Archive for November, 2009

Oh Christmas Tree

It’s hard to believe, but there are only 25 more shopping days left until Christmas and the holidays are in full swing. Wednesday night, we actually managed to get Madeline to sit with Santa without too much fussing (OK, OK, we bribed her with a stuffed penguin). And today we headed out to Linvilla Orchards to chop our tree.

Madeline really enjoyed the hayride, but was not too enamored with the tree selection process. Once we had chosen our tree, we headed back, roasted a few marshmallows and had some warm apple cider. Nevermind the fact that it was sixty degrees out; warm apple cider is good in any weather! After that, we visited with the animals and Madeline got to pet and feed the horses, which was quite a thrill.

We then proceeded to bring the tree home, where Daddy realized that he either underestimated the size of the tree or overestimated the size of our house. One broken tree stand later, we are the proud owners of a rather large Christmas tree. Well, at least there’s plenty of room under there for an iPhone (and plenty of princess stuff, of course)!

Madeline’s 3rd Birthday Party

Yesterday we had Madeline’s 3rd birthday party (a little early) at Bette’s Fun Center. Madeline had a ton of fun going on the moon bounces with all her friends and eating birthday cake. After the moon bounce extravaganza was over, we came back to the house with Nonni, Pop-pop, Popper and Grandmom to play some Beatles Rock Band.

Enjoy the pictures below and thank you to everyone for coming!







You can view all the photos on Flickr.

Halloween 2009

This year Madeline was Snow White and got a pretty sizable haul before the rains came. Here are some pictures. Enjoy!