Merry Christmas 2011

We had a wonderful time celebrating Jesus' birthday this year! I hope you enjoy our photos.

Grace's gingerbread house

Grace & Abigail with her cousins (except baby Catherine)

Christmas at Nana & Pappy's house and the girls wearing their handmade shirts by momma!

Uncle Matt made it home for Christmas; pictured with Abigail & Catherine

Abigail & Catherine's first bath together - so cute!

All dressed up for Christmas Eve service

Grace sang in the Angel Choir this year for the Lesons & Carols service.

Thankful

Here are some updated photos of the girls. Abigail is now 7 months and sitting up on her own, she cut her 1st tooth on Nana's birthday (Nov 30th) and loves her big sister Grace. She's pretty attached to her momma, too. Grace is a sweetheart and so much fun to be with. She makes me laugh all day long with her thoughts and questions. Never a dull moment living with a 3-year old.

Abigail showing off her ability to sit up on her own.

Breakfast at Nana's

Homemade bow - I think she likes it!

Grace playing in the leaf pile

Homemade tu-tus for Thanksgiving

Visiting the beautiful Mepkin Abbey Creche Festival

Grace's favorite part of visiting the Abbey was riding in the golf cart and playing with a stray kitten.

Abigail and cousin Catherine (no more on-the-back photos...they are big girls now)

We enjoyed a yummy Thanksgiving dinner with the Houghs.

Great Grandpa Homer with Abigail and Grace

Trick-or-Treat

We have been enjoying all the fun fall festivities this past weekend. Here are some pics of our fun!

Can you guess what we dressed up as? (the answer is at the bottom of this post)

My cute 'lil lady bug Abigail. She just had her 6 mos. checkup and is 20lbs!! No wonder my back hurts.

Grace enjoying the fall festival with Buzz & Woody (aka cousins Jude & Roman) at Nana's church.

Grace even got to ride on a pony!

Grace's beautiful face painting (pictured with the artist).

An updated photo of Abigail (6 mos) and Catherine (4 mos)

Grace was a beautiful princess/fairy/ballerina for trick-or-treating! She loved to show our neighbors her ballerina moves. They were so impressed. She also enjoyed getting to put on mommy's makeup!

ANSWER: A GUMBALL MACHINE & A REFILL BAG

Fall update

Abigail enjoying her door jumper.

Pretty baby.

Sweet sisters.

Daddy & his girls.

We took our dog Saki to be blessed at the park for Blessing of the Pets. Grace loved all the animals that were there.

¡Feliz Cumpleaños! Grace

It's hard to believe my first baby turned three this month. We had a fun Dora the Explorer birthday party with family and friends! I am so blessed to share a birthday with Grace and it is the best birthday gift I could have ever had! Here are some pics of our fun day.

We had a fun game of Dora bingo as well as pin the backpack on Dora and a map to find the cake

Nana & Grandma Hough (Grace loves when both of her Grandmothers are with her)

Crazy Uncle Andrew and cousins Jude & Roman

Birthday girl with her Dora cake

Abigail gets in on the celebration, too!

Abigail had her 4 month checkup and is off the charts at 18 lbs. 4 oz.  & 26" long! She is such a sweet baby - I love her!!

Abigail's Baptism

Abigail was baptized today and it was a beautiful service! Our choir director let me pick out the music for the service and we played an organ/piano duet  arrangement of "Amazing Grace" during the offertory, there was french horn and trumpet accompanying the organ and our family & friends were present. I felt so loved by our church family. Everything was beautiful and happy (Abigail, too!)...I think I got a glimpse of what heaven will be like!

So glad to have a new family pic

Grace loves to crawl in the crib with Abigail. She's pulling her hair in this photo.

Grace loves to push Abigail in this stroller - her real-life baby doll. 

I made this baptism cake, flowers and all. It was a lot of fun to make! Too bad Abigail couldn't have any.

Summer Fun

We're having a great summer and staying very busy! Here are some of our pics from the past couple of weeks. Grace continues to excel in her swimming. My cousin Sherri & her family just moved back from Hawaii after being stationed there for four years. I am so glad to see them again! We've been spending time with them the past week. Grace had a blast with their daughter Emma Grace. She even had her first sleepover at our house. The girls giggled and talked and kept each other up way too late, but it was a lot of fun! We are keeping their dog a Whippet - her name is Lilly. She is the sweetest dog and we don't want to give her back ;) My beautiful Grandma Westbury just turned 85 and we celebrated at her pool with a big cookout. Grace swam all day and Abigail enjoyed being held the entire time. I love my girls and how they are already interacting with each other. It is so precious.

Grace and Abigail

At the park with the cousins - they are climbing the lookout tower

Abigail & cousin Catherine's playdate

Grace and Abigail dressed for church

At the aquarium with my cousin Sherri  & her family

Grace was so excited to be at the aquarium, she doesn't remember but she has been two other times. She talked about the sharks for two days afterwards.

Posing with the frog.

Grace and Emma Grace's sleepover. Notice Lilly in bed, too.

Erik is the baby whisperer - he rocked her to sleep. Abigail looks so big in this pic!

Abigail's first swim. She loved it! Finally she gets some relief from all this heat.

Celebrating Grandma Westbury's 85th birthday. A beautiful lady inside and out!