Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party!

It was a huge success! Annabelle had such a blast! She rode her first rides, saw Mickey Mouse IN PERSON, watched Cinderella light the castle, saw a HUGE christmas parade, and watched it snow on Main Street. It was SUCH a wonderful night....so fun to watch her laugh and get a huge kick out of all of the characters. During the parade she was on Adam's shoulders screaming, bouncing, laughing, and waving while screaming one of the 6 words she knows!!

Super excited after seeing Mickey in front of the castle

Goofy during the parage, Annabelle was screaming "dog, dog, dog, and waving!"

The castle all lit up

cheese

and again

riding the carosel

lots of fun at the parade

two very happy, very fortunate parents:)

Oh Florida, we've missed you!

Well, we can't deny it...we miss Florida...a lot. Getting here to the warm, palm trees, sand and sun beats the cold weather any day. We've tried to pretend that we like seasons, and the frost yada yada yada...we miss Florida. So, we're soaking up every ounce of warmer weather we can, getting excited about our 2 months in Jupiter, then dreaming up our move back!

Grandparents will enjoy that...SO much more fun to visit Florida than Missouri, let's be serious.

Here's Annabelle hanging out with me on the beach yesterday...she loved it, of course!

this makes me laugh!

Mrs Clause was greeting us in the lobby just as Adam was done for the day. Perfect timing.

cheeeeeeese

Florida girl at heart

Epcot with Dad

dinner in "mexico" at Epcot

The Holiday Season!

The Olsen's have been Holified!! Yesterday lumberjack Adam chopped down our tree with only minimal trouble! Below are pictures from the day....fun fun fun! Tomorrow we're off to Disney for a few days and our fingers are crossed that the weather heats up for us.

tired after all that cutting

baby it's cold outside...

So...we lit our first fire, and we're hooked! Too bad it's in the 70's today.....

We are looking forward to Thanksgiving, Christmas, then moving back to Florida for two months!! Here are some pictures from the past week!

awwww

helping Dad get it ready

she's learned SO MUCH from those dogs... all useful things for kindergarden I'm sure...

loves the swings... she goes from pink, to blue, to pink, to blue, to.....

keeping hats on is hard...rips 'em right off...every time

she slides by herself...front ways and back!!

chillin out maxin and relaxin all cool

queen of her castle

annnd, that's all!

xoxo

A Warm Week!

We are beat! All last week the weather was gorgeous-- mid to high 70's, no clouds.... you couldn't drag us inside! We spent lots of time at different playgrounds, playing with tons of friends, great playdates at the house, more zoo & goat time...it was truly a wonderful week! Here are some pictures from it!!

Don't fall out Annabelle!!

Four babies, swinging away

It looked SO cute in person!

She likes to just hang there... literally

More fun with goats at the zoo!

exploring in the backyard

Carrying her ever-important bucket, reading the "do not walk, growing grass sign".

A Beautiful Fall....

Yesterday Adam, Annabelle and I went to Laumeier Sculpture Park and had a wonderful walk through the woods...then the two of them stopped to play "tag"! We are loving the seasons....so far;)

GOATS!

On Tuesday Annabelle and I stopped at the zoo after her Dr. appointment got rescheduled. Instead of shots, she got to pet goats...that's a great day for a 1 year old! We ran into her friend Anya with her mom Joanna-- so we got to visit for a bit. Anya is an incredibly smart 18 mo. old with an enormous vocabulary, so, hopefully she'll rub off on A!

Here she is with the goats...just TOO cute!

She really liked their ears.

Also, she successfully pointed to their noses and eyes, and even said "eye" when pointing.

For a first time mom, that's very exciting!

She liked the fish too! "ishh" as she sometimes calls them!