Kitchen, Swings and Ballerinas!!

Grandma and Grandpa T gave Bell a beautiful kitchen (and lots of things to go in it!!) for her 4th birthday - THANKS Grandma and Grandpa - we love it!!!!

Lina making birthday cake............ with morning hair!!

The first morning it was put together, Bell and Lina came tight out and played with it in their jammies!! Made me breakfast, if only it were real :)

Toast and tea!!

We just got a new (new to us, pre-loved) swingset for the yard!! I have been looking on Craigslist for a great deal on one, because we have wanted one for the girls, but could not swing a new one now. I saw an add for this one with no pictures and no price. So I e-mailed the woman and she said "come get it, it is free, my kids have outgrown it"!! So Don and Austin trailered it home and after a few new bolts and one new piece of wood, the girls are loving it!! Daddy rocks, he missed part of his football game to finish putting it together!!

BTW, GO SAINTS 8 and 0 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It even has a glider and a set of rings that can go where one of the swings is.

My cuties!! Beautiful November day we were out in short sleeves, love it!!

Notice that the leaves still need to be done!! Today I blew leaves while the girls played and this weekend will be the big leaf cleanup!! Both neighbors on the sides of us started putting up Christmas lights this weekend (not on, just up). I guess you do it early up here cause it gets cold!! We still need to go through the basement and dig our stuff out, guess we will be out in the freezing cold Thanksgiving weekend doing ours:)

We live in Ballerina outfits around here these days!! Today they were ballerina princesses and were so very adorable I had to snap this picture!!

5 Little Pumpkins

My little pumpkin!

The girls FORT

We have a HUGE pine tree which makes a terriffic fort for the girls, and a home fo all the extra small chairs we had lying around!! We put down a big peice of plywood and it is their "dance stage" - so cute!!

Looking up.................

And the view from laying down :)

Halloween pics

On Monday he says to me, I want to be Cookie Monster for halloween, wasn't easy to find blue fur on such short notice!! COOKIES!!!!

Our pretty butterflies playing party games at the Moms Group party

All the parents lined up and the kids trick or treated us :)

Checking out her stash!

DON's Birthday

Happy Birthday honey!!!

Isabella's first day of pre-school

The house

Some pics of the new house!!
Austin sweeping leaves off the roof (in between texts to his girlfreind!).

Our resident turkey family.

Front

Back of house and back deck

Stream that runs along hte whole back of our property

The stream is right behind the Tiki Hut!!!! Electric, TV, Stereo, fridge, and fire pit nnext to it!!

Don's TWO car garage :)

FALL FUN

Lina shooting some hoops...........

Bell loves all the leaves here at our new home :)

Angelina, Bell and Landon. The girls were SO excited to see Landon when they came for hte weekend!! It was a full house, and a lot of fun! We can't wait for htem to come back again!!

Isabella is FOUR!!!!

The pictures are backwards (forgot I need to load them last to first in blogger - erhhhh), and I can't move them :( Scroll down and work your way up............


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Playdooh birthday cake.

ELEFUN.............

Daddy is taking her FAVORITE present out of the box...........

New princess shoes from her little sister!

Blow!!

Cake and presents!

The birthday person gets to request what they want for dinner. Grilled Cheese and soup was teh birthday dinner request. So the girls made a sandwich making assembely line :)

I'm Back!!

OK, after requests from a few people, I am back to blogging!!
It has been a crazy few months:
Don got a new job in April and lived in NJ M-F for MONTHS!!
We sold the house in July and move in with Mom and Dad for a few months (Thanks Mom and Dad!!).
We closed on our new house in Warwick, NY in Spetember - yeah!!
We are finally settled in (mostly), at least the boxes are gone from the house - the basement and gargage are a VERY different story :)

I will post at least weekly, so come back and catch up with us again!
Don, Karen and the Kids

TWO years old!!

It is hard to believe Lina turned two today! She is getting so big and so smart!!!

We had a playdate with their friend Emma today that turned into a impromptu birthday party, the girls made birthday hats, we blew up some balloons, had spagetti for lunch and cupcakes with a candle for Lina. On Saturday we are going horseback riding (hopefully the weather will hold!) and will have cupcakes with her friends then too, as daddy is not home today to celebrate.