the adventure that is life: 2015

Merry Christmas!

It's been a busy month around here. This weekend we decided to get a new car! My little green Civic served me well for almost 12 years. It's was good car but we needed something new! Enter our new CR-V. In my favorite color-black!

So much easier to get kids and stuff in and out and so nice to drive compared to my civic!

Here's Sophia with our tree and ornaments!

And here is Penny messing with ornaments

We're off to Richmond for Christmas and Florida for New Year's!

Merry Christmas!

Fall Leaves

>> 11.07.2015 – fall, leaves, Penny, sophia

The backyard was covered with leaves and while raking we saved some for Sophia to have fun in. I tried to only use only fresh fallen leaves from the middle of the yard for the pil...we have lots of ticks around here... But, rest assured we'll be doing tick checks tonight at bath time! Sophia had a blast and even Penny got some leaf pile time in.

The best part of today was Sophia's outfit. I found the Elsa dress on Halloween Target clearance and she loves it. We went to the Post Office, library, and a church sale in it.

Happy Halloween!

>> 10.31.2015 – halloween, Penny, sophia

Vermont

>> 10.18.2015 – family, Vermont

I've always wanted to visit Vermont in the fall and see all the beautiful foliage. This last week I finally did just that! It was an easy 4 hour drive to one of the prettiest fall places I've ever seen. Even the rest area was picturesque!

My parents drove out from Illinois to meet us and we stayed in a nice cabin in the middle of nowhere- or so it felt!

And the view from the cabin was amazing

We'd explore different areas each day and they were all so amazing with the fall colors. I've never seen fall colors quite so brilliant!

Calvin Coolidge's grave was in a cemetery on the road to our cabin

We visited a farm and Sophia enjoyed the animals.

We checked out Quechee Gorge..and it was beautiful!

We also visited King Arthur Flour

We stopped by a waterfall on our way to Vermont Country Store- where I found all sorts of fun stuff!

Sophias (finally) taken a big interest in her letters and numbers and enjoyed writing them while riding in the car

Penny even got her first sink bath and looked so cute!

On the way to Ben and Jerrys we stopped by another waterfall

We didn't take the tour because it was Columbus Day and they weren't making any ice cream and we didn't have much extra time . But, we did eat some ice cream!:)