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!

Happy 4th of July

Abigail continues to grow so quickly and is such a sweet baby. She is sleeping great at night, too, which makes me a happy, rested momma! We recently took a trip to Bee City to enjoy the petting zoo. Grace had a great time. We took another trip to visit my Grandparents for the 4th of July. Grace enjoyed running around with her cousins there. July has been a hot one, so we have enjoyed going to the pool to stay cool. Grace took swim lessons this week and is turning out to be a great little swimmer. I'll post pictures of that later.

Abigail is growing so fast - what a sweet, happy baby!

Grace at Bee City

Grace enjoyed feeding the animals

Ben and Grace take a break from all the animal goo

Grace loves Abigail and wants to give her lots of kisses!

Happy 4th of July!

Grace is excited to taste the flag cake I made

Tractor ride with the cousins

Grace's first sparkler

June Update

Here are some recent pics of all of us. We have been busy visiting with family and introducing our sweet baby Abigail to everyone. She is growing so fast at 9 weeks and 14 lbs! I love her chubby legs...just like her sister Grace! Grace is such a great helper and loves her new baby :)



The girls with G'ma/pa Hough



Grace loving on Abigail

Our new family of four

Paddling in Great Granparent's pond

Sweet Abigail

Happy B-day Ben!

Grace's new playground is finally open - she's been waiting a long time for them to finish this neighborhood playground right behind our house

Abigail has a beautiful smile - this was the first one I caught on camera

Abigail and her new cousin Catherine - only 7 weeks apart. They are going to have fun growing up together.

Grace & Abigail

Baby Abigail

Here are some pictures (okay, a lot) of our new baby girl, Abigail. She decided to come on Easter Eve and has been such a wonderful blessing to our home. Grace loves helping take care of Abigail and is a great helper. I am so blessed to be the mother of these two girls!

8 lbs. 4 oz. Good thing she came early!

I was so thankful to have Nana in the delivery with me!

Grace meets Abigail for the 1st time. Ben and I joked that Grace probably thought Abigail was my imaginary friend since we had been talking about her for so long. haha

Proud Grandma Hough was so sweet to come help take care of Grace for several days while I recovered.

Daddy loves his baby girl

Proud big sissy

Curious big sissy

Grace loves to help

Haha - can you guess what she is doing?!

Sleepy baby

Abigail meets Great Grandma Suzanne

Sweet Abigail

Sleeping beauties

Happy Easter!

Grace flowering the cross at church on Easter Sunday

Too cute!

Grace is proud to match her doll baby - thanks Grandma Hough

March 2011

Here are some pictures from the month of March. Grace is 2 1/2 years old now and is growing up so fast. She understands so much and talks non-stop, which I love....most of the time! :) She has a really good sense of humor and enjoys trying to make her daddy and I laugh. She loves to make up her own songs and she also likes me to make up random songs. She is definitely my little songbird. Maybe it has something to do with all those choir practices she has gone to since she was born. Grace is so excited about being a big sister and randomly hugs my belly and lifts my shirt to give a kiss to our sweet baby. Grace enjoys putting the baby clothes and diapers on her baby dolls and going through all the baby drawers and playing  in the crib. So much for having the nursery in order! We are counting down the weeks to our new baby - less than a month to go!!! Yipeee!!!

Grace & I visited GGma & Papa Jack. Grace loves to run around their beautiful property.

Grace has gotten to know all the staff at my Dr's office and we bring lots of fun things to do while we wait for the Dr to check my belly!

Here is a 3D picture of our baby girl (in utero). Look at those chubby cheeks!

Grace got to spend some one-on-one time with her cousin Jude. They play so well together when it is just the two of them.

Grace & Daddy showing off his catch. Yum, yum!

February Fun

I am looking forward to February coming to a close because that means we are closer to spring and also that much closer to having another sweet baby in our arms! Here is what we've been up to lately...albeit not much since Grace and I have just recovered from being sick with a nasty respiratory bug the past two weeks. Thankfully we are both feeling better now!!

Grace loves to feed Nick the horse. He comes running when he sees her and she is very comfortable around him. In this pic she grabs his nose to give him a kiss!

Our sweet neighbors gave Grace a valentine cookie...yum, yum!

Watercolor classes from a real pro!

Grace's first dress-up tea party!

With a real tea cup, too!

Grace's favorite...icing!!