Thanksgiving 2009

We had a great Thanksgiving with our friends Tom, Kellie, Tyler, Zach and Abby Mulligan. We ate way too much and the kids had a blast playing together! Do you like Emmie's Turkey shirt I made her? Cute, huh?

A Star Wars geek...just like Daddy.

Other happenings...

Busch Garden Hippo

Sesame Street Live
Elmo's Green Thumb

T-Rex

In other news, we took Emmie to see Sesame Street Live and Walking with Dinosaurs last weekend. She LOVED Elmo and liked the dinosaurs until T-Rex came out...he was a little too scary and she was "all done!" We also went to Busch Gardens one afternoon while Gigi was in town to visit. We loved having her here for her fall break!

18 months

Emmie turned 18 months last week and we took her to the doctor for her 18 month appointment yesterday. She has FINALLY reached the 20 lb. milestone! Yay! We are so proud of her and she can now be "officially" turned forward facing in her car seat, although we turned her around a couple of months ago. Her stats are 20.5 lb (10 %ile) , 29 1/2 inches (10%ile), and her head circumference is 18 1/2 in (55%ile). She is doing so great with her language and motor skills. She is really getting to be a big girl!

Happy Fall!

I love fall. I love the smell of Yankee Candle Harvest and Pumpkin Spice candles, fall decorations, pumpkins and anything pumpkin to eat. I love the cool, sunny weather. (Although we have only had about 3 of those days here in Florida so far.) And Christmas is right around the corner. :)

Didn't your momma teach you not to do that?

I love Tampa, but there is too much crime here! First, our home was broken into in April. Someone pryed open our sliding glass door, walked in and took 2 laptops and a pair of diamond earrings and walked right out our front door. The Sheriff's Dept. fingerprinted but nothing came up and they creeps were never caught.

Then, on October 1, our friends' home (in a gated community) was broken into in the middle of the night while they were SLEEPING! The jerks raided tons of DVDs and electronics, went into their sleeping children's bedroom and took a pillow case to stash some of the stuff in, and then drove off in their minivan. Thankfully, our friends didn't wake up until after the burglars left their home. Their credit cards were also stolen and used at several stores around town. The video of the perpetrators using the cards while with their approximately 3 year old little girl was shown on the news and yesterday two of the three were arrested!!! The mini has also been found. The police know who the third is and have a warrant out for his arrest too.

And then today, some jerk backed into my new car and left a huge dent in the front fender that looks just like a trailer hitch. And they left after they did it. I am so fuming mad.

What is wrong with people???

A few pics...

The Plumber...workin' on a puzzle













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