VISITORS

We had such a great week! My mom and dad came for a visit Sunday night until Thursday morning! Becca and Levi drove up Tuesday night and stayed untill Friday.
Saturday we had our friends over for Halloween, did a little trick-or-treating w/Noah & then watched the YANKEES game!!! I couldn't ask for a better week!

Here are some of the pics of the visit:
Noah stayed up late waiting for Papa and Grammy to get here!!! He was so happy to see them, & it didn't take long for him to get comfortable in Papa's arms......
Noah loves riding the train. He was on cloud 9 the entire trip. Everything he did was way more enthusiastic than usual! I was worried about him being sad once PAPA & GRAMMY left...

This is Grand Central Station (the building in the bottom left)... it is AMAZING...All of the trains are located in this gigantic station.

The EMPIRE STATE building!

The city is way impressive just walking down the street, but even more beautiful up on top looking over everything.

The next 2 days it rained...one day we drove up to this farm w/my parents but didn't want to get muddy, so the day they left it was Sunny and we went w/Levi and Becca. Noah loved it!

Such a Beautiful drive

Kirk just had to imagine that this black horse was Hewey!!! I think he was a little sad to leave his horse behind. This farm is good for him to reminisce...

There were so many animals...you name it, they had it!...I only chose to post 1, so here's the Donkey.

I don't know who was happier: Kirk or Noah! Noah was happy playing w/rocks on the ground, where Kirk got excited over every little thing.... He's such a cowboy!

Like I said...NOAH was content playing with Rocks!!!

And leaves....what would FALL be any way w/out playing in leaves.

But Noah was most content driving the tractor!!!....and I wished my dad was still here! They use to do outside chores together ALL the time! Too bad when we visit in December, the grass won't need mowing!!!It was so cute, he was trying to start the tractor with my car keys.

Noah & Uncle Levi

Levi was so helpful w/the babies...and he is an excellent Dish washer! You can come over for dinner anytime :)

Me and my sister Becks!!! Salt & Pepper...and of course sweet little Halle!

HALLOWEEN

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

This is last years costumes...I don't think I'll be dressing up this year, but Halle is going to be a Bee & Noah is a Firefighter!
I'll post the pics later.

I love this time of year. The trees have been incredible out here! For Halloween Kirk and I invited our friends for soup and cinnamon rolls (a family tradition) it will be fun!!!

Kirk told me to have Noah wear this same pirate costume for Halloween this year!!! 1 thing guys don't know is that there is a difference between babies clothes 9 months and 18-24 mo. Duh!!! Hasn't he noticed our son getting bigger! I laughed & so did he when I pointed out this small fact.

GRANDMA Marilyn & Noah
We were so happy to have my Mom and Dad come and visit this past week!!
There's nothing better than being around friends and family. We love you & miss you already!!!

Kirk is back down at Metropolitan Hospital in Manhattan. He loves it, and so do I!!! He gets off early a couple times each week, and has Thursdays off! We haven't done too much lately, Halle has been sick for a week and a half!!!...and I'm coming up on a week tomorrow!


Kirk was holding Halle and of course Noah needed to be in between them...so I had to take a pic.

Kirk took Noah with some friends of ours to this farm and Noah loved sitting on the tractor!

Noah, Campbelle and Mckay eating dinner at their own little table! He loves these girls!!

Poor little Halle!!! You can tell she doesn't feel well. She usually looks so content, but lately she's been sooo sad. It breaks my heart!

NOAH

I was talking to a friend the other day, saying how lucky I was that Noah has never gotten really hurt! I guess I spoke too soon.....
I learned that you aren't suppose to say those kinds of things out loud. The very next day Noah tripped getting out of the car (while I was busy vacuuming it) and scrapped his knee up pretty bad.
He was over it instantly as soon as I turned on the water, to clean his knee up, but I felt so bad...(I of course cried longer than he did)!!! He's such a tough little kid, & way coordinated, I can't believe this was the first time he has gotten hurt. Well, bad enough for a band-aid!
Lesson #1: Don't let your kids play in the car.
Lesson #2: Don't say anything bad OUT LOUD that you don't want to happen to you or your kids!!!

We enjoyed Monday at the beach in Connecticut, it was absolutely perfect-- And every day since has been extremely cold! This NY weather has been something else...
So we went from swimming in the ocean to bundling our babies (beanies & sweaters) all in the same week. It is the craziest thing!
We go on this path around this lake...it is so pretty and really close to our house! I love all the trees, can't wait to see them change colors!



We spent half the day on the other side of this island, and the amazing sandy beach was on the opposite side (who knew)...by the time we came to the RIGHT side, we were ready to head home. So we didn't change into our suits, Noah and daddy just swam in their shorts!

He looks like he doesn't like the water in this pic, but trust me he was in Heaven!!!

More house pics...
I am in the middle of Staining my bedroom furniture and decorating my room, so I'll post more pics once I finish that project.


This is the view just as you walk in the entry, the living room is off to the right and straight back is the kitchen.
Halle was laying her head on Noah's shoulder, it was so cute...

Kirk's cousin Haley and her husband Jason came out with some friends to go to the U.S. open, so they came and stayed the night and hung out for a couple of days! We had so much fun.
I love Haley, she feels just like a sister!

Fun in NY

We've been having so much fun lately.
Kirk has been doing Anesthesia for over a month now...it's the longest he's gone without doing Dentistry! Which feels pretty weird for him.
I'm loving it because he's been working on-call a lot (which means he sleeps at the hospital) but he has the next day off, which I LOVE...
The weather has been incredible lately. We've spent a lot of time out side, and I love my new jogging stroller. I would recommend an In Step double jogger to anyone with 2 babies, it's the BEST.

The picture above is on a road to this amazing beach in Connecticut....just 30 min. from our house. We are in a prime location 4 some pretty incredible vacationing!!


Noah with his girl friends sittin on the front of the fire truck...The firemen are really cute with the kids...Noah loved driving the big truck, but not as much as he loves driving Papa's boat!!


We just bought a Bumbo for Halle, and she loves it. She fell asleep on the table while we were eating dinner. It was so cute. Someone is one rich mama for this genius invention.... I LOVE IT.