WKU Family Weekend

Last weekend, Gramma Dot, the girls, and I visited Auntie Lolo for Western Kentucky University's Family Weekend, which happened to fall on Lauren's 20th birthday. Yay! Being veteran car-trippers, the girls traveled beautifully down to WKU. They pointed out every red or orange tree on I-65 to each other. Naomi would say, "Yook, my see an orange tree." Then Eliza would say, "Ooooooaahhhooo." It was adorable.

We attended two WKU women's soccer games. (Both of which the Lady Toppers won - woot!) Lauren also planned a trip to Jackson's Orchard. The girls loves running through the pumpkins, feeding the animals, riding ponies, and taking a hay ride. It was an absolutely perfect fall day. Here are some pictures of our weekend adventures:

Eliza, singing as per usual

Z loved sitting on the pumpkins

Naomi liked choosing the pumpkins she liked best.

However, she couldn't even carry the little ones around with her. hehe


The orchard was gorg.

But my baby girls are cuter...


I think Eliza is trying to ride a pumpkin in this picture.


Or maybe she is just trying to count all of them.


Eliza finally posed. I'm not kidding - I took over 50 pictures of the girls playing in the pumpkins....

But most of them looked like this... pretty girl, pretty pumpkins, bad shots

Here is Naomi on the hayride.

Naomi on the slide

Naomi loved the playground...

But she really loved the pony - amazingly, the girls waited their turn in line to ride the pony. This gives me hope that they may actually wait in the eternal lines to meet Mickey and Minnie in a few months time. Wish us luck. I really want them to have as much fun on Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin as I do.

Eliza liked to pet the bunnies. Two-year-olds are not exactly the softest animal-petters... I swear I was having flashes of an Of Mice and Men catastrophe.

Here Eliza is looking at the turtles in the bucket.

Naomi, on the other hand, only wanted to feed goats.

She cried and cried when I tried to make her see the other animals. She said, "My haff to feed the goooooooooats!"

I tried to pose them on a cute bench, flanked by pumpkins. This is honestly the best shot I got. Seriously girls.

Here is Gramma Dot reading to Naomi. Poor Gramma must have read this book two dozen times in two days. The girls love repetition.

Eliza and Gramma

Naomi (left) and Eliza (right) in their "Big Red" t-shirts

Here they are waiting for Auntie Lolo at the end of her game - they were such hams. They jumped, danced, played ring-around-the-rosie, and many other games in front of all the families of the WKU soccer team. They thought climbing on this fence was big fun.

Silly girls...

Bay House 2010

Okay, I know. We went to the Bay House over a month ago... Perdao, por favor. Anyway, here are some snapshots of our trip to Alabama.

Naomi, in perhaps my favorite picture of her since Halloween 2008.

Eliza with Auntie Emily

Naomi and Eliza in their Bay House t-shirts

Nerds

Naomi and Eliza, being "wild"

Naomi and Eliza

Naomi, Daddy, Eliza, & Mama - Naomi's face cracks me up!

Eliza, saying "cheese"

Eliza

Naomi and Eliza, enthusiastically watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

Make-up Work

Dear Family and Friends,
Please forgive me. I am a horrible baby-blogger. I have not posted anything in nearly 3 months. To make-up for my shortcomings, I decided to publish 3 posts simultaneously, including one with pictures from tonight's trip to the park. Please enjoy!

Naomi loves to swing.

Naomi

Naomi

Naomi

Naomi

Eliza likes to sing in her swing.

Eliza

Eliza

Eliza

Naomi and Eliza

Naomi, in blue, and Eliza, in pink - these are their pajamas. We left the park tonight and almost immediately got ready for bed.

This is their version of hugging. They hug and put their heads on each other's shoulders.

Eliza, jumping on the couch in order to make her tutu float

Naomi, who often asks me, "Mama, I wear tutu peeeeze?"

Kiss your sister goodnight -

The Children's Museum with Emminnee & Nan

Here are some snapshots of the girls at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Nan and Emilee (our favorite friend/baby-sitter) came with us.

Naomi, Nan, and Eliza (you can kinda see Emilee and David in the background)

No, little boy, it's not a mirror. It's identical twins.

Eliza, pondering magnetic blocks

Naomi on a cow

Eliza kept trying to eat the fake food - yuck. It was hard to explain to her why she couldn't put the fake fruit in her mouth when every other toddler who came to play them chewed all over them. Double yuck. In the end, we just left the little kitchen area for less-tasty looking toys.

Naomi, preparing her food

Na was better about pretending to eat the food.

Eliza in the tunnel slide

Emilee is so good with the girls - she played in the sand for over 30 mins. David, Nan, and I got bored in less than 5...

More sand fun

Eliza

Eliza

Naomi

Naomi, pouring her "water", & Eliza, cheesing

Utah Trip Fun!

Here are some snapshots of our recent trip to Park City, Utah. In total, we drove over 3000 miles in our sweet mini-van. We had a great time visiting with the aunts and uncles!

Andrew rode with us out to Utah - he was such a big help in the car with the girls. They absolutely love him. Here he is with Eliza.

Auntie Chrissy and Naomi

Uncle John Kelly and Eliza

Naomi in Baby Andy's rocking chair - Baby Andy is her 18 month-old 2nd cousin. I started to take pictures of the three toddlers together, but my camera battery exhausted. Lame.

Eliza in the rocking chair

Andrew had his 19th birthday while we were in PC. We celebrated by BOWLING! The girls did not bowl, of course, but Naomi loved the hand dryer on the ball return.

Here she is trying to blow into the hand dryer...

Eliza preferred to "play" video games.