Merry Christmas from the Franks!

Lily's first Christmas was a white one!!

Grandma and Lily opening presents

Grandma and her girls

Isabella LOVED Christmas this year! It was so fun with her!

Grammy and Papa and their girls

Santa even made a surprise visit! (i.e. Greg), but don't tell Bella that, she totally believe it was the real Santa.

Lily not so sure.

A little behind...

Pretty sure I haven't blogged in a while. Sorry folks, there is no time. So here's a quick post to update you on the girls..

Lily is 9 months! She is the busiest, craziest, most active baby I have ever seen!! The girl does not stop. She crawls. She cruises. She climbs. She tries to walk. She eats anything you give her. (totally unlike the first) She loves people food and is almost refusing to drink milk or eat baby food. Her favorite game is peek-a-boo and patty-cake. She likes to say mama, baba, and da-da. She does not like the word NO. (and we have to say it to her often). We LOVE this girl!!! Can't believe how fast she is growing.

(Oh yeah...she has 6 teeth)

Then there is this sweet girl. She has definitely been a little sweeter since she is waiting on Santa to come. Not sure what we are going to do after Christmas! Isabella has been working really hard on going to bed by herself. It's still a work in progress, but she has decided to sleep in a tent in her room. Whatever works I say. She continues to amaze me with her amazing vocabulary and wittiness. She is very excited for her special date tomorrow with Daddy. The long awaited Princess and the Frog movie! She has been waiting for weeks to wear her new princess dress to the movie.

This was my attempt to take Christmas pictures of the girls. Individually they turned out good, but I couldn't seem to get the right one of them together. However, I love Lily's expression. Can you see the mischief on her face?

Thanks CK for taking the pics. We love you!

Hi, my name is Lily.

Hi, my name is Lily. I am 8 months old. Can you believe that? I am changing very quickly.

I'm a really happy girl who likes to keep busy.

I am crawling everywhere!

I can pull myself up to a stand. I love to find things on the coffee table, stand up in the bathtub, and pull up on my toy box. (isn't my toosh so cute?)

I really love my daddy. Everyone says we look so much alike. Can you see my new teeth? I have four!

Mommy wants me to slow down. She says I'm growing up too quickly. I'm just trying to keep up with my big sister!

Happy Halloween 2009

Meet Pocahontas, Minnie Mouse, and Julius Ceasar.

Lily's first Halloween and she did pretty good. She made it until about 7:30 and then Daddy took her home.

And here's Pocahantas. This girl LOVES trick-or-treating.

Pocahantas and Super Girl are BFF's.

Couldn't resist this happy girl!

Greg, you're too old to trick-0r-treat.

Some of our sweet neighbors. I love the UPS outfit.

The "big" kids.

Even Michael came out with us for a little awhile.

He loves me...

He loves me not.

This girl had on one of my favorite costumes. She was an eighties girl. Really? Eighties. Are we so old that kids are starting to dress up from our era?

The biggest pumpkins I've ever seen. There are real too!

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!!!!

Pumpkin Patch

Today we loaded up and headed out for the annual trip to the Pumpkin Patch. Although we like the one in Prosper, we ended up going to the one in Flower Mound since Bella wasn't feeling to great. It was CrAzY! There were so many people there. We stayed long enough to snap a few pictures and then we left. Miss Bella found her favorite...Ariel.

Lily's first Pumpkin Patch trip. Today she was very interested in sticking out her tongue.

This picture cracks me up!

Bill and Nita were in town visiting so they joined us.

Our little Pumpkin!