Beach Girl

We spent this past week in the Florida Keys. Every year our Board of Directors has a management meeting/retreat at a wonderful resort in Key Largo. This year Meredith was lucky enough to come along and entertain everyone and enjoy the sunshine and sweet life of a Florida beach girl! She was a wonderful traveler (for the most part), and a real trouper when it came to meeting tons of new people, minding her manners at business dinners and keeping the atmosphere down to earth! I think we need to keep her home for a while now so that she doesn't think that it is her job to walk around looking adorable so that everyone ( and I mean, everyone), can tell her how cute she is!!

Anyway, here are some photos from the trip.

Enjoy!

What Happened to October?

I have some photos from last month's events that I have been wanting to post, so I guess I had better get them out here before I update November stuff!

Meredith had her first haircut - really it was just a bang trim, but none the less traumatic as you can see by the pictures!

We really didn't do much of anything for Halloween. The kids all dressed in their costumes at day-care and trekked down to the bank for some treats. They were all SO adorable, and I especially love the picture of my two girls together.

I am so thankful that we have had such a warm and beautiful fall here. It has been so nice to be able to spend time outdoors - that is definitely Meredith's favorite pastime.

Autumn in the Rockies

It would be hard to find a day to top a day like today..... October 18th, 75 degrees with a beautiful blue Colorado sky, blue spruce trees and pines intermixed with the aspen, maple and elms along the Colorado and Roaring Fork Rivers. Picture perfect for a day in the park!

Daily Life

Have I mentioned how much Meredith loves to go to daycare? Once she is finished eating her breakfast and sees that her lunch has been made and packed in her special lunchbox, there is no turning back.... She is ready! She insists on carrying her own lunch, and jacket - if necessary, and she will go stand by the garage door in the mudroom to wait (impatiently, I might add), for her driver!! Do I dare say that this is reminiscent of the dog waiting to go on a walk?? (OK - I am just kidding - -nobody turn me in). Seriously, if she wasn't so happy to be picked up in the afternoon, Eric and I have agreed that we might have some serious hurt feelings over this whole scenario!

The other pictures were taken with Meredith's jie jie, Lindsay and her Dalmation, Lexie. They were just hanging out (the 3 girls) playing with some blocks! Good stuff on a Sunday afternoon.

The Great Pumpkin Patch

This afternoon we went to a local farmer's pumpkin patch so that Meredith could pick out a couple of good potential jack-o-lanterns and possibly a nice pie pumpkin. We weren't sure how she might comprehend this whole concept, but it was a beautiful autumn day and we were on our way to an "End of Summer" picnic at our friend's home nearby, so we thought we would stop and give it a try! Needless to say, once she caught on to the idea, she loved it, wanted many more than three pumpkins and wanted Daddy to keep pushing them around the fields in the wheelbarrow! I think we got some great gourds, too....