November and birthday

Late pics!

Playing in the leaves


Smiley girl hamming it up


Catching snowflakes


Picture People portraits




Alex helping Grace open presents


Aren't they adorable?!

Mmmmm cake! (frosting rather!)

Grace and daddy


Alex wants more cake!


In bed with all of her babies


Decorating the tree

Lots of overdue Gracie pics!

Grandma Lori's visit and the pumpkin patch:






Carving pumpkins:



Dancing with Uncle Blake:



Being Grace:

It's a girl!

First one is of Ayla looking at us the day we found out she was a girl.



20 week belly shots, with some Halloween fun!

Some really late Labor Day pics!

We've been really busy with the garden and trying to paint the house, so have been neglectful in both taking and posting new pictures! This month will be better! Promise! :D

Showing us her "smile" at the beach house:



Playing on the beach with cousin Alex (who just turned 1 on Sept. 4th!)


With Uncle Josh:


With Daddy on the beach, running straight to the waves as usual!



Rocks and seashells make great memories!


With Mommy on the beach, wave hopping!




At the zoo, looking at the elephants:


Playing with Daddy and the silkies!

Pics from the ER

Here are the pics we got of Sprout in the ER Saturday night. I couldn't believe how much our little one was moving!

Back. You can see the head on the right and the little white line (spine) along the bottom. i love that you can see the little hand and arm on the top!



Face on the right. You can see the little eye sockets and mouth, although Bryce and I agree it is more than slightly alien looking lol!



The whole body. Profile of the face on the right, and you can see the beginning of the femur on the left along with the rest of the leg. Look at that little budda belly!



Nice profile of the face. Right before this one was snapped we saw the baby sucking it's fingers!

A new pic of sprout!

Here is sprout at 10 weeks. Forgive the blobbishness! S/he wouldn't cooperate and kept turning away. You are seeing most of the back in this pic (it's a 3d ultrasound) Heartbeat was 164, so I'm betting girl! And grace calls the baby Ayla, which will be her name if she's a girl, so it must be true. lol
(ok, adding this the next day...forgive my pregnancy brain. I had sprout flipped upside down! Here is the REAL pic lol)

Stunt double at age twenty months

She's lost her tiny little mind! I thought girls were supposed to be into dolls, and tea parties, and all that stuff! Nope, this is what we caught Grace doing tonight. (that table is very wobbly and about 2.5 feet tall)


And one of sprout, taken today. Growing like crazy! I'm HUGE, and not even 10 weeks!

Grace and her new pool! (and other pics)

Grace and dad in her new pool!



Mom and Sprout get to play too. :)


Grace and Jeffrey, the boy next door that gave her the new pool.


Grace "helping" pick the garden. She loves her broccoli!



And some garden pics:

Roma tomatoes (we have three or four of these plants)


Cherry tomatoes. These are about 6 feet tall and just laden with tomaters. We have about six or seven of these type.


There are five Brandywine, a pear, a jellybean, some early girl, patio prize, and a few more full of maters. We're kind of getting overrun... lol.