Christmas in Minnesota

This year we hosted Christmas early at our house since we will be in New York to celebrate Christmas day with Chris' family.

All the kids just couldn't wait to start opening presents.

Kennedy just played with some toys as all of her cousins opened their presents.

Playmobil Jet Airplane!

Suzanne and Becka posing for the picture...oh yeah and Steve being Steve :)

Kennedy got her turn to open presents...

She figured it out pretty quickly.

Look what I got mom!

Oooo...a googly eye book...

and a little people car.

Mommy and Kennedy cuddling.

What else did I get?

Luke and his Playmobil plane...so cool!

Kennedy was content amongst all the hub bub of the night.

One last present Kennedy...oh look...a puzzle!

Merry Christmas!

Great Wall

Chris took the easy way down from the Great Wall in China.

Check out his ride...

November Sunshine

It was a beautiful November day today. A sunny 68 degrees outside...which was very unexpected.

Kennedy and I went to the park to take advantage of the awesome weather.
I spent my time chasing after Kennedy...
as she ran all around the playground.

The slide was a big hit today since she's learned to master it.

We also made repeat visits to the swings.

Weeeee!

We spent some time running around in the leaves..Then stopped to play with them for a while.

Back to the playground...

She got very adventurous!

Of course with all of that running around we had to take a juice break and get some rest.

What a great day of playing in the sun!

Hal-zoo-ween

Today Kennedy and I met up with some friends at the Minnesota Zoo for a little pre-Halloween fun. Of course my little princess had to be nothing but a little princess for Halloween.
"The princess and the lady bug" (Kennedy and McKenzie)

Mommy and Princess Kennedy

Kennedy had fun looking at all the fish and making fishy faces.

All three girls posing together...I guess there's more than one princess in the world :)

Do you see the monkey's Kennedy? Ooo ooo ahh ahh!

Can you tell that she had to deal with me taking pictures of her all day long? She was just so pretty in that little dress!

Mom finally won the battle and Kennedy wore the princess hat...well at least long enough for me to take this picture.

What an enchanted day with friends and zoo animals. Oh by the way, did I mention that it was snowing when we left?! Last time I checked it was only October 26th. Yikes!

Play Day

One Fall Day

Kennedy and I went out to play in the yard...I couldn't resist taking a picture of her next to the pumpkin.

Come on mom!...I just want to play!

She finally got away...

...so I figured we better head to the park.

It took her a minute to figure out that she could run around...

...but then there was no stopping her.