Minivan for us!

I'm officially a soccer mom now! Yesterday me, Noah and Paul went to trade in Paul's Lexus for Honda Odyssey Touring Minivan :)It came with a navigation system and entertainment center for kids--and I LOVE it! It's a used car but in excellent shape with only 34 thousand miles on it. I am so excited about my new vehicle, especially that my old car Honda CRV got stolen 2 weekends ago out of our garage along with my many bellowed personal items :( We found the car in good shape but all my belongings including glasses, Noah's car seat, purse and Polish CDs are gone forever (just to name a few). We live in scary times and I am grateful that nothing happened to any of us.
I definitely learned my lesson and I will be super careful in the future! Anyhow, I can't wait to drive the new car some more :)) Here is a pic of it (it's huge but i love it):

Apple Orchard and Pumpkin Patch!

It's now our family tradition that every year in October we go to visit and apple house, petting zoo and a pumpkin patch all located in Ellijay Mountains. I just love the B.J. Reece Apple orchard because the field is really big and it kind of feels like a fairytale to be there...the view of an orchard is just spectacular with apples everywhere. You can pick up as many apples as you can physically hold. The apple house has it's own bakery/store where you can buy homemade apple pies, apple cider, apple fritters and fresh apples! Yummy :) After the apple orchard we always visit the petting zoo. Noah loves this part! The animals are not in cages and are gentle enough to be held and fed by hand. The petting zoo is full of farm animals that need to be hugged and fed (and they are all soo cute). After the petting zoo its time for a Burt’s farm and pumpkin Patch!!! This place is simply amazing where the only thing that's more beautiful than the fall foliage are thousands of orange pumpkins. Noah had such a blast running around and between the pumpkins and it was almost impossible to keep him close by :) Burt's farm has a huge selection of every type of pumpkin, winter squash and fall decoration. We ended our patch with a hayride that was pulled by John Deere tractor that took us through a winding trail filled with nature and beauty. We all had such a blast and Noah keeps talking about tractors and pumpkins all the time now :) Here are some pictures i took on our trip:

Noah at the apple orchard...


Devouring an apple :)





Us together...


Noah at the petting zoo...loving on some rabbit :)





Rabbits were definitely Noah's favorites :)

Pumpkin Patch!




I want this one mommy...and this one :)

Us together (I was 23 weeks pregnant at the time).

"Mommy this one..."




Noah doing his dance at the pumpkin patch :)



With daddy during the hayride.

Flashback...

I found this picture of Noah on my I-phone the other day and I LOVE it :) He must have been 9 or 10 months old on this picture and he just looks soo cute that i decided to make a separate post about it :) His feet are just soo small and overall I just can't believe how much he grew up over the last year. Anyways, I've heard this nice song on the radio about a month ago and every time the station plays it, i think of Noah. I don't know the singer (Bruno Mars) but i love his song. Here is how it goes:
"When I see your face
There's not a thing that I would change
Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile,
The whole world stops and stares for awhile
Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are..."

It makes my heart sink just to think that he will never be like this again...:(((

The Fall is in the air...

So i finally persuaded Paul to make yet another purchase this Fall and buy us an outdoor fireplace. And he did :) Thank you! We are going to have endless marshmallow roastings and kielbasa grillings this Fall :) Anyways, Noah loves the new fire and so do I. I can't wait for Paul to get home this Thursday so we can grill something together!!! I just love the Fall, especially October. It's just such a great time! Everything smells like pumpkin spice, all our decorations are out (and boy we love to decorate our house for the harvest season:), the afternoons are sunny and the evenings are breezy...everything is great about the Fall! Finally we can spend more time playing outside with Noah or just sitting together by the fire and roasting marshmallows. Life is good! I cannot wait to bake some pumpkin pies this season and drink many apple cinnamon teas with it! Here are just a few pics I took with my I-phone of our very first fire this past weekend.

Pell City and Tonka stuff...

Couple of weekends ago we went to visit Paul's parents in Pell City. Noah's grand- grandma had a surprising birthday party so it was a perfect occasion to head this direction and see everybody. We had a wonderful time together and Noah had a chance to ride on a Kawasaki :) He is just fascinated with all kinds of trucks, motorcycles and lawn mowers now (he calls them kopara and kosiara :) It's soo sweet. We live close by Six Flags where there is a place with different kinds of Tonka trucks near by so every time we drive by, we need to slow down so Noah can have a good look at them. This is also a special place where Paul sometimes takes Noah and shows him all the trucks from up and close and Noah is all over that. I have never really understood boy's fascination with trucks, buses and cars but I guess it's just a guy thing :) Anyways, here are some pics from our trip to Pell City:

Noah riding on Kawasaki with papa Mike.

Trying yet another lawn-mower. You couldn't get him off that thing :)



The sun was really harsh...



Noah with 22 weeks pregnant mommy.

Buju Buju!!!

I think Noah looks like me on this picture when i was a little girl...or maybe more like Natalie :)

My handsome son :)


Running around his grandparents fabulous yard :)