18 months old!

This cute, adorable girl turned 18 months old on October 27th! Can't believe I am just getting around to posting it. Well, at the rate I post everything else, I guess I can believe it!

At 18 months old she came in at:

31 3/4 inches and 24 lbs 5 oz

We still can't believe how fast the time has gone. She is changing so much everyday. She brings us so much joy and is such a blessing! We love her so much!

Thanksgiving

Although very late, I am at least proud of myself for getting this done before Christmas. I love Thanksgiving and the reminder that not just at this time of year, but throughout the whole year we have so much to be thankful for. With the move to Tennessee, this Thanksgiving was a little different. We had only been in our house about a week before we had to pack up and head to Ohio for the holiday. We were thankful that we were able to find our suitcases before we left! Traveling for Thanksgiving means lots of driving and we tried to fit in seeing as many friends and family as possible.To split the drive up a little, we drove to Cincinnati on Wednesday and then on Thanksgiving Day we drove further north to Marysville, Ohio to visit with lots of John's extended family.

Lots of the Weiss clan playing Apples to Apples!

Reagan and her cousin Kyle!

Reagan in her Thanksgiving jammies!

While in Cincinnati, our good friends Kirk and Paula put us up most nights at their house. This meant Reagan had a friend to play with.

Reagan trying to use Hazel's seat!

Hazel is so much bigger than when we moved away a few months ago!

Reagan likes to make sure all of Hazel's toys work properly!

On Friday we visited with our old neighbors and good friends Steve and Laura and got to see their two adorable daughters! I'll try to get some pictures with them at Christmas!

On Saturday we headed over to my Dad's house to celebrate Thanksgiving. For some reason I didn't take any pictures so I stole the following off of his facebook account. I figured it was only fair since he is always taking pictures of Reagan that I post! :)

Reagan, Alex and Eli!

I guess the turkey did in both Josh and Teddy!

Teddy, Papaw, and Reagan!

All the boys eating!

Hi Teddy!

Reagan found a new toy she likes!

We finished up by visiting our old church on Sunday and having lunch with our good friends Erin and Jeremy and their two kiddos, Kate and James! We stayed very busy during the whole trip. Unfortunately,  it rained the whole drive home which made for a much slower trip. We sure were glad to be home!

Bye Bye Apartment, Hello House!

When John first moved down to Cleveland in July his company put him up in a furnished two bedroom apartment. We were extremely thankful for this because it meant we didn't have to pay rent and a mortgage (while we were waiting for our house in Ohio to sell) and it meant we didn't have to move any large furniture down here. The apartment worked really well when it was just John down here. When Reagan and I moved down here in September (after we were blessed with a quick sale of our house in Ohio) the apartment started to feel a little cramped. I can't believe how much other "stuff" we brought into a furnished apartment! Even though we were a little cozy, we were still very thankful for the apartment because it allowed us to save up a little bit more money for our house.

When we closed on our house in mid October, we were again thankful to have the apartment to stay at while we did a little painting and got the hardwood floors refinished. We were anxious to finally move into our house in mid November. Unfortunately, the move came at the same time as a  big software conversion at work for John, so he was a little overwhelmed and tired! Now if we can just get someone to finish unpacking all our boxes. Moving makes you realize how much unneeded junk you have!

Our Apartment! Lucky number 7!

Nice and cozy inside!

Look closely and you can see Reagan!

Reagan is ready to help out!

Before we painted the dining room!

After...and before the floors had their final stain on them. Next project is to get rid of that really ugly chandelier!

Speaking of projects...we don't have a shortage of them in this house. We've painted a lot of the house, but our house was built when wallpaper was popular. Needless to say, we aren't real fans of it!

Yes, this wallpaper is on ever inch of wall in the kitchen...including a closet (which does have doors, they were off while we did the floors). I'm not really looking forward to taking all this down, but it will look so much better when it is gone!

And who wouldn't want wallpaper all over the bathroom also!

And so this bathroom doesn't feel left out either, it has some more "pretty" wallpaper! Not to mention the wonderful mirror this bathroom also has.

While there are many projects we eventually want to get to, we really love this house. I think the best part is the woods behind the backyard. These are much prettier to look at instead of another house! We feel very blessed to be living where we are. There is also plenty of room for visitors anytime someone is coming this way!

And just because I know you want to see a few pictures of Reagan, I've included some.

This is what happens when you get in a fight with the bathtub, and the bathtub wins.

