Toddler Costume Party

I had a costume party the day before Halloween with some of our friends and their kids. The kids dressed up and had fun eating lunch, decorating cookies, "trick or treating" to different doors in my house, dancing to fun music and playing outside. It was a beautiful day! Here are some pictures of the little tykes.

Best Dressed! (Ava)

Eating candy, Jacob and Malia (my sisters kids)

Cookie decorating

Dancing to the Monster Mash.

Group picture.

Candy Fun!

trick or treating with cousins, Lauren and Jacob

Lauren and Laisa

Trick or Treating time.

Kitty cat and Pocahontas

Lily would not let anyone help her hold her bucket. Even when she could barley carry it.

David's masterpieces :) I love the oval pumpkin.

Swimming in the Toilet

OH MY WORD, I just found Lily standing IN the toilet. I couldn't believe it! She often tries to climb onto the lid and stand on it. I can only assume she didn't realize that the lid was up. She was trying to get out and looked a little confused...lol. Thank goodness the toilet was flushed and she didn't have wet hands or sleeves. Luckily she didn't have pants on (Laisa likes to undress her and I was in the process of making Laisa get her pants from the basement.) I sooo wish I had taken a picture! I almost got the camera and put her back in the toilet. :)

The Patch

We went to a pumpkin patch today. This is a really nice place however, it did start to rain about 20 minutes after we got there. Of course, we did the inside stuff first :) The inside stuff included. Face painting, craft & petting zoo (or at least a few farm animals to pet) It started to sprinkle on the hayride to the pumpkin patch. So, we quickly picked out a couple pumpkins and headed back. They also have really pretty fall settings to take pictures, tire swings & a big yard for the kids to run around and play. But we didn't get to do that since it was raining. Oh, they also have a little bakery house with hot cider, fresh baked pumpkin & apple pies, caramel apples and more. The girls had fun and here are some pictures to see what they did.

Pumpkin Patch Fun

My 2 lil monsters :)
Going on a hayride.
Hayride
Pumpkin hunting....
in the rain.

Lily's 1st pony ride :)

haha...she wasn't so sure about the chicken on the other side of the barn.

Petting zoo...Lily was sooo excited to see the goat.

I think she thought it was a big dog, she loves dogs. :)
Sheep with dreadlocks....lol
Lily's 1st face painting, she sat so still.
craft time.

My Little Gymnast

Laisa has been taking a preschool tumbling class at the YMCA. She loves it and I remembered to bring the camera this week. However, I only got 1 picture in before the battery went dead. :( I'll take more next week and post them. She is walking on the "low" beam in this pic.

What Caused Our Economic Crisis?

Watch the video I posted from youtube click on the 2nd box down. I know it's a little long but watch the who thing. It's very interesting and well worth it! Please send it to everyone you know and please pray for our country and our leaders!

Lily "trying" to Walk

This is the first day Lily started walking unassisted for more than 3-4 steps. She was so proud of herself and would giggle and wave her little fists once she got going. Unfortunately, she couldn't keep her balance when she giggled so hard. This is her giggling and falling, giggling and falling... but she never gave up. I wish my camera had sound, it would have made this clip much cuter. :) Also, David had just put Laisa to bed and Lily was trying to go see her.

Drunken Baby :)

Lily Walking

She finally stopped giggling long enough to make it to me.

Ludington Pictures

Ludington Sunset


Water balloon time with Aunt DeAnn
Lily wants to play too!

Kenneth, Laisa & Sammy
One last stop at House of Flavors, mmmm

Elk Farm
Elk Farm petting zoo
Big Elk :)
Feeding the elk
Laisa and Diana

Firepit on the beach
The gang.
David and Otto
David and Sammy on the bumper boats.
The Badger boat. This GIANT boat goes by the condo twice a day.

Jenna & Laisa go kart racing.

Lily's Such a Monkey!

Here is a great story for you. I've been meaning to put it in our blog for a few weeks now.

It was the Friday morning before Labor Day. We were all getting ready to head out of town. I heard Lily awake in her bed but wanted to take a shower before getting her up. David was outside getting things in the car. Just as I was getting into the shower I heard a big THUD! come from Lily's room. She tends to throw her cup out of her bed every morning, so I thought "man, she must have thrown her cup really hard" then not hearing anything else from her room, I got into the shower. The next thing I hear is Laisa yelling "LILY GOT OUT OF HER BED!" Ok moms, just imagine the thoughts that where going through my head at this point. 2 minutes earlier, I hear a big THUD BUT didn't hear any crying. I thought for sure she was lying on the floor with a broken neck or something. I jumped out of the shower, dripping wet with shampoo in my hair. I opened the bathroom door to see David and Laisa starring into Lily's room. But I didn't see Lily in her room, a bit confused I look down the hallway to see her crawling away just as happy as can be. David looked at me like I was crazy and asked what I was doing...hahaha! He didn't realize that she tried climbing out of bed on her own and then fell. Who hits the floor that hard and doesn't cry? And YES, I did say crawling! My 14 month old refuses to walk but she can climb out of her bed. Thankfully she was fine and has not tried to climb out of bed again. :) On a positive note, she has started walking on her own the last 2 two days. I will post a short video for you soon.

