SNOW much fun!

It snowed ALL day Thursday and Thursday night. We had about 10 inches of snow in our front yard. Crazy! Grace didn't like the snow much on Thursday. I was so excited for her to see it. Later that night I convinced her to get the mail with me and then she LOVED the snow. There were so many tears when we had to come in. We were at home on Friday because of the snow so she got to go play alot. She really got into the hang of it and wanted to push the snowballs around like daddy was. 

Sick!

Grace has been sick the last few days- nothing serious, but enough to make us (me) crazy. Diarreaha for Miss Tina on Friday, awful sneezing and congestion this weekend, still more congestion and of course, a tooth (or two)!  She hasn't been eating or drinking her milk like she normally does so something is going on. I hope this clears up soon... Thank god for Ruby and Max- that's about all that makes her happy at home.  So thankful to have a wonderful babysitter who keeps her even when she's like this and in one of her "moods"!! 

A few of Gracie's favorite things...

An Elmo kitchen from her great uncle Eddie.

A new trike from MeMe and Gramps. It will convert so she can ride it by herself when she's ready.

Christmas Fun

We went to make sugar cookies at my grandma's (Gracie's great-grandma) house today. Grace liked the cookie cutters and the rolling pin, but her fingers kept getting sticky. The OCD was coming out in her and she really didn't like the sticky feeling. So she and Grandma went outside to play while mom and dad finished the cookies.

Grace's 4 month old friend Brooklyn came over to visit and Grace was trying to teach her to crawl. Didn't go so well!

We got Grace's "big girl" bed today- it's going to take awhile to get her used to that. Cousin Molly comes in March and wants to use the crib, so we are starting to work on the big girl bed.

It's already been a busy week and on Christmas day we will be heading to Fredericksburg for a few days.

We held our First Annual Donuts with Santa at my school this past weekend. It was a great fundraiser for our school. Steven brought Gracie and they had donuts, made a christmas card and Gracie had her picture taken with Santa. This Santa is a special one- a good friend of ours. Gracie loves her Jeff and I think she recognized his voice under the Santa costume and did such a great job getting her picture taken! She just kept looking at him like "I know this guy!"

She saw a friend of hers, Brenden, who is almost a year old. She was talking to him and just carrying on a long conversation. Brenden was a good listener!:)

Gracie had a blast running the halls at Donuts with Santa and playing with the other little ones. She didn't want to go!

Aunt Elysa and Grace

My little bug...She was supposed to be a cow, but she didn't like wearing the cow costume. I think she turned out so cute as a ladybug!! We trick or treated at my parents, my sister and her husbands house and at Great grandmas. We ended up a friend's house for a Halloween party where she got to see her babysitter and kids. Grace was up late and up early this morning!! She was too cute saying "trick or treat!"

Sitting on a giant pumpkin coloring book Great Grandma bought her!

One last picture from the Arboretum.

The Dallas Arboretum

We went to the Dallas Arboretum a couple weeks ago with my mom and grandma. Grace had a great time climbing the mountains of pumpkins. She loves being outside, so she had an awesome day!