Mani and Pedi

Grandma and Addie went out for mani's, pedi's and dinner today. She had such a great time!

Ice Cream Sundae!

She was ecstatic (to say the least) when she came home and couldn't wait to show off her nails!

Thanks, Grandma, for an absolutely fabulous special treat!!!

Thanksgiving

I hosted Thanksgiving for 12 of us, so didn't really get around to taking many pictures, which is unfortunate considering it was Chase's first Thanksgiving. Chalk that one up to the second child syndrome. You know, the one that says that the second child doesn't get nearly as many pictures taken as the first? Yeah, I took 182 pictures of Addison's first Thanksgiving. Granted, it was also her first birthday, but still....

We had such a wonderful time! Addie enjoyed seasoning the turkey and all the food was delicious. Wait, the cook isn't supposed to say that, is she? Okay, well everyone else told me the food was delicious. :) We had turkey (duh), stuffing, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes, corn bread casserole, collard greens, rolls, pumpkin and pecan pie topped with Dustin's special whipped cream....is that all? I can't remember. I soon thereafter slipped into a food coma and everything is kind of blurry. :) Chase enjoyed the turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn bread casserole and collard greens.

Not included in pictures - Dustin's entire side of the family. Ooops. :(

Chase is Poppy's "flyboy"

A few more from the family reunion

Checking out the cows

Grandpa grew up on this farm!

Canadian Vacation - Day 2

Day 2 began with Grandpa taking the kids down to the dock that he has been building all summer.

Later that morning, we took Addison for some horse-back riding. Her horse was named, Thunder. This is her second time going horse-back riding. She rode Thunder for about 1/2 hour and seemed to love every minute of it!

We came home to find a little hummingbird on the garage floor. Dustin and his Dad thought it was dead until they picked it up and it began to move. So it wouldn't get eaten by a wild animal and to try to figure out what to do with the little thing (it was a female), they put her in a small container with brush. If you know me well, you know that I've become quite attached to my hummingbirds at home, so seeing this one just broke my heart. We thought/hoped that perhaps she was trapped in the garage all night and exhausted herself trying to get out. We decided to feed her some sugar water (what Hummingbirds eat) and see what happened. I was able to get her to eat, having to push her beak down to get to the water. It was amazing to actually see her drinking it from the lid of a baby food jar! We went fishing later that afternoon and came home to find the poor girl in the same condition - not moving and seemingly on her last leg. A couple of hours later, Dustin and I were lounging around reading and heard the sound of wings flapping. We looked over and found our girl trying to fly up and hitting the lid of the container. We took her outside, opened the lid completely, and OFF SHE FLEW!!!!! It was seriously nothing short of miraculous. It was the coolest thing...something I will always remember! We know she made it because she and her mate came back many times a day to eat from the bird feeder!

3 wheeling it with Daddy

We went out that evening for Addison's first fishing trip of the year.

Her first fish (that she and Daddy caught together). It was a young/small perch so we threw him back in.

Canadian Vacation - Day 3

Day 3

Swimming

Surfing (not really, but the waves were big that morning!)

Kayaking

And eating ice cream with Grandma, of course!