Christmas

The rolling

More Santa

She is so serious!

Berlyn meets with Santa

Well, my baby girl is not a big fan of strangers and most of the time she cries right away and she wants to come back to me. She is at that age, I guess.

This time it was a little bit different...you can tell from the pictures. She didn't cry right away, but she gave me the stink eye when I let Santa hold her.

Santa's new reindeer

Ride with Dad

Fantasy Stories at Their Best

So anyway, I ran across this ariticle on MSN, which normally I wouldn't give a second look, cause hey, it's MSN, but it was talking about the worst blogs they could dig up. So, I investigated and am I glad I did. The adventures of Pat O'Neil is a must see. He writes quite a bit, but if you just randomly pick a sentence you can't seem to go wrong. Just a sampling of the greatness you will encounter, "I had begun to learn about the evils of meth and of ninjas, especially the evils of ninjas with meth. That's some kind of super crazy evil I can't even begin to describe." I mean, only a genius could write something like this.... or maybe a genius with meth. And this is just the beginning. If you are bored and looking for some entertainment you won't be disappointed. That is all.

High chair

She is not too happy on this picture. I don't know what happend to her, sometimes she's just Miss Serius. :) I couldn' t make her smile! :(

Crazy one!!!!

Berlyn loves popsicles.

Berlyn's first Halloween !

Berlyn is sitting up! (finally)

Our new back yard!

Lafe is a handsome-handy guy! Thank you so much for this BEA-utiful back yard!

Berlyn and her new toy, the car !

Well, she can't really sit yet, but she is trying hard. I was afraid that she is going to fall off the car but she did good.

Berlyn on her tummy

Everybody tells me that tummy time is really important. Well, Berlyn doesn't think so !

Berlyn is 6 mo old and other stuff

Lafe and his new project. We are going to put artificial grass down in our back yard. I hope this will be our last outside project.

He is really professional! Check out all his tools!

Berlyn and her new bouncy toy. She is so excited!! You can see her two teeth on the bottom.
She is getting three more on the top.
Her ears are hilarious. She looks like Yoda form Star Wars.





She is singing! How cute?!

Just the two of us home alone.

Finally she is getting some meat on her bones.

My Surprise Birthday

Anyway, so on my birthday my dad tells me we need to meet up with the owner of Golfland to discuss another project we are going to do for them. We go over at about 3:30 which is late and I wanna get home. I thought people were coming over for a BBQ. Anyway, in walks Bea, Cosmo and Jenn, Wood, and Sean with an ice chest. Chunk and Sloth showed up a little bit later. So they proceed to set up this cake right there. I don't know how she did such a good job of setting me up, but it was way good, I was completely clueless.



Just a few shots of the fun we had. This is Cosmo coming down the Bonsai (or "Bonzi" as they call it). He cheated everytime he raced down. Jerk.











All of us screwing around after coming down the tube slides.







Look at the intense concentration on his face...all for a kids balancing game. Keep up the hard work Cosmo, one day it will get you somewhere.








Oh Wood, we shook him right off the lily pads. Good times.

Trip to Dick and Erica's

So, for my birthday we decided to take a trip to Buffalo. It had been forever since we had gone anywhere, what with being pregnant and having a baby. We were really scared of what Berlyn would do on the flight, but she slept both ways and never made a sound. Here is her first flight ever.



When we got there it was good times. Ella wanted a cookie that we were all eating and she stuffed the whole thing in her mouth and then chewed it all up and decided she didn't want it anymore and spit it out in Erica's hand. Eww gross. We made Erica hold it in her hand while we got the cameras, she wasn't too happy bout that.


While we were there we had to try out the Bumbo chair. Berlyn got a kick out of it.







The weather was really nice a couple of days while we were there and we went to Crystal beach in Cananada. It was nice, but Richard and I went out to this old pier and jumped off and we tried to swim back the long way. Richard did fine, I, on the other hand, almost drowned. Good times.

Later we decided to go to Marine Land in Canada and the weather wasn't so nice. It rained and hailed like crazy, so we spent a good hour hiding under and over hang, and then left. "Everyone loves Marine Land!"




We stopped in at Mr. Potato Heads and got my favorite Canadian food, Poutine! It of course washed away the sadness from not being able to go to Marine Land.

Then we stopped off at the falls to take a quick pic. Ooooh, look at all the water!

Then on our last day we went to eat at Friendly's, it was pretty good. They surprised me with song and ice cream at the end. Song = not so good, ice cream = delicious.

If you would like to see a much much better version of our trip go to Dick and Erica's blog. She is the blogging queen. We are definitely not worthy!