Wishing you all a Happy Holiday Season!

We are getting ready for Christmas. It's been so fun buying presents for Grace this year, and also very hard to stop buying for her. She is loving putting things around her neck right now (don't worry we watch her), she loves beads, scarves, a purse, you name it it's there! She also loves coloring, aka scribbling and looking at her books. She still likes to eat the books, but is now done ripping pages out. Progress! She is also fascinated with getting all her blankets and clothes out of her dresser and baskets and nicely stacks them all over her room. She did start putting them back when I fold them, well she started that today, so fingers crossed. Staying at home for Christmas this year, and my parents are flying in to visit (very excited to see Nana and Colpa)! Adding some updated pics of Grace. I got my Christmas present early, a new camera, and oh how I LOVE IT!!! Now to find time to start scrapbooking all those photos...I do miss scrapbooking. We went a week early to Brownwood to spend Thanksgiving (I was on call over the holiday) with Chris's relatives and it was so much fun. Grace and her cousin Case played nonstop and we had a great time. The Christmas tree has been an experience. The one in the patio room has cluttered on top with the ornaments that need to be free from Grace's hand, while the bottom is very bare, except for a few ornaments she is allowed to take off, put on, take off, put on....you get it! She got to experience her first snow, and she like throwing it. She'd then run to me to wipe that cold stuff off, and then she was off again. Thor was a wild boy running in it and she thought that was just the funniest thing ever!

We're BACK!

Well I don't know what happened, but for some reason I've been blocked out of editing our blog. But, we're back now, so since yall have missed so much, I thought I'd just update ya and add a bunch of pics. Gracie is growing so fast and is just amazing! She is babbling like crazy and slowly, very slowly, saying more words! She is 18 mths and just had her 18 mth check up. She weighs 25 lbs and is 33 inches (she's 95% on her height, I think she's taking after her Colpa). She is all over the place, copying everything we do, loving on Thor to the max, and loves to color (yup we have our first color marks on the wall). She is loving playing dress up with random things lately. She is wearing the Wii remotes, a scarf, beads and whatever else she can find around her neck, has taken over one of my purses and thinks it's fabulous to get cherry lip balm put on her lips. For Halloween she and Thor were both ferocious sharks, and of course we visited the pumpkin patch again this year at our church. We went to NASCAR with our friends and she got to spend the weekend with Gammy. She did great and I only cried 2 times (well I'm only owning up to 2 times). Chris and I were so happy to see her when we got back, and we swear she grew the few days we were gone. She has turned into a little biter at daycare, and we're on our 2nd bite warning! Yikes, praying this stops quickly. She seemed to really bite alot while we were gone and the precious ladies in her room think she was just acting out because she missed us, as she's doing fine now! Fingers crossed! I cannot believe the year is almost over, but we're very excited for Christmas. She loves to go in stores and see the lights on the trees, so this should be a fun year! We're also very excited that Gracie is going to have a cousin. My sister in law and her husband (Carrie and Matt) are expecting their own little angel, and we're very excited! Good luck you two, we love you! We send our love to you all, and I promise I'll be on top of it now that we're back up and running.

More cuteness!

Just random cute pics of our sweetie, but take close attention to her newest trick. When she wants to go outside and we aren't paying attention to that DEMAND, she hangs from the door knobs! Part little girl, part monkey!

Lower temps brings more outdoor fun

Gracie loves to be outside, and like her mother loves to have her shoes off. Poor Chris he's going to be paying for pedicures for the rest of his life (bad for him, good for Gracie and I)! Gracie has a car that her Aunt Jolene got for her and she loves to drive it and get in and out and in and out and in and out of it! She also likes to throw the ball for Thor to fetch, as well as for her daddy to fetch, ha ha! Gracie really enjoys water too, which is why she emptied Thor's water tub and played in it! Poor Thor, his life will never be the same!