Almost 2....

Isabelle loves kitty cats lately...she calls them "meows"

Here we go Steelers!

Isabelle absolutely loves when I push a chair up to the counter and let her "help" me :)

Adores her big cousin Karli...this was taken after we went to the Dixie Stampede, they had a blast!

I can't believe that in a little over a month, my baby girl will be 2 years old!! It can't be true!! As this bittersweet moments nears, I can't help but to reflect on how much she has grown up this past year. She is talking like crazy, she'll repeat you and say anything you ask her to. She's putting several words together now and she's doing really well with her numbers and letters. She loves to dance and sing songs, and she's really starting to develop an imagination. I feel like I say this about every age, but I'm really enjoying her at the age she is now and so wish that I could freeze time! We have so much fun playing together and she is constantly making us laugh. However, the "terrible twos" are definitely rearing their head, but we're dealing with it :) She's definitely a very strong willed child (aparantly I was the same way at her age!) but she has a very sweet and sensitive side as well. We thank the Lord every day for our precious Isabelle

Trip to Erie

Riding on the train through the Erie Zoo, Isabelle loved it, she kept saying

choo choo!!

We spent one day at the Erie Zoo with some of Jeremy's cousins. Izzy's really into animals right now so she really like it, especially the monkeys.

This is Jeremy's cousin's little girl , Lilly. She is 3 weeks older than Isabelle, but much taller! They had a lot of fun playing together.

One day we took a ferry on Lake Erie, we had a lot of fun and the weather was beautiful

I love this picture, Isabelle is waiting patiently on the pier for the boat to arrive

Back in August we drove up to Erie, Pa to bring Jeremy's mom back home and visit Jeremy's family for a few days. The drive wasn't bad. We recently got an '08 Nissan Pathfinder so it was a pretty comfortable trip and Isabelle did really great. We were busy most of the time visiting people and going to places around Erie, but we had a really nice time. It's so important to us that Izzy gets to see her extended family whenever she can as she's growing up. She was really well behaved had a great time!