WE HAVE A NIECE!

I'm very proud to say that I have a niece! Welcome to Seinna Mazie Gardner! She was born at 8:32 am on November 2nd. She weighed 7 lbs. 10 ozs and is 19 and a half inches long. She has lots of dark hair and is adorable!

Congratulations to Michelle, David, and Tyrus!

Happy Late Halloween!

I know I'm late but we had a fabulous Halloween. A few of us in our complex volunteered to host Halloweeny activities for others to enjoy. Here's a few (please excuse the poor quality pics).

The Cake walk at the Young's

Tick or Treating on the way to The Johnston's to paint pumpkins.

At the Goodman's: turning Daddy into Mummy!

Our Cute Duck! (I love the non-expression face!)

My Babies

I went to the Doc on Monday and these are the cool shots she got of the baby...

This one is cool because it's of the front of the baby. Can you find the eyes and little arms and legs? Come on it's looking right at you!

The side view: a little face and eyes, and if you squint and turn your head a little you can see the arms and legs.

My mom found this adorable outfit at a garage sale...I LOVE IT! Thanks Mom!!


You've got to love the Mollenhauer curl! :)


I love this shot. Every once in a while I get a GOOD pic out of my old, crappy, slow camera! YEAH!

New Stuff

So, our family has been bugging us to post some video of Gracie. This is more to appease the wanting masses than anything else. Emali did some fancy stuff with the credits at the end so I don't know if it has made it slower or what but we have been having one heck of a time downloading it and trying to send it out through emails, so this is the best we got. Please let us know if it is too slow or if it messes up, or if you can't get it.

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Friends and Fam Links

Hey I finally updated my links...that's long overdue! But if I overlooked you I either don't really like you all that much or just that I didn't find your link when I was link hunting. It's probably the first one! Just drop me a line if you feel left out! ha ha ha Can't wait for girls nite tonight! I'll try and post our fun stuff tomorrow!

take 2

More of the catch-up...

Apparently she is smart enough to read upside down!

Alexa came to visit over her Fall Break and we had a blast taking her around town. Gracie was sure sad when her bff went back home.

emocionada!

At a harvest festival corn maze.

This was an earlier pic that I found and I love the galoshes and aprons they provide for the kids!

By the time Alexa left I had maxed out the memory card and was having to delete pics so I could take more. I was annoyed and this was the only pic of our fun trip to the zoo. First, I love that I found these cute leggings at a baby expo. I can still dress her in skirts but don't have to worry about dealing with tights. And seconds, I love when the peacocks at the zoo just walk right up to you for no reason at all. (It's in the top right hand of the photo.)

All in all we are loving our new "home", I think AZ will always be home to us. Lance is surviving school. But he says its definitely not like getting your undergrad. He says they went though an entire semester's worth of information in 1 class period! I think we both realized how much of a growing experience this is going to be for us. We're buckling down, we're going to have a doctor in the family!

I'm Back!!!

I think she's more addicted to Starbucks than I am!! I bought this for myself and lost it to Gracie!

Who knew she loved corn on the cob so much?! She DEVOURS it!

Celynda and Lukas came to visit and we took a trip to the children's museum. They LOVED the water!

Gracie is ready for our morning jog. I have to tell you, this is a gorgeous path around a golf course. Although, as much as I like it we've got stuck 1/2 around once when it started pouring on us. Where was our umbrella you might ask? Where it belongs, of course, in the car.

This is the gorgeous path.

We often get chased by squirrels who apparently thinks we have food.

Ok, so blogging has really not been on my priority list since we've moved. So the next few blogs are going to be a catch up of the last 7 weeks!

Gracie is growing like a weed! She is so funny and is talking! Ok, not full sentences but she really says words! It's fascinating! A few that I can think of off the top of my head are:

ahhh-duh= all done

jes= yes

wassss dat= what's that

cheee --ih= cheez-it

eee-eee (with a closed mouth)= binky

mama

dada

(I know there are more!)

What's more amazing is that she understands more that I know. She follows simple directions in English, Spanish, and ASL.

She signs:

eat, more, mom, dad, light, fan, cold, hot, stinky!, touch down, all done, shoes, oh no, please, (ahhh I can't think of them all!)

I love being a parent!

The Falls courtsey of the Johnston's (again)

So last Sunday a bunch of families from our complex took a little drive to Multnomah falls (it's only about 15 minutes away!).

Isn't this a gorgeous view?

Gracie contemplating taking the plunge.

Xander, Gracie, Taylor, Aidan, and Rilee (Gracie's new friends)

FARM-post from the johnston jungle

Thank goodness for friends...

Last week we took a trip to Fir Point Farms and had a blast. Unfortunately, our camera is in the shop so we stole these from the Johnstons. (Thanks David and Chrystal!)

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Old McDonald had a Farm...

Xander feeding the cute baby goats!
Aidan feeding the goats
Our new friend Grace....what a doll!
Grace and her dad Lance feeding the goats.
Watch out big momma! This one looked like she was about to pop!

hee hee!
Hailee and her adorable smile!
CHEESE!
The nut house
The nuts!

Look at those three silly kids!
Nice dress Aidan :)
Mmmmmm....ice cream!

So our friends the Mollenhauers and us went to this farm by Canby (Fir Point Farm I think is what it was called??). They had a bunch of little baby goats, momma goats, chickens and rabbits there to feed. It looked as if they had a bunch of other fun activities to do too but they didn't have them open yet...not until October anyways....preparing for the Halloween festivities! But the kids had a blast anyways. And they also had a cute little market there with fresh produce and yes...ICE CREAM. So we finished our fun afternoon off with some yummy ice cream cones. You can tell Xander really enjoyed his :).

A little more endurance

Sorry to anyone who frequents our blog...we are going to be regulars once again...as soon as we get our Internet access. We do have access that is included in our rent, although it's never possible to log on, or you get kicked off after a few minutes, oh, and you can't download anything or you'll get kicked off as well. I'm a little miffed, and even more so because we finally gave in and called the local company to get our own hi speed connection and they can't come out until the end of the month. I do promise after that to 1. post regular blogs (maybe) and 2. to fix my dang background! Don't be discouraged, all is well here in OR!