Birthday Weekend

This past weekend, we celebrated Adeline's birthday.  On Saturday, we celebrated with friends, and on Sunday, we celebrated with family.  And I'm sure we'll do a little more celebrating this coming weekend (her actual birthday) as well.  With friends, we went to an apple orchard.  We've had unseasonably warm weather, and we couldn't have asked fore a sunnier, warmer Fall day.  Thank you friends and family for celebrating with us!  For grandparents, aunties, uncles, cousins, and friends who live out of town, we know you are celebrating with us from a distance!  Our "little lady" will be 2 in a few days!  We can hardly believe it. 

Patrick's good friend, Nate, from Seattle was in town.  He spent a good part of a day with us, and Addie certainly loved having Nate around.

Almost 2...

wearing mommy's sweater...

playdate at a park with Henry & Walter

being a goof!

Our Anniversary

Oh, where have 5 years gone?  We had a wonderful day celebrating our 5th anniversary.  Our good friend Kenna watched Addie most of the day, so we were kid-free.  We drove to Stillwater, a quaint little town on the St. Croix River, about 30 minutes away.  Stillwater has little shops and restaurants everywhere and with a 70 degrees day, it was just perfect to walk around and even eat outdoors!  We had dinner at this great Italian restaurant and then went down by the river to a different place for dessert.    It was certainly a day to think about how richly God has blessed us in our marriage these first 5 years!  

23 Months Old

Here is our busy girl at 23 months...she loves to read books, go to the park, and play with friends!

eating a banana and reading books - two of Addie's morning rituals

 reading...

 loving the slide at the park

 looking out the tunnel hole

 Addie loves blowing bubbles!  She's still learning that her lips don't need to touch the bubble wand...

Here she got a taste of the bubbles...not so tasty!

playing with Riley

Riley & Adeline

Addie and Riley had a playdate over at our house.  They had a fun time playing in the basement!

How sweet are they?!

The Cozy Coupe Incident...

You know when you find something so funny, you laugh so hard that your stomach just hurts?  Well, I had one of those moments a couple of days ago.  Take a look at the first photo...so hilarious!

Addie drives daddy over with the car...

Addie acknowledges her careless driving and gets out to help daddy...

"Are you okay daddy?"

"say something daddy!"

(Patrick is just fine, if you're wondering :)

Cabin

We spent a couple of days up north over Labor Day weekend.  It was very chilly up there, but we still loved being up there and relaxing.

We went to our favorite pizza place...daddy and addie being silly!

As you can see Addie is worn out after all that good eatin'!

Despite the cold and rain, Addie still loved walking around outside and exploring.

Grandpa got Adeline and Evalyn some sunglasses and the girls just loved that!