Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone has a wonderful day today with friends and family.

We are headed up to Reno, to spend a few days with family and also to celebrate my birthday a little early.

I'm excited to spend the time with them, to be surrounded by the people I love and to share this with Roweyn. I get so excited about sharing the holidays with her and she's still a little young to really understand it but I can tell she's understanding it more this year and to see how excited she gets about it just melts my heart!

Fall 2012 Family Photos

Mid October we had our family photos in Truckee and Donner Lake here in California,  taken by what I think as some of the best photographers in our area, Lemaire Photography. We had our photos done by them last year and I knew as soon as I saw the results, we'd have our photos done by them yearly for as long as we could. If you missed our photos from last year check them out here, here, here and here. :) We got a lot last year, haha I couldn't help it!

Here they are. :)

Amazing right?

I sure think so!

We also have them all in black and white too.

Did I say how much I love Lemaire Photography? haha

They are based out of Sparks, Nv but travel to surrounding areas which is awesome. I wasn't really sure what direction I wanted to go in for our photos, so we chatted and brainstormed and we came up with doing some urban shots in Old Town Truckee and then headed over to Donner Lake for our Forest and Lake photos with the Teepee that they MADE! Danny captured Roweyn & me perfectly. Roweyn was a little shy of the camera at first, but warmed up to Danny quickly and he was able to get the best shots of her.

I can't wait to decorate my house with all these wonderful photos!

Bishop Farm Pumpkin Patch

We got to go to our favorite pumpkin patch over the weekend!
The last time I took Roweyn she was only around 9 months old,
so it was a very different experience and so much fun!

Waiting for the show to start.

Thumbs up!

How tall are we??

We visited the petting zoo, went on a train ride, played on the playground and trains,
ate lunch and took a hay ride out to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins!

Can't wait to do it again next year!

Roweyn's Ramblings Wk. 80

Just being cute.

A late nap on the couch.

Playing with shaving cream at preschool is weird!

Watching the cats.

A sweet girl sleeping.

My mom found this easel at a garage sale with the paper for under $10!

Despite the look on her face she actually loves it!

Stuff Roweyn Says

The other night in the kitchen...

Roweyn: "I don't want to have gas!"

Nana: "What is gas Roweyn?"

Roweyn: "Fart!....I fart every day!"

Me: *dead*

Roweyn's Ramblings Wk. 79

Uh, Rowe, you got something on your nose.

Twins!

Ready for preschool!

Just hanging around.

My personal dishwasher.

Really getting that cup clean.

Wash, wash, wash.

Ponytail!

New secret spot in Gap Kids.

All the awesome new shoes we got while shopping!

A Day of the Young Child

Our town has a fun Children's Event at our local Jr. College called A Day of the Young Child.
There are all sorts of vendors there geared for the children.
We went with our friends and our girls had a great time!

Roweyn getting her face painted.

Madeleine! 

And Madeleine's serious boyfriend.

Roweyn made some cute crafts and keepsakes!

We are excited to go back again next year!

Roweyn's Ramblings Wk. 78

Waiting for Thai food. 

There was an awesome little pond with turtles swimming in it. Roweyn loved it.

Mini Teenager

Wearing eyeliner!

My new favorite!

Ready for preschool!

Roweyn's First Day of Preschool

This sweet girl started two half days a week of Preschool at our favorite Co-op Preschool!
That means some days she will go without me and some days I will help out in the class!
I'm super excited for this new adventure for us!

Roweyn's Ramblings Wk. 77

August is coming to an end which means Summer will be over shortly. :(

The only thing I'm excited about is the fact that Roweyn is starting 2 day a week Preschool next week!

Her face is just too good.

And we are obsessed with this owl sweatshirt!

Oh just your typical Nutella Stache

Boating!

Oh I just love her!

Prepping for first day of school pictures!

Oh hey guys!

Boat watch dogs.

These two just crack me up!

Right in the middle of stomping her foot at me.

She was upset that her play plate of food fell off my lap.

Driving her dump truck to get some gas.

Her favorite new way to swing.

Playing in her "castle"

Because Mommy is hilarious.

Also? We laugh exactly the same!

Such a fun day leads to a nice nap with this sweet girl!