Getting our tree

We have a deal in our house about getting our christmas tree - One year at a tree farm, one year from the back yard, Dad put up mom's white lights again this year, and we are super busy, so we got our tree from the back yard again - we'll send some more tomorrow - uploading was going really slow tonight

Mom's childhood memory

Sorry I  have posted in a while, Mom's been super busy trying to get ready for Christmas and Aunt Kristen's wedding and she's been a little more sad then usual about Great Grandma. I really miss her too, especially playing games with her. Mom's also really busy working two jobs she's planning the tree lighting in town and getting ready for ski camp, but she's also had crafts for us to do every day when Jacob get's home from school! It's so much fun! When we were out shopping on Monday - she found crafts she remember doing with grandma when she was little (though she doesn't remember how difficult they were but she thinks Grandma might) anyway - they took us a while. but they came out great!

one that you can see my missing tooth

a better view of my ornaments

My first real race!

Exciting news! Mom got a new computer last night - so she can upload photos -
Just in time too - Because yesterday I ran my first real road race - the westford turkey trot!

We ran our first mile in 11 minutes!

Huge Tree!

Mom's having some huge issues with her hard drive again so I'm sorry we haven't been posting.
Yesterday, Dad and I went on a long walk/hike - We found this tree - it had been uprooted - but look at how big the root system was! and Remember, I'm already more than 4 feet tall! Sorry for the quality of the photo; Dad has yet to upgrade his phone to the 21st century. It still has number buttons on it!

Our summer fun!

We Won!

I see that Adrienne's been on posting while I'm at school..... you know that place where all I do is LEARN for 7 hours! I wanted to let you know that on Wednesday - I had my first soccer game, mom and dad didn't know it was a game, so she forgot to bring the camera - so here are some pictures from practice! Adrienne is in yellow with a pink ball and I'm wearing white and I have an orange ball!

ouch!

 So grandma, remember when you were on the phone with mom yesterday -she had to run - I took a giant digger into the living room floor - those darn slippery socks.. my chin is now so beautiful colors of pink, blue, purple and a little yellow!

Dancin Girl!

Mom had some issues getting my dance recital off of the camera- she finally figured it out! Here I am doing the boogie! Mom let me watch the video today and now I miss dance class. I also added some of my awesome gymnastics moves and my pretty flowers! I miss you!

Mom brought the circus to town

So our last post was the morning before the circus - Mom's hard drive was full so we haven't posted all summer (and we were having too much fun playing outside to be on the computer) but we were so proud that our mom brought the circus to town and we saw some really cool acts.

I got to go on a pony ride!

I was amazed by the circus performers tricks

And Dad really liked their outfits

Grace and I loved the $4 lemonade!

We haven't learned this in gymnastics yet

This one was one of dad's favorites

A day just for Dad

 Won't Grandma be surprised when she logs in this morning and finds TWO posts. This is an update from June, when Grandma and Grandpa got to go to Disney without us :( ,   (but we hear that as soon as we get to be 42" tall we get to go) Anyway back to a day just for Dad, There is a day in June, called Father's Day; Dad got to pick out what he wanted to do - he spent the morning cutting up trees and then we went to Lake Elmore State Park, it is a really cool lake we discovered last year and the best thing is its really close to home! We had a great day, built some really great sand castles, had creamees and stopped and played mini golf on the way home!

trying out Dad's new father's day present after a long day!

The Star closest to us

The star closest to us has been great lately, making the flowers grow, having warm weather for swimming, making mom's car super hot because she has no air conditioning.  this was not the case for April and May, as mentioned in my previous post. This affected my chosen activity for the spring (or was it mom and dad's) Anyway, in the beginning I really didn't get the game and it was often raining.. in the end I started to enjoy it, learned to stay in my position and all about the game. I think that once I really understand how the math statistics relate to what I'm doing - I'm going to love it. Anyway here are a few photos from the Fairfax Orange Volcanoes!

up at bat!

safe at first

great job team

Finally, the star closest to us come out! We had almost forgotten what it looked like!

Mud

So we heard that Grandma checks the blog last thing at night and first thing in the morning so we are going to try and get better at keeping her updated with the latest and greatest news from us; because we were not so great about getting on the blogging bandwagon and have now reached the old age of 3 and 6, we have some catching up to do - we thought we would share one of our favorite adventures from this past spring... MUD, we loved to find it everywhere, track it everywhere, play in it, in fact we discovered that the garden is a much better mud pit then our sandbox.. Most of the spring was spent playing the the mud, why you ask - well it rained ALOT, we got over 20 inches of rain in April and May, (most of mine...(Jacob) T-ball games were rained out!) Here is one of our favorite days.. Mom even let us dance in the rain to try and clean off!

My turn

Jacob got to post last time, so now it's my turn! I've had some exciting things going on! This Past sunday I had my 3 1/2 year old birthday party! Now, you might ask? Why a 1/2 birthday party, well my birthday is December 20th, which is right before Christmas, My mom tells me that my great grandpa had a birthday on Christmas and always said he got "gipped", so Mom thought it would be a fun idea to celebrate my birthday halfway though the year. This year I decided on a Dora themed party, I had a hard time deciding between princesses and Dora, and decided that it was time to go on an adventure. The party was great Mom read us an Dora adventure story that was written just for me about the case of the missing rainbow butterfly and then we followed map to find the clues in the story! We had yummy chocolate cake, ice cream and watermelon and I got some really cool presents! Like a YELLOW Bike, princesses castle and an Ariel Costume!

We got these great flowers to keep at the "happy flower farm" on our adventure.

we found the rainbow butterfly - and she let us in on secret - if we break her open - she was full of candy - Here's Jacob giving it a whack..

Now it's my turn.

Time for Cake!

my dora cake!

eating cake and ice cream in my new castle with my friends!

my cousin Ally just got her license and she drove up by herself to my party!

my new Ariel outfit!

my new YELLOW bike.. I just read this morning that my new cousin Cayden and I share the same love of yellow.

4th of July

Jacob here... We had a Great Vermont Adventure for the 4th of July! We went to Bristol for the parade, Did you know it's the longest running 4th of July parade in Vermont! Check out the photo below of Adrienne enjoying the parade! It took a long time to drive to Bristol..I can't believe Mom used to drive that far every day! After the parade we went to Aunt Nancy's "other" house, Adrienne and I each had a chance to go out in a boat - Adrienne went canoeing with Dad and Aunt Nancy and I got to go really fast in the speed boat. Mom and Dad did some skiing there - and I thought we could only ski in the winter! Seems like they might have forgotten how to summer ski some of the time!