Just some random crazy people...

I was working on our Christmas card and was whining how we have so few pictures of Michael and me together (duh, one of us is usually taking the picture:). His dad snapped some of us in his back yard over Thanksgiving and they turned out fun and silly. I'm glad that six years in we still seem to bring out the silly in each other.

Nine Months Old

We got some cute pictures of our sweet Allison aka Alligator over Thanksgiving, and it occurred to me that she's nine months old. It's going so fast.

A few new things this month:

• Still not totally crawling...she's mastered the art of moving her knees and now just needs to figure out how to move the arms too. She'll try for awhile and then push herself into her sitting position.
• She loves to jabber. Mamamama and Dadadadada are her favorites. Dadadadada was first and is the one we hear the most:)
• She's finally consistently sleeping through the night. She goes down about 8:00 or so and we usually don't see her until 7:00 the next morning. It's wonderful!
• She loves pumpkin pie!
• What can I say, we were blessed with a truly happy little soul in our family. We've learned a lot from her about just having joy without a true reason.

Halloween 2009

Fun Halloween. Trunk or treat at the church on Friday night, Saturday night hanging out trick or treating with cousins in Fort Collins. Kaitlin just loved the attention and the festivities, Allison was just a little confused why we kept putting this thing back on her head. It was great!

For about the 3rd year in a row, Michael and I were awful about taking pictures of eachother. This is the one shot in my cute Komono, and he was a great moose!

Michael the Moose

The Cheerleader - oh so appropriate!

We couldn't get her to hold still for a single picture, but she looked really sweet.

The Giraffe

Hello Officer

We came home from Sams today, and there were 4 police cars parked a few houses down from ours. Kaitlin asks if we can go say hello, and we walk over to the police officers chatting outside of their cars. I was really afraid of police men when I was little, and I'm happy to try and talk to them if Kaitlin wants to.

Kaitlin: "Hiya officer, are you guys here because someone did something really bad...like not keep their straps on?"

The police officers all just bust out laughing. It turns out two of them have 4 year old daughters named Kaitlin. They gave her a little junior deputy police officer badge, and all gave her high fives when they left. It was like something straight out of Higgly Town Heroes.