Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Audrey's visit

Right before Thanksgiving Tori's cousin Audrey came to visit (with Ryan and Amber, of course). Tori and Audrey are basically the same age, give or take a few weeks. It was very cute that from the moment they saw each other they were then inseparable. Anytime they would be away from each other for a more than a few seconds one or the other would start saying, "Where'd Tori go or Where'd Audrey go?" and when they found each other again they would both yell, "Tori!! and Audrey!!" Grandma Margie sent some monkeys with matching slippers for them to play with while they were together and below are some cute pictures of them holding up their monkeys and kissing their monkeys.



Below Tori and Audrey are riding the carousel at our mall, which they did quite a few times and both really enjoyed.
Amber was also nice enough to bring matching outfits for Tori and Audrey, which they looked adorable in and looked like they were sisters instead of cousins.
Tori and Audrey's favorite thing to do was to push each other around on Tori's car and run into walls while Audrey yelled, "Watch out!"

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Baby Olivia's visit and trip to IL

Tori's cousin Olivia came to visit along with her mom, Danielle and Grandma and Grandpa back at the end of September. Tori loved her adorable little cousin.
She loves babies right now so she had a lot fun giving her plenty of toys and giving her "under-doggies" on the baby swing.


We love any excuse to ride the carousel at the mall, so we did that a few times while Grandma and Grandpa were here.

We also took everyone to the apple orchard to pick apples. Tori loved riding on Grandpa's shoulders and kept saying, "I want to touch the sky, I can't reach it." It was a bad year for apples at the orchard, but that didn't stop Grandpa and John from finding quite a few (I think it was actually more fun, because it really was a challenge to find a good apple.)


And, of course we had to get some of the delicious apple turnovers they make and Grandma was generous enough to share hers with Tori.

All of us, then drove to Illinois to show off cute little Olivia to all our cousins and Great Grandma and Grandpa. Above Tori is getting pushed on the swing by mom's cousins, Mandy and CG. She just loved playing with them and after we went home kept asking, "Where'd Mandy and CG go?"
While in Illinois, we visited a farm that had goats you could feed, a fun maze, an obstacle course and pony rides. Tori loved it all and was very upset when it was time to go. Below she is having her very first real pony ride. I was impressed that she wasn't scared at all, but loved it.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

More cute outfitts

Here are just some pictures of Tori in cute outfits. Grandmas and friends have been very nice and have given Tori such adorable clothes. I want to make sure I get pictures of all of them, because she is growing so fast.

Lately, she's gotten a little more picky about what she wears, namely because she has started really being able to dress herself and she thinks that's the coolest thing ever.