Spring Photoshoot

I LOVE Spring! It is literally my favorite time of year. I love the newness of life it symbolizes-that everything was dead but comes alive again. I love when the trees bud and the birds chirp--Hold that--most birds minus the most annoying red cardinal that lives in our neighborhood that has convinced himself that he can fly through our windows? I'm not sure but he runs into our windows every morning, sometimes I think just to spite me.

I was hoping the spring forward time change would be great since the sun comes up an hour later I thought maybe Gabs and I could sleep in an extra hour...nope. She decided to wake up an hour before she normally wakes up which means it's two hours before she would normally wake up without the time change?! We'll work on that one. I don't think it's right to be up before the sun.

Gabby and I had a little photo shoot on a beautiful 70 degree day!! (Yet it's snowing today?! Seriously.)

I don't know why, but I love watching her sit up from behind her. She's so cute!!

When she discovered there are leaves on the ground.

She thought it was funny that it would crackle in her hands :)

Of course everything in the mouth!

Right before bedtime with Daddy. Instead of "winding her down for the night" He gets her all rowelled up!!  

We are a week away from being 9 months!!!! I love this age! She is soo much fun discovering the world, recognizing people and knowing who they are (and sometimes don't know who they are) Crawling everywhere--she's drawn lines for herself. She won't crawl on the hardwood floors--I'm dreading the day that line will be crossed. She has decided she has to have a bite of whatever I am eating--makes me want to watch my diet. Her favorite movie is still Cloudy with a chance of meatballs, but she likes a new show!! Ni hao kai lan--it's about a little chinese girl. So cute! Until next time!! T-Minus 15 days till our girls trip to Seattle to see Tara and P!!!!!!!!!!!! I CANNOT WAIT to get out there! :)

Gabby Crawling!!!

I really need to work on this whole blogging thing. I can't believe it has already been almost a month since my last post!

Well Gabby is officially crawling! And I thought she was everywhere when she rolled across the room....To think she is just going to get faster and eventually find the stairs..Lord help me :)

Just to give you an idea she no longer lays still for diaper changes...

She would rather show off her new skills...

Especially when Daddy is changing us...He is a tad bit dramatic when it comes to changing poopy diapers LOL I have a video, but it's being dumb and won't upload. 

Needless to say my sweet little baby girl is turning into a little ham! Don't believe me? Check this face out!

Here is my little super star showing off her motor skills. 

I've been having to swat her little hand lately(breaks my heart, but she usually just laughs at me)....Her new favorite toy is air vents and electrical cords.
That is all for today. It's been a lazy stay at home Monday due to a double ear infection and wicked cough. Praying we get over this fast!

The Hope of Glory

As I was sitting here putting my daughter to sleep I was reading Colossians 1 and something really struck me that I think is worth sharing. Read the entire chapter it's so good. 

1:26-27

"the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the saints.

To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."

The mystery is simply Christ IN us. To many of us think that WE are sharing Christ with OUR lives when, it's simply Christ revealing Himself through us. It's time for us believers to allow Him to do that. He's coming back for a purified bride, and I'm sad to say that most of us are not ready for Him. 

If you do not believe in God or pronounce yourself a "Christian" I just want to say I am sorry if you have gotten a distorted and twisted view of Christians--people who say they are something, but act completely different. It's not about being a "good" person. It's simply admitting to God that we are wicked, sinful, and lost with out Him, and we need Him in us so that we can be seen as righteous before the Almighty God on judgement day. However, Jesus Christ is GOOD and if His spirit is truly in us we will talk like he talks, act like he acts, and live like he lives. 

To my fellow believers. Either be for Christ or don't be. Please don't ruin my witness and testimony with your wishy-washy life. God cannot stand a lukewarm believer--in fact He would actually rather you be against Him than sometimes for Him/somtimes against Him. God CANNOT be mocked. Just like a farmer reaps what he sows, you will reap what you sow with your life. 

Revelation 3:15-16 "I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth."

Galations 6:7 "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows."

I just was so moved by this one thing that I have known and read so many times--but see that people are simply missing it--I had to share. 

