Here is Gabe in his awesome new coat. It's a little big, but with any luck, he will be wearing it again next year.
Grace did not want to hold still for a picture. Here she is in her new coat and hat.
Look at how she pulled her right arm up into the sleeve of the coat trying to wiggle out of it!
Getting the stance
Go, Legs, Go!
Boom on her bottom!
Great Gramma brought Gabriel a clown nose yesterday. Gabriel had fun putting it on himself and other people at Grace's party.
Grace is such a stinker! She crawled under the end table this morning, took Gabriel's cup, and then drank his juice.
Here is a picture of the babies at the party. They are all within three months of each other in age. In the back is Cassidy. Landon is in the blue chair. Abby is standing in front, and Grace is in the lavender chair. The chairs were a birthday gift from Aunt Linda and John.
We ate some yummy food: fried chicken, mac and cheese, green beans, and biscuits.
Grace enjoyed her birthday cake. She had much more fun with it at her party than she did while having her pictures taken at Click.
I love this picture because Grampy was eating the cake the Grace was flinging on the floor. He kept saying, "Mmmm, this is good cake!" Grace didn't mind sharing.
After cake Grace HAD to have a bath. She ate chunks of cake that floated in the bath water while I bathed her! Haha!
After Grace was cleaned up, she opened her gifts. She got lots of fun things for her and Gabriel to fight over.
Ben, Grace and Dodie enjoyed some conversation.
"Mom, why do you keep putting this d@%* thing on my head?"
Landon enjoyed one of Grace's birthday gifts.
He did a really good job eating it without being sliced!
We had a pretty uneventful first birthday for Grace today. I sang Happy Birthday to Grace to wake her up this morning. Then we went downstairs and opened the gift that Uncle Ed and Aunt Stacey sent. We took cupcakes to Staci's house. Staci said that Grace was very excited about them, and all of the kids enjoyed them. Grampy came over for dinner tonight. After dinner Gabriel and Grace played like any other night. We took baths a little early and had the kids in bed by 8. The party is tomorrow!
Gabriel colored on the newspaper while Daddy carved.
Here is the finished product all lit up! Get Gabe trying to do a silly face. HaHa! Grace was a little under the weather, fever and congestion. Poor thing!
Daddy is a pretty awesome pumpkin carver!
Even though I hate leaving the kids all day to go to work, I love that last look back at Staci's house as I leave. I get to see the world's most adorable kids standing at the door grinning at me. It makes for such a bittersweet drive to work.
Here are the two girls as we wait to get in the gate. Luckily, the line moved fairly quickly, considering there were about a million people in line.
The Jack-O-Lantern (aka Grace) and the dragon (aka Gabriel) posed for pictures in the pumpkins.
These kids got to trick or treat in style!
Fred Flintstone let Gabriel hold his club while posing for a picture.
Of course, we had to take Gabriel's picture by Elmo!
No trip to the zoo is complete without a ride on the carousel. This particular evening the carousel was haunted, so it ran backwards.
What they say about M&M's is true . . . they DO melt in your mouth! See the blue M&M seeping from the side of Grace's mouth. Mmmmmm!
The kids and I rode on the train with the Hoylands. It was a fast ride!
There was NO WAY to get all three kids to look at the camera at the same time. It was pretty funny trying though! This was about the best I could do.
Gabriel and Sam enjoy some chips. What's a party without chips?
These two cuties posed for a picture on the back of one of Sam's riding toys.
It looks like Grace is thinking, "Whatever, Dad."
The adult boys were playing Rock Band. Gabriel enjoyed watching the show.
Then came trouble . . . Gabriel and Sam decided to sing too. Obviously, Sam didn't want Gabriel to be the lead singer.
Gabriel gave the mike over to Sam.
When it was Gabriel's turn to sing with the microphone, he was so cute. He danced and grinned. I don't think he actually sang anything though.
Sam decided that even if he did get the mike, he would certainly be the star of the photographs. You go, Sam! Rock on!
