Month of August 2012

On August 8th Gabby started her first day of Pre-K. She was so excited. This past week was her first full week and she received excellent behavior marks. Brent and I started having date night once a month so I thought I would post our photo. This past Saturday Gabby started Ballet. To my surprise she loved it. Since she is so very competitive and seems to be more of the athletic type we didn't think she would enjoy it. Last week we painted our laundry room, put shelves, hooks and some new photos up.

Happy Easter!

Since we live pretty far from our extended family we just simply hung out at the house today. We woke up early to see that the Easter Bunny had come. Last night it took Gabby forever to fall asleep, she kept looking out the window for the Easter Bunny.

Last night we colored eggs and today we went to church, had a nice big meal, played with water guns, made smores (courtesy of Granna) and had an Easter egg hunt.

I think my Gabby looked so very beautiful this morning in her new Easter dress and her curly hair.

Spring Cleaning

This spring we decided to paint our kitchen table, chairs and recover the chairs in coordinating fabric. It is a little out of the ordinary, but I love it!!!

We also planted lot of new flowers in our front yard. It looks really great. Gabby loves to help us do things in the yard.

Crazy Hair Day

A few weeks back the had crazy hair day at school. It was pretty hard to get her hair to look much more crazy than it usually does. It seems as if we may have found a way.

Gabby's 1st Soccer Season

This is Gabby's first year playing soccer. She loves it, and she is actually pretty good. Everything she does is a competition. Since they are only 4 they don't play real games, but Gabby seems to think she is still always trying to win. I can't wait to see how she is in a real game. I think they start doing that next year.

What we Have been up to

Well we have kept pretty busy since my last post. But most of the people who keep up with us on her know what we have been doing. Below are a few highlights.

November - I turned 33 yrs old and the Stine clan came to visit for Thanksgiving.
December - We went down to Tallahassee and spent time with all of our family.
January - Jessica, Mesa and Emily came to visit
February - The Woods came to visit. We went to the Tennessee Aquarium

This post is about our Valentines. This is the first year Gabby is starting to get holidays. On Valentines Day she woke up and wanted to put the shirt I made her on first thing, before she even went down stairs. Then she ate some of her breakfast and decided that she should stand at the door with the bag of Valentines for her classmates. She just couldn't wait to have her Valentine's Party.

When I picked her up her and I decided to have a Valentine's Party for our Daddy/Brent. We had a heart shaped pizza, love notes, balloons, streamers, candles and a banner that we made. We even blind folded him as he came in the door. It made his day, but made Gabby's day even more.

Halloween 2011

Spiderman.............do I need to say anything else. Yes, Gabby wanted to be spiderman with muscles this year. I couldn't talk her into being anything else. She is a very strong willed kid, when she sets her mind to something you aren't going to be able to change it. I post a few pictures. One of her and her best friend Claire, one of her and Brent, and one of some of the neighborhood kids at the neighborhood Halloween party.