Fall Festival at RUMC

Sunday afternoon we had fun at our church's fall festival. I was super pumped about wearing my bumble bee costume and buzzing around everywhere.

I was even MORE excited when I saw my Poppy! Did he come to play with me?

Know who else was there? Jakob!!! He is one of my all-time favs! I found him inside walking the cake walk. When I heard "cake" I decided to stick around.

Some might say I'm a genius for sticking around....

Guess who else showed up? Jojo! This is the only decent picture that mom got of us together in our costumes. Joli decided to take her costume off because it was a little warm (If you're worried about my costume, and me freezing on Halloween- don't! I have a long sleeve black shirt to wear under it!).

Mommy got a really big kick out of me in the costume contest. When I crawled up the stage, I waved to everyone. She thinks that I am hilarious because one minute I wont speak to anyone, the next minute I'm Miss Personality. Ummmm.... I believe I may make a moody teenage girl one day....ha!

She also thought it was funny that I kept my antenas on for most of the afternoon. When they came off I would put them back on myself: 

I played lots of games at the carnival, and made up my own rules to most of them :).

I was even able to do one of my favorite activities, coloring!

My favorite game was the boats in the baby pool game. I really didn't care about "winning" I just wanted to play with the boats in the water!

When I was ready to leave I let everyone know by doing this:

I had a great time at the carnival, and can't wait for my fun Halloween weekend :)!

Corn Maze

This past weekend we decided that it was high time for us to do something "fallish." The corn maze was a perfect choice! It had something for everyone.

Coin and I met up with Jakob and Joli (and of course Mommy, Daddy, and Marmee were there too).

I was a happy girl. I was hanging out with my favorite people, AND I was able to run around outside!

Colin and I just loved hanging out and doing something that we both enjoyed together.

First up was the corn maze. The boys were our fearless leaders. We walked in circles a few times before Mommy and Marmee decided to lead the girls out of the maze because we couldn't keep up with the boys.

We just held hands and walked around like little explorers.

I had been talking to mommy a lot about "pumpkins" on Saturday, so I was super pumped to see that they had some pumpkins at the corn maze. 

My favorite thing (BY FAR) was the corn box. It was a lot like a sand box, but it was filled with corn. I stayed in there for almost an hour! It was fun putting the corn in and out of the bucket, and running my fingers through it. Mommy found three kernels in my diaper later that evening :).

Marmee and I had a chance to relax together while the boys were STILL lost in the corn maze behind us! 

to wrap up the afternoon we played on the inflatables. Daddy and I had fun going down the slide.

Fall is filled with fun new things for me to do! I can't wait to experience more cool weather, and fall festivities!

Disney part 3

Part of the fun of this vacation was hanging out in pj's and playing with my silly cousins. We had just as much fun running around the resort together as we did at Disney :)!

While I hung out with my cousins, my mommy took a big big plane back to Chattanooga so she could be with Anita and Braxton for the week. Do you like Anita's new do? She cut her own hair that afternoon because she thought it would be easier for people to fix short.

Mommy made it safely to Nashville......meanwhile I hung out with the two coolest ninjas I know.

Even JoJo wanted to be a Ninja :)! 

We were ALL pumped up about going to Mickey's "Not So Scary Halloween Party." Joli and I wore our super cute Halloween Mickey dresses instead of our Halloween costumes beacause our costumes wouldn't be comfortable to ride in.

When we entered the Magic Kingdom a show was taking place at the Castle. I was mesmerized :)

I had fun on Aladin's Carpet ride. Jenni, Jakob, Jake, and Joli were on the carpet behind us (they video taped me :) ).

Jakob and Colin loved all the fast rides like the runaway mine train, splash mountain, and 

Of course I HAD to ride the horseys over and over again. They were by far my favorite ride ( guess next time mommy and daddy can skip the long drive and just take me to Lake Winnie).

Joli and I had the most fun at the dance party with different characters. We have lots of cute video of us dancing the night away.

Daddy couldn't believe that I was still going strong at 11 pm! Wow! 

Disney part 2

We had a full on marathon day of events on Sunday! My mommy was able to hang with me all day, so we wanted to maximize our time together.  We started our day early with a morning at the Animal Kingdom. Here's our crew on the way in:

I was sooo excited to go see all the animals and explore the animal kingdom in my zebra print Mickey Mouse shirt.

The boys and girls separated  when we entered the Animal Kingdom so the boys (and mommy :) ) could ride Mount Everest- apparently I will be begging to ride it when I'm big! We met back up and found these cool drums...

I had fun, but really didn't enjoy waiting in all the lines. Daddy helped make waiting more bearable by letting me wear his glasses,

and getting fun rides on daddy's shoulders.

We took a really fun safari ride, where we saw all kinds of African animals up close and personal.

My FAVORITE ride of the morning was the dinosaur ride! I may have had a little (mommy says BIG) melt down because I couldn't hop back on and ride it again.

But it was ok. After a much needed long nap, I woke up a happy girl and put on my Minnie Mouse dress! OK, so I may not look super happy here, but I was!

Here's a pic of my adorable family entering the MK! Do you see the princess castle in the background? 

Joli LOVED the princesses we waited 30 minutes to see. 

I was NOT a fan. Everyone laughed at my reaction to Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Belle. 

I was happy when mommy and daddy let me ride the "horsey" over and over again (not a long line). They also discovered that I enjoyed the outside rides more than the scary inside rides. I would yell "No Daddy, No Mommy" when it got too dark.  I did have to wrestle mommy for my Minnie ears on several occasions.

The Magic Kingdom was absolutely magical in every way. Stay tuned for my favorite part of my vacation, Disney part 3!

Disney part 1

On Saturday the rest of my family arrived. Mommy walked into Kelsey's house and caught Poppy and me eating ice cream at 10:30 am! Poppy defended us, saying "it's vacation." I'm not sure that she bought it. Anyway, I put on my cute Minnie Mouse t-shirt and drove to our resort after my nap.

We decided to just "chill" and play by the pool for the rest of the afternoon. We had a great time at the different pools around the resort. The kiddie areas were a blast and all the big pools had  zero entry, making it fun for us to run in and out of the water.

When I was finished swimming mommy and I took a happy bath together. We missed each other soooo much that we didn't want to spend any time away from each other. 

We stayed in and ordered pizza for dinner, which was fine with me :)! Pizza is one of my favs!

Joli and I were jealous that Kelsey had this super awesome blow up mattress while we had our pack-n-plays to sleep in. Kelsey was kind to let us play on her bed before it was night-night time. 

Up next: Disney part 2