cracker Barrel, of course... then to YANKEE CANDLE for the day!  :)  We didn't make it out there last year, so it was even more fun!

Jeepers, I forgot how much this pumpkin weighs... 365 lbs or 600... idk!  ha!  it was HUGE! 

 Loud screams of EXCITEMENT to be out of the stroller and walking around FREE!

 "On the GOOD ship, Lolli-pop" 

Look at Noah's cheek...

 Aunt Patsy playing...

 Home after dinner (Patsy's delicious mexican food)... she is white as can be but wow, we felt like we were in a restaraunt!  :)

Friday, October 21st - no pic (rainy day, I think)

Saturday - October 22nd

Elia at Liliana's race...

(No pictures of Patsy, per her request.)



Our Little Track Star

Liliana ran in her first race today!

It was a half-mile race called the Cross Country Challenge for all of the schools in the town.

She came in 4th among 80 Kindergarten girls!!!

She came in first for her school girls grade K.

We had so much fun and are so proud of you, our little athlete!!!

Here she is before the race with Rosie.

Her classmate, Ashley on her right and Rosie, on her left.

 Too cute!!!  She is third from the left in the group of blues. 

Daddy, being a track star as a kid, was SO PROUD!  :)

 Go girly!!!  :)

 Clips from the race video: 

Harkness Park

I had big plans to do a photo shoot with our dear friend, Lisa, who is the BOMB with capturing us... but the hurricaine, random rainy days and pneumonia kept getting in our way so we were never able to make it happen... :( ...one of my dreams was to have her meet us out at Harkness Park... Patsy loved it that last time we went, so it is now tradition to take her there when she visits... I took lots of photos and had her take lots of us... perfect weather, warm ocean waters, feet in the sand during October... what could be better!?  :)

Here we go...

LOTS of squirrels!  The kids loved chasing them around, trying to feed them or catch them.

See the little guy on the picnic table ahead of them...

Elia's height... will have to keep up with this over the years.  :)

Noah chased this squirrel a good distance before it headed up this tree... he was trying to feed it an acorn... he is throwing it up to him... can you see the squirrel??  :)

Liliana holloring for animals in the tree den here...

Breathtaking!

Daddy "shooting" me with Dr. Pepper and Water... haha!  :)

 She picked one flower, then learned to not pick any more.  Notice she is wearing her Cross Country medal she won the day before.

 Again, Patsy captures a beautiful Monarch.

"Repunzel, Let down you hair!!!!!!"  Noah shouted as he looked up to the top of the tower...

 He loves wild little me... :)

 Looking and listening to the kids...

Liliana asking daddy to marry her...

 He swept her off her feet!

 Busy gathering and tasting sticks!

Feet in the sand for the first time (minus the rocky sand and Valley Falls)... SWEET!

 Patsy did a good job capturing our sizes here... so cool!

All four of us watching Daddy show Noah how to skip a rock... Noah threw rocks, big ones, by the handful, into the ocean the entire time!  FUN!

A message for Mommy...

 Sunsets on the beach, there is nothing more relaxing.

Liliana dancing round and round her brother who's britches are wet to above the knees...

We LOVE this special place and are so thankful we are a relatively short drive away from in... some people never experience things like this in their entire lives and I take time to realize that and say, "Thank you, Lord" for these memories!!!