1st trip to the pumpkin patch!

This was our 1st trip to a pumpkin patch. Andrea absolutely Loved it!! She thought she had to touch Every single pumpkin...it was soo cute! We got three pumpkins to carve...so more pics on that later.

Craig & Shantelle's Wedding

The professional wedding pictures have been posted to the Richards Photography website. The address is www.drichards.exposuremanager.com After you click on the Hoopes Wedding album it prompts you for the password. Just enter the date of the wedding. Be prepared...there are 20 pages of pictures. I don't know how they are going to decide which they want. You are also able to order pics from the website if you would like. These are some of the pics that I have collected so far. Hopefully more to come! If anyone reading this has pics from the wedding can you email them to me at stacersrn@yahoo.com. Thanks so much! I would like to make Craig and Shantelle a little album of pics!


Create Your Own

18 Months!!

Guess who had her 18 month check-up on October 4th? (she will be 19mo on oct.10th) She weighed 23lbs and 12oz.(45%) She was 33" long which the Dr. said is in the 85th percentile. Andrea has always been short for her age so we are going to have to investigate that. She is definitely above target for what she should know at this stage. The nurse asked if she knew 8-10 words....come on....my daughter?! All she does is talk :) She knows over 50 words at least. Yesterday she even said a 3 word sentence.....I braked it. Not the first sentence you want to hear but... The nurse also asked if she could call 2 things by name. Yeah I wish. She can point to just about anything...name it...and ASK FOR IT! :) The only question I couldn't answer was, Can she stack 2-3 blocks? Honestly, we had never tried. So we came home and of course she can. So for a 1 and 1/2 year old we are doing great!! The only bad part of the appt. was the 2 shots that she needed to get. She screamed so loud but after about 2 min. she was good! Now we just need to get her to walk down the aisle for Craig and Shantelle's wedding this weekend. Many pictures next week of the wedding!

Our new kitty..."Mr. Bigglesworth"

18 Months Old!!

Compilation Video!!

Shantelle's Shower!!

These are pics of Shantelle's Bridal Shower! Thanks to everyone that helped to make it such a successful shower! For those of you that don't know, Shantelle is marrying my step-brother Craig! Even though she has been a part of the family for many years now they are going to make it official October 13th!! We had a great time planning and enjoying the shower. Now....we're getting ready for the wedding! The two babies in alot of the pics are Kylie (my cousin Matt and his wife Shawna's daughter) and Aidan (my cousin Marissa and her husband Ben's son) It's so fun to get the three of them together! Thanks for the Great pics girls!!

Wisconsin Dells!!

Thank you to everyone that made our trip to Chicago and Wisconsin Dells so much fun! For those of you don't know about our vacation, Andie and I flew into Chicago and then we went up to Wisconsin Dells ("the Water Park Capital"). We (my mom, the Close's and the Slack's) rented a cabin for a long weekend at the Wilderness. It is a huge hotel with numerous indoor and outdoor waterparks. Andrea loved the water. It was a Blast!!! Hopefully we're going to make this a yearly tradition. After the Wilderness Andie and I went back to my mom's house and stayed for a few days. It was a great week!! Thank you Everyone!!!

Cute new Pics!

1st trip to Akron Zoo!

We went swimming at Aunt Lisa's mom's house! It was so much fun! Do you like my goggles? HAHA! A couple pics are from Libbie's 1st bday. We can't believe she is already 1. She loved her cake, can't you tell? The other pics are from the Akron Zoo! Mommy and uncle Nick took me to the zoo. Unfortunately daddy had to work so he couldn't come along. I loved seeing the animals! You should see how big the kitties were!

ummm....cheerios

Peak A Boo!!

1st Trip to Chuck E Cheese

This was our 1st trip to Chuck E Cheese. We did have alot of fun although you can't really tell from these pics!

OH MY!!

Talking at 14 Months!

Talking at 4 Months!

1st black eye!

I took this picture just this morning June 4th. Andrea fell down yesterday morning in our living room and hit her head on the coffee table. Looks like we'll have to get rid of the coffee table. We spent hours yesterday in the emergency room b/c after Andie fell she wouldn't walk on her left heel. She was tiptoeing all around. They took x-rays and told us that it was probably just a bruise. They said to ice it if she'll let us and mainly just watch her. Today she woke up and is now putting some pressure down on her heel. Thank goodness! Isn't she so cute, even with a black eye? :)
The bottom pic is just a cute pic I included of Andrea in her new hairstyle...pigtails. She doesn't really like them but she sure does look adorable!

Random Pics!

These were taken in May. The 1st pics are Andie's new passion.....Destroying My House and everything else in her path...haha! Funny but true. The rest of the pics are from our latest trip to Chicago over Mother's Day! The trip was great! We found out that Andrea no longer likes her carseat! Sorry Uncle Nick, I know it was a LONG trip! Although we had a GREAT time I heard everyone is liking the "Quiet" that was restored when we left. We got to see Jake and Zac play baseball, too bad we don't have any pics of that. The boys are great at b-ball. Zac even got the "Gameball." Andie got to play outside ALOT! Andie had her 1st trip to the petting zoo and she got to play at a really fun park which you can see from the pics! I also wish that we had some pics of Aunt Kathie. She was always trying to give Andie a new food to freak her out, like "pop rocks". Aunt Kathie, what did I tell you. The kid will eat anything and she's not scared of anything!! HAHA!! Thanks for reading about our latest adventure! Stay tuned for Many More!!