Swimming & Snow

Andy and Elle decided to go swimming at the Y on the coldest day of the year! They had a lot of fun! It snowed today! Since we get snow once every couple of years, it was a pretty big deal! Elle was not too interested since she just saw 10 times as much in NY. Elle is 21 months now! She talks and sings all the time so there is never a dull moment!

Merry Christmas & New Year!

Merry Christmas! Sorry about the delay with posts! It has been a busy December!

Check out all the pics - I put up Elle's 20 Month pic of her in pigtails! I also posted a pic from our cousin Sarah's GA Teach graduation. It was a memorable afternoon!

We had a wonderful Christmas - first at The Barfields and then in Chautauqua NY at Gram's house. We had so much fun and so did Elle! We had a wonderful time playing in the snow!

We wish you all a very Happy New Year and are so blessed to have you in our lives!

Holidays are here

Traveling to Colorado for Thanksgiving and all the fun holiday activities have delayed a blog entry! We had a wonderful week in Boulder for Thanksgiving - almost 30 for dinner at Lindsey and Clays! Check out the pictures!

Fall in Auburn

We had a wonderful fall weekend in Auburn for the homecoming football game and a shower for Lori and Brannon. We had so much fun getting together with some of our collage friends and watching the kids play together! Here are some pictures from the weekend!

Halloween

It rained here Halloween weekend so we had a fun time taking pictures of the kids dressed up with no place to go! Aunt Melissa gave Elle the cutest lion costume! It is so funny how much more fun the parents had seeing the kids dressed up than the kids had actually wearing the costumes! It was an exciting indoor weekend at the Gerdas.

I can feed myself

These days Elle wants to do many things by herself, good things like feeding herself and bad things like running in the street! Things are so exciting here with everything a new learning experience for Elle! She is saying (some of) her ABCs, counting to three and saying really cute things like "Bless you" when anyone sneezes (or burps!).

The Pumpkin Patch & Baby Dedication

We had a memorable weekend! Saturday, Elle went to her first Pumpkin Farm and had fun checking out all the pumpkins even though it was a little chilly! Then, today we had a beautiful afternoon at our church celebrating Elle's Baby Dedication! It was a very poignant event, with great live music, pictures of the kids and an important message. The dedication is the first in many steps on a path to raise Elle to have a relationship with Jesus. It was a very touching event and especially wonderful that Monica, Joe, Jensen, YaYa, Melissa and Drew joined us! It was a beautiful day!