Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving in Wilmington...as usual. Unfortunately, Samantha had a double ear infection, so she was a bit out of sorts for the week....which means little sleep for mommy....which means very few pictures were taken, but we still had a wonderful time. And I am truly grateful for my wonderful family and extended family. You all mean the world to me and I consider myself very lucky to have the family that I do...both my own and Sam's family.

We were able to also squeeze in a Turkey Trot Thanksgiving morning, which I hope will become an annual event!

Crafting

I have been a busy bee making barrettes of all types for my first craft show a couple of weeks ago, and another one coming up this weekend. So today I took the kids to a random hay barn up the street from us to get some pictures of Samantha wearing some of the barrettes. I am SO pleased with how the pictures turned out. I couldn't get one of the two of them together....but several cute ones of them individually....enjoy!

Halloween

We had a lot of Halloween activities this year. Trick or Treating in the mountains while we were on vacation, trick or treating and a party at school, a party at a friend's house, pumpkin carving, and the big day itself. Bobby has really enjoyed it this year, and Samantha tolerated the costume that I made and put her in:) We had a great time....enjoy the pictures.

And since this post is so late due to technical difficulties, here are just a couple of pictures

Mountains...

Last week, my parents invited us to all spend a week in the mountains at Wintergreen Resort. We had a wonderful time. We hiked, hot tubbed, ate, danced, and had a lot of quality family time. It was wonderful to watch Carson and Bobby spend so much time together...hours were spent playing outside, inside and in the hot tub. Thank you mom and dad for such a great week.

The house


The view from the deck


Samantha enjoying the leaves


Hiking










Thank you for a wonderful week, mom and dad!

Pumpkin time....

Last weekend we went to the pumpkin patch with the Parks family. This is an annual event and we had a great time. It was unusually hot, so in my mind, I just tried to pretend that it was a nice cool fall day. All of this while sweating it out in the almost 90 degree weather!!! Unfortunately, I didn't get a ton of pics, but here are a few....hopefully I will have some more fall pictures in the weeks to come.

There were pumpkins

Tractors to climb on



Diggers to play on


And hay to play on

Their relationship grows and grows....

I absolutely LOVE watching the relationship between brother and sister grow more and more. Each day they play together more and interact more. Samantha is so in love with her big brother. Whatever he is doing or where ever he happens to be, she wants to be a part of it. And one of my favorite things is to listen while we are in the car, and they just make each other giggle back and forth...it is so precious. I can't wait to see as their bond grows and grows.

On the move!

Samantha is officially on the move....and once she started, she has not slowed down! It is amazing to see how quickly she has mastered crawling. She was a little rocky in the beginning, but now there is NO stopping her. And if she really wants something or to get to somewhere (like any open door) she kicks it into turbo drive. She is such a cutie these days. Her personality is really beginning to shine through. Her little giggles and shrieks of joy just bring smiles to all of our faces.