French Lick: Part 1

So I am attempting to go backwards and continue posting pictures from months ago and try to catch up.  We shall see.

In November we went with a bunch of members from Jeremy's family to French Lick for the Polar Express.  It was awesome!  We stayed at the Big Splash Adventure Water Park hotel.  On Saturday evening we celebrated Tyson's birthday (Jeremy's cousin's son) and ordered pizza in the hotel room. On Sunday we played all day at the water park.  It was so much fun!  Pics below from the water park fun.ri

The kids loved sharing a room together and playing on the bunk beds.

 

I created a monster taking Addie down the big slides!  She kept wanting to go over and over.

 

Well...hi...

Hello blog world, it's me, Laura.  Remember me?  Ha!  Considering the last time I posted it was about Halloween I would say that I am a wee bit behind on blogging.  Christmas was so busy, Jan.-April my work was insane leaving me to work most nights when the girls went to bed and some weekends, Google Picasa (which I use a lot to blog) was giving me some error every time I tried to post and our internet has been AWFUL for a while now.  Oh, and there is this little thing called LIFE. :)  So blogging was the last thing I wanted to tackle, especially since it was so hard to do it.  The good news is we just got AT&T U-Verse and our internet is awesome so I can finally upload pictures quickly!  Woo hoo! 

So now I am faced with the decision of what to do now.  Play catch up or just fast forward 6 months?  I love to have this blog to look back on things, the girls like seeing it and I know I enjoy seeing other blogs so here's hoping I can get back on board. 

Below is a blog post I started in January that I never finished.  It is from two birthday parties in November.  The first was our niece Abigail's 3rd birthday party...Cinderella theme.  The second is our pseudo niece's 1st birthday.  Or as Addie likes to call little RLT her "kinda cousin".  Enjoy!

 

The birthday girl and Kylie.

 

  

Everyone got their hair spray painted.  Let's just say it took weeks to get out of Kate's hair!

Poor Clayton was dressed up like a princess.  He actually didn't mind it too much.

Cinderella even came to the party.  Did you know she arrives on a tractor on haystacks when she comes to the country? Ha!

A tea party...

After the princess party and tea party was over the rest of the family came over for soup, hayrides and s'mores.

I am not for sure what this says about our future.  Rockstar!  Too bad it is blurry because this might make the wedding video one day.  Ha!

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New day.  New party.  Very different atmosphere. :)

Birthday girl waving.

Notice the pink hair?  She totally looked like Cyndi Lauper.  This is after probably about 3-4 washes the night before.

So cute!

 

Fun with bubbles after cake and presents.

P.S.  Hi Sue G.  Look I blogged!  I'll do more.  Promise. :)

Pumpkin carving and trick-or-treating

We had really bad weather on Halloween night so most of the trick-or-treating was postponed to the next day.  That allowed us time to actually carve our pumpkins.

 

Addison has always been a girl that doesn't mind getting her hands dirty.  She plays in the dirt, plays with bugs/worms/etc. so she stopped using a spoon and just used her hands to clean out the pumpkin.

We don't use the store bought pumpkin carving tools around here.  Nope, we (as in Jeremy) use a drywall saw to carve our pumpkins.  Ha!  It was done in no time!

Kate wanted to draw on hers.

Ta-da!

The next night we went trick-or-treating in David and Carrie's neighborhood.  My parents came over as well.  

Addie was set on being a UofL cheerleader.  I tried to suggest some less girly costumes (trying to expand her a bit), but she landed on a cheerleader sometime in September.  She gets this from her mom.  I was some version of a princess three years in a row for Halloween.  We went to a UofL football game in early September so I think that is where she got the idea from.  Hopefully we'll go to some games and we can get some more use out of the costume.  

The four cousins.  That is Dylan on the right. :) Kate wouldn't wear her zebra hood all night.  Boo.

 

Kate was lovin' trick-or-treating this year.  She tried to keep up with the older kids, but that was hard for her.

So she charmed her dad into getting on his shoulders between each house.

A couple of houses gave out full-sized candy bars.  Score!  

Unfortunately this is blurry, but she looks pretty cute walking down the sidewalk on her own.

Back at the house to sort out the loot!

 

And a little bit of snuggle time at the end of the night.

Another great October for the books!