Emily and Bob Come to Visit!

Last weekend my sister Emily and her husband Bob came to visit for the weekend. Their 3 boys were camping with Bob's family. It was so nice to spend the weekend with them, I wish we lived closer! Saturday Nick and Bob went to the UT game, they played Central Michigan (the best team in the MAC), it was so close but they lost by one point. Then later that night Nick's mom watched Macina so the 4 of us went to Sideline's to watch the OSU/PSU game. Penn State won---yay! Go Joe Pa! Bob wasn't very happy about that though. 

Playing "Airplane" with Aunt Emily :)

Emily, Macina and I got to the UT game for the 4th quarter after Macina's nap. It was cold out, luckily we had tickets for upstairs!

Go Rockets!

The four of us watching football at Sidelines

My hubby and I

My sister and I in our Gator gear, earlier that day Florida KILLED Kentucky, but it wasn't on TV.

Playtime with friends

Last week we went over to Linda's house for a playdate. Macina had lots of fun playing with Jameson, Lily and Colton. She LOVED getting pushed around the yard in this Step 2 Car---xmas present anyone?? It was pretty cold out as you can see I had Macina all bundled up, but I think she started sweating after a while. Oops! She was so well behaved, probably because there were so many toys to keep her busy!

I think they all wanted the same toy!

The next day I had Cassie and her son Cohlin over to our house to play. Cohlin and Macina are like 24 hours apart. If I had let my doctor start the Pitocin in the hospital when she suggested they would probably have the same birthday! Macina was a little weirded out with another baby playing with all HER toys at first, but they had fun. She needs to get used to sharing anyway, because someday she won't be the only baby in the house! Aren't they so cute together??

Pumpkin Farm--Round 2:

Well, I took Macina back to the pumpkin farm and I'm so glad I did.....the weather was perfect, we had the whole place to ourselves, and I got a ton of great pictures. She had so much fun. The animals were all out and about, she fed the horses hay (and rocks and popcorn she found on the ground--don't worry, the horses didn't eat that stuff). The ducks were quacking, cows mooing, and the pigs were eating. The big haystack only had a few kiddos in it, so she got to go in there without being trampled. It was really hard to choose which pictures to post. Here are a few.....

Isn't this beautiful?

It cracks me up when she furrows her brows at me--little stinker!

Trying to eat the pumpkin

A little girl next to us asked "How old is she?" So Macina showed her!

Cow, llama and Macina all looking at the camera!

The hay stack playground

She was a little unsure of the tunnels

Pumpkin Farm

    

  On Saturday morning I woke up to find a Sweetest Day surprise outside my bedroom door.....Nick is such a thoughtful husband! He got me a gossip magazine (my guilty pleasure!), chocolates, wine and a card. The best part was he watched Macina while I slept in!! It was heaven. Later that afternoon we took Macina to a pumpkin patch nearby. They have gigantic pumpkins, a pumpkin-train ride, pony rides, a huge haystack maze with tunnels, tons of farm animals, religious statues...I could go on and on. It was really crowded. And really sunny (so Macina is squinting in all the pics :( _) and cold and windy. But I took her coat and hat off for a few pics. And she wasn't in a smiley mood so I planned to take her back during the week for better pictures. Later that night I had a Mom's Night Out at Tera's house. It was fun but I was home shortly after 10pm because I had to be up at 5:30am Sunday to work. While I was at work Nick took Macina to Ralphie's with his friends Rob and Eddie to drink beer and watch football....poor Macina!! He made his friends meet him at Ralphie's instead of Hooters because he didn't think he should take a baby there! So cute. Today (monday) I took Macina back to the pumpkin farm myself and managed to get a ton of great pictures, I will post about that soon!

Picking "Black Beauty's" Nose

"Tina (llama) you fat lard, come get some dinner"

Nick and Macina in front of the Pumpkin Express

Albino Pumpkins

I Love Autumn!

         

         So I was taking Macina for a walk around the neighborhood today in her wagon when we came across this house with BEAUTIFUL leaves covering their yard and sidewalk! I went home to get my camera and took Macina right back there to get these great fall pictures, so I just had to share a few of them. Luckily none of the crazy neighborhood squirrels were around during this since I didn't have my rake to chase them away! 

  

  Look at those dimples!

This is me being serious...

Halloween Party @ Haley's

           While Nick was watching Toledo beat U of Mich at Michigan on Saturday, I took Macina to her first Halloween party. Haley lives out in the country with TONS of land. She and Jason had a mini haystack maze set up, hayrides, face painting, cookie decorating.....all kinds of fun activities. There were about 20 families there, and the kids went from car to car for "trunk-or-treating".  Macina barely made it past the first car before she tore into her candy. She was dressed as a black cat but she probably should have been a pink bunny or something because people who didn't know her kept saying "Hey little guy!" (She really needs to grow some hair!) It was a lot of fun, Macina passed out on the car ride home and went right to bed in her kitty costume!

The baby maze

Through the tunnel...

This is fun!

Here Mommy, hold my ears...

The Hayride

My First Blog!

I am starting this blog so family and friends from out of town can keep up with our lives, it is so hard to keep in touch with everyone. I am also doing this as sort of a journal. It will be neat to be able to document so many different memories (once I get the hang of this, that is!). I may go back in time occasionally just to share some of our fun experiences with you from our (Nick and I) past six years together. I hope I can keep up with this. Enjoy!