Throw Back . . .

This brought me to tears . . . hearing Madelyn's sweet little voice . . . and Marek's.  Madelyn was 4 1/2 and Marek was just 2 years old.

November 21, 2008

Be still my beating heart . . .

Annual Romanian Food Festival

There is a very beautiful and quaint Romanian Orthodox Church down the road from us.  Every fall they host a Romanian Food Festival and have food, live entertainment, bounce houses/slides, crafts, booths, etc all weekend.

After our long day of Marek's soccer game and Madelyn's piano recital, we headed to the festival!

Madelyn's Piano Recital!

Sweet Madelyn got to perform a song to show off all of her hard work from practicing the piano.  :)

So proud of our girl . . .

Ummmmm. . .  can anyone say sassy??

Madelyn and her piano teacher . . .

Get Out of My Drawers!

Not, those drawers . . . come on, people!

Micah loves climbing in and out of the drawers . . .

My sweet monkey.  :)

Halloween!!

Our little Trick or Treaters were dressed for church!

When we got home, we carved pumpkins while Micah napped. . .

Brock just lounged around while we worked . . .

Concentration!

We went trick or treating around Nana and Papa's house!

Love, love, LOVE this time of year!

JLL Halloween

Our favorite Halloween tradition!  The kids absolutely love the JLL Halloween Festival every year and we're so grateful to Brian and Jessica for inviting us every year!

Getting ready to go!

My little super heroes .  . .

Micah and Jude rode in style . . .

Photo Op!

On several floors of the JLL building they have the whole floor decorated with different themes and they have candy, games, etc . . .

The kids ask about it every year!

Balloons!

Our little super girl . . .

They had PHENOMENAL face painters this year!!

AMAZING!!

Our last stop . . .

We truly look forward to this every year!

Micah's 1st Birthday Party!

We finally had Micah's Birthday Party!

My sweet baby girl . . .

The fabulous cake Nana made for our little princess . . .

The girls!

The look on Micah's face here cracks me up.  It's as if she's saying, "hands off my toys, cuz, this present's mine..."  :)

All the Oley cousins!

Tasting the birthday cake (which she's become a pro at) . . .

She approves!

After cake it was off to the park to work off some of that sugar!

My sweet dude...

The dudes . . .

Mads and her cousin, Ashlynn . . .

Our sweet Micah Moo . . .

Their new favorite spot at the park.  :)

I love all of the memories we're creating with our sweet cousins.