It is fall, it is fall, the leaves are falling everywhere...

We are enjoying fall around here... Babyhawk really enjoys playing in the leaves. Here she is with her Godsister and Godbrother:

Papahawk's Steelers played in the semifinals last week, so Babyhawk and I bundled up to watch the boys. Unfortunately, they lost - but not for lack of trying:

Babyhawk graduated from her room at school and is now a Starfish! It is a preschool type room so it is a good test to see if she will be ready to go to the real deal next fall. She was moved with some of her best buds, so it has been going great! We had to create a poster showing her family's favorite things for the wall: And you can all email me to tell us we are crazy, but we decorated for Christmas this weekend! Since Papahawk and I are going on our big trip in NINE DAYS we thought this was a good time to get it all out. It also helped that Papahawk got to hang Christmas lights in 65 degree weather...

Babyhawk is loving the season already. Here she is decorating her tree.

Babyhawk had a b-day party this weekend for her little friend J at Build-a-Bear. She made a panda bear, dressed like Santa and holding a football.... only our child!

Babyhawk is getting excited for Christmas, but she is even more excited for Geema's big visit and her cousins for Thanksgiving!!!

Have a great week!

It's Halloween.... La la la la!

Halloween was a BLAST this year. We have really been celebrating for weeks, as you can probably tell by the many appearances of the Woody costume over the last month... Here is Babyhawk on the way to school for her party:

Taking a Halloween afternoon nap to prep for the festivities:

Getting the house all set up:

The Cowboys and Cowgirls:

The first house:

Meeting Snow White:

Hear her pointing out the punkins?:

Trying to "pet" the frog... It took us a long time to get away from certain houses:

Parting shots of the punkins...

Babyhawk's Fairy Godmother, Jessamy, sent her the best care package. A Jessie doll to complete her Toy Story character collection and this autographed photo of the Round up Gang:

It was homecoming for Papahawk's Steelers. They suffered a heart-breaking loss, but they are still 7-1, regular season champs and are heading into the playoffs motivated to win!:




... and Basketball season starts officially tonight with a Jayhawk exhibition throw down. Rock Chalk! Have a great week!

A visit with Marli and Jared...

Here are photos from the weekend Babyhawk spent with her Aunt and Uncle in August. She came down with a bug that evening... but recovered nicely and talks about Marli, Jared and Lola constantly:

Standing in the light of your halo....

Well... I missed the post last week, intending to update on Monday night, but Babyhawk had other plans for us. After a very scary afternoon and two days in the hospital, we have our beautiful little girl back. We are praying that this was a one-time deal, but we are preparing ourselves by learning all we can. We have so many people to thank for their concern and help - we are so blessed!!

Now... material from last week... She is such a big girl!:

Singing her favorite song...:

Babyhawk is obsessed with Halloween:

Babyhawk was back to her normal self Monday evening, so she got into plenty of trouble stuck in that tiny hospital room. Adjusting the bed:

Her hair after the EEG:

The beautiful flowers Uncle Ron, Aunt Sara, Uncle Curtis and Aunt Misty sent for Babyhawk:

Babyhawk preparing to do some coloring...:

Thank you for your prayers. Have a great week!

Thank you...

We wanted to thank all of our friends and family for their concerns about Babyhawk's recent hospitalization. Babyhawk has fully recovered from the seizure she had on Monday and is back to her "normal" routine. Thank God for her teachers at daycare who immediately recognized something wasn't right and called me. They are such a great group of girls and I know Babyhawk scared them to death! Thanks also to Uncle Hubie, Aunt Jen and Uncle Phil for taking such good care of all of us in the ER and at the hospital. We have an appointment with the neurologist on Friday when we will find out more about future risk and treatment. We'll keep you posted.

Babyhawk sends you all kisses and hugs!

She's got pipes!

We are having a fabulous football season here. Jayhawks are 5-0, James' 9-10 year old tackle football team the Steelers are 5-0 and the Broncos are 5-0!! Rock Chalk, Go Steelers, Go Broncos!!! (We won't mention Papahawk's Chiefs.... yikes!)

Have a great week.

Movie Day!

We took Babyhawk to her first movie in the theater. We took her to the Toy Story and Toy Story 2 double feature in 3D. This really was kind of a cheat, since she already LOVES her some Woody, which she showed the crowd by reciting some of the words ("He got me!") and singing the songs really, really loudly.

But first, we made Babyhawk do some chores to "earn" her adventure:

Then we started the day of fun.We first went for some pizza from Smashing Tomato - by far her favorite restaurant:
Then we loaded up the "guys" (Woody, Buzz, Rex and Bullseye) and headed to the theater. Got a big tub of popcorn and settled in:

She made it nearly through the first full movie before we had to call it quits. And she refused to wear the 3D glasses, so a lot of it was just a little fuzzy... All in all it was a great time! She took a nice long nap when we got home:

Here is Mamahawk impressing Babyhawk with one of her many talents:





And finally, we (it was a true group effort) finished my office chair today!! And I have the bandaged fingers to prove it... Here is the before shot, in case you missed it and the after!:

Have a great week!