Happy Friday!

Halloween is right around the corner! And I am so excited! On Wednesday, Abigail went to her first zoo trip with her play dates Vivian and Bella! It was so much fun! She absolutely LOVED it! I enjoyed it too! With the exception of being bit by 20 mosquitoes! Ugh! They love me so much! I love taking Abby places. She enjoys it very much and I cannot wait to take her to the pumpkin patch hopefully tomorrow. I was suppose to go with her and her play date Vivian in the beginning of October but there were last minute plans so we ended up not going. Since this is the last weekend of October..I am just going to take Abigail, her daddy, and I! The weather has gotten a lot cooler and it rained a bit yesterday so I am so loving the feeling of "its almost the holidays". I love the holidays and I can't wait to show Abigail what its like to have a wonderful Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween and New Years!

Growing up, I've never had that pleasure in celebrating holidays with my family. They never really cared about it. It was more of a "here's some money, Merry Christmas" and that was it. I want to show Abigail many things in life and that's the love and attention that I want to give her..something I didn't have. I want to show her what its like to have a huge Christmas tree, with limited presents this year of course, eggnog (LOL), Christmas lights, wonderful Christmas songs (which btw I always listen to on the radio every YEAR haha), and just the many Christmas movies out. She will be 9 months by then and I know many of you might think I am crazy because she is pretty young now but I just want to do all of those things whether she understands the concept now or not. I want to continue doing it throughout the years and until I grow old and gray! I have no problem with embarrassing myself, being weird, being crazy all for my baby girl. Its the one thing I've always wanted in life and never received and I will make sure I put in 150% of my efforts to show her how a mother should be.

Abigail currently has two Halloween costumes. I made a mistake of buying an elephant costume at full price and I do truly regret it. They have so much costumes on clearance now its ridiculous. I did make her another costume for $6 bucks which is solely why I regretted buying the first one. She wore her second costume, which btw is much cuter than the first but I love both anyway, to the zoo! We took lots of pictures and I just got them developed yesterday. No, I didn't have no fancy, shamancy camera. I took them and just wanted to print them out for her scrapbook and memories. Her dad did want her to take professional Halloween costumes at JC Penny's. Well semi-"professional" LOL! But I'm not sure if its worth it. She has two costumes and I want to take full advantage of using both of them in pictures so we might just do it. I have family in a different state who are dying to receive hard copies of her pictures! I have been so bad at keeping those.

HAPPY EARLY HALLOWEEN!!

Until next time...

xoxo,
Nicole & Abigail