First time Bowling

On Saturday we were invited to join our good friends the Berndt's to go bowling to celebrate Kenny's birthday. We headed out and Grace had lots of fun bowling. She thought pushing the ball down the lane was a grand old time. She didn't even want to watch to see if the pins fell, it was just all about getting a new ball and pushing it down. I'm sure we will go bowling often as she continues to get older. It was a fun night!

Valentine's Day

Grace learned a lot about Valentine's Day at her new school and liked to talk about it a lot over the last week. She even asked Huck to be her Valentine.

We had fun helping her decorate her Valentine box for school which she brought home yesterday with lots of cards and candy.

On Valentine's day Grace wore a special pink tutu we picked out and when we got home later that night Brian made us spaghetti and we made Brian brownies. We had lots of fun!

We hope you had a fun day as well!

Favorite Sayings

Grace is a chatter box, that is for sure. I wanted to record some of what she says of late that we find pretty darn entertaining.

"Mom, ketchup will make you happy."

Grace: "Mom, will you be my valentime?"

Me: "Of course Grace. What does it mean if I'm your valentine?"

Grace: "That you're pretty."

"How you doin' girl?"

"No, I in charge!"

"No, I'm not Grace, I'm the mom, okay girl?"

"Huck stinky." (said after every time she passes gas, she has already learned to blame the dog!)

And probably one of our favorites lately is that every time we discipline her or she gets mad at us she says, "You not coming to my party!"

Happy Valentime's (as is said in our house by little munchkin) Day!

The Last Supper

It was very bittersweet to leave the condo and move to our new home, but on Friday, February 3, 2012 we had our last supper at the condo. We ordered from Pasquinis, one of our favs and enjoyed a lovely family meal at Grace's little table. It was a night I won't forget.

We have so many wonderful memories at the condo that at times it is hard to believe that we left it. It was the first place that I ever owned. I had lots of single girl times there. Then met Brian at a bar near the condo and fell in love. Brian proposed to me there. We lived there during all of the excitement of getting married. Found out we were having a baby there and eventually brought that baby home to live with us to her pink room that we both painted. As I sit here and write this I still get teary eyed. As much as I loved living in the condo I am thrilled that Brian & I are able to now provide a home for our daughter and a wonderful neighborhood for her to grow up and thrive. I imagine we will make many more memories in this new home and I look forward to every last one of them.

We are now all moved and slowly getting the house together. I will post photos as soon as things are a little more organized. For now, here is a photo of the outside of our new home.