Winter wonderland

We don't see it as often as we should, but snow is only an hour away!

Very tall and very small.

Snow snack.

Eventually, Ellie ended up in the backpack.

Our turnaround point.

We ran into our friend, Harper. 

Snow bunnies, or hot cocoa bunnies?

Happy Holidays - photos from our holiday celebrations so far

Festival of Lights (eight crazy nights)!

Who doesn't like a new party dress and a glass of champagne (limonata)?!

So cute in stripes...

A couple of party girls!

Turkey Day

We had a great Thanksgiving with one new addition this year: Mia!

Matching beauties!

Who's that turkey?

Aunt Kaeren & Uncle James

Ellie loves her new Madeleine doll!  Thanks, guys!

Ballerina Halloween

Thanks to Nommy and Aunt Judy for making Ellie a beautiful pink and purple ballerina costume! 

The Pacific NW weather made our pumpkin extra scary just in time for Halloween evening (yep, that's mold inside).

Trick or treating at our favorite haunt (U Village). 

We found our friend, Kitty (I mean, Quinn).

And we found our friend, Elephant (I mean Emily). 

And we found our friend, Bunny (I mean, Mia)!

Minnesoooooota

We squeezed in a bit more fun in October by finishing off the month with a trip to MN.  Thanks to everyone for making time (and space) for us!

On the way to the pumpkin patch.

We got out the costume box.  I definitely remember the  year Zach wore this one... over 20 years ago now?!

Pumpkins and cupcakes, oh my!

A successful carving.

Camp Snoopy (I mean Nickelodeon Universe)!  Ellie is already demanding that we go back in February.  

Making lefse with grandma!

We got up very early on Halloween to catch a plane back to Seattle.  Ellie was very excited to wear her costume at the airport and on the plane!

Still in love with Mia

I mean, Mia-bo-bia-puddin'-pie.

Soccer girls

Ellie and Harper go to soccer together on Thursdays.  Soccer is at Magnuson Park, on the shores of Lake Washington, so we took a walk around the beach one day.  It was a short walk due to the massive quantity of goose poop ;-)

Did I mention Mino, Jeremy, Leila, and Savannah came to visit us like a month ago?

At the zoo

Carousel at the zoo

Ellie and Leila had A LOT of fun together.  They particularly liked pretending they were having babies.

And making forts/tents for their babies.

And isn't she cute?

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Here are some photos from our pumpkin-carving day yesterday.  We've been busy decorating and getting ready for Halloween, as well as celebrating all the October birthdays in our fam!  Happy birthday to Aunt Julie, Nommy, Aunt Judy, and today .... to Daddy!

Ellie loves her Daddy so much, and so do I.

Day out on the town

RaRa (Robin) was in town and went to the ballet with us to see Cinderella.

The performance was a bit longer than we expected (two intermissions?!) but Ellie did a mostly great job of staying in her seat.

Then we met up with a bunch of the other ladies in our family and had a fabulous dinner out on a patio.  Mia did a great job of hanging out and eventually falling asleep.

Cousins!

Yep, matching pjs!  Could they be any cuter?

More Mia!

On Sunday, I finally got to hold her again.  Looks like she still likes me!

Ellie is having a great time with Mia!