Great Long Weekend!

What a great Thanksgiving and weekend we had!  We enjoyed spending time w/my family.  Got some Christmas shopping in.  Lots of visiting.  Good food.  Good friends.  Good times.

She is a Shrek freak!  Keira LOVES Shrek.  We basically watch it 24/7.  She knows the characters.  The cutest is when she yells, "Princess Iona!" (translates to Princess Fiona)  My Mom got her this Bratz doll w/a Shrek theme.  She loved the ears!

My brother Zac.  Keira was petrified of him.  She cried when ever he came around.  But she did give him a kiss goodbye, so that is progress.  

Keira's first bite of DiCarlo's Pizza!   She LOVED it!

We also got to hang out w/one of my oldest friends, Robyn.  We haven't seen each other for a long time.  I met her new husband Claudio, who is very cool and her sister Tracy also hung out!  We had a blast.  Laughed a lot!  Remembered old times.  They stopped by my Dad's house to visit and got to meet Keira also!!  Here they are down in the pool room - our old stomping ground years ago!  We used to hang out down there and play pool A LOT!  

We headed to TJ's to shoot some pool and have a few drinks.

My Little Indian!!  My Dad and Robyn got her this cute Indian outfit.  She loved it and had to put it on almost immediately after opening it!  It has the cutest moccasins also and a headband.  She wouldn't put those on though.  

Hope everyone has a good week.  I can't believe it is December already!  We are gearing up for Keira's big 2nd Birthday in a week and a half!!  Lots to do....

BAD blogger!!

Where has the time gone?? Sheesh! I can't believe Thanksgiving is this week!!! We will be celebrating w/my family so I am really excited about that! We haven't been to Wheeling for Thanksgiving in over 6 years probably! I know my parents are thrilled to get to spend it w/Keira!! Here are some random pics from the last few weeks......

She got scratched around the eye/nose @ daycare fighting over a toy w/a boy...lovely!

Chasity and family came over for spaghetti dinner last week. We enjoyed the wine!!

She loved the spaghetti!

A couple of winos!! :)


Keira wants to do everything by herself now. Getting dressed, getting on the potty, washing her hands, etc. She has recently wanted to start drying her own hair after bathtime! I think it is a little heavy but she manages!!

I put some new magnets on the fridge w/animals and different things on them. She really liked playing w/them.

However, she was trying to get them to all stay in her alphabet thing.

Look @ that sweet face!!!

Peace out!

Catching up on the week....

It has been a busy week....the election....work....trying to catch up! I really got into this election. So it has consumed most of my free time...CNN....listening to NPR...I've been obsessed. I have never been into politics but I've realized that the last 4 years so much has gone on something has to change. I need to think about my daughter's future...this country...the environment...and the choice was clear. I have never seen anything like Grant Park in Chicago before on election night. It was amazing! There have been record numbers of voters this year and the hype throughout this whole process was awesome! I am excited to see what Obama can do and have great faith and hope in the next 4 years ahead!!

Okay - on to Keira! Sunday morning we went for a hike down in the woods behind our house. Marley, Kona, Phoebe and Lucky also joined us! It was fun.

Ready.....Set.....Go!!!!!

Lucky kiss

What just happened?

CHEEEEEEESE!!!

Later on we headed over to Chris and Chasity's to hang out and watch football. She raided Aidan's halloween candy!!

Thru the Thomas tunnel

They are Bengals fans.....yuk! Keira snuck these on!! Never again!! hehe