Happy Halloween!

2 Weddings and a Birthday!

Most important, Julia turned 8!

She had a great day, with a soccer game and a karaoke party. Her present from us was a trip to Seattle. This Saturday she will be baptized and she is so excited.

Last summer I was thinking, no one we know is getting married. We hadn't been to a wedding in awhile, but in the last month we went to 2. The first was in Santa Fe over Labor Day weekend. My friend from middle school, Katie, got married. It was a very memorable day, during the Indian ceremony, we ended up in a huge rain storm.

Then, last weekend my cousin Ariana got married in Seattle.

I took Julia and Natalie and we had a great time. We spent a lot of time visiting with family and touring the city. Julia loved every minute of it and wanted to stay longer.

After the ceremony

The reception was at the Space Needle.

Ariana with my nephew Joaquin and Julia.

Natalie had a good time too!

Allison is 3!

Allison turned 3 this month. It is hard to believe, it seems like we just brought her home from the hospital. We were busy with school and swim team when her actual birthday came around so we had to do more of a birthday week long celebration.

Allison is my wild child, she knows what she wants, when she wants it and how she wants it. She keeps me on my toes, I think I could write an entire blog just about the crazy and fun things she does on a daily bases, that is if she would let me be on the computer for more than 5 minutes at a time.

Here are some pictures from her birthday week.

Allison @ Build-a-Bear, building her Blizzard Bear that she named Panda.

She wanted a "Be Our Guest" party, here she is dressed as Princess Belle.

Eating her birthday cupcake.

When Julia turned 3 we took her on her birthday to get her ears pierced. We thought we would continue the tradition and take Allison on her 3rd birthday. She was grumpy and crying before we even started and the woman piercing her ears was not helping. She took forever to find the earring and to set up the process, so half and hour later, we got this wonderful birthday picture.

Her Name...

An explanation of how Natalie got her name: We named are first three with names that we liked, and more importantly names that we agreed on. After we has Allison I realized that our kids initials were J, E, A and that if we had a forth and their initial was N, that would spell Jean. Why Jean, well that is my middle name. I thought we would have a boy next so I was trying to sell Stephen on Nathan or Nolan, he was not interested. Good thing we had a girl! Girls N names are kind of limited since Stephen doesn't like any name that he thinks is "made-up" so we finally agreed on Natalie and gave her the middle name Jean since she completed the name and it is a family name.

Here are the latest pictures of Miss Natalie Jean, taken this morning.

She is getting nice and chubby, and I love it.

First Day of School

Cordray Academy started school today and my kids were so excited. Being pregnant and then having a newborn our summer wasn't very exciting, so I think they were ready to see their cousins again and have something to do everyday. Allison joined in by packing her backpack and lunch also.

Freedom!

When I figured out that my due date was July 1st I never really thought that this baby would come on the 4th of July, but that is what she did.

On the 4th of July @ 6:21am

Natalie Jean Cordray

declared her independence!

She weighed 7lb 10oz and was 20.5 inches long.

The kids are totally in love with their new little sister. They always want to hold her and they fight over who's turn it is.

Going Home!

More pictures to come.

A busy night for the Tooth Fairy.

So I know it has been I long time since I posted, but I have a good excuse, my computer crashed. When I say crashed I mean my hard drive is gone. Thanks to some smart and helpful family members I now have a functioning computer, Yeah!

So my kids were so excited about this event that they asked me to put it on the blog.

Evan lost his first tooth, finally! On the same day Julia lost her 5th tooth. The tooth fairy was very busy that night!

Alli wanted to show off her teeth too!

Still a Girl

We had another ultrasound yesterday and we were able to get this 3D image of her face.

Her head was right under my bellybutton so it was hard to get a clear shoot,

but you can make out her eyes, nose and lips.

We still have no name for her, but we are open to suggestions.

It's a....

GIRL! It looks like we are adding another girl to the bunch,

Evan was disappointed that he is not getting a little brother.

But he won't care once she is her, he is a great big brother.

The girls are excited and so are we! Her length 11.75cm

Her Profile

More pix in a few weeks, she was measuring small
so we scheduled another ultrasound.

Family Vacation 2011

This January we decided to take the kids to Disney World before I get huge and it will gets to crazy with a new baby. Allison has been before, but this time she was so excited about everything it was neat to watch her responses. She loved every show or ride she went on, except for Goofy's Barnstormer, which is a very short, but fast rollercoaster. After the ride she said "I don't like that" several times, after every other ride she said "do it again."

Animal Kingdom

Breakfast with Donald

The one day it poured rain and of course our panchos

were back in the stroller, so we all got soaked.

On the Carousel

With Lotso from Toy Story

Princess Tiana and Prince Navine

One of Alli's favorites, Tinkerbell

They were so excited to meet Rapunzel and Fline Ryder

Breakfast with Lilo and Stitch, this was one

of the few non-princess characters that she let near her.

With Mickey, I think she was crying in this one.

Donald in Mexico

Japanese candy maker

Evan refused to take a picture with Anastasia so she gave him a kiss,

which didn't make him very happy.

He cried, then hid, but she kept coming back

and telling him she was going to marry him.

Julia and Evan in the Lion King show

Evan fighting Darth Vader in the Jedi Training Institute.

Mermaid Princess Julia

Tinkerbell Allison

on parade with Piglet

Allison's First Haircut

Julia learning to be a pirate from Jack Sparrow


Allison got to meet her favorite, Belle. She was so happy!

She loved all the princesses.

The teacups

Allison's first ride on TomorrowLand Speedway

The day before we left we took Alli to the doctor

and found out she had a double ear infection,

so this is the face we got for the first few days we were there.