All things 'Fall'

Here at the Bishop house we've had a great Fall....enjoyed the typical fall activities, rounded out BSU home game season, and managed to fit in some home makeovers in the process~grin~ 

I was able to be a chaperone with Alison's field trip. We went to Russell Farms, which is the pumpkin patch we usually go to every year. They do a great program for the kiddos and it was a fun brisk day.

"Working" on the farm--milking a cow

Hayride to Pumpkin patch

Her class

 This year Alison bought a decorate your pumpkin witch kit---every witch has a green face, right?! It actually turned out super cute and I'll post pics of that with a Halloween posting

master painter in action

 Her Kindergarten class also had a Fall Party that I was able to go to....TONS of activities that involved pumpkins all while trying to incorporate some Kindergarten skills---math, reading. I LOVE being able to attend activities with her and share in her day to day. 

Here is the pumpkin she chose from Russell Farms, they got to decorate them during the Fall Party. 

 On Thursday of this past week the weather was SO beautiful and Alison was on fall break so we headed out to Conner Prairie for the Headless Horseman. It was a great evening to go. We had a near-tear experience on the wagon ride but she ended up loving it and wanted to see the Headless Horseman again~grin~

Posing with the scarecrow display

 And what's Fall Break without a stay-at-home-in-your-jammies-day-and-lick-the-beaters-clean-moment????

YUM, homemade sugar cookies :)

A Saturday recap

So I'm just a couple weeks behind on posting this....no biggie, right?!

Well, we started out our day by going to Alison's first (and only) Cross Country meet. It was sponsored by the Noblesville Cross Country Team and offered to all the elementary schools. All the kindergartners ran together and did a 1/2 mile loop. She did GREAT! She ran the entire course and was the 5th girl...we were super proud of our girl!!!

On your marks.....

Finished!!!!

From the Cross Country meet we headed to Muncie for the football game. We gave ourselves enough time to hit up the bookstore and stop and see Benny....Alison knows her from pictures but had never seen the real statue.

Clearly a bright and sun-shiny day!

Family photo-op

We were thrilled to have my brother and niece Gabi join us for the game and tailgating festivities. This was Gabi's first college "experience"--the campus, tailgating, football game---she was thrilled with it all :)

A little tailgating football 2 on 2

And who's gonna catch it?????

Right through her fingertips!

Fall = BSU Football

For those of you that know the Bishop's well, you know we adore BSU football!!! It is our favorite thing about fall, come late July, my dad and Chris are already geared up for football season and counting down the weeks. We have SO much fun and have created many, many memories at these games. Thank heavens, Alison has followed right in our footsteps and enjoys the games too!

***warning**** picture overload post

My favorite two fans

Let's go Cardinals!

BSU means so many things to Chris and I and we love creating more and more memories there!

Papa and Meme also get in on the fun, I think Meme finally knows what a firstdown is (after 11 years)

Fifi and Bobby got season tickets with us this year also!

Do you think she's happy we won?!

The famous 'Charlie Cardinal'

Two weeks ago we had a BIG win and we got to go down to the field afterwards to celebrate!

Doing her best cheerleading moves

Chirp, Chirp

September 4, 2012

We have decided to use September 4th as Annie's Day. This is the day we had her memorial service two years ago. We head to "her" park and spend time together as a family and send her birthday balloons, hugs, kisses, and hellos! Not a day goes by that we don't think of her and usually talk about her, Annie is very much Alison's sister to Alison...I think it is the sweetest thing ever!

Birthday balloons, celebrating our 2 year old angel!

There they go, enjoy sweet girl!

Our family....even though it is so extremely hard not to have Annie in our everyday lives we know that we are extremely blessed!

She made it to the "near top" of the pyramid climber...big stuff!!!!

One last trip down the slide

Other end of summer happenings.....

I told you I would spare you the details of all the time I missed blogging but I did want to share these pictures.....

This is the photo we used on facebook to announce our pregnancy! We were so excited to share our news with family and friends. It is a dream come true and we are praying every.single.day for our little miracle...a happy healthy baby! We told Alison also on this day, she was elated. She started crying and I was worried as to why she was crying (she has been an only child for nearly 6 years?!) but she just said through her tears, "I'm just so happy", of course I started crying then also :) She is hoping for a brother and wants to name him Thomas!

My parents got Chris Red vs. Cubs tickets for his birthday and offered their babysitting services ~thank you~ so we could go enjoy the game. We had a fantastic night! We even got these hats free ~score~!!! There is nothing better than baseball in the summertime! To bad our Reds lost :(