Christmas Photos

This holiday season has been a busy one for our family. We are going to Utah for Christmas this year! We are so excited to see everyone, since it has been awhile since we have visited. So we have had to get our shopping done and wrapped, get our holiday pictures taken, send out christmas cards, make goodies, visit Santa, pack for our trip and much more. During all our hustle and bustle we haven't forgotten the true meaning of Christmas. Every night we read a scripture and a story as well as sing a song from our 25 days of Christmas book. That helps remind us why we celebrate Christmas.

So here they are. Our annual Family Christmas Photo's!! Enjoy!!! To all our Family and Friends have a safe, happy, holiday season!!!!

October 2011

Happy Halloween!!!
This will be a Halloween to remember. Over the weekend, we recieved a huge snow storm. Due to down trees and power lines, our trick or treating fun and school parade was postponed til this coming Friday. Cole was a little disappointed, at least it was only postponed and not cancelled!

My Little Ladybug!

My superhero "Dark Knight Batman"!

Brother and Sister Love!!









My First Halloween!






Alstede Farm
Every year we go pumpkin picking at the farm. We enjoy a hayride to the pumpkin patch, picking pumpkin's and playing on the huge haystack.

Pretty Pink Tutu

Chloe is 4 months old, and has been supporting herself up while on her tummy. so I figured I would take advantage and snap a few shots of her. A friend of mine gave me some pointers on taking the pictures and they came out ADORABLE!! One of my students had the hat made for Chloe and I found this cute pink tutu to go with it. Chloe is such a SWEET, LOVABLE, GIRLIE GIRL!! As well as very photogenic. We love our precious angel!!

Superhero in Training

Like most 4 yr. olds, Cole has a very active imagination. Lately he LOVES to pretend he is a superhero. Our superhero of choice usually changes from week to week. Here are some of his favorites!

Gothams Crime Fighter "BATMAN"




SPIDERMAN, SPIDERMAN your friendly neighborhood SPIDERMAN




I am IRONMAN

3 months old already

I have been a little slow at posting updates on Chloe and how much she is growing. So here is what she has been doing at 3 months and 2 months. I will try to do better.

Three month stats (8/22/2011)
-sleeping 8hrs at night (YAY)!!
-rolling over onto her tummy! (she doesn't like to be on her back)
-Babbling
-trying to sit up

A visit to The Turtle Back Zoo & Crayola Factory

In August we were lucky to have my sister Amanda come to New Jersey to visit us. While she was here we went to the Turtle Back Zoo & The Crayola Factory. At the Zoo, we saw lots of different animals. Cole and his cousin Jasmine went on the pony ride. They thought that was pretty cool! Cole even got to feed some birds. Cole's favorite animal to see was the monkey's. I loved seeing the penguins.

I thought it was pretty neat that we were able to go in and feed the birds. I wasn't sure how Cole would react to the birds flying around looking for the food. He did really well and had fun feeding them.

Aunt Mandy and Chloe waiting for us while we were on the pony ride.



That aligator looks hungry, "I hope we aren't lunch"

It's a good thing the aligator is behind the glass!!

Just Monkeying around!!



The Crayola Factory was fun and exciting. We saw how they made crayons and silly puddy. We got to experience diffrent areas throughout the factory that had to deal with diffrent crayola products. Cole's favorite part seeing the largest crayon ever made. Which happens to be his favorite color BLUE!!


I had to take a picture of this. Here Daddy is giving Cole a lesson on how to wash your clothes by hand. Cole thought it was the funniest thing.

The largest crayon was made on October 11, 2003. It weighs 1,500 pounds. 123,000 blue crayons were gathered from children around the country to make this crayon. Coloring capacity, You could color a straight line for nearly 10 miles or cover an area the size of a football field


Crayola Tidbits
- in the year 2000 the color blue ranks #1 in favorite color.
- there are six shades of blue (cerulean, midnight blue,aquamarine, periwinkle, denim, and blizzard blue)
-1997, new crayon colors are issued commemorating 8 true blue heroes nominated by kids. They include outer space, mountain meadow, fuzzy wuzzy, brown brink pink, shadow banana mania, torch red and purple heart.
-1902, listening to teachers, Binny and Smith make the first dustless school chalk.
-1996, Fred Rodger's of "Mister Rodger's Neighborhood" molds the 100 billionth Crayola crayon, named "blue ribbon"
- in October 2003 four crayons were retired (teal blue, magic mint, mulberry and blizzard blue). For their 100th Birthday Celebration fans were asked to name four new color hues. the ones choosen were ( wild blue yonder, inchworm, jazzberry jam and mango tango).

Myrtle Beach

In August we went to Myrtle Beach SC. It seems to be becoming a family tradition of ours. We always have fun playing on the beach, in the ocean and swimming in the pool. This year the trip down was one of an adventure because Chloe was only 2 months old. Needless to say she didn't like being in her car seat. We survived the car ride down and back and had a GREAT time. Here are our annual family beach pictures!