 

You'll be seeing this cute picture again when you get a Christmas card from us! Hopefully that will be before Christmas!

I didn't get a lot of pictures from Thanksgiving, but I'll try to get the ones I did take posted soon...as in before Christmas hopefully!

YMCA Fall Festival and Trick or Treating

So before it is Thanksgiving, I figured I better get the pictures of Halloween posted! On the Friday before Halloween the YMCA hosted a fall festival. It was free, and an excuse for Reagan to wear her costume so we figured why not go. Like most things, Reagan would have had more to do if she was just a little bit older (like go in all the giant bouncy things), but they still had a room set up with toddler games which she seemed to be just fine with!

Trying on the costume. Reagan wasn't a big fan of the hood part!

Hood has quickly been removed and she is checking to make sure she can still dance in her costume!

Reagan really likes to pull the tunnel apart!

Cutest little duck butt I've seen!

Highlight prize of the night...cool yellow sunglasses!

Wearing her new shades to put the rings on tail!

Reagan's first tattoo!

Slinky's are always so much fun!

This is just what it looks like...TROUBLE! As you can see Reagan even wanted to wear her sunglasses with her jammies!

Since moving to Cleveland we have learned that Halloween is kind of a big thing around here. We aren't big into celebrating it, but it is fun to dress up Reagan and this year she was big enough to do a little trick or treating. One street in town is the most popular so we decided to check it out this year. We figure in the future we will probably be passing out candy at our house and taking Reagan around the neighborhood so this year was a good one to check it out. We went pretty early and I'm glad we did because it was already pretty busy when we got there and we heard it only gets busier as the night goes on.

"Look at that!" Notice Elmo in the background...Reagan has recently discovered him so maybe that will be her costume next year...unless she has moved onto another phase!

So cute!

Trick or Treating with Daddy!

If only you could see how cute it was when her butt actually waddled as she walked!

Mommy's turn!

Taking a little rest after trick or treating!

Mommy and her favorite little girl!

She took a sucker from her bucket and opened it all by herself!

That sucker sure was yummy..until Mommy took it away so I could take a bath! What a mean Mommy!

Reagan had fun carrying her treat bucket (she only dumped it a few times) and telling everyone that a duck says "quack, quack". We even made her walk most of the time so she would be nice and tired when we got home. Unfortunately, that little girl has so much energy that it didn't seem to phase her much! Lots of fun was had by all though.

Hopefully soon I will find time to blog about our new house (which we are finally living in). We are also looking forward to seeing lots of friends and family next week for Thanksgiving!

Apple Festival and Church Fall Festival

Okay, I admit...it has been too long since my last post. (at least for anyone anxious to see pictures of Reagan) At least there is facebook though and I have posted some recent pictures there. My goal was really to try and post on the blog at least once a week. I guess I didn't really succeed with that! I have lots of excuses but I won't bore you with those.

So a few weeks ago we checked out the Apple Festival in town with some new friends. Honestly, we weren't too impressed. For being the apple festival there wasn't much "apple" stuff. One small booth selling baked apple goods (which by the way the fried apple pies were pretty good) and some politician was giving out apples! Other than that it was your typical festival booths and after about 20 minutes we had seen everything there was to see. We did find a couple fun things for Reagan to do though!

Pony Ride...although it seemed more like a horse than a pony to me!

She loved riding and wasn't scared at all. Guess we need to go to Aunt Yvette's house to ride her horse sometime!

Riding in the barrel train!

So cute that just her head stuck out!

We decided we could have more fun at the park and headed there when we left for playtime and lunch! Too bad I didn't get any pictures of Reagan with her new friend Kaylee!

We also checked out the fall festival our church had a few weeks ago.  Reagan had lots of fun on the inflatable bouncy thing ( I am pretty sure that is the official name for it!), checking out all the animals, going on a pony ride and taking a hayride.

She loved this thing!

The slide was definitely her favorite. Wish I had a picture of her going head first. She thought that was hilarious!

Not too sure about that goat!

She was going in for a pet here, not a hit, as it would appear!

Look..we are not forcing her to pet an animal..she is doing it on her own!

Now this looks more like a pony ride! Two times now..Reagan is an expert now, right?!

 Mommy and Reagan on the hayride!

Other things that have kept us busy, and which I hope to blog about eventually are the YMCA Fall Festival, the purchase of our new house (which we hope to move into in a few weeks) and Trick or Treating!