Trimming the Tree

It was a little too cold for pictures!

This is Ella helping me "untangle" the lights!

Helping mommy trim the tree

I love the smell of a fresh Christmas Tree.... and it is pretty too!

We went and got a tree yesterday. Ella was very excited and wanted to get a REALLY big one! It was a very cold day so we didn't take too long picking one out. She helped with the lights and a few decorations but she lost interest pretty quickly. She did like the finished product though!

Cold Day in Blacksburg

Happy to see Jill!

All bundled up and headed to the stadium

Go Hokies!

We headed to Blacksburg for another football game last weekend. It was a very cold day!! We all bundled up and stayed until halftime....

Disney on Ice!

Ella loved the Princess Pre-Show

Cars!

Intermission

Mickey and Minnie Mouse

Finale

Ella and I went to see Disney on Ice with some friends. I wasn't sure if she would sit through the whole show, but she did and she absolutely loved it! It was a good show everyone had a great time.

Happy Halloween!

Scooping the guts out....

Cleaning the seeds...


Getting them ready to cook....

The finished products!!!

Some more scooping... at home this time.

Cleaning the seeds... her favorite part

All ready for the party at daycare!

Trick-or-treating at daycare

Our pumpkins on Halloween night

Trick-or-treating with Sam and Eli

Trick-or-Treat!

She got LOTS of good stuff at Nonna and Papa's house!

Ella has had a busy couple of weeks getting ready for the big day.... Halloween that is! She spent last Friday night with Papa and they carved a pumpkin together and made pumpkin seeds! We carved pumpkins as well. Ella loves scooping the guts out of the pumpkins and cleaning the seeds! She really wasn't interested in the actual carving part. She had a Halloween party at daycare... and then there was finally the treat-or-treating. She LOVED trick-or-treating!! Oh... did I mention she was adorable in her monkey costume??

Lots of Fun Fall Things!

Enjoying another Hokie Game!

Pony Ride at SML Fall Festival

Claiming her Pumpkin

Meeting new baby Emery

Waiting for the parade to start

It has been a long time since I have updated... but we have had a busy October so far... doing lots of fun things... trips to the pumpkins patch, a fall festival at SML, another VT football game, the Midlothian parade, and the arrival of baby Emery... just to name a few....

Maryland

We camped out at Barnes & Noble while Papa waited in line in the rain for tickets!

The Dolphin Show was a hit!

Checking out the fishies

Ella especially liked the turtles

Cheese!

Dinner at Macaroni Grille - Yummy!

Brady and Dave were in Silver Spring, MD this weekend for their other niece's baptism so we headed there on Saturday to see them. We could not bear to have them within 2 hours of us and not see them. Saturday afternoon we headed to Baltimore to go the Aquarium and to walk around the inner harbor area. Unfortunately, it poured all day so we went to the aquarium but weren't able to walk around and enjoy the area... especially since we only had one regular umbrella and one very pretty pink princess umbrella for the 4 of us. If it wasn't raining so hard I really would have gotten a picture of Papa with his princess umbrella!

Romp-N-Roll

Needing help on the monkey bars

Lots of climbing, rolling, sliding, and jumping!!

We signed Ella up for a gym class that meets once a week. She is really enjoying it and she is getting to try new things. They have a miniature rock wall, a small trampoline, a small trapeze bar, and lots more! The class is 12 weeks long so I am sure there will be more pictures in the coming months!