Grace is not licking her hand, she is trying to wipe off her tongue after eating flour!
might be a bit biased! 
Here are the promised pictures of Gabe's new room. I am so proud of my husband. He really has very little experience in remodeling, and he did such an amazing job! In my opinion it looks like a room straight out of Pottery Barn magazine. Gabe's really excited about having his own little man room. One of the first thing he wanted for his room was a "no girls allowed" sign, for the door. Now he has his own little place to retreat to when the estrogen levels get too high around here.
Okay, so it has been half of forever since I have updated! It has been so long in fact that Abby's first birthday has long since come and gone. So here are a few photos of her party, (it was on Feb. 11th).
Unlike my other kids, Abby completely demolished her cake! She loved it. We actually had to take it away from her, and the poor cake was a nothing but a mass of crumbs and carnage. Although it was adorable, I was a bit sad because Grandma and I worked so hard to make the perrrrfect hello kitty cake! Hee-Hee
What else is new here in the white house, you may ask? Well right after her birthday, Abby mastered the art of walking. She is now into everything and trying her best to keep up with her siblings. Once again I am amazed at how quickly time has flown. It's sometimes hard for me to believe that "the baby" is a year old already. Watching her grow is so bittersweet. It's hard to see her leave the baby phase behind, but at the same time it is always reassuring to see her develop normally. That is if anyone is THIS family can be normal.
In order to one-up his sister who is walking, Gabe has decided to take up flying. It will be so nice when the weather warms up and I can send him outside to leap and fly and save the galaxy from the dar
k side with his light saber.
Grace is becoming soooo independent lately, (and no that is not a complaint). She is really into picking out her own clothes, getting herself dressed and being the "mommy" to her babies. Of course that usually means that she is dressing them, and bathing them, brushing their hair and protecting them from being obliterated by the light saber of young jedi Gabe. There is never a dull moment around here.
Clint has been very busy the past month and a half finishing the remodel project. We completely gutted the room where Gabe is, and updated it. It looks great. I will take some pictures and post a before and after shot.
I've been having fun with my new toy. I purchased a new camera about a month ago and have been trying to figure out all its bells and whistles. I feel so out of practice in the photography dept., but I know it will all come back to me. I just did my fist "shoot", with the supervision of a more experienced friend, and must admit the photos came out great. I was blessed because the baby was very content and let me click away. Here's a few of my favorites.
I will try to be better with the updates and post a few more frequently. In the mean time, those of you who have endlessly harassed me for an update, well here it is....and this does mean that I expect to see an update on your blog! You know who you are!!!!
Yeah, a snow day!!!! Last night is snowed! A whopping 2 inches, but as a child, it is more than enough snow to whine and beg and plead your mother allll day to go outside and play in. So, alas, I finally gave in and sent them out with their father! Hee-hee. Anyway, I went out long enough to sneak a few pictures. The first is Grace attempting so throw snow on me. The next two are Gabe and Grace making snow angels, which Grace has somehow confused with snow balls and calls them angel balls! I am working on getting her corrected.
These are some recent pictures of Abby. I can't believe how fast she is growing! She is so close to walking. Soon she will classify as my toddler and not my baby. I take that back she will always be my baby! In the first picture she is yelling at her sister. Abby is very protective of her food, as her sister is so skilled at removing it from her tray. The second picture shows her delight in the fact that her sister was firmly reprimanded. Yes, the rivalry has begun. And the last is her being sweet. (It also shows how long her hair is getting.) Just, a quick update, we took Abby to a chiropractor that is also a neurologist, to have him check out her eyes. As we suspected, he felt the shaking was probably a result from having her ears pierced. If only someone would warn a parent before they go out and damage their own kid!! Anyway, he told us it is her left eye that is having problems. It is the one that tends to cross and is sending the wrong messages to her left cerebellum. (Forgive my idiot attempts at repeating "doctor" terms.) So, he feels that if we place a patch on the right eye and stimulate the left with a pen light, for 15 minutes a day, this will retrain the brain to fire correctly. The good news is that this can hopefully be corrected. It is still a wait-and-see situation. And we won't know until she is older as to how much vision has been compromised. I am still strongly believing all will be right and she is on her way to being healed. But please keep her in prayer when you think about it. And if this has left you even more confused, feel free to call me and I can explain it better...I hope.