On a lighter note, Gabby is growing soo fast!! She will be 8 months in 11 days...I cannot believe it. To catch you up she is saying Da da, MA MA YEAHHHH :), Na Na, Pa Pa, La La (I think this is Bella--we've been rehearsing names and this is what came out when we said her name) Tara is still Da da lol--so is Josh and P. 

She ate lasagna for the first time Wednesday night and acts like she is eating something sour like a lemon. Her face is seriously priceless.

She's still crawling backwards and rolling to places-but she is everywhere!! Her favorite movie is "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs" I seriously watch this movie between 3-5 DAILY. I know every word and have seen every hidden humorous moment.

She is already in 12 mo. clothes. And those are actually 18 mo--crazy. I know.

7 months and counting

So I created this blog so I will remember all of the little things that Gabby does and when, and I haven't been doing a very good job.

Just to catch you up she has two teeth now on her bottom gums.

There they are!! LOL She is so cute I can't take it sometimes :) 

We're not crawling yet, but she can roll anywhere and everywhere she wants to. She gets up on her knees and will rock back and forth and then bites the dust, but hey--she'll get it.

She says 3 words now--Da da, Ba ba, and Pa Pa. I only have "Da Da" on video right now--enjoy :)

As you can see she tries very hard to sit straight up, and if she has a pillow to grab on to she will. 

She is obsessed with her Jumper. Thank goodness that creative people invented those for moms like me. I greatly appreciate it :) 

Now for the biggest news! As I was cleaning my kitchen and vacuuming my stairs I hear Gabby crying and just whining because she wants my attention and in the middle of her sweet little cry she says "Ma Ma" followed by more crying. So glad I'm the only one she says my name while crying Haha!! Well at least she said it :) 

I cannot believe my little lady is 7 months old already!! She is growing way too fast for me! I think it's time to start baby proofing the house! 

Home Sweet Home

I can't believe our family trip is already over...Time is going to go way to fast when we all get together. I can't wait to go back and see Washington during a pretty season though ;)

I hope you enjoy this! Preston and Gabby seeing each other when we first got there. Preston kept wanting to kiss her. He would pull her head in and kiss her! So cute!!

Pres and Poppa went swimming in the hotel one of the nights. He loved it!! He kept blowing bubbles and then he wanted to get in the big bubble bath aka the hot tub! 

We went to Seattle on...one of the days--I can't remember lol. But we went to the very first original starbucks. SO AWESOME. It was such a rustic eclectic little place. There were musicians everywhere you walked--I loved it!!

Sister pic!! How I have missed these so much!!

My smiley happy little girl. As always! :) Low and behold she cut her very first tooth on this trip--bottom right :) Not sure what this means for nursing anymore--that thing is sharp!

Inside the starbucks--the wood was so old on the counters and the floor. 

Ok. This seriously was the best cup of starbucks I have ever had. And I am not just saying that because it is the original.

We also went to hard rock cafe for lunch. Pres and Gabby kept dancing to all the rock songs being played. 

Bath time!!!! Ok so these two are totally going to hate me when they get older, but I just couldn't resist!! They are so dang cute and Gabby has never seen so many bath toys in her life she was going nuts!

One of the many mornings playing on the bed watching cartoons together :) 

Preston was absolutely adorable with Gabby!! He kept saying things like "hold her" "yay down, yie down" "Hi Gabby girl" "Come on Gabby" I don't ever want to forget these moments! They would watch cartoons every morning together and one morning in the hotel he was saying "Oh toodles......oh toodles.......oh toodles. Where's he at.......I don't know?" LOL 

Gabby on the plane ride home. Poppa some how managed to score an open seat next to him. 

