New Year's Resolution

Yes, I know it's Jan. 28th - but my New Year's Resolution is to pay more attention to my blog.

Here is an update since my last "real" post - which was Halloween 2010!

November - This is the month, not only of Thanksgiving, but also Amelia's BIRTHDAY!  I posted a link to some pictures in the last post, but didn't go into details.  Her birthday was small - but super fun!  We started the day by meeting some of our new OK friends at the Bounce House place.  The girls ran around and played and had a great time!  Then, we moved on to the Cupcake place.  It was so cute.  We were the only ones in there and the girls made a HUGE mess with their cupcakes - but who cares!  After that we headed home and just played the rest of the day.  It was freezing (Oklahoma is a different kind of cold). 

For Thanksgiving, we went to Andy's parents' house.  It was a very nice time, but for some reason I don't have any pictures.  Hmmmmm.

December - This is Andy's birthday month and Christmas of course!  We had a nice day for Andy's birthday that ended with a night out!  The girl across the street watched the kids (they were already asleep of course) and Andy and I went to our neighborhood Progressive Dinner Party.  It was so much fun!  It's nice to actually have neighbors that are fun and that want to talk (can't say the same about our TX neighborhood)!

Christmas was really fun!  Amelia was very aware of Santa this year - so it made it very special.  We went to look at the Christmas lights one night (kind of like the Zilker park lights for you Austin people - but not on the same scale).  Amelia LOVED it.  For Christmas - we traveled to Dallas and spent 4 days there doing pretty much everything!  Here are some pics!

January - So far, so good.  My business, Pocketbaby, has really taken off and I am super busy!  I play with the kids all day and work at night.  It's fun and feels really good that people all over the country (and even Ireland) are loving my work!  Yay!

August turned 1 on the 26th.  We had a fun day out doing some shopping and playing with one of his little friends all day.  We are having his party next week - so there will be pictures to come!

I really hope I can keep up with the blogging.  I like having something to look back on.

I know - I'm really behind

I have been super busy - I have barely even looked at this blog :(  Sorry.  Here's a link to some recent pictures that include Amelia's 3rd birthday! 



http://picasaweb.google.com/Lindsey.Strittmatter/NewPictures?authkey=Gv1sRgCJa35bn7tITrGQ#

I'll do a better job next time!

School!

Amelia starts school on Tuesday!!!!  We have been on the waiting list since we moved, and they finally called.  Actually, I wasn't expecting them to call until January (if at all), but someone moved and we got in.

She is in a Tuesday/Thursday program that goes from 9:10-2:30 and she is very excited.  We met her teachers last week and Amelia even joined in on snack time like she'd been going there the whole time :)

Looking forward to her first day - I'm just hoping she doesn't throw a fit when I actually leave this time!  If she does - at least I know it won't last forever.

But It's Not Halloween...

Alright - so far Oklahoma has been great.  But, this Halloween, it failed us. 

Saturday morning we left the house for an all day trip.  We didn't have a care in the world.  We got back home at 8:00 (already an hour past bedtime) and what did we see...Trick-or-Treaters EVERYWHERE!  What on earth?  It's the 30th...Halloween is tomorrow.  Apparently Oklahoma has the ability to change a holiday and NOT inform people about it. 

So Andy took August upstairs and put him to bed while I got Amelia dressed up in her Pinky Dinky Doo costume (at least it was simple), and Amelia and I headed out to hit a few houses!  Poor thing was exhausted, but she was having a great time.  We made it to about 5 houses - that was enough for her.  Thank goodness she's still little and believes everything we tell her :) 

But we still had fun on the REAL Halloween!  We carved pumpkins and still got dressed up so that August could join in on the fun! 

 This is us running out the door Saturday night!

 Batman!!!!!

 The dynamic duo!

 Pumpkins :)

 I'm actually in a picture...August wants to get Ruby.

 Happy Halloween!

 Hanging outside while we're carving the pumpkins :)  See my teeth!!!!!?????

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The Zoo: Part 3 (we love the OKC zoo)

Yes - we are a bit obsessed with the zoo at the moment.  But it is a GREAT zoo.  Not crowded, close by, you can actually SEE the animals, and it wears the kids out!  Gina and Gavin came to visit this weekend and we took the kids on Saturday  morning - we had a blast.

Peacocks are just walking around.  I only got a pic of this one - but Amelia had NO fear around them.  She almost caught one! haha

Amelia and Gavin walking together.  Amelia was actually pulling him along - getting him to walk where she wanted to go.  She's kind of bossy!

Neither one of them would look at the camera...but they loved the zebra and the giraffes (they are pretty cool)!

Earlier in the week we went to the park with our other friends :)  Amelia LOVED being able to go up on the big slide all by herself.  She is a little daredevil and I don't like it one bit.  We're learning to be more careful on the tall ladders - and she's a good listener!

Swinging with Haley

August and Hunter - they will be trouble in just a few months I'm sure!!!

Climbing the big ladder (she tried that circle one a few times - I decided it was a bad idea!)

Woo hoo!  Look - hands in the air!!!

She LOVED it!

We also spent some time with Amelia's friend Makenna.  They were nice enough to cook some dinner for us!  We had fun and Amelia survived her first BEE STING.  You know it hurts, but she was a trooper!  The next morning she didn't even mention it.  Yay!

...and here are the pictures

 The picture loader finally decided to work!  Here are the bounce house pictures!!!

What should I do first??  Mickey came along for the day :)

Bouncing with Haley!  They did this pretty much the whole time!

Loving the slide!

She tried climbing this - but decided inside was better!

She hid back behind this for quite some time :)  I think she knew it was almost time to go!