Sneak Peek

Grace is in love with her Halloween costume. I love, I tell you. She has worn it almost every day this month. It's already filthy. It also helped her learn, remember and constantly use a new word.....Pup-eeeeeee.

More pictures to come after the weekends festivities. But for now, I leave you with a quick peek of the cutest little pupeeeeee I know.

It's been a while

Wow, I cannot believe I haven't blogged in over a month. I was seriously considering quitting all together but decided to give it one final try. I just don't have much free time these days and downloading photos from my camera and uploading them to a blog (in addition to the actual writing) just hasn't hit the top of my priority list. Now that I think of it, there are a lot of other things that don't hit the top of my priority list anymore....laundry being one of them. You should see the pile in my laundry room right now. Oh well.

One of our favorite things to do is spend time in the back yard. Aaron is quite the yard guru and has created a nice little oaisis for us. Grace loves it and spends the entire time we are out there either chasing the cats or smelling flowers. This girl is always on the move. Here she is chasing Ya-Ya (her name for Oreo).

Oreo patiently sitting there while Grace 'talks' or yells at her and 'pets' or slaps her on the back. This is one great cat. She puts up with a lot of abuse.

Chasing Ya-Ya again.

Once Grace finally corners Ya-Ya, she spends most of her time petting her and giving her kisses. It's one of the cutest things in the worls. She loves to give kisses to things that she is in love with. Ya-Ya and her stuffed animals are the recipient of many kisses throughout the day.

Somehow giving mom kisses isn't at the top of her priority list when the cats are in the house. You can tell I'm totally cramping her style in this photo below.

Grace attended her first birthday party (other than her own). Her friend Brogan turned 3 and we celebrated at Out of this World Pizza. Good times. Grace really loved this little house. She spent most of her time walking into the house and playing peek-a-boo out the windows. When she had enough, she promptly closed all the shutters on the windows.

This little smile just warms my heart. She has taken a real liking to Ella (her stuffed pink elephant) and Blankie. She sleeps with them both and brings them out of her crib after she wakes up. They join her for a post-nap cuddle with mom and a glass of milk.

Dragging Ella around the house in the morning. That tail is NASTY. She always carries Ella by the tail and also sucks on it. I think I may need to buy a back-up Ella.

While I LOVE fall, I am sad to see summer go. She has the cutest summer outfits (the one below is one of my favs) that we had to say bye-bye to.

Stories with mama. If you want to know how a stay at home mom spends a majority of her day...it looks a little something like this. We read stories CONSTANTLY. I have every book memorized. Seriously.

Here Auntie is taking over in the story reading department.