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We hope you enjoy getting to know us through our pictures. It's a glimpse into our family and daily life. We are so excited for the day when we have another little one to join the fun and start sharing memories as a family of 4.

Our home is full of fun and silliness mixed with the right amount of serious when needed!

Meredith and her cousin taking care of their baby cousin. It's such a blessing to have friends you call cousins :)

We love holidays - any reason to celebrate and have a party is good for us! Here is Meredith eating green spaghetti on St. Patricks day.

Making Dandelion/rock/mud/stick soup is the best way to spend a day during spring break - having a cousin to be your co chef is even better.

Meet Gilly the gold fish! You should have seen the sparkle in Meredith's eye when she received him for her birthday! It was hard to be patient and let him acclimate - she watched and waited and then caught him with her hands once we let him out.

If you walk into our home - you are very likely to find some kind of craft/art project happening. On this day we were finger painting!

Here is Meredith preparing to be a fantastic big sister!

Meredith was so excited to go trick or treating with all her cousins this year. Her excitement was doubled when she found out her cousins doggie was also dressed as a "ladybug" for Halloween. She said "look, we are twins".

Playing in the splash pad

Mom and Meredith being silly

Showing off how many eggs she found at the Easter egg hunt.

Here is Meredith playing outside with some of her cousins. There is plenty of love and room for another little one in there!

Flying a kite on a perfect day.

These two have way to much fun on photo booth. They love taking silly pictures and sending them to Uncle Chad (Mitch's brother). Meredith is so excited while waiting for a funny photo back from him.

Mitch and Meredith painting ceramics at the clay spot while mom was away at a craft show.

Meredith will run up and declare it's "snuggle buddy time" - she doesn't sit still for long - but those few minutes are priceless.

Meredith loved digging out the guts.

Megan & Mitch enjoying a Football Game, our tickets are up high, but it makes for a great overall view.

Waiting for a hot doughnut at Krispy Creme

Doesn't every little girl have a best frog friend - she caught him while playing at grandma's - they played for hours - he would do tricks and then she decided he needed a bath!

Meredith loves to be outdoors - her Uncle loves to take her fishing! We are so excited to watch her teach a sibling all these fun things she has learned to enjoy.

Here is Meredith and a cousin learning how to make their grandma's famous biscuits for Sunday Lunch - I think there was more flour on the flour than the counter.

Meredith was very excited to help drive the boat - she wanted it to go faster!

We are lucky to have a great zoo where we live. She enjoys feeding the giraffe, watching the gorilla, holding the larakeets, riding the carousel, riding the ponies, feeding the goats and walking the aquarium.

Here is Megan playing "just dance" with her nieces and sister. Meredith was super impressed that her mom was named "dancing queen".

Meredith holding hands with her cousin as they watched the horse while waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to be ready.

Our children will receive a new ornament every year. This is a tradition carried over from both of our childhoods. Here is Meredith putting on this years ornament.

Has the Valentine Phantom ever visited your house - he comes to our house every year, leaving a bag of goodies but vanishes before you see him. (fun tradition carried on from Mitch's childhood)

I woke a one morning and Mitch announces "I bought us tickets to go see Keane".We sat in the balcony. I said "are you sure this is where you want to be". Mitch says "we're only young once, lets go down there". Stood all 3 hours 10 feet from stage!

All of Mitch's family decided to have a gingerbread house competition this past Christmas. Those of us that lived close got together and made a village! We love that technology keeps us connected with the others who live away!

Megan decided to take Meredith in the early morning to see the raising of the circus tent - perfect opportunity to see the animals too!

Here is Meredith stomping down the sand in her new sand box with Mitch, Grandpa and Uncle Robby. They worked hard to build this perfect sand box for her birthday - she's in love!

We are a family of traditions - Old ones, new ones - one of those includes black friday shopping for Megan, her mom and sisters - here we are eating while waiting for the next store to open - things can get pretty silly at 3:00 am no matter what age!

Megan loves to repurpose things. Here you see part of Meredith's crib is on the wall where we use it to show off art work and pictures. This little blue kitchen she made for Meredith out of an old tall, brown dresser.

Here is Megan and Meredith making sugar pecans - they are so yummy. These were made with pecans hand picked and shelled by us! Meredith was a big helper with the whole process.

Here is Meredith and her bff playing in the soft green grass as they waited to hear Phillip Phillips perform.

Here is Mitch and Meredith riding the boat at Niagara Falls. We love having the ability to travel and see many neat things.

Meredith dancing with her friend at downtown disney. We love to dance!

Megan and Mitch having fun at a concert!

Meredith is not too sure about sitting with Santa

Visiting the statue of liberty

We were having a "spoon" challenge after a big family dinner.

Megan and Meredith

These two like to tease mama - at bed time as we walk to the bed room one of them will say "was that the doorbell" or something made up. As Megan turns to see they run and beat her to the room. Megan says "you tricky woo hoo's". She giggles so much.

This year we decided to go pick out our own tree at a farm and cut it down. It was so fun but hard to pick which one would be perfect, but we found one that fit our house and collection of ornaments just right.

Here we are serving at a church Christmas party. We love to be a part of things and involved.

Meredith went through a "Halloween" phase. This started at an appropriate time in October, but lasted beyond Christmas. She always picked out "spooky" books from the library.

blowing dandelions with mimi

123 Swing

We love that Meredith loves everything pink, sparkly and princess plus playing sports and catching bugs. This pictures shows her versatility.

We had some friends visit from out of town. We decided to take the little girls geo caching. They were so excited for a treasure hunt and thrilled when they found it! We had to promise to take them again the next day.

Mitch helping Meredith fly the kite

Megan and Meredith picking out books at the library.

Meredith riding in style while finding the perfect Christmas tree

Cousins on Mitch's side of the family!

Megan loves to plan events and parties. Decorating is her favorite part - Here is a picture from Meredith's 3 yr old party. It was a "you are my Sunshine" outdoor party with her friends.

Here is Meredith and her cousins from Megan's side of the family. Cousins make the perfect friends - There are many Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and cousins waiting for another little one to join the fun.

Meredith enjoyed carving pumpkins with her cousins this year. I love her face in this picture - pure happiness!