Much To Be Thankful For

Hi everyone!  The holiday season has started and so has traveling.  Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends and family.

 It did manage to snow before Thanksgiving and I was able to make snow angels and ski in my backyard before it melted.

I got to see my cousins for Thanksgiving.  Here we are all piled on my dad while he did some strong man push-ups!

Daddy also likes to photo bomb all pictures and give crazy faces.

I had lots of fun playing with Kendyl :-)

I hope my Uncle Joe comes to visit us at the brown house soon.  

Grandma ambushed me for this picture. 

Grandpa says I'm his girl :-)

I caught daddy giving Lexis photo bombing lessons.

Good thing nobody used those lessons here.  Mom always likes to get a cousin picture, but we were getting sleepy by this time.

Riding the scooter

This is Crickety, my elf from the North Pole.  She came to make sure I end up on the nice list this year. She likes to move around the house every day and sometimes she does some funny things.

Here she is hanging on my guitar.  When we got back from Michigan, she was playing a game of Princess Memory in my room.

Mom and Dad always say you need to work hard and take chances in life.  Santa sent me a video and said I need to try a little harder to make it on the nice list.  I've been working very hard on this ever since.  I think I'm doing a great job!

When we got home from Michigan, we went Christmas tree shopping!  

We got a little one this year - just my size!

My sister and I decorated the whole thing!

I hope I find a bow and arrow under the tree this year, just like on Brave!

Love you all!!!

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

My Summer in a Nutshell!

 Yeah I know, it's practically winter now, but we're just getting around to a Post-Summer POST!  It was a busy summer for Mom with lots of homework, but she is done with her classes in a few weeks… for GOOD!  Yay!  Check out some of the things we were able to sneak in this summer.  

 I went to Gianna's house and played on the giant blow up water slide!  It was so much fun!

Here we are being silly.  This is our "foot in the bucket" pose. 

 I also made it to the Zoo with my buddy Garrett.  The dinosaurs were at the Zoo.  They growled and moved and some spit water at people.  At first we were a little scared…

 But we got through it together :-)

 The seals are always the most fun to watch.

 I also went to a Celtic Festival this summer and saw lots of different animals.  I got to pet turtles, pigs, llamas, donkeys, and even "Sponge Bob" this enormous yellow snake!!!

 We also made it to the St. John Vianney Festival with some friends.  Here I am dancing on the dance floor.  I danced until almost midnight and did NOT want to leave!  I was having too much fun!

 There were lots of blow up activities like an obstacle course and a train ride.  Here is me with Mommy and Garrett after we raced through the big obstacle!

 Me and Mommy and Daddy cleared out some trails in the woods in our backyard.  This winter we are hoping to drive the snowmobiles through the woods.  Come on SNOW!

 We went to the Lake County Fair too!  My sister rode her horse and won lots of ribbons and a trophy!  Here we are riding some rides.  Garrett was Superman!

 I also loved to ride the Merry-Go-Round.

 But my ultimate favorite ride was the Dragon!  I rode it at least 10 times!

 At the end of the night I found my friend, Riley.  He is in my preschool class.  We rode the boats and the dragon until it was time to go home.

 Here I am with my kitty Charlotte.  

 We visited my grandma and grandpa Hartbarger and my cousins this summer too.  Here I am with my cousin Lexis and Dominic.

 It was a beautiful weekend and we played outside the whole time.  I am taking Dominic for a 4-wheelin ride!

 I went swimming with my cousins too!  I even went under the water!

 Me and the girls.  They are really good swimmers!  Reese and Kendyl got a new pool at their house this summer too.  They swim all the time.

 Cheese!

 We had a campfire at some friends' house and I'm eating Smores with my friend Juliet.

 Here I am… a fairy with winter boots, flying through the sky.  

 I like playing with Owen.  

 At the end of the summer, we were able to make it to Great Wolf Lodge!  

 We went to the water park for 2 days!

 This was my first time in a hotel.  I LOVED jumping on the beds with my sister.  We jumped from bed to bed with my Minion that Daddy won me from the claw machine.

 Here we are swimming in one of the many pools.  This one had 3 water slides!

 This one was the smallest pool, but still fun!  It had 2 small water slides and lots of sprinklers to run through.

 Mom and I went down the BIGGEST water slide at the park.  It started almost all the way up at the ceiling!  It went super fast and we splashed our tube in a big pool at the end.

 Now it is getting colder.  Summer is over and soon I'll be posting pictures of skiing and snowmobiling :-)

Adios!  This is Mommy's picture from the clouds!