Welcome Sweet Baby!

My brother Corey and his wife Alisa welcomed their sweet baby into the world early this morning. Elsie Jayne Crowell weighed 5 pound 10 ounces and 17 1/2 inches. We are so excited to have her in the family. Sophie can't wait to hold her... I can't either!

our Fabulous Fairy

When we were trying to decide what Sophie should be for Halloween. We thought..well she is all girl so it has to be something girly. So we found this costume that had her name written all over it. After we brought it home she wanted to wear it immediately and has wanted to wear it daily since. So I think we picked out a winner. Who knew Halloween could be so fun for a 1 year old???

B O S T O N

Ben had some time off school so we decided to head up to Boston and visit my brother and sister-in-law. If you know Corey or Alisa you know they are the perfect tour guides and that they were. I can't believe how much we saw! They truly showed us such a good time. We mostly loved just being with them, Sophie loved seeing them and even started to call Alisa Mommy! We flew into New Hampshire so we could go to Sharon Vermont and see the birthplace of Joseph Smith. It was breath taking!! The leaves were so beautiful. We then went to Boston and visited Lexington and Concord saw all the history sites, walked the freedom trail, ate yummy pizza in the Italian district, had a picnic at Walden Pond, took Sophie to the Boston Children's Musem, had so much fun having dinner with our good friend's the Stucki's, went to a Red Sox play-off game, had Burdick's rich hot chocolate, picked apples and had donuts and cider at Honey-Pot Hill Orchard, walked around Harvard Campus (Ben even got to attend one of my brother's classes), ate a traditional Boston dinner (Lobstah), went to Newport, RI and visited the unbelievable mansion's up against the ocean and running along the Charles river with my brother in the morning (it was so pretty and so much fun to run with him in the city). All and all we had an amazing trip..thanks to Corey & Alisa. We love you guys so much and can't thank you enough!! We now love BOSTON!

The leaves were so pretty Soph liked eating them...Yum!

It was so cute to watch Sophie pick apples.. she loved it! She would giggle every time she got one.

Just for G & G

Here are some overdue updated photo's for Sophie's grandparents.

Sophie is currently:

*Copying everything we do....it is a little scary

*Obsessed with her dada! Since Ben was gone most of last month Sophie now has a complex about her dad leaving her. Every morning the first thing she says when she wakes up is dada and continues to say it all day until he comes home. Then when he is home she will not let him leave her sight.

*Loving her movies including: Cinderella, Barbie and Little Mermaid

*Oddly enough she is still obsessed with shoe's. She puts on her little shoes and gets mine and says "Let's Go!" She thinks if we have our shoe's on we can leave at any given moment.

*Loves to dance and jump around the house. She can shake it pretty good!

*Is too much fun!! We love our little Soph and don't know what we would do without her. She brings so much fun and joy into our home, we are so lucky to have her!!