November

Daphne and Jocelyn have been playing together a whole lot. They both just laugh and giggle when they are talking. We love it! Yes, Jocelyn is being rolled around in a shopping cart. Daphne picked her up and put her in there.

She fit just right, and went along with Daphne.

Eventually Jocelyn fell asleep on her play mat.
The girls getting out their brand new Christmas trees that Paw Paw and Mimi bought for the girls for their bedrooms. They are enjoying being part of the Eddings' version of the Griswalds :)

Daphne got to decorate her own tree by herself.

Doesn't it look pretty?

Jocelyn was very interested in the tree too!

She wanted to lay under the tree for a long time.

wow at how excited she was when the lights came on!

Daphne likes to help feed Jocelyn her cereal. She is doing the "airplane" to feed her. Most of the time she actually does better than everyone else. haha!

Daphne helped me decorate the Christmas tree. We have ornaments all in one or two spots. It's great!

We love that smile!

Girls at the tree

a section of our beautiful tree

Jocelyn and Daphne's favorite fun ornament is my Griswald's singing house! We will have to change batteries by the end of the season.

:)

Daphne wearing the santa hat

Jocelyn wearing the santa hat.

Both our wonderful girls! Yes, Jocelyn IS sitting up :)

We are so glad that Jocelyn is so laid back, especially after how much Daphne carries her around.

There isn't any denying her!

ooh, that feels pretty neat!

Haw River and Halloween

We went trick-or-treaing for Halloween at Mimi and Paw's house, Mamaw and Pop pop's, downtown Maiden, and Brian and Lauren's house. The girls got lots of candy and other goodies, and they looked absolutely adorable in their costumes. Daphne had settled for Super Girl since we couldn't find a pink power ranger outfit. We think she liked the Super Girl much better anyway! Emilee and I made Jocelyn's costume. It is an owl that is absolutely adorable. Yes, we all know Emilee did most of her costume, but I DID HELP! I ironed and glued stuff, and I did the hat all by myself :) Mommy, daddy, and Emilee went with the girls out and about Monday (Halloween) night. Mommy is dressed up as a Twinkie from school. We had costume day there too.

Daphne ready to trick-or-treat!

Jocelyn in her owl costume at Pop Pop's.

She was such a champ for wearing all of that ALL NIGHT!

Mommy and her little owl.

The owl and Super Girl to the rescue!

Daphne is ready to go!

Up close of the owl front

daphne cheesing for the camera

The smirk makes the costume!

owls are adorable and so is Super Girl

Daddy was left with the girls for two nights and three days while mommy went on an overnight field trip with her class to Haw River. I have to say that as hard as it was to leave the girls and Clinton, they did great and so did I. It helped that it was seriously the BEST FIELD TRIP EVER! Everyone that went had a great time. Clinton kept the girls fed, bathed, dressed, and well taken care of. I never had a doubt, but I'm so proud of him for doing it!

Jacksonville Trip...

We recently went to Jacksonville for Clinton's sister's baby shower, Cassie. She had her boy, Collin Elijah Sawyers on October 30th. We went down there the 14, 15, and came home the 16th. We had an interesting time. The girls got to go to the beach twice, so that was well worth the trip! Jocelyn got to put her feet in the ocean for the first time, and Daphne loved playing in the water as always. We got to Jacksonville on Friday night pretty late because we had to leave after I got out of school, and we stopped in Durham for some yummy Red Robin with Tiff and Joe. We got up Saturday morning and played around Jacksonville, including Chuck E. Cheese's for lunch. We went to the baby shower, and then drove around a bit. We decided to go to the beach that evening since it was still so warm outside. Definitely worth the 30 minute trip out there! The girls loved it. They really wanted to come back (including mommy!) the next day. While we were in Jacksonville, we even got to see Zak (Clinton's best friend) while he was on land--since he is in the Navy and is stationed in Conn.

our wonderful little beach bum family :)

loving her exersaucer

Jocelyn loves her big sister, and Daphne has gotten so good with playing with Jocelyn

Our precious little girls

We rolled over! No we weren't happy about it, but we did it any way :)

Jocelyn and daddy...don't think he can deny her ;)

Jocelyn enjoyed playing games too :)

Winning tickets at Chuck E. Cheese...we got a whole bunch of wonderful little trinkets from the prize area.

Mommy, Daphne, Daddy, Jocelyn, Kitty (Clinton's mother), and Cassie (Clinton's sister)

ahh, ocean water!

Jumping over the waves.

Sea shells!

Jocelyn would just giggle when the water would hit her feet.

Daddy and Jocelyn playing in the water.Feet!Daphne loved jumping and playing around on the beach until a wave knocked her down. Her clothes were soaked then!

All of us wonderful ladies!

Mommy and her wonderful girls walking in the ocean.

Perfect Saturday night!

Beach sand was ALL in my car when we were finished. Eh, we all had fun. That's what matters!

Daphne and daddy looking for sea shells on Sunday morning.

Jocelyn trying to jump out of Shannon's hands and into the ocean.

Licking her lips to taste the water.

Daphne and Shannon were fast asleep on the car ride home. It was so warm and snuggly in there with the sun beating down on all of us. A day at the beach will do that to you!Even Jocelyn slept most of the way home! We were all tired after this busy busy weekend.