happy birthday to my sweet cheekies

shannon turned 1 on november 3. we took her to the zoo that day because she LOVES animals, and later that night she got a pink cupcake. i love how excited she was about the candle.

that weekend we had a party for her, with mostly family and a couple friends. its so amazing that she's already a year old! my precious little girl is getting so big so fast. didn't we just bring her home? a more beautiful and delightful gift i could never have imagined. we love her more every day.

i have a lot to catch up

but i'll do it in pieces.

here's some cute pictures of the kids at halloween. shannon was a bumble bee and luke was his alter-ego "supersuit." he always tells me that his name is in fact supersuit, so for halloween i decided to actually make him his suit. i was going to surprise him with it on halloween day, but he snooped and saw it at one point and looked at me very excited, and said, without me telling him what it was, "that's my supersuit!!" i was so happy he knew what it was!
i made shannon's outfit too, she already had the cute tights so i just added to them. the wings were made from packaging foam.


we went to my mom's school during the day to watch the kid's parade, and that was really fun. later that evening we went to justin's parent's house to trick or treat. it was luke's first time, and he was ringing doorbells and saying "trick or treat" without any prompting. he got lots of comments on his cool suit.