Fall Pics and Halloween Night

Halloweeeen night....

Aunt Kelly and Uncle Randy

Treasure hunt halloween party at the kroc center

climbing and swimming at the Kroc Center...our new community center...It's Awesome

I love, love, LOVE this picture...my camera was messing up and not flashing, but I really love how it turned out

Higgins point day

ok mom so this is the updated front porch...much better huh?!

I'll cozy it up in the spring with a rocker or loveseat with mustard and navy pillows...can't wait for spring already!

Amelia swimming!

little swimmer, no floaty...she amazes me!

Halloween ParTAY

ok so I had to throw my half marathon pic in just for proof that I actually did it:)

Amelia and the fella's, she only has one friend that's a girl...maybe I should work on that...

She is half spiderman/half mermaid...she was having a tough time choosing so I suggested it and she loved the idea....so wall-la here you have SPIDERMAID!

Amelia and Hudson, opps I mean Dash...hard at work

The Fair

AMELIA IS 3!!!

chase the pig...

Bennett and Amelia....so cute

Amelia's first day of being 3...sweet 3 year old dreams..

So on Amelia's B-day we were planning on having her party at our little neighborhood park. I just assumed it would be empty...BUT I forgot about the medieval/goth role players that inhabit the park on most Sundays...When I got there to set up they were there using both tables and the shelter, I pretended it was no big deal and we could make do...but really I was having trouble finding a place to put our stuff and kinda freaking out. Then I heard them voting(like good medieval knights do) and realized they had voted to give me a table and the shelter. They came over and told me and I broke down crying...they must have thought I was a crazy...

More summer fun

so, so, so silly

Hudson and Amelia best buddies...here in Coeur d' alene at City Park

on your mark..get set...JUMP

fun day with g-ma liz and cousins, Asher and Ivy and Aunt Kelly at a mini amusement park in Spokane

the garbage eating goat

Puerto Rico

on the way home...amelia is bundled in my sweatshirt that says TEXAS (that I'm embarrassed to wear) in the Houston Airport aka the coldest airport on the face of the earth, they must intentionally keep it that cold so you have to buy sweatshirts...

old San Juan..loved, very similar to Charleston, streets a bit more narrow (if you can imagine that) had a very European feel

coming out of the rain forest, stopped at this food stand, dog tied to the roof

snails on the trees...everywhere

amelia's first (of 3...)birthday party in Puerto Rico

she is unbelievably proud of her outfit and tiara and earrings...just completely beside herself

I feel in love with pina colada's on the trip....yum, I wish I was there right this second

we were on an island off of Puerto Rico called Vieques...remote and noncommercial. here are old ammo bunkers, there used to be a big testing site and military base here...until a civilian got blown up and the locals started protesting and got it moved...

cool huge, old tree...the roots were like walls...super cool

cool looking red bugs...

stopped at the market and got these baby banana's

the cousins

outside an old fort...it was closed, roamed around outside

wild horses everywhere

Apparently iguana's are huge pests over there...they're not native and are messing up the ecosystem by eating bugs, birds and fauna...

mom jumping in the pool...we all did it, but she looked the cutest doing it

hoot and Jaime

We were in the sun and water 24/7 and Amelia never even really got a sunburn...amazing! She must have gotten a little of my pigment after all! She is now swimming without a floaty, I think being in the water so much really helped her....and her magic pink goggles:)