Beach Beauty

A little more summer beach sun and surf for Audrey!

Audrey and Mama reconnect

Audrey's girls

Kiah and Neva are the sweetest companions to our Gabunga.

Easter weekend yard work

Audrey's version of work includes splashing in fountains and sun bathing on mom. We can see big Audrey is considering I'm 5'10.

Love and hugs with Grandmas

Audrey spent the two weekends before Easter with her grandparents. Here are two photo ops with Audrey's abuelas.

Terrain at Styers for Easter

Our dinner for 3 at Terrain was so fun. I loved the atmosphere in the greenhouse and the food was fun. Who wouldn't love bread served in a flower pot? The open faced soft shell crab on fried green tomatoes were up our ally! We left terrain with two metal containers to flank our front porch we are planting pink roses in the containers.

Longwood Children's Garden January

Smelling mama's favorite ...blue hydrangea!

She's 1.5

Audrey is 18 months old.  This weekend we make the most of our time as a family and took our little girl to a "pizza" dinner at Grotto pizza.  On Saturday we took Audrey to a book sale and to Longwood Gardens Children's garden.  She diverted herself in the playground of fountains and plants and was brave enough to play with the dragon.  She roared and was delighted by the dragon room.  On Sunday we went to King of Prussia Mall to the Muscular Distrophy Walk and Audrey made lots of friends.  We took Audrey to visit The Gregori's and we met their new son Matt. Audrey played with Kelly and Emily and had a very fun play date.  She fit in a little time to see her neighborhood best friend Evelyn. 

Merry Christmas 2011

Our Princess spent a fantastic holiday with friends and family. 

Longwood Gardens Evening

The last time I went to Longwood Gardens I was 9 months pregnant and drug my body through the gorgeous and humid surroundings.  This trip was much different.  Audrey was a 16 month old little sprite toddling around in her winter coat, ski hat, and frog mittens.  We walked into the center with a renewed garden pass and were rewarded with our little lady ooohing at all of the lighted trees.  She wanted to walk everywhere.  

We quickly found the hot chocolate stand and Audrey was amazed by the beautifully decorated gingerbread treats.  Next, we walked to the outdoor train display and watched the trains chug along the display.  The weather wasn't too cold but we didn't want Audrey to get too chilly, so we warmed up in the conservatory.  

We found the children's garden and the place was fabulous.  Audrey laughed her head off at the water fountains and giggled at the water wall.  Josh and I had a blast watching Audrey discover the children's garden and play with other children her age.  One woman commented at Audrey's laughter, "she just made my night." We left with a very tired Audrey.  All three of us enjoyed our first trip to Longwood as a family.

Brandywine River Museum Visit

Audrey's Christmas Card

We visited the Brandywine River Museum at twilight in early December.  The facility is beautiful and we enjoyed the Christmas trees that are decorated with critters.  Audrey let us take about 150 pictures of her and here are a few of our favorite pictures of Audrey.  When we weren't chasing Audrey with our camera, we watched their amazing train display and the conductor even put a chocolate oil in the hot chocolate train for us to smell.  Audrey loved the Wyeth family doll collection and she didn't appreciate not being about to touch the life size dolls.  To be honest, they were a bit scary to us.  Audrey was a bit tired so we took her outside and let her run around the path that follows the Brandywine. 

Flower girl audition

Dada does hair!

Seriously fun hairstyle by Dada!!! Super cute.

Halloween #2

Trick o treat night was spent at the Ropers. Lauri hosted the Halloween block party. Audrey played w Jenna's babies and ate Aunt Lauri's meatballs and Mac & cheese. Audrey trick or treated at 2 houses and tried to eat her candy from the outside. We went to Mitchells for a psu photo op w Liam the Nittany lion.

Me me me

Audrey's new favorite word! This weekend we recovered from our Boston adventure and Halloween. Audrey and Dada build Mama's dresser, and Mama bought a few things to fill it.