Nov 042010

A month or so before Halloween Abby said she wanted to be a blue princess. I asked her if she meant Cinderella and she said yes! Hannah said she wanted to be a pink princess. I thought about buying a costume – but if you know me – I like to be busy/stressed every second of my life. I decided to make the dresses :) I was very pleased with how they turned out!

Chris, Kelly, Maddie and Caden came out to spend the evening with us. We had some chili and cupcakes and then dressed the kids.

Here we go!

Luigi came running to our door!

I thought it was neat to be on the outside and see kids at our house :)

The guys held down the fort while Kelly and I took the kids door to door.

The first house.

We did all of the houses at both ends of our street. The buckets were getting pretty full so I asked Abby how it was looking.

Caden was pretty excited too!

Maddie and Hannah weren’t far behind!

THIS is the ghost that Abby and Hannah keep telling everyone about.

This man is one of our neighbors. He was sitting in the chair looking all dead-like when we walked up. I wanted to ask him not to scare the girls – but he (and his wife) are deaf. I was in a dead panic!! ‘No fear Hannah’ just walked right up to him and said, “Dog.” Their dogs were going crazy inside the house. He smiled at her and she acted like he looked just as normal as everyone else on the street :)

This lady opened her door WITH her dogs. Hannah found a friend for life! She just walked right in and sat on her lap!! :)

We ran into John (neighbor) at this house too!

The girls made out like bandits! TONS of candy!!

Jun 132010

We met Maddie and all of her family and friends in Forest Park this morning to celebrate HER and what a blessing she is in all of our lives! We are fortunate to know her very well — but even people that have only met her once can quickly see what an exceptional little girl she is. Step Up for Down Syndrome is the DSAGSL’s largest awareness event. It is always such a moving day! It seems to get bigger and bigger every year! This year, not only was it moving… it was HOT. REALLY HOT! So please excuse the sweat running off of our faces and drenching our clothes!! LOL We had a great morning! Enjoy the pictures! We love you Madison! Thank you for including us in your day!!

Maddie and her friend Patty

Caden’s Grandparents

Maddie’s Grandparents

Now this is love!

Hannah tie dyed her shirt with a popsicle!

Chris and Jamey grabbed us all some hot dogs. I told them to smile. One of them said to the other, “it’s a 110 degrees outside and she just asked us to smile” LOL

Abby jumped in for a quick pic with Kelly

Awww, Is this gonna be trouble or what!?!

And Hannah wanted some Kelly time too!

Want to see all of the pictures? Let’s see if this works! :)

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Jun 222009

Well, I was just thinking the other day – there are so many things our girls have already done that I didn’t do till later in life. Starbucks, Steak N Shake, seeing the Arch — just a few that come to mind :P … But then again, they haven’t been fishing or tooling around in a canoe or john boat either :) Anyway, today they added another to the list. We tackled Six Flags!! Our friend Michelle invited us to go and we had a blast! Kelly went too! Caden and Maddie weren’t able to make this trip :( Hopefully they can come next time!

As soon as we pulled into the parking lot Abby started yelling about the GIGANTIC FERRIS WHEEL!!! I told her we would do everything we could to get a ride on that BIG RIDE!! :)

This is Abby waiting in her very first “thrill ride” line. You may notice that the gate is directly in front of her. Not a real WAIT if you ask me!

Abby picked the Hot Air Balloons as her first ride. She wanted the blue one. As we were getting in the seat a little girl ran over to ride with us. Abby was scared though and just wanted to ride with me – so she gave up that seat and ran to find another blue balloon. I apologized to the little girl and explained that this was Abby’s first time :(

Up and down and around and around! Abby had a great big smile most of the ride. Towards the end though, she asked if we could stop spinning.

She picked the Train as her next ride. Michelle took her for a spin on this one.

Here they come!

We finally made it to the “GIGANTIC” Ferris Wheel.

Michelle and Kelly took this time to catch up on some texting and emails :)

We found a couple characters today!

We headed over to Hurricane Harbor for the rest of the day. We played in the kid area (until someone pooped in the pool) :( And we spent time in the big wave pool.

I applied and reapplied sunblock to the girls numerous times. Unfortunately, I forgot to take care of myself in the same way :/

Both girls had tons of fun. Hannah loved laying on her back and kicking her feet. Abby played on the small water slides and bounced in the waves. We didn’t have the camera out while we were playing… but we posed for a couple shots right before we left. Don’t worry. Hannah had a life vest on the entire day. We just hopped back in the pool to grab these shots :)

Michelle and I decided early on that we wouldn’t be able to leave the park without an ice cream cone. Abby totally agreed!

Hannah had some other things to take care of. She did really good the entire day. But we finally lost her around 3:30.

We had a GREAT day! So much fun! Thank you Michelle for inviting us!!

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