The Grand Illumination

Last weekend we went down to Colonial Williamsburg for the Grand Illumination. Now, I don't know about y'all, but we are still trying to figure out what was so grandly illuminated! I mean, they had an AWESOME fireworks display (actually there were three going on at the same time in different locations around CW), but we thought that there would be Christmas lights lighted or something. The only thing they did was light the candle lights in the windows of all the colonial houses! Hmmmm, oh well, we had a great time with our friends the Moore's (Rachael and her parents). We hang out so much together now, we nicknamed ourself the "Mooretubise's"! Ha! Anyway, all three girls LOVED the fireworks. Bryden and Racheal kept saying "WOW, that is so beautiful!" and Emmy just kept looking at them with this huge grin on her face. She wasn't scared of the noise at all, even when they woke her up from her little power nap! Kids are awesome to help you remember the simple joys in life! Thanks girls for always reminding us! Enjoy!





Silly Mr. Ashley!


Our goofy pic!















WOW! Look at those fireworks! Such excitement and pure joy!
Emmy LOVED all the fireworks. She kept looking at the fireworks, then looking at me with this huge smile, it was like she was saying "Can you believe this, do you see what I am seeing!" Too cute!




In awe of the fireworks show!








Tired after a cold and awesome night. The girls hitched a ride back to the car in the stroller together! DON'T smile girls...don't do it :o)

Beautiful Day, Beautiful Girls

Yes, this is Emmy standing up against the wall all by herself...for like 2 minutes!

Playing Catch-Up

I am sooooo behind (sorry Pat!) on pics, we had the stomach bug go through our family for a week (yes, ALL four of us had it) and my computer died...again...so, I haven't had a chance to really sit down and update the blog. I have a temporary computer now, so I am going to post a bunch of the past couple weeks.

Emmy has started to pull herself up on things and stands really strongly...and she is getting into EVERYTHING. We have to watch her like a hawk, she is so dang nosey, and so quick, and loves to get into what she isn't supposed to. Her favorite...cords (computer, monitor, breast pump, you name it). Little stinker! She is 10 months old now and chews on everything since she is teething. She got her four bottom teeth first, all like in two weeks, and now she is working on four top teeth...poor bugger, she is having a tough time of it right now.

And Bryden is in heaven, it is Christmas time! We started to decorate the inside of the house the other day when she came home from school early because she was "sick". She was so excited to pull all the decorations out and find a home for them all. This weekend we did the tree and the outside decorations and she loved every minute of it...and of course, the Christmas House has been lit. We have made our way down just about every day or night and she loves to ask questions about why Mr. Chuck painted the snowman's scarf red, or how did he get Santa and all his reindeer to attach from the roof of one house to the roof of the neighbors house, or this is the best...Mr. Chuck made ginger bread man cut outs, one for each of his grandkids and each one has their respective name on it. Apparently, Bryden told Mr. Chuck that she read the names on the ginger bread people, and why wasn't her name on one of them??? HAHA! So funny! We go down there enough, I guess she figures she deserves one!

Here are some pics of EMmy getting into all kinds of everything! She loves to snoop!





















Trip down to the Christmas House








Happy Thanksgiving! We spent the day at Nanne and Grampa's.

Bryden spent hours playing with Grampa's train set and the carnival peices!




Setting up our Christmas decorations!

























Naptime for someone???