Prints of Pride

Last spring a new outdoor mall opened up a few miles from our house called The Orchard. It's a pretty nice little place with really cool landscaping and architecture, and play areas for kids. When the mall was getting ready to open they had an event called Prints of Pride, you could basically bring your kid or pet over and purchase a tile, the proceeds benefited the Westminster Legacy Foundation.

Anyway, we were over there today and found Addie's tile. The tiles are on permanent display in an open area right in the middle of the mall, it was pretty cool!

photo session

We had some wonderful visitors the other day...the Hasner's! (our old friends from CCU who now live in Indiana) Laurel is a photographer and offered to take a few shots of us. We think she's amazing! Especially since we were in pre-shower, pre-make up, almost straight out of bed condition!

Fearless!

Addie has already been driving for months, but recently we discovered a new fun way to drive. Since it involves flying down the driving and then being pushed back up the driveway we decided (well, actually it was Shannon's original idea) to get Addie a helmet, we found the perfect one that fits her great.



Now she can't get enough of driving around in her car with her little helmet, and its a good thing she wears it as you should see by this video:

Mountain girl

We took a drive through the mountains today to see the fall colors. It was Addie's first time up there! We stopped a couple times to eat lunch & explore...she wanted to climb up all the rocks and loved the streams.

Big Girl Bed

A couple weeks ago Addie made the switch to a big girl bed...not a baby anymore! (sniff, sniff) She's been great with it as we had feared the worst and were sure she'd be knocking on her door all night long. But instead she loves crawling into her bed and gets up and reads books to herself in the morning!