DISNEYLAND!!!

So our friends came out to visit and took us on a trip to Disneyland for 3 days! It was so hot, but so much fun! Gracie loved getting the characters to sign her book! I was impressed with how well she did. I ended up having to carry her most of the time though! Now that she knows Disneyland is not far away she has been asking to go back all day! She wants her, "augraph book" to be full! here are some pictures!

I haven't seen this movie and neither has she, but she was all for a picture!

Dancing with Goofy at breakfast.

Pluto

Group shot

Fireworks from hotel.

ah Gracie and Mickey.

Riding by herself like a big girl!

She loved Tink!

Giving her pen and, "augraph" book.

The letters.

Group shot.

pointing out what she wanted me to take pics of on small world.

Dumbo...she wanted that green one and she got it :)

First character picture.

Minnie or Mickey's house.

Yay!

I have no idea what to name this one...

So I was taking pain killers for my torn tendon in my ankle all the way to CA and this is what I just came across while looking for my College psychology degree (long story). I must have written this :) But I don't know what to name it.



6/25/09

“?”

The baby sleeps
In the back seat,
Her head against the window
Blind to the journey
She’s begun.
I look at her sleeping eyes,
Lashes turned up,
Hair back in braids
And know that I’m giving her a better life
Away from the stress
We can let go of our disguise.
She’s mine
Yet sometimes I can’t believe
I’ve created something so sweet
I’m thankful for every word
She speaks
Ever cry she weeps
Every kiss I can give and receive.
A fresh beginning,
A bittersweet good-bye
The long road ahead
To new memories,
Stories
We can begin to put together
My precious little girl
Will help guide me along the way
Keep me from making the same mistakes
Which I’ve been known to make.
Those baby blue eyes
Will keep me safe
And help me show her the right way.
This new journey
Will bring us hope and strength.

Gracie's art

So here are just a few of the things that Gracie has been making. All she wants to do is art. Which is fine with me because she is always so clean about it!

This was an experiment so the next shirt will be better. I accidently stepped on her cousin, Reagan's so we'll be making more tomorrow!

Picture frames...

She painted both of these all by herself.

She said this was a cup?

This is our wall of pictures. It gets overloaded quite often!

How we've been filling our time!

So as many of you know, I have not been working since we got out here. I have found an amazing job now and am ready to go, but in the meantime this is what Gracie and I have been doing to fill our time. It's been crazy not working at all, but I've been lucky to have this time with her to try new things and let her be creative. She's done a ton of art projects which will be an entire other post and I'm hoping to get a mural started on her wall by an awesome company. Gracie has been having quite the imagination lately and keeps talking about a show where the, "dad has an aligator when he was little like my age and he put it in the washing machine and when they opened it up, the aligator was ruined and there was green fuzz all over. The dad cried and cried." Her EXACT words! I have no idea what she's talking about and have been on the search! So here are the pics...

We've been sleeping in :)

Flying paper kites with ribbon tied to them :)

Dressing up as fairy princesses with crazy headbands...

Crawling on the stools to the new table to make her like the new table...

Yes, making pink eggs...

Gracie is learning to wash dishes? She is actually teaching herself!

I cannot tell you how many desserts and dinners we have made together...

we pose for pictures together...

She did this all by herself!

New House Pictures

So my dad went crazy with the camera today and there were about 20 pictures but I didn't think anyone would care to see all of them so here are just a few...

View from our backyard of the lake.

Pool and hot tub...my favorite although I can't get Gracie in very often :(

Front of house

other random things from July and August...

Rainforest Cafe

Long Beach Aquarium

Trip to Salt Lake July 2009

This is a late post! Gracie and I went back to Salt Lake to visit at the end of July. We had so much fun! We got to see most of our friends and family and hope that we can see everyone else next time! Gracie misses her friends and her "sister cousin" so much! Here are some of the pictures of our trip...

Gracie put this head band on all by herself :)

Rebecca and Josh at the Pez party playing the Wii

Rachel and Gracie at Cherry Hill.

Cottonwood Heights. I went off the platform but I'll have to post that picture later.

I love this picture!

Making cupcakes. Gracie likes to lick and frost at the same time!

chocolate marshmallows. And this is my baby who hates to get messy!

Dino museum with Matt, Reagan, and Brooke.

Reagan and Gracie with the shark.

Dino museum.

Silly cousins!

I absolutely love this picture of them!