Fall Happenings...

This fall has been a season of growing. Lainie is growing and changing so quickly! She rolled over for the first time today, is sleeping through the night, started reaching for objects, knows her sister's voice to a tee, and has successfully captured all of our hearts in only 12 short weeks. Faith continues to amaze us by her verbal ability. The things she chooses to put together in her mind are usually funny and surprising. For instance, this morning she woke up and excitedly told me, "Mommy, Jesus gave me a long nap!" Where does she get these things?! A couple days ago we were driving in the van and Lainie was crying in the background...which you could distinctly hear over the music. Faith began by "shushing" her. When that wasn't getting the job done she said, "Lainie! Stop crying! I'm singing and dancing to music!" Oh a glimpse of the fun times to come.

We were blessed to get to go back to IA for a quick weekend a few weekends back. Grandma and Grandpa did a GREAT job getting ready for Fall. The planted an awesome pumpkin patch that Faith loved. Grandpa also gave us all a tractor ride to the pumpkin patch. Then, we of course had to (I mean GOT TO :) ) take pictures in the matching outfits Grandma found. She did a great job coordinating this as well.

Great Grandma and Jim came for a visit that was fun and exciting! We spent the day in Rocheport walking around looking in antique and art shops which was wonderful. However, we got back to the van in the evening with a hungry toddler and a hungry newborn...to find that it wouldn't start. Thank God (litterally) for GGrandma's AAA. I think Nate and I may need to invest :) Thank you Grandma and Jim for making the special trip down here. We can't wait to see you over the holidays!

Grandpa Tim came for a visit as well. He came all by his lonesome and had some great quality time with his granddaughters. Faith got to pick out any movie she wanted from him, and she chose Tinkerbell. Needless to say, we have been on a "Tink" high around here every since :)

Gigi, Aunt Ally, Uncle Dan and Aunt DD also came down for Labor Day weekend. It was a wonderful time. They kept Faith entertained VERY well while I tended to the then almost newborn. Faith even got to have her first "sleep over" with Aunt Ally in Ally's hotel room. She was spoiled rotten! She got to eat popcorn all night, eat chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast, shop and swim her little heart out. I was a little jealous :) In my post partum delirium I didn't get any pics from that visit! I'm depending on the fam for pics for the baby book :)

Dan and Der also came back a couple weekends ago so that Nate and Dan could claim their awesome Christmas present from Gigi and go to the Mizzou vs. OU game. Unfortunately for them, OU lost, but they had a great time with unbelievable seats!

Here are some pics of all these happenings...I'm sure I'm leaving something out....but it's a good attempt at least, right?