We're Home!

We were in Missouri visiting Brad, Colleen, Carter, Spencer, & baby Claire...the Foss Fam. We had such a wonderful time and I have so much to post! But for now I just wanted to say hello and pictures will come soon.

Here's a short preview...
1st family trip on a plane
Audrie loooved the plane & did so good!
Added 2 states to my travels (Colorado & Missouri)...
Even though it was just the airport in Colorado :)
Got to meet & hold Claire for the 1st time
Rode an AWESOME roller coaster!
Experienced some fun Jump Mania!
Lots of playtime with cousins

Enjoyed some of our show's premiers late into the night

(Grey's Anatomy, Survivor, Amazing Race)
Sooo much fun & we miss you guys already!

There are soooo many trees it's beautiful!

Papa's Owie Updated

Well I found out from our visit this morning that my dad came home from the ER around 2:30 AM on crutches...he did break his right ankle in three places. His other ankle is fine...just a little sore. He looks great and is feeling pretty good all things considered. The accident didn't happen as close to the time we were headed home from the mall on Fairview (it was around 8:00)...but I am still glad I didn't see anything. We are continuously counting our blessings that he is well!

Papa's Owie

Papa needs a big bandaid right now...

It's 12:21 and I'm having a bit of a hard time turning my brain off...

We had a fun family night at the mall tonight and were heading home around 8:45...we got home and my brother Jake called us with some scary news. My dad was hit on his motorcycle sometime around 8:50. A car pulled out onto Fairview and didn't see him. He was thrown 25 feet from his bike and rolled. He was wearing his helmet, pants, and a sweatshirt so his injuries were a lot less severe than they could have been. He was taken to St. Al's and found that one ankle has a small chip... and they are x-raying the other one because when he was getting discharged, he couldn't walk on it. (I'm not 100% sure that he went home.) His cat scan came back great. He is soooo good for wearing that helmet!!! He will be pretty bruised and sore tomorrow, but we are sooo grateful that he is not more broken! We love Papa and Audrie was so concerned. She got to visit him in his room with everyone that went back there. She kept saying "Papa owie" and then she would point to her foot. She finally went to sleep after reassuring her that we would go visit him tomorrow and make him cookies. Dad you will be in our prayers! We are so blessed to have you safe tonight! We love you sooo much!

Audrie 9.6.08

Audrie at 23 months

• loves to ride her bike
• picked up "mommy" & "daddy"
• talking like crazy!
• looooves dum-dum pops
• sings parts of her ABC's
• loves to color & play with play-doh
• helps mom make scrambled eggs (her favorite breakfast)
• has a sharp memory
• loves to point out boats, cars, airplanes, motorcycles
• isn't afraid to get a little dirty
• loves to be dolled up too (already sneaks into mom's make-up) ;)
• loves a good crib party at 2:15...sometimes 3:40...or 5:20....ahhhh
• sign her up for cheerleading! She's already a better stunter than I ever was! :)
• has to have a combination of choo-choo and her noise for airplane when taking bites of dinner
• showing her funny personality more and more each day...has a lot of her daddy's fun spirit
  

the list may get longer later...for my sake of recording. I am just exhausted right now after our party at 2:15-3:20 last night! :) Gotta go to bed for the party tonight!

Our little cutie

She has always loved to fold her arms and bow her head...sometimes you even catch her mumbling something :) I had to capture it! I think I'll scrapbook and frame it for her room titled "Don't forget to pray".

Little Friends

I watched Aniston the other day. Audrie loves to have friends over to play and it's always so much fun to have these two together. We went to the park back by the pool and they had a ball! They were being soooo cute that I had to put them back in the bike trailer to ride back and get my camera...don't leave home without it...EVER! I got some really cute pictures of them. More of Aniston because my girl only looked at the camera once! (Not a normal for this little cheezer) They had a great time exploring and going down the slides. It was a super fun play day!

Doing everything together :)

Playing Peek-a-Boo

Little Sunshine Aniston

Audrie & Aniston 23 months...almost 2

Cute girls

Sweet little friends

Finally they're playing my song!

Last August my mother-in-law and I went to the Josh Groban concert. Soooo fun! I love all songs Josh, but I fell in love with Alla Luce del Sole at the concert. They do all these lights and it's amazing!!! (I actually like it better live) Anyway...playlist.com didn't have it on their when I set up my playlist and I just found it now. So here's to my favorite song!

Bedtime Snack & Fun

We were pulling weeds and working in the yard one night when we were surprised with a visit from Audrie's friend Aniston. They were so cute with their milk sipees and graham crackers sittin on the driveway. This was one of the last warm summer nights...it's too cold to be out in summer pjs lately :(

Then they got up and ran all their sillies out. These two are too cute together!

Audrie's 1st bike of her own!

We finally bought Audrie a tricycle of her very own. We have been getting by on a super cute pink & purple bike with training wheels that Grandma Brown found her at a garage sale. It has one of those handles so that we could push her, but she doesn't want to be pushed anymore. She isn't quite ready for a bike...needs something a little lower to the ground :) So we caved and bought her the super cute and very popular radio flyer tricycle. She loooooves it! Wish we would have bought it sooner. Her October birthday is a hard one to wait for!!! So my big girl is riding her 1st bike! It's fun to watch her light up every time she sees it! Here's to many fun rides!

Prison Break Season 4 Tonight!!!

I am SUPER excited for Prison Break to premiere tonight!!!