Craft Time!

Halloween is gradually working itself up to be a major holiday! Which is fine b/c I like it and there are lots of fun things we do in the fall leading up to it. Target is decked out in the whole back section of Halloween galore and I noticed the grocery store was already stocking their candy too. So to join in the fun, I (with some guidance from Gracie) made a cute little wreath for our door. I just got a small wire frame wreath, wove in 4 types of Halloween inspired wired ribbon and TA DA! I left most edges of ribbon kinda ragged on purpose to give it that ragged appearance.

Here is my final product:

Guns N Roses and Baby Names

These are for me so I'll never forget to share.

Something special for Gracie to do is to ride in Dada's truck. She gets to sit "up front" and loves having the windows down and they listen to...Guns and Roses Sweet Child O Mine. Yes, that is what she requests and knows the words - seriously. Gracie also loves all forms of musical instruments and lately has wanted to play "a concert". She gets on the coffee table to sing and makes Alan play the Sesame Street guitar and play GNR. Occasionally I get asked to join in on the little tykes xylophone. It's hilarious to me that she loves this song/band so much. Then the other day she comes in while I am on the computer and says we need some tunes - turn on the Guns and Roses. I guess I'll be looking online for a kiddie sized GNR Tshirt for her to sleep in and a poster of Axl Rose and Slash for her room since I doubt she'd fit in at a concert! (j/k about the poster but I really might try to find the t shirt...)

We have started naming our baby dolls. One by one they are getting names. So far we have Sesame Street and Baby Shamall (which comes from Lil Bill I believe). She is consistently referring to these certain dolls by these names so I think they are here to stay. The other night she brought them out to the living room and hugged and kissed them and said you stay here in the nursery - I'm going to Big Church!

4 Fabulous Years!

Happy Anniversary to us! We celebrated 4 years of marriage today. I got a dozen red roses today so of course I was all smiles!

At this time 4 years ago, we were dancing the night away at our reception! Here are a few shots from others that I have saved on this computer.

My pretty cake

Groom's Cake

Our Wedding Party

What a fun night!

The Shrimp

Last night Gracie and I were laying in her bed, prolonging sleep as much as possible. We were counting our family on her fingers...mommy, daddy, gracie and mallary. Then she wanted to count Elaine's family on her other hand, aunt elaine, uncle jeff and the shrimp!!! HAHAHAHA...I don't know what possessed her to call Andrew the shrimp but it was hilarious. We all got a big laugh out of that one!

Oh so cute

I had Mallary's 6 month pictures taken yesterday at Portrait Innovations. I want to post all of my favs, but I am sending them to family so I want there to be a little surprise in the mail.

Fun and Friends

I'm a little behind on posting about birthday parties, playdates with friends and other fun stuff...

So here is a random post to catch us up:
We went to Pump it Up for Gracie's cousins' party:




We helped celebrate sweet little Emma Hensley's 1st Birthday. I linked her mom's posts so you can see how cute the cake and decorations (and birthday girl) were and since my pictures weren't that great here and here.





We had a super fun lunch and playdate with Abby last week. We started off playing at chick fil a, then headed to the mall for a carousel ride, money in the fountain and a cookie! I just want to know why 2 year olds aren't on the Olympic track team b/c not only do the run fast, they seem to go faster with a friend around!





This is how Alan reminds me what he needed for his last BBQ festival. I thought it was funny

Some funnies for me

Just some of the funny things that happened this past weekend that I want to remember...

Friday night/Saturday morning I wasn't sleeping well b/c I was anxiously awaiting the news of Andrew's arrival. Well I finally fell back asleep after receiving the call that he was here and just when I did Mallary decided she wanted to wake and PLAY! Well I tried to quiet her down and tried a bottle, but nope she wanted to play. Then I hear a thud...Gracie fell out of bed. I raced to her room with Mallary and Gracie was all smiles b/c Mallary was awake to check on her. Well we all three laid in Gracie's bed for a pj party. Both girls were laughing at each other and then Mallary would grab Gracie's blankie from her and snuggle with it causing Gracie much distress that somehow her magic would end up with Mallary.

Saturday while we were at the hospital, Gracie insisted on using the potty in the waiting room instead of Elaine's room b/c it was too tall?! So when I got her situated on the waiting room potty she looks up and says, that's good now you can go back and visit Andrew and I'll stay here.

Saturday night Gracie was throwing a fit during her shampoo session. I stopped and said what's the problem and she said - I'M NOT RELAXED YET! (Oh my bad....please, get relaxed)

Monday at Publix, there is a man in a hat...not really a cowboy hat, but Gracie yells (Loudly) I see a cowboy, YEE HAW! It was hilarious.

Mallary suffered from middle grandchild syndrome on Saturday and did everything in her power to keep the attention on her from making silly faces and sounds to kicking and jumping whenever she could.

Just some funnies for me to remember...