Family Pics!

(thank you, Katie Haller)

Spring Visitors

I think the Hallers visited last year during the turn from Winter to Spring... Crazy how it happened again! This time around, Ari was much more vocal about what she wanted to do: Sandbox, water, bubbles, play-dough, kitchen etc. Ari showed-off all weekend with her skills, intellect and of course, cuteness! Ashlyn was dedicated Sunday at church and it was cute to watch her curiously touching our pastor's beard! The prayer was deeply meaningful to us and we look forward to her growing up.

A few tea parties were held at the table. Bill even indulged in the dangerous "peanut-butter-and-jelly-sandwich." (No epinephrine needed) Ari received some new dishes from her Baba (D is for Dishes) and they played with them all weekend.

We went to get ice-cream and coffee at the local coffee shop and Ari proceeded to stay up an extra two hours as a result of the sugar rush. Charlotte is experiencing some gorgeous weather at the evenings have been peaceful and breezy. It was nice to leave the house after dinner to go somewhere!

After church on Sunday we went to Freedom park and had pizza in the rain, had a family photo session and played on the playground. It was a little soggy but fun!

Katie came too with her sweet friend Rachelle Marie. Lets just say Rachelle was intitiated in the Haller family with a few things: speed scrabble, popcorn and dish duty (THANK YOU!). Katie took some gorgeous photos of the girls and a few family pics so I'll post those soon too! So blessed to have her in the family (for more than just her talent!)

Thank you all for coming and having such a fun time!

Ashlyn Crawling!

Here's a video from a few days ago that I took on my phone. Ashlyn is even more mobile since this was taken!  She's so cute and squirrelly!

Ari Taylor... 26 months

Ari is sooo grown up. Every single day she amazes me with something new she's learned or sees. Her sentence structure and observations are phenomenal and her language development is superb. I love to watch her think about how to say what she wants to say. Its adorable.

She's fully day-time potty trained. Sure, we have accidents every now and then but diapers are only for bedtime and sometimes nap-time. She's communicating well and working on big-girl potties now. (TMI, sorry all)

Ari loves: Bubbles, cashews, cookies, rice cakes, grapes, raisins, her sandbox, Sesame Street, painting, peeling the labels off crayons, stickers, Lion King, her blankie and so much more.

Annnd, right now, she's asking to paint so, I'm off!

(Winner of Caption Contest: Raschelle Myrick "I will cut you!")