Addison Fall Pictures

I took Addison to have her pictures taken at Target this week. She is such a ham for the camera. I was able to have her picture taken in her Halloween Costume. She is a fairy this year, if you can't tell. She loves the outfit just not the hat. Oh well what can you do. The pictures of her in her red sweater are by far my favorites! Hope you enjoy!

3 Wonderful Years!

Today, Keith and I celebrated our third Anniversary. I really can't believe how quickly it went by. It feels like yesterday that I became Mrs. Richard. Keith is such a great husband. I love his sense of humor. I love how handy he is around the house. I love how loyal he is. I love how it feels when he holds me in his arms. I love how when he comes home from work he takes Addison and so I can have a few minutes to myself. I love his patience. I love his work ethic. I love how he works long hours without much complaint so I can stay home with our daughter Addison. I love his smile. I how he takes care of me and Addison. I love how involved he is with Addison. I love the way he loves me and how it feels to love him. All in all I love my husband very much and feel very fortunate to be his wife for these past 3 years and look forward to many more!

Addison's Vacation!

While Keith and I were on the cruise, Addison went to Grandma and Grandpa's. I am not sure who had more fun, Addison or Grandma and Grandpa. They swam, played, walked, went to the mall, walked, played, swam, went to the bookstore, walked, visited her great grandparents, walked, golfed, colored and enjoyed being together. If you didn't catch that, my child loves to walk! She would rather walk then be carried or ride in the stroller and Grandma and Grandpa love to walk with her. At the mall she was walking and walked right into Victoria's Secret with no help. She tasted Ice Cream for the first time and seems to enjoy it. Addison has such a fun time when she is with them and we are grateful that they are willing to watch her whenever they can.

Mike and Kari's Wedding Cruise!

I am not sure where to begin other than I did something I was afraid to do an ended up enjoying myself....somewhat. This past weekend we took a cruise to the Bahama's and to see our dear friends and neighbors get married. The Wedding was beautiful! After the wedding and the boat left the port, we had to go through the muster drill. We ended up in the wrong area so, glad it wasn't a real emergency or there wouldn't have been room in the life boat! Then I got sea sick. At one point in the day I had taken "Bonnie" -didn't work, "Dramamine" - didn't work, the wrist bands - didn't work! So at the "pre-dinner show" Kari's mom asked me if I wanted to try the trans dermal patch and I said PLEASE!! So after about ten minutes of wearing the "patch" my face felt like it was on fire and then.....BAM no sickness, no dizziness, no worries! All day Saturday in the Bahama's I felt great. We went to "Senor Frogs" to catch up on the football scores. At that point the Sooners were winning so we headed off to bargain for a wind chime to bring home for Addison. I got a $25 wind chime for $15 (thanks to Kari and Greg for their tips on how to shop the straw market) I really only wanted to pay $10 but the guys refused to go that low. So then we took a water taxi to Atlantis. What a beautiful hotel. I think we walked about 5 miles that day. 2 of which were on the beach and my calves burned! When we returned to the ship it was time to get ready for formal night, our waiter was hilarious! He had tons of off-colored jokes. That was fun and the shows were great fun. On Sunday we stopped at Royal Caribbean's private island CocoCay. It was beautiful! We snorkeled and saw so many beautiful fish. While snorkeling we had seen some ray's at the bottom of the ocean, no big deal right? Well on our way back to the shore I was looking around and out of the corner of my eye I see this ray swimming right at me, looking at me and I thought he was out to "barb" me! Panic struck! I let go of Keith's hand and raced as fast as my flippers would carry me and got the heck out of dodge. It never occurred to me I had just left my husband behind to fend for himself, but being the strong capable man he is I knew he would be fine. Crisis averted in my mind. Keith said the ray was just barley off the floor but it didn't look that way to me. When we got back on the ship we relaxed and then it hit me. We had gone to dinner and then at the show I started to feel sick. Really sick! So I excused myself and booked it back to our room where I stayed the rest of the night. My dear husband joined me a little later and cleaned the bathroom up and ran to get another patch. At that point I only had 6 hours until we got back to the port and I couldn't wait! It is Wednesday and I still feel like I am on the boat. I hope that goes away soon. Everyone who had been on a cruise before said this was roughest they had ever experienced so I guess that's good, the next shouldn't be so bad....I hope! After all the hoopla to go and freaking myself out and crying over leaving Addison for 4 nights, I had a great time, and wouldn't mind going again....in a year or two.

What happens at Disney never stays at Disney!

So from my previous post in between our visitors was a stay at Disney with Grandma and Grandpa Mocniak a.k.a Mom and Dad a.k.a. Jan and Ken. They were staying for the week and invited us to come and stay also. We stayed two nights at the Beach Club! It has the coolest pool! We had a blast, nothing planned just go with the flow, my kind of vacay! Although we have season passes to Disney, we never really spend much time at Animal Kingdom and this trip we made two visits. The Safari was my favorite and Hester and Chester's Dinoland was Addison's favorite. Addison loved exploring the Dinosaurs with Grandma and Grandpa! She loves Mac and Cheese and got to eat Mickaroni and Cheese at Cape May courtesy of grandpa, got a (fake) mickey tatoo courtesy of grandma and she spent lots of time at the pool! I know that she had a great time and so did her parents!