My big girl

Allie bounded out of bed this morning and in classic "Allie fashion" exclaimed that she needed to get started on her sign. I said, hmmm..."what sign?". She replied, "I want us to make a sign to put on the front of the car that says.....BIRTHDAY GIRL RIDING IN HERE!!!" Only Allie...she wasn't even looking for presents....just wanted everyone to know that it's her birthday!!

Love you baby girl!!!

Kid Conversation

The conversations around here range from GROSS to GROSSER. Yesterday afternoon I picked up Allie from school, and here was our conversation.

Allie: Mom I loved the salad you sent in my lunch (for some crazy reason she is on a salad loving kick). All of my friends loved the salad dressing.

Mom: Oh...well did they all try it??

Allie: Oh yeah, Meredith asked me if she could dip her finger in the bowl and I said, sure! Then Cade, Jesse, Madyn, and blah blah blah.

Can't be a germophobe when you have a first grader.

I'm babysitting today. Abbott is becoming quite the little talker.

Pajama Party

What a much needed weekend of some PAJAMA TIME! My sis-n-law, Mandy (hub's sister) and my sweet niece, Abby came over for the weekend. The girls had a GREAT time bossing leading Abby around the house. They had tea parties, dress up, bounced in the bounce house, and watched ANNIE!! The girls had never seen it; Abby knew every word!

Abby reminds me alot of Mary "personality"-wise. She's very observant, quiet, and a little timid to step out in an unfamiliar situation. These pics were taken shortly after she woke up. It didn't take her long to warm up!!! Isn't she cute?

She's only 8 months older than Garrett...looks so old in this picture. She probably has 500 more words than him too...I'm thinking it's a girl thing! (I'm hoping so anyways!) One minute she was hanging out with the girls and the next running around squealing with Garrett.

Allie acted CRAZY the whole weekend...that's what she does when she's excited:)
Check out those duds! Love it girls. Thanks for the extended PJ party Mando and Abs; I enjoyed the girl time as much as the girls did!

HI!!!!!

Garrett's trademark greeting these days is a very boisterous, HIIIIII!!!! I wanted to get it on camera because as soon as it started, it will stop. I found a video of Allie from below with a very similar, yet not quite as spunky, HIIII! He really reminds me of her at this age.

My sis-in-law Melissa caught this sweet pic of him and of Emily (my sister) while we were visiting.


I took both of these videos with the viewing screen flipped around for them to view themselves. Makes for great video! I think they must have gotten the HIIII from Elmo because they sound just alike.

Still Rockin' around the Christmas tree

We have had a great Christmas 09'!

Check out my huge fam! We missed getting a pic with my parents, but this is all my sibs and their kids with my grandparents.

The hubs had to go back to work, so he is missing:) Everyone else is "present." Ba ha ha.
Hi Abigail! She couldn't resist walking through the pic. My parents joined us in this pic.

My bro-in-law, Adam drew this pic of Garrett for Christmas. Isn't it great?!

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Havin' a Holly Jolly Christmas

Merry Christmas! " Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we went"......literally. That's how you "go" when the interstate is 3 feet under water. We took about a 1.5 hour detour to get there, but after having lived 24 hours away from home, it was still an EASY travel day.


Zach is 6 months older than G, but Garrett has just "arrived" to a point where they can run around playing together. The had a great time...a LOUD LOUD time! They missed you Abba!!! I'm sure she didn't miss being in the tub this time...it was wild!!!

There is my sweet sis-in-law, Katie. We've prayed her to December 25....along with lots and lots of folks. She made the comment last night, that she has felt those prayers. I'm so thankful to hear her say that and see her smile and laugh these holidays. I know she aches for Reese this Christmas, but I see God's grace all around her.

We saw the biggest snow village I've ever seen. The kids LOVED the trains!

Christmas morning! Love those reindeer socks:)

Mary loves to play by herself. She was in her own world playing with her princesses.

We have had a great time with the White folks.....love it that Christmas is only half way over! Watch out Popes here we come!

Visions of sugar plum fairies

I took the girls to see the Nutcracker this afternoon. Allie's pal Emma Cate is in the local ballet theatre, so Allie was especially excited to go see it. Mary squirmed a bit at the length of things, but she was also excited to see Emma Cate afterwards. Great job EC!


The girls are starting to look tired from all the obligatory pictures at Christmas time.

I think it's hilarious that Allie ran over to EC for her first autograph. She was so proud.

Garrett stayed home and practiced his snap count. He's starting to look too old for that passie...oh well...he's the third!