Happy Birthday Grandma!

Derek's mom celebrated her Birthday on Thanksgiving and we decided to continue the Birthday fun and take her to the horse track yesterday. Between races there was music, of course Taylor had a great time entertaining everyone with her dancing!

As you can see Taylor had a hard day of dancing! She fell asleep the second we got in the car!

Happy Birthday Bonnie!

Olive Oil Mill

Today my mom, Taylor, my good friend Jena and I all headed to Queen Creek to the Olive Oil Mill. It was a really cute place with a great restaurant. We had a yummy lunch and then took the tour. There was a little info session and then we went into the pressing room where we were able to taste Olive Oil that was freshly pressed, WOW is it potent! We also got to taste various stuffed olives, flavored olive oils and tapenades. What a fun and yummy way to spend the day!

Verteran's Day Parade

Today we met a lot of people from my MOPS group at the Veteran's Day parade downtown. Taylor had a great time seeing all of the kids from the group. I think her favorite part was all of the marching bands, she would hum along when they played in front of our group. I have to say other than the fly overs my favorite part was seeing Sheriff Joe! He rolled by in a huge tank, it was great! Thank you to all who have served and are serving our country, we appreciate all you do!!

Happy Birthday Bea!

Our niece Beatrix turned one this week! Today was her Birthday celebration! I didn't do a great job of taking pictures today...so I thought I'd include a "before" and "after"! We love you Bea, Happy Birthday!!!

U of A Game

Derek and I went down to Tucson with our friends the Troyers for the Arizona game yesterday. We had a lot of fun tailgating and watching the game. U of A had no problem securing a victory against Washington State! Not the most exciting game to watch, but we had a great time being outside and loading up on Wildcat gear! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Moon for watching Taylor so we could have a mini getaway!

Halloween Fun!

I am a big fan of Halloween and this year did not disappoint! We started out our morning at the Purdue game watch (a very SCARY sight haha). Our Purdue club decided to have Breakfast Club which is a huge Purdue tradition where you dress up in a costume and go to the bars at 7:30 on game days....we didn't go until 9am, that is game time out here! The club thought it was perfect since it was Halloween, we could dress up and participate and not have people looking at us funny! I dressed up as a bridesmaid and Taylor as a Purdue cheerleader!

After the game we carved our pumpkin! Derek discovered last year how much easier life is when he uses his drill to carve the pumpkin. Last year Taylor was too little to appreciate the efforts, this year she was very interested! Here is a cute video of Derek drilling into the pumpkin and Taylor's initial reaction!

After pumpkin carving of course came Trick or Treating. We let Taylor go to our next door neighbor and one house across the street. She liked when people put things in her pumpkin but she wanted to immediately take them out and carry them. My favorite was across the street she sat down on their front stoop and started unloading her pumpkin (all 2 pieces of candy), meanwhile real Trick or Treaters were trying to get around her!

Pumpkin Patch

We finally got to go to the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkin! There is a "pumpkin patch" every year at one of the Catholic churches by us. This year we had such a great helper in finding the perfect pumpkin! She was not interested in taking pictures, as there were too many pumpkins to touch! As you can see we are really getting our use out of the dollar spot leggings! They are just too cute to not have her wear them!