Olivia Ann

I decided last minute to add some updated photos of the girls to our family Christmas card. So I thought I would just snap a few of Livy since I didn't have any Christmas-card-worthy pictures of her yet. LOL It was an exercise in futility! Here are a few that I took that really captured her personality...

 ALWAYS busy and on the move!

 LOUD. So very loud!

 Big, Cheesy grin!

 But she looks so cute and innocent. If only!

 This is a Mary Ann face if I've ever seen one!

 Always has to have SOMETHING in her mouth!

 I don't know what to say about this one, except that she's adorable and completely hilarious sometimes!

Thanksgiving in Colonial Williamsburg

Thanksgiving was pretty quiet this year. We didn't have family or friends to visit or invite over for Thanksgiving dinner. So since it was just the three of us, I did not want to make a huge feast for 2 1/2 people. Taking Liv bug out to restaurants lately has been more than a challenge. So we had take IN!
I ordered the traditional Thanksgiving meal from Homemades by Suzanne. Excellent choice, the food was beyond incredible! Breaking away from what was my traditional Thanksgiving schedule growing up; we at Thanksgiving dinner later in the evening. That left us the whole day to do.....something lol!
We decided on Colonial Williamsburg. I love it, I have been there twice before and and Eric had never been before. It was surprisingly quite busy. And warm, something else we are not used to on Thanksgiving day!

 Me, in the stockades. According to Eric, 'finally paying for my crimes'. LOL

Eric and Livy in front of Americas oldest, still operating, store.

Eric & Livy in front of The Capitol building. Williamsburg was the capitol of the Virginia Colony until 1780 (https://www.williamsburgva.gov/Index.aspx?page=124). 

Virginia is rich with U.S. history and we can't wait to explore all it has to offer.

All Good Things Must Come to an End

Final Goodbye to Indiana

Being out here while the moving company packed up our house was bittersweet. It was nice to see friends and enjoy the beauty that Indiana has to offer, one last time. But it was so hard to say goodbye and leave such a beautiful place with so many memories and such good people.

Livy loved playing in the leaves and hearing them crunch underneath her little feet!

One last look out our front door... :(

On the road again! Back to Virginia. Livy LOVES books. They were part of our saving grace on the trip. That, and the fact we rented a minivan with a dvd player. :) But more often than not, little snugga always has her nose in a book!

New Kent Branch Trunk or Treat

New Kent Branch Trunk or Treat

This was all of our first time being at and participating in a Trunk or Treat. In the olden days (hehe) when Eric and I were little, we just went door to door. This was Eric's first time dressing up in about 20 years apparently...I was lucky to convince him. He is an old man if you can't tell. LOL

He is also dressed up as an old man! ;) hehe I am a very DIYish, modest version of Ariel the Little Mermaid. Olivia is a cowgirl. And yes she actually kept her hat on the majority of the time!

She's so cute it should be a crime!

Livy is not a shy girl. The minute I set her down, she out and about making friends in the branch!

                                                Eric is so thrilled to be wearing make-up :)

Our meagerly decorated trunk. Not bad for our first time though!

Makes me miss my long hair....and my pre-baby figure! hehe

Making the rounds to get mommy, I mean Livy ;) candy!

Fall in Virginia

Gallmeyer Farms Pumpkin Patch

We decided to support one of the local farmers that is a customers of Eric's facility in Richmond.
Great little pumpkin patch for being in the middle of a city.

Livy is definitely the cutest pumpkin in the patch!