I made a new cookie recipe, do you think Gracie liked them?

My mom sent this new advent calender which we all love. It didn't take Gracie long to figure out what went inside the pockets. Notice the super nice "florida/tropical" furniture in our living room. The theme is thru out the whole house. I know you guys are pretty jealous!

We went to the festival of lights at Disney Studios and it was beautiful. The lights dance along with music every now and then. Gracie was not quite sure if she liked all the noise and movement, but it was really fun. And they had snow machines, so that was really nice to remember our white Christmas of years past.

Generous Friends

I was just going thru Gracie's drawers and taking out outfits that she no longer fits in and exchanging them for the next size up, and I am amazed at how many cute outfits she has. This may sound strange, but the reason this takes me aback is because I have probably only bought her about 3 outfits of the old and the new. Almost all of of clothes have been donated by friends that were "cleaning out their closets", but what a great blessing for us! I can not say thank you enough to all of these people that were so willing to drop off boxes of clothes and toys and you may think it a small thing, but it really was an answer to prayer for us. I can't wait for the day when I can give these cute clothes to someone else starting their family.

Meemah sent Gracie her very own pillow with a puppy on one side and a fish on the other. Gracie loves it (even though she wouldn't smile for the picture) and drags it around with her, and she has to show it to me every morning first off when she wakes up. Very fun gift, thanks!

I guess it is about time that I let the cat out of the bag...for some reason it has taken me a long time to be ready to share this exciting news but we are having another baby! We are excited, it is just crazy to think that I will have two little ones to care for. And we found out last week that it is going to be a boy! That is also a little overwhelming as I wanted another little girl, but it will be a new adventure and Stuart is very excited to be having a boy. He is due around mid March so here's hoping to an ontime baby and a quick, uneventful delivery.

Gracie and mom got bored one evening, so we were playing with the camera. Check out the tank top on Gracie in Nov. That's right it is still hot and humid here, hopefully it will cool down for the holiday or it just won't seem like Christmas.

Halloween

We were fortunate enough to go to the Disney World Halloween party last night. It was a lot of fun with all the villians walking around the park and a special parade just for Halloween. They also had trick or treating booths around the park so we loaded up on lots of candy. Stuart had to work tonight so Gracie and I are in charge of answering the door. The dog doesn't like it much and I don't think Gracie likes giving away the candy, but she sure is cute in her costume (thanks Meemaw). Hopefully next year she will be able to say trick or treat. Well Happy Halloween to all!

We found out that Seaworld was offering free admittance for military so we had a fun afternoon checking out Shamu. Stuart picked our seats and said he did not notice the "splash zone" signs everywhere, so as you can see in my picture I am soaked.

This picture is a little old but wanted to share...Gracie and I went to California this summer for a few weeks and Gracie loved playing on the beach of Lake Tahoe.

Mini vacation

My parents were so kind to let us use thier timeshare for a week, but since Stuart is new at his job we couldn't go far, so luckily Florida is the vacation capital. So we had a fun week in Orlando by all the theme parks and hanging out by the pool. Gracie had a lot of fun playing.

Walking

Gracie has started walking around the house like a champ. She falls a lot and forgets to look ahead of herself when walking, but she is pretty proud of herself. She still won't go far outside of the house, but it is coming, I can tell. In some ways it is great to be free of always holding her or her hand, but on the other side of that she can now go wherever she wants whenever she can get away. She also figured out how to open the front door, so it has to stayed locked or she will be a free baby on the run. It is very fun to watch her get around on her own. Now we need to work on talking!