A LONG Overdue Post

Whew! We've been busy. We spent a week visiting family, went to a bridal shower for sister in law to be Amy, went to a good college friend's wedding and have been settling back into home this week.

Enjoy some pictures from our trip to visit Diane's parents and some pictures from our time at home this week:

Carolyn enjoyed the plane flight!

We found Carolyn's Halloween costume - she LOVES Clifford, so it's perfect!

Carolyn loved jumping on the neighbors trampoline!

We stopped through State College for our friend's wedding and got to take Carolyn to PSU. Here she is with the Nittany Lion!


We had our kick-off party for the moms group this morning. Carolyn really enjoyed herself and had a great time with one of her best little friends. They're so cute together!

Carolyn the ballerina!

Carolyn's Cash Register

Carolyn loves playing store lately. Here's a cute little video of her being the cashier!

Bike Riding at Lake

Here's Carolyn riding with her cousins! She really enjoyed being with them all week and it was great for me to have a bit of break while she was completely enthralled with them!

Splashing at Lake

Enjoy a video of Carolyn enjoying the lake!!

Carolyn's Seashell Project

Carolyn and I were reading one of her beach books from Nana and she noticed this picture on one of the pages.

She announced that we needed to make one of these. I told her when daddy came home she could ask him to help her. She was very excited about it and after dinner she picked out some of her shells from the beach and set to work with daddy.

Carolyn helped to get all the holes drilled and the string cut. They started to string them all, but when it got to be bedtime Carolyn took a break and Zach finished it for her.
She was quite pleased with the final product and decided it should be hung in her room! :)

Some Day Trips

From our vacation in the Adirondacks, we took 2 little day trips. One to Lake Placid, where we did a few things we weren't able to do while we were up there earlier this year and the other to the Wild Museum in Tupper Lake.

We drove the 8 miles up Whiteface Mountain and took the elevator in the mountain to the top, despite the overcast day! It was so funny being in the cloud! But, after a bit, the sun peeked through and we were able to have some pretty good views!

Carolyn was really into being on the mountain and said that she was a "mountain climber." She really enjoyed being on the rocks at the top of the mountain and climbing around!

The Wild Museum had a really neat outdoor trail with "playground equipment" made from trees. There was a balance beam and lots of things to climb.

Here's Carolyn measuring herself against a snake.

Carolyn is using a magnifying glass to look at frogs in one of the exhibits.

Adirondacks!

Whew it's been a long time since I last posted!!!

We enjoyed a great week in the Adirondacks with family. We stayed in a cabin, on a small lake called "Little Wolf Pond," near Tupper Lake. We all had a really nice time and enjoyed a lot of playing and relaxing. Carolyn LOVED my cousins and had a wonderful time following (or leading!) them around and being part of the fun. :)

Zach relaxing on the lake!

The girls jumping at the beach!

Some bike riding!

The girls caught 4 little toads for Carolyn in her "bug house."

The lake from our cabins

Our family in the canoe!

A fun game of Phase 10!

Carolyn the crab!!!

Big jump for Carolyn!

The girls are into geo-caching, and after a few "wrong turns," we finally found this geo-cache. They let Carolyn pick the prize and Abbey left a note in the log book.

The family :)