It's been awhile since we've update things on here...let's see...we had a nice Thanksgiving. It was great to see all of our family and Tyler had a ball playing all weekend with his cousins from Cincinnati. Grandpa and Grandma Mora were here the week before Thanksgiving and we had a nice visit with them. We celebrated Christmas with them while they were here. We got a Wii from them and have been having lots of fun playing it since. Tyler is getting really good! Joe celebrated his 30th birthday in November. We had a party with all of our friends and family at our house. We had lots of good food and cake and then Joe and his friends played poker until the wee hours of the night. He had fun! We're now counting down the days until Christmas. Tyler is so excited this year and wants everything he sees on TV. We go to see Santa this Saturday, so we'll post some pictures of that later. Kaylee's doing great...growing like crazy and so much fun! I guess that's all for now :)

Tyler and his new castle. Here he is working on coloring it. He does a little everyday in between playing....he's getting there:)

Trying to roll over....so close, but no there yet!

All bundled up and looking so cute in her new snowsuit and hat:)

This is Kaylee's new favorite. She thinks she's hot stuff in the walker!

Halloween Party, Pumpkin Carving, and More...

Tyler loves his sister. He's always helping strap her into her bouncy seat. As you can see from the expression on her face, she loves him too! All he has to do is walk by and she smiles and laughs. It's too cute to watch :)

Our sweet baby girl! She's always smiling :)

We carved our pumpkins Thursday night. Tyler had fun putting the faces on some too. They turned out really cute. Goofball! We had a Halloween Party at our friend's house last Friday. All the kids dressed up in their costumes and trick-or-treated around the house to all the moms. We played, did a couple crafts, ate lunch, and got lots of good treats. The kids all had a great time!

Tyler's 3rd Birthday!

Tyler's 3rd Birthday was yesterday. It's hard to believe our little boy is already three years old! He decided to have a Batman party this year. He got lots of great presents!! I think they will keep him busy for weeks!

Pumpkin Patch

Here are some photos from the Rader's Pumpkin Farm. We headed out last weekend on Saturday. The sun was finally shining and it was pretty nice out, so we decided to head out and play for awhile and pick out our pumpkins.

Tyler's 1st Day of School

Tyler started school today. He's in a class with 2-3 year olds. There is only 4 kids in his class...3 boys and 1 girl...and he was the only one there on the first day. All of the other kids were sick today, so it was just Tyler. He had fun anyways. He got to meet his teacher, play for awhile and have a snack. Hopefully the other kids are back next week and he'll have more fun.

Happy Fall!

This is last weekend at the Morton Pumpkin festival. Tyler and Emily had fun on the rides, but it was sooo crowded you could hardly even walk around. I don't think we'll go to this again!

We talked Tyler into letting us buzz his hair at home. We even sat him up on his little car just like at Cookie Cutters. He did fine, but didn't sit as well as he does for them.

Kaylee smiling :-)

We've had a busy couple of weeks. Grandpa and Grandma Mora were in town for Kaylee's baptism and stayed to visit for the week. Tyler loved having them at our house and having someone to play with at all times! Kaylee loved having so many people around to hold her while she slept :-)

Here we are at the Labor Day Parade.

Tyler and Grandpa Mora having fun at the Peoria Zoo!

This is one of Tyler's new favorite things to do lately. He loves to dress up and pretend. He loves Scooby Doo right now.

Here he is playing Batman....another new favorite character of his. Notice Joe is in the background dressed as Scooby with the Diego doll....too funny!

We had a Block Party with our neighbors last weekend that was lots of fun. They had all kinds of games and things for the kids to do. In this picture, Tyler was playing in a dress-up relay.

He loved it!

We even had a firetruck and firemen that visited our party for awhile.

Tyler and Emily

Kaylee's new favorite thing to do is watch her mobile in her crib. She loves to kick and make noises like she is talking to it. She's also smiling all the time and loves to be talked to. I'll have to get a picture of her smiling and post it later :-)

Kaylee's Baptism

Last Sunday, September 6th we had Kaylee baptized. Here are a few pictures of her in her dress...she looked so cute! She did great during the service and was wide awake during her baptism and didn't make a peep. We had a party to celebrate at State Farm Park afterwards. We weren't sure if the weather was going to cooperate, but it ended up clearing up and everyone had a great time.

New Pictures

Here are some pictures we got taken of the kids over the weekend. They did pretty well! Kaylee wouldn't wake up at first, but we finally got a few shots with her eyes open by the end. She did pretty well considering her age! Tyler did awesome as usual :-)

Tyler 2 1/2 years old

Kaylee 4 weeks old