New: Leeca (and the cows)

This is a post of 2 new things! 

Leeca - the doll Jorg brought to Rebecca from Japan!  Apparently she is the Japanese equivalent of a Barbie.  She's cute and not as voluptuous as Barbie - which I like!

Lucky girl!

And here are the cows, as seen from our loft window.  Our new neighbors!  They grazed there for a week or so.  It was fun to watch them out there.  But now they are gone.  So they are no longer new.  But...they once were...new neighbors.  (my lame attempt to connect these two topics.  haha)   THE END

Her stories, pet spider, friends, and sleeping

Her Stories and Pet Spider
excerpt from an email to Birgit:
"I came home from running this morning and Rebecca was there surrounded with pillows and blankets. She had her crocodile with her and a bunch of other animal toys around. She immediately reported:
"Hi mom, today is Valentine's day and I am camping with my crocodile. This is our camping spot. And my crocodile lost all his toys. So he had to get some new ones for Valentine's Day. So these are his new toys. He really likes animal toys."
It's never boring with her! I love the stories she invents. We also caught the BIGGEST spider yesterday. She has been carrying him around in a jar and named him....of course, you can probably guess....Sparkles. All her animals and baby dolls and barbies are named either Coffee or Sparkles."

and here's the picture of the scene - funny girl!
(Omi made her that crocodile!!  Check out the super cool pouch for treasures on his belly!)

FREAKY big spider!!!  We kept it for 24 hours before setting it free.

Friends
I was snapping some photos of the mountains and Rebecca's cute friends asked what in the world I was doing?  And insisted I take a photo of them! 

So here it is!

Rebecca, Kayla, and Trevin

Sleeping
One afternoon, she gathered some stuffed animals, categorized them, and put them to sleep on the family room floor.  And then she went schlafend too.  Gute Nacht!

but only "pretended" schlafend...

Little Chef

Neighborhood Pumpkin Patch

We hit up the pumpkin patch with Mimi a few weeks ago.  It was not our first, nor our last visit this year :)  We love that place.  It's fun to ride our bikes there and play for as much or as little time as we have.  It'll be open for the rest of October.  But it might not be there next year because they're building a recreation center and pool right where the pumpkin patch is (well, if the bond gets passed - which we really are hoping for).

hay ride:

view from the tractor:

Lane and Kim live just past those brown homes:

Happy Harvest!

this is the pumpkin she chose!

 
We love Mimi!!!!!
And here are some photos I took out our back door of the mountains.  They take my breath away.  They look like gold when the sun is hitting just right.
The snow is gone now, but before we left for Texas it snowed.

Skippy 3

Our girl is really good at entertaining herself (usually).  She was cracking me up while playing with Skippy 3. (My parents have a poodle named Skippy 2, and the original Skippy is in heaven.)  She was dressing him up in doll clothes and styling his fur for almost two hours.  Love her!

Cousins at the "Patch"

Natalie, Rebecca, Addie

found a "dinosaur egg" (really a mushroom).

we ate a quick lunch and headed to Jakers.

clockwise:  Addie, Marianne and Weston, Weston, Em and William

and the hugest, ugliest pig award goes to...

burying Natalie in the corn!

William's cuteness is unreal!!  LOVE that boy!

The sweetest, most sincere goodbye hug.  I love their love!

WithFest - Gardner Village

We {heart} outings!  We got to eat lunch with my mom, dad, and Steph (they slipped away from the office for a bit) before heading to Gardner Village for WitchFest.

she didn't want to get too close!

I love my momma!  Plus she's pretty.

I'm so lucky to have her living nearby.  And that she loves to "play" as much as we do!
I like the look on Rebecca's face in the second photo, and that she's holding on to my earring.  She's my little buddy :)

Can't get enough...

of those Braithwaite's!!

and that pumpkin patch! (can u tell)

They are so fun and the bestest backyard neighbor friends we could ask for!  I love how Kim has a magic wand attached to her pants!  That is a TRUE mom, right there.  heheheh

Primary Program

Last week was Rebecca's first primary program.  We put her hair in curlers the night before.  She told me she wanted to twirl and boing her hair while she sang.  She did just that! 

For her part she had to finish the sentence, "I know Jesus loves me because..." and she chose to say,
"He gave us this earth and horses."

I'm the primary chorister (have been for almost 2 yrs now) and I REALLY enjoy my calling. It was so touching to see those sweet kids up there last week. I can really say I love them all. Yes, all 151 of them!  And I was proud of my Becca. Mimi got to come and watch her too, and that was pretty special.  We like it!