One last picture. When Grace was just a baby she used to always "sniff" at us. It was so adorable and her little nose would almost come to a point. As she got older the "sniffing" became less, until she just outgrew it. Well the other day in the tub while being silly for the camera, she spontaneously "sniffed" once more. So here's to reminiscing all the baby days gone by.
Well that's it for this post I promise. This ought to temporarily silence all the "update your blog" cries. And I do apologize for all the sentimental "mommy" stuff. But hey I'm a mommy, that's my job. If I don't brag, who will? Oh yeah.....Grandma!
This is Grace. Everyday, all about the drama, Grace. We have been potty training (and I might add we are doing amazingly well Praise God Almighty!) and this was after church on Christmas. We told Gracie she had to go in and go potty before we went to Grandma's house to open presents. This was not the "princess' " plan and so she did what the "princess" does when life does not go according to the plan. Unfortunately for Grace, her mommy is a former "princess" so all attempts at manipulation are lost on mom. Mommy just takes advantage of photographic blackmail opportunities.
This is my son. I love him soooo much because, like his father, he keeps me laughing! He is really into the whole superhero thing and received spy glasses, as part of a kit, for a Christmas present. Of course he never wants to take them off and asks to sleep in them. So here he is brushing his teeth in his tightey-whiteys and super-spy-kid glasses, before he goes off to bed and dreams of saving the world. (Again, a example of mom and the whole photographic blackmail!) What fun it will be when they date. :)
I (Jennifer) just happened to capture some cute pics of the kids today and thought I would pass them along. It's not everyday that you capture the moment with all three of them. So I figure we better update the blog while I happen to have decent pictures of my kids to show off.
YEAAAAA!!!!!
Christmas is here, and gone. Don't take that the wrong way please. We had a wonderful day FILLED with a great church service in the morning, followed by very nummy food, silly movies, and WAY TOO MANY PRESENTS!! We had a house full of friends and family (mostly family) who helped us devour an obnoxious amount of food. It just wouldn't be Christmas without glutony would it?
Gabe, Grace and Abby all recieved more presents than they knew what to do with. Our kids are very fortunate to have generous Grandparents and Aunties and Uncles. You know when I was a kid I had to walk up hill both ways in the snow barefoot over broken glass just to get to Christmas......we had to eat turkey HOTDOGS instead of real turkey and we NEVER recieved too many presents. If my memory serves me correct (which it does) We were all lucky to recieve COSTCO socks and tighty whitey underwear (yup even Alecia had to wear those dastardly tighty whiteys). And we were GRATEFUL ....
So in spirit of the season, I wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year
I am not allowed to say anything about this truck. But if I type fast while Jen is out of the room I can tell you that although ugly , it was a great deal, and if you look closely, the bed is full of free firewood.
We just need a good deal on a woodstove now. Sure hope it ain't as ugly ...
Uh oh here comes Jen....gotta post NOW!!!
Is it Abby? Or Gabe in pigtails? This is our baby who is looking more and more like her brother. Mommy was so excited to finally get her hair in piggies. We can finally keep up with a certain cousin who will reamian nameless. :) Obviously Abby was not as excited about the piggies as mom.
The kids and I (Jen) took a trip to the pumkin patch this year. Gabe and Grace had a lot of fun, but Abby slept through most of it . I was able to get a few good pictures before everyone became cranky and tired. So here are few of the pictures. Now all the comments for "pictures of the kids" can be silenced!!! For now at least. Enjoy.