Laisa's Towel Spin

This is so funny! Laisa thinks it's the funnest thing in the world, she laughs so hard every time then wants to do it again. Although, once David saw a video of it, he decided it wasn't the safest thing to be doing. :)

Lily Finger Painting

I found this video clip on our camera a couple weeks ago. I thought it was so funny! David decided to let the girls finger paint one night when I was gone. He's much braver that I am, I've never let Lily finger paint. After watching this video, I won't be in the near future either. :)

Beebe Update

Sorry for having such long time spans between posts! Here's a quick update on what's been going on with our family the last couple weeks. Laisa has been taking gymnastic classes at the YMCA. She loves it and is so cute running around in a little leotard. I took some video of her this week but forgot to get a picture. I still haven't figured out how to add videos. :)
I went to Minneapolis, MN for Tastefully Simple's national conference. It was a BLAST!!! They feed us sooo well. Not that I need any help in that area...haha. We got to taste all the deliciously, scrumptious NEW fall/winter items and also sampled some items from vendors that would like TS to add to our product line. Most of those where delicious too!! And we got LOTS of FREE stuff. Did I say I was kid free for 5 days & 4 nights :) Thanks Mom B and Stacia for helping with the kids!! It was a great getaway.
I've had lots of parties since I've been back. Plus, I started coaching gymnastics again at the Y back in June. I do this every Thur evening. For those of you that didn't know, I competed gymnastics at the Y until I was about 16 yrs old, then continued coaching. I stopped coaching shortly after I had Laisa. I really love being back!
This weekend we are going to Ludington, MI with David's sister, DeAnn and her family. We have done this for the past 2 Labor Days. It's a BLAST!! I'll be sure to post pictures when we get back.
David has been working and helping out a lot with the kids. He's such a hard working, supportive husband! I love you, babe!

Fair Fun

We went to our 4-H fair last week and saw animals, rode rides, saw the exhibits (that the kids did, including cousins) & ate to much! It's was lots of fun. We had the most delicious sirloin tips anyone has ever eaten!! I'm not kidding, we wait all year long for these sirloin tips that are at the fair. I've even been known to pay fair entry fees several times in 1 week just to eat more of this once a year, tasty treat!! Wish I'd thought to take a picture of it :) We also enjoyed our usually fair favorites, Tom Thumb donuts & ice cream from the Dairy Barn. I also found a new favorite, salt water taffy. :)

I found it funny that on the way into the fairgrounds, Laisa kept saying how she wanted to go on the "boat ride". I asked David if he had said something to her about it. He said "no, but she went on that ride last year" It's amazing to me that she remembered going on that ride. It was a whole year ago and she was only 2 yrs old.

BTW, the day after we went to the fair, I was excited to find out that our treasured "fair" sirloin tips are know sold at the farmers market in Elkhart. It has only been open for about a year or so. But I can't believe I didn't know this!!! David heard the news from someone at work, I think he may regret that he told me the joyous news :) I'm sure I'll be making a trip there soon :)

Laisa looking at the baby goats.
Laisa being forced to get closer to the pigs...haha
Laisa a little closer to the pigs :)
Laisa on her favorite ride, the "boat ride".
Laisa and I on the hot air balloon ride.

Birthday Camping Trip

For my birthday a couple weeks ago we went camping in southern Indiana at Versailles State Park, we had lots of fun! It was a very hilly and pretty area! It was a very hot weekend, so I was glad I choose a park with a pool. Whoever, it was in such a small town that I think it was probably the only thing for the locals to do. The pool was sooo crowded! We opted not to go on Saturday. So we went to visit another nearby park, Clifty Falls State Park. It was a beautiful park. We went hiking in search for the "falls" but we didn't find much flowing water. We saw "trickles" and we would have seen some really neat falls if it wasn't such a dry summer. It was great just being out in the nature. Laisa had lots of fun and was such a trooper walking most of the about 6 miles by herself. I'm not totally sure how many miles we walked but it was about 2 hours. We did find a little stream to play in and I do mean little! But it cooled us off.
Sunday we did go to the pool. It was busy but not as bad as Saturday was. The girls had fun in the kiddie pool. David and I had fun going down the big loopy slide :)
Marissa, my sister, came for a visit and to have dinner with us Sunday afternoon. She lives in Indy which was about 1 1/2 hr away. Marissa the girls and I went to the store in town to pick up some graham crackers and Hershey bars while David started the fire for dinner. On the way back to the park it started to get REALLY dark and it got REALLY windy. It was so windy I started looking for funnel clouds. There was leaves, dirt & trash blowing all over! The trees leaned over almost on there sides. Yet, it was not raining, it was so strange! David said the electric went out a couple times at the campground. When we got back we had to avoid a few large branches that had fallen. It also started to rain and we had to spend some time in the camper. But it stopped raining after about 20 min. Then we had dinner and roasted marshmallows with Aunt Rissa. It turned out to be a nice evening. Here are some pictures of our fun weekend.

Laisa enjoying cherries :)
It was a HOT weekend. This was David's invention to cool the girls off. I thought it was a pretty good idea! It's our water jug hanging from a tree by a bungee cord.
Lily refusing to walk.
The Beebes, people watching...haha! I think they are watching the campsite across from us :)
David and Laisa enjoying marshmallows by the campfire. I guess I should have gotten the fire in the picture :) Oh, well.