World's Largest Halloween Party

Last weekend we took Tristan to the Louisville ZOO for the World's Largest Halloween Party! It was OK, but we were hoping to see more animals! Tristan loved it, though, and had a great time getting to walk around and see everything. And I can't tell you how many times I heard, "What a cute little cow!! That's the cutest costume I've seen!" (Tristan LOVES cows!) She got a few pieces of candy in her pumpkin, although the only ones she cares about are suckers!!! Here's our pictures from the big event:

Finally - Another new Blog!

Cousins.

Tristan loves to hold Addie!

Posing for pictures.
Giving Addie a kiss!
Tristan had to keep her arm wrapped around Addie the whole time.

Swinging at Grandma and Grandpa's.
Her one eye was swollen all week from allergies.

Sitting on Grandpa's famous big stump that everyone wants to burn!

Helping Grandma water her flowers.

Tristan LOVED Amos!! He lets her mess with him more than Brownie does!

These photos are of our week long trip to Grandma and Grandpa's and to Memphis. (they are just a few weeks late!) We had a great week and Tristan enjoyed getting to see all her relatives.

Boating

Hurry up & catch one daddy
If u look close enough, you can see mommy in my glasses.
Sure is hard to stay standing with this boat always moving!
I'll drive u to a new spot daddy, u can't seem to catch any here!
Look what I found mommy.

My favorite ride has become the tractor

Driving daddy's boat

Birthday Girl

We celebrated Tristan's 1st birthday this past Thursday! It's hard to believe she is already one! Everyone tells you before you have kids how fast they grow up, but you can't conceive how true it is until you have a child of your own!!

We had a great day with her. Her daddy slept in and got her out of bed. He was the first to sing "Happy Birthday" to her (she had many more phone calls with songs throughout the day!). We let her open her gifts as soon as she got out of bed. Thanks Aunt Annie, Uncle Ashley, Aunt Sara, Uncle Joe, cousin Anna, Katheren the Great, and Aubert the Great for the gifts. As you can see, she loved them all!

We ended the day with her first cake. She liked it, but wasn't just extremely crazy about it. She ate a couple bites, played in the icing, and then was done. We will be having her birthday party this next weekend, so she'll get to try it again.

Our baby girl is 1 !!! Amazing!! Thank you, God, for all you've given us!!!

Snow Day

We had lots of snow this past Saturday, probably 5 inches or so (not quite as much as Nathan and Vicki or Annie and Ashley though!). It was our best snow of the winter (or maybe spring now!). You can see we got Tristan out in it for the first time. She wasn't that crazy about it. She is a water girl, and I think will prefer the summer and the pool!!!! We didn't really have a snow coat her size for her to wear, so I got out her one for next year. As you can see it's a little big, coming down past her knees with the snow coming up to her knees! Funny and cute!!

Vacation - Finally!!!!

We went on our 1st family vacation at the beginning of February to Orlando, FL. We had a great time and Tristan did great in the car, traveling over 800 miles one way!!! These are some photos from our trip. We went to Disney's Animal Kingdom one day, which is a little more zoo-ish than the Magic Kingdom. We all enjoyed seeing the animals, and I got some great pictures of the animals. I wanted to include them all, but for below mentioned reasons - I don't want to be up till midnight!!!! We're already planning to go back again next year!! February is definitely the time to go!! And it would be great for Tristan's cousins to go with her sometime!!!!

(I know this has taken me a really long time to get up on the blog. Putting pictures from my camera onto the blog is proving to be a time challenge. With Vicki's help, I have finally got some pictures up, but it's taking 2-3 minutes to upload 1 photo. Not exactly quick and snappy like I like to be. Anyway, now I'll try to put something new up maybe once a week. I think that's all you guys can count on from me right now!! )

New Beginnings

So after much convincing from the rest of my sisters, I have finally set up a blog! I'll do my best to keep up with it and keep the pictures of Tristan Rose coming!!!