Addi is growing up way too fast

The Beach, IN NOVEMBER!!!

We took Jonny out to the beach while he was here and we couldn't keep Addi out of the water! By the end of the trip she was stripped down to just a diaper and completely sopping wet! We had a ton of fun just walking around and it was so nice we just couldn't believe that it was the end of November. I'm getting pretty spoiled with the nice weather, that i'm going to freeze my butt off when we come home for Christmas

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope everyone's Thanksgiving was as wonderful as ours was.  Even though we were really missing family, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  We are so grateful that we have Ian and Sara here with us, it helps hide the fact that we are 2500 miles away from home on Holidays and on Sundays when we miss our families the most!!  We are so grateful to both of our parents who were so gracious enough to pitch in together to buy us tickets to come home for Christmas!! Now that thanksgiving is over we are raring to go and can't wait to get on the plane to come home and Jake can't wait to be done with school for an entire month break!  We are so excited to get to see everyone, and we will have plenty of time because we will be home for 3 whole weeks. Yay!!!  Anyways we were also lucky enough to be able to get to see Jake's friend Jonny Kelley, he has been in Dental school at Marquette in Milwaukee Wisconsin and he went on a mission to Tampa Florida so when he found plane tickets for only $120 round trip to Florida he decided to come visit us for Thanksgiving and the boys had a blast staying up late almost everynight playing wii and watching movies.  Ian and Sara also share an apartment with another couple and they came over for Thanksgiving as well.  So we had a pretty full house but it was a ton of fun! 

My family has this verrrry great tradition, thanks to my Grandma Hamblin (the best Pie maker), that everyone gets to have there very own pie!  So every one chose there favorite pie's and we ended up with 8 pie's for seven people but boy was it good!!

So when we all were still living at home Jon used to come over when ever I made Peanut Butter Pie so when he came for Thanksgiving he asked if i would make him his very own pie! He was a happy boy!

Play time!

Addi was being a momma's girl the other day, she would just hang on my leg all day and she was driving me up the wall.  Then, my mom reminded me that she used to build me little play houses with sheets for something new and believe it or not those are some of my best memories. So Addi helped me build her a tent so she would have somewhere new to play.  Once we got it built she went and moved in her play food, tea set and Elmo!  She loved it and it gave me some of my own time with out a two year old attached at the knee cap!!

Whoa!

So I know that I post way too many videos of Addi dancing but when we were video taping her we caught the cutest little thing at the end of this video! Watch the very end of this video me and Jake watched it a hundred times over and over and we were laughing so hard!

St. Augustine

So for a quick little trip just an hour and a half out of town, Jake, me, Sarah and Ian took of yesterday to go visit St. Augustine.  It was a pretty cool little town, it is supposed to be the oldest town in the US.  We went to a Fort called the Castillo and then walked around town and saw all the 17th century houses and Chapels and then of course the beaches and the Lighthouse.  It was sure fun to get out of town for a little while to walk around and just sight see.

Halloween

We decided that since we were in Florida Addi was going to be a Flamingo for Halloween, and we found a really cute costume at Marshall's. Addi went to a Halloween story time at the library with her friend Jason. They also got to trick-or-treat around the Library.
We all then went to our ward party for a trunk-or-treat and man our ward takes their trunk-our-treating serious. They went all out with their decorating in their trunks, we were pretty impressed. Addi screamed when we were putting her costume on she wanted nothing to do with it, but when we finally got it on she thought she was pretty hot stuff!

Happy Birthday Addi

So it was Addi's birthday today.  We ran all over Orlando, we woke up, went and had a Birthday party at the park with all of Addi's new friends, went shopping and then headed for some dinner and didn't quite make it to the restaurant before Addi threw up all over in the car. My poor mom was in the back trying to catch it, sorry mom.  Needless to say we were all not up to eating anymore so we headed back home and opened presents while on the webcam with Jake's Family and also my dad.  Addi was pretty pooped by the end of the day and so are we.

Just Addi!

Thought that I would just post some cute pictures of Addi from our vacation just for the Grandparents!  She is growing up so fast and she just loved being outside and playing with the leaves. 

Addi was her boppa's buddy she followed him around everywhere and she loved that boppa went to bed at the same time she did.

She also loved her little buddy Parker and he was so good with her and always watching out for her.
After all the pictures we were always taking she started to be a good little poser.
When we were walking thru the grove she saw someone walking a golden retriever and she got so excited and started calling him Bailey and had to give him a kiss!

Hill Cumorah

We hiked up to the Hill Cumorah right at sunset and the view was beautiful!! I kept asking Jake why they call it a hill because when I saw it it looked pretty tiny, but then we started to go up it and I think it just about killed me, it was literally straight up. I can't believe that they can perform the pageant on that hill without dying.

Sacred Grove!!

So when you are just entering the grove and you turn around you can see the temple from the grove it is the most incredible sight I have ever seen.  The other pictures are just some pretty pictures of the grove.  It is the best feeling to just walk through the grove!

Smith Farm!!!

This is the house that the Joseph lived in as a boy.  For all the kids that they had this house was so tiny.  It makes you thankful for the things that we have now.

This is the house that Alvin Smith built for his mom and he died when it was just about finished and made Joseph and his brothers promise to finish it.  The neat thing about this house is that it is more than 80 percent the actual house.  Where the smaller Smith home and the Whitmer's home are both just replicas.

This is the hearth of the fire place that Joseph Smith hid the Gold plates under for a while.