Family Pictures

By Amber Patty Photography

Our September

The girls & I drove over to see Kurt 1 weekend at a program he was visiting & for any So You Think You Can Dance Fan's we drove through Wapakoneta, home of Kent, who should've won! Sadly this is the only picture of got of our trip, pathetic, I know

Kylan 1st day of school, preschool that is, it still counts right?!

McKartny enjoying the freedom of getting to play with whatever she wants whenever she wants while Kylan's at school. That only lasted a couple days & now she just misses her!

Just a sweet pic of my little "Monkey"!

McKartny's 2nd Bday

Little Miss McKartny turned 2 back in the beginning of September. Kurt was gone on her actual birthday so we celebrated that weekend with friends & a bbq, unfortunately we got rained out and had to move everything into the garage BUT McKartny had a good time & that's all that matters!
She's our little singer! I don't remember Kylan singing/remembering songs as well as her at this age but she does so well with all the words & is actually in tune alof of the time!

I guess we've started a tradition in our family; we took Kylan to get her ears pierced on her 2nd bday & McKartny has been asking for earrings like Mommy & Kylan so we took her to get hers done on her 2nd bday as well!

Birthday & Anniversary

I recently celebrated my 26th birthday and got the best present ever, Kurt got home from Oklahoma the day before!!! We had lunch together at Cozumel and spent the rest of the day with the girls enjoying having Dad home!

Then a week later we celebrated our 6th anniversay by going to the Bodies Exhibit in downtown and having dinner at Benihana without the kids!!!

Our gift to eachother for our anniversay, well more for me than Kurt, was going to see Phantom of the Opera. I have wanted to see this play since I was 9 years old and I was in absolute heaven!!! I got chills when the music started and the chandelier was raised in the beginning!! Kurt couldn't understand alot of what they were saying/singing but he still enjoyed it he said. I LOOOOVVEEEDDD IT!!!

Amish Country

Yesterday we made the trip down south to Amish Country. It was an eye opener for me and I really enjoyed it and Kurt even said he was a little skeptical on the drive there but ended up having alot of fun!

Oh how I wish we could have a huge farm with tons of animals just for Kylan, every horse or cow that she saw she had to get as close as possible

I saw this store and HAD to go in, it was Christmas all year long! One of the coolest stores I've been in, you couldn't help but smile when you walked in, and Kylan at this point was getting a little tired of walking around but when she saw the Christmas trees she took off running and loved it as much as me!

At the Guggisberg Cheese Factory, riding the deer :)
Yee Haw!

At Herschbergers Farm & Bakery, there was a free petting zoo, and once again Kylan had to be pryed away from the animals and cried when we left :( McKartny on the other hand was a chicken liver and wouldn't touch anything

This is Big Ben, one of the tallest Belgian draft horses in the World, he was enormous, I wanted to ride him :)

Along with the petting zoo we visited several bakeries & stores with beautiful furniture and woodworking and sampled lots of cheese at Heinis Cheese Chalet and I almost talked Kurt into getting me a beagle puppy at the pet store, yeah right, I've got a lot more butt kissin' to do! We all loved it down there and hope we get to visit again before graduation in May!!!

Cuyahoga County Fair

We ventured out to the Cuyahoga County Fair a few weeks ago, Kylan was adament about seeing the horses and cows, and she was not disappointed, although she was quite upset when we couldn't bring home a "baby calf and baby pony." I kept telling her someday!

This horse loved, me everytime I walked by it stuck it's head out and tried to nudge me, and I watched, it didn't to it to anyone else! Man, I miss being around horses, wished I would've taken advantage of having them when I had the chance. Lesson learned I guess

Took a rideo on the carousel and ate some yummy food, although it didn't compare to the Cassia County Fair's maple bars and our Stake's hamburgers!

We sat and watched the pigs for awhile, they were really funny, I felt really bad for the Moms, those little piglets were squealing at her and pushing her around trying to eat, then she would lay down in a position where they couldn't eat and one little baby came and squealed right in her face until she got up, it was hilarious!

Squires Castle

Kurt's rotation this month has been awesome! Lots of time off, so on this particular day we went to see Squires Castle. It was built by a very wealthy man back in the late 1800's early 1900's and was to be his gatekeepers home while his 'mansion' was being built but it never was and this 'castle' still remains.

This was Kurt's favorite room, the hunting library, where all their hunting tropies were displayed

We brought a picnic lunch and just sat out on the lawn in front of the castle and enjoyed the beautiful weather, it was a really good relaxing day spent together!