Thanks!

Hello, dedicated reader(s)! Thanks for tuning back in!

As this crazy world seems to keep getting crazier, my little family and I are getting more involved with making our voices heard, fighting the hate with love, and (as always) focusing on parenting our little lady lady so she can be wonderful, intelligent, strong-willed-yet-caring woman some day. Therefore I haven't been focused as much on my blogging duties. I'm sorry...but it's a worthy cause!

SO! Let's take a moment to be thankful for our freedom of speech and blogging (coughcoughwhilewestillhaveitcough), and recap....THANKSGIVING!

Ok...before I touch on our Thanksgiving adventures, I just want to say type that we had much to be thankful for this year, but it was also a very hard year for a lot of people I love. Although we were not well acquainted, I would like to take a moment to remember and thank the people we lost in 2016. They all played a significant roll in the lives of the people closest to me, and therefore they held a piece of my heart as well.  So, thank you Mama Luisa, Ricardo and Larry. May you rest in peace.

<3

As for our Thanksgiving day festivities, they ended up spanning a couple of days because Grandma was not feeling well. So on "real" Thanksgiving, we went to the Wolfsler's house!

OG wore:
-Raccoon Sweater Dress (Target)
-Purple Sparkle Pants

The "paparazzi" shot

Push. Food. In. Mouth.

YUMMY YUMMY!

OG, Daisy and EG (photobombing)

 And, at Thanksgiving #2, a few days later:

OG wore:
-Mint Polka-Dot top
-Black pants
-Neither of which I captured in a picture because I was too smitten by this moment of family cuteness

One of my favorite pictures of all time. <3

Day Trippers, Yeah!

**ALERT***ALERT**
!!!This post is out of chronological sequence!!!
I thought I had posted about this, but apparently not...derp. Spoilers: it was one of the highlights of our year.

<<Rewind.

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> Play.

SETTING: A crisp and windy morning in early October.

We took a (long overdue) road trip to see the Taulbouts! With our kiddos being due-date twins, they are very close in age (10 days apart, to be exact) and it's fun to see them interact with one another. Or not interact, as I should more accurately describe. More like: they did lots of fun things by themselves in close proximity of one another.

Either way, it was a lot of fun.

OG decided to wear:
-Owly T-shirt Dress (with fall colors)
-Black Leggins
-(p)Leather Jacket
-A Fun Halloween Bow
-Spiderman Shoes

First stop: The pumpkin patch!

OG inspecting the biggest pumpkin she has ever seen

She really wanted to jump on The Jumpy Thing for Big Kids...

...but luckily we found The Jumpy Thing for Little Kids! :)

She could have stayed on that thing all day.

Bada$$ Betty over here on the train!  Rebel with a Cause! :)

Dada being silly <3

Looking at more pumpkins - and look!  Declan is in the background! 

 After the farm, we went back to Mr. D's house to napnap/play with all of his toys...

And ended up watching Mickey and Little Einsteins...

Look at them playing so well near each other!

Watching goths dance to the Little Einsteins intro song...yes, really.
The parents started talking YouTube videos/remixes of kids shows, so we had to...
see the confusion on their tiny faces?!

BUBBLE MACHINE!!!

I don't think that works the way you think it works... :)

Declan showing and telling us about his favorite tree - with his Momma and Mr. Sampson in the background.

There was only one group shot taken the entire time we were there, and that was in a dimly lit bar/restaurant.  And, in the 3 shots our waitress so thoughtfully took (in the hopes that "one of them might turn out"), they were all terrible. Terrible. Not the "Ew, I look so gross, guys! But you look cute..." kind of way, but in the "Are these human creatures or aliens? What IS this? Should we call Weekly World News?!" kind of way.  So, I have taken the liberty of correcting it so that it can be posted on the internet:

What a fine looking group!

Thanks again for having us down for the day!  We had SO much fun, and love you guys! xoxox

The After Party

Hello, reader(s)! I hope you are having a kind and loving 2017 thus far. Ours has been good...although I did manage to throw out my back yesterday.  And I accidentally locked us out of the house this morning. While it was raining. And I did also knock my 40oz cup of ice water all over my desk.  But, hey...it's only the 3rd of January!
...Which also means only 17 days until the new president (little "p" - he needs to earn the big "P") is sworn in.
Let us all embrace for a moment, shall we?!? Inhale....exhale....inhale...

Anyhow...

Picking up where I left off: the day after OG's birthday party (when everyone was feeling better - ehem, poor Declan), we met up with our favorite out-of-towers for some breakfast. It turns out Declan just had a case of random toddler pukes.  And...just happened to release those random toddler pukes all over his mommy.  (Mr. D, if you are reading this, go give your mom a big hug.)

Olive was slacking a bit on the outfit front, but let's go easy on her - she had such a great one for her Birthday! hehe

OG wore:
-Pink "Shapes & Animals" Shirt (hand-me-down)
-Teal Pants with Sparkle Dots

Hello there!

Looking at cars, talkin' toddler

Little Cutie Declan telling a tale (and just look at his fun shirt!)

OOP! Their arms touched! haha

Eh, They realized they touched. :)

We miss you guys! xoxox