It's been a year...

In just over 3 hours Grace will officially be one year old. It's hard to belive how different things were then and how wonderfully they have changed since!

On Saturday we had the big birthday bash, complete with Care Bear theme - 2 cakes (one for her and one for the rest of us!) - presents - friends & family - sun, snow, rain - you name it...we had one heck of a party! :-)

Grace was blessed with lots of gifts that are sure to enterain and keep her "learning" - although I think we now need a bigger house! The big hits were a purple bunny from Tiff & Jeff, a CaseIH tractor with trailer (wait, maybe that was Dad's favorite), LOTS of books and stuffed animals and a Little People farm.

After presents it was on to the rite of passage - destroying the birthday cake! Liz and I had stayed up way too late the night before decorating the two cakes, but it was worth it - they looked great, if I say so myself. This was probably the biggest let-down of the afternoon...Grace didn't want to be dirty and didn't really dig into her cake - even when I stuffed her hand into it. Oh well! She did enjoy some of it and will have plenty to much on the rest of the week.

Thanks so much to all those who made their way here to be a part - and we thought about and missed those of you who couldn't be here!

Uh-oh & Easter

This past weekend Grace got to spend some time with Grandma Carol, Grandpa Mark, Aunt Erin and Uncle Nick when they came to visit (pre-birthday - since they'll probably be in Alaska next weekend). Grace had a great time showing off and getting them a mini-DeMeerleer workout! We squeezed in the Cougar second round game (GO COUGS!), got everyone up-to-date on this blog, Grace got to celebrate her birthday a little early with a Cabbage Patch doll (she was very concerned when the other little girl was stuck in a box!) a great book and some cutie clothes. Then we made our way to Pullman for some swimming and hot tub time. Along the way, Grace picked up on "uhoh" and now everything is a crisis of "Uhhhhhoooooohhhhh!" It's actually pretty cute!

On Sunday we celebrated Christ's ultimate gift - his crucifiction and rescurrection - Easter. The whole gang got ready, went to church (where Gracie could NOT sit still) and then made our way to Maple K Farm for lunch and a mini-egg/rabbit hunt. She even had a "Green Eggs & Ham" moment by eating almost a whole slice of ham and crashing, with one hand, a green easter egg after Grandpa took the M&Ms in it that made it rattle so nice. Can we say temper?

All in all it was a busy, but very fun weekend - and didn't phase Grace a bit, but Chuck and I were sure ready for some extra shut-eye because t-minus 6 days and it's birthday time!

wahoo...i did it...i figured out the video piece so now you can really get a feel for just how busy Grace is!

i will try to get a couple more loaded, but now that i think about it, this could be a double-edged sword - now i'll need to keep up on taking videos so that i can post them. hmmm.....

enjoy!*

the learning curve

How cool is this...I added a slideshow! I've spent about two hours trying to figure out the video piece...to no avail! I'll keep at it though because I'd really like to share a couple of them.
Hope you're enjoying our learning process!

Here goes nothing!

Well, it's official, we have a blog. I'd thought about it, talked about it, but never done it...figured email was enough.
Now we can keep you up-to-date on all the coming and goings of the four of us (no, don't read into it...just don't forget Apollo!).
Read, post and enjoy!