What a fabulous trip. I seriously do not know what I would do without my family. I love them so much! Miles can never separate us--thank goodness for blogs, facebook, cell phones, and skype. They truly are a blessing to me at least :) 

That's all for today. Now to tackle my massive mound of laundry and make dinner for my husband at yes 9:45 at night. Gotta love retail. By the way if anyone needs a cell phone from verizon go see Dave at 119th and metcalf ;) 

MMM It's always better when we're together :)

WOW. What a trip already. Flight was great--Gabby did amazing! We started off to a bumpy and cranky (on my part) start in Washington. We arrived, got our checked bags, and headed to the car rentals. Mom and Dad get theirs and ours just had to be the slow/system down car rental. As we are walking out to the elevator to go to our car I'm going over my check list of what we need to do. 1.) Put the car seat base in the car....Wait...where is the base?! Sheer panic sets in as I run to the baggage claim. And it's not there. I ask a man if he knows where it would be taken and naturally our airline's booth was closed so he says it may have been taken upstairs to unclaimed baggage. Time out. This is not KCI...no this airport is HUGE!!! Very easy to get lost in, you have to take those tram things to get across the airport for certain things. I'm almost in tears because it's an hour past Gabby's feeding time and I just want to go see Tara, Josh, and Pres.

I call my mom to tell her what we are about to do and she replies, "Oh I have it honey." Thanks mom for the heads up. I mean I guess I should have seen it in her hands the 20 minutes we were waiting by the car rental check ins, but it obviously did not register with me. So we get out to the car. I am completely frustrated, David is completely frustrated, and he lets me know that the car rental cost $400 for 5 days. WHAT?!!!
Somehow in the pure chaos of the moment the lady slipped in extra charges and car insurance which we already had. Sigh. I'm not sure why this kind of stuff ALWAYS happens to us, but it does.


Well we made it finally! And it has been soo wonderful to all be together again. Pres ADORES Gabby. He constantly wants to hold her and grab her hand and take her to show her everything. He says "He you go Gabby" as he hands her all of his "friends" (stuffed animals--mickey, minnie, elmo, cookie monster, frosty, rudolph, belly buzzer, and several more lol) and then he says "She yikes it!"
Oh how I love this little boy!!!!


The girls FINALLY together again! :)

Seeing and playing with each other again when we got there :)

He still wants to hold her lol

They love to kiss each other lol!!

So happy!!!

 Traditional Matching Christmas PJ's. Yes Gabby had to have a pair too. It's actually quite a funny story how we found them. We went to Old Navy hoping to find matching Pj's for all of us since they have an adult and baby section to the store. Well it was a fail, so we decided to pick out the black polka dot ones and pink shirts since we liked them the best. We went across the street to Carters to try to find a cute hott pink footy pajama for Gabs, I went to the back and found those jammies!! I couldn't believe it! They have a poodle on the front which I'm not fond of but they still match pretty well considering :)

Church tomorrow! I'll post more later :)

Baby #2 Scare

Have you ever had one of those moments where you convinced yourself that you were pregnant? No I am not talking about the "I feel tired and bloated". I am talking about the "I have been through this before."

So it was just 3 days before we are about to leave for our trip to Washington and I am feeling nauseated, extreme fatigue, crampy stomach. Trying to keep myself from going there I tell myself that it was just something that I ate. I pick up David from work, he thinks I am being dramatic as I am reclined in the drivers seat waiting for him to come out. As we start to head home it hits me....PULL OVER!! As I am puking my guts out in front of everyone at a gas station I slowly lean up and start crying hysterically, "I am totally pregnant."

Not to go into all of the detail of how many times we pulled over (3 ahem.) We stop to pick up a test as David is reassuring me that it's not the end of the world if we are expecting again. Ha--easy from him to say. He has never been through 1st trimester before or have the luxury of being a stay at home mommy either, not to mention both of them together?!

After a night of throwing up every half hour till 4 am I took my test and it was.......Negative- Praise the Lord, Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus!!!!!

I have half way seriously joked about wanting to have another baby, but after that night I know without a doubt I am not ready to go through that again for awhile. A long while.

So thanks to me, my husband was sick the morning after I was sick, and now my mom and Kelsey have it....all the day before we fly to Seattle tomorrow. Perfect timing. I'm just praying my baby girl doesn't get this awful stuff. Well that is all for today. Can't wait to blog about our trip to Washington!!!!! And of course post pictures of my favorite most adorable nephew in the world.