Kelly's Family Shower

Below are some pictures from Kelly's shower last weekend at our house. Anna is an incredible photographer (as you'll see below) and was so gracious and generous to take pictures all day!! (Anna has a website and makes incredible cards, announcements and all kinds of cool stuff so you should check her out at www.annabrowndesigns.com.)

The shower was lots of fun and an all day event! Everyone is just so happy for Kelly & Rick and we all can't wait to see little Laura Kate.

Rick & Kelly opening gifts.

This is Sarah-Grace and her cousin Madison. They love to play together.

This is the 3 muskateers - Madison discovered she had a new playmate this visit, Charlotte.

Kristi (one of Kelly's sisters) and Connie (Kelly's mom) signing the baby frame.
Charlotte eating cake.
The dessert tray.
The "punch" we had in honor of Kelly's grandmother who passed away a few years ago. It's actually green koolaid with sliced oranges, chilled of course.

Elliott's gift to the baby.
Kelly & her mom in our backyard.
Tracee & Sarah-Grace

Rick with one of the gifts for the baby.

Our clothesline gift to Kelly.

Aunt Karen rocking on our back deck watching the girls.

Sarah-Grace waiting for her turn on the trampoline.

Brag Blog April '07

Well, I still don't have the Disney pics because they are on Tad's computer and we aren't in the same city right now (a common occurrence lately). But hopefully I will post them next week. This weekend is Rick & Kelly's family shower. I am feverishly trying to get all the Teacher Appreciation Week projects together and get ready for the 30 people that will be here on Saturday. I'm STRESSED. But, I wanted to take a minute to jot down some things about the girls that I notice as I'm racing around them (my way of alleviating some of my guilt).

• Charlotte's language and sentences have just exploded over the last week. I swear when we picked her up in Waycross last weekend, she was talking more than Tad & I had EVER heard her. It must be something in their water.
• Sarah-Grace brought her first completed division worksheet home today!! ALL the answers were right, some of the numbers were still written backwards - but she computed the answers correctly!! I was so proud and made a big deal, to which she replied, "Mommy I've BEEN doing division - where have you been".
• When we were at Disney our friend Kevin took his little girl and Sarah-Grace to the campsite playground. Savannah lost a toy at the playground and Kevin told her it would be alright - he would just buy her another one. Then MY child informed Kevin "You can't just keep buying her things to lose". Yep, I wanted to die when Kevin told me what she said.
• Charlotte refers to the movie Charlotte's Web as "My Web".

Christmas 2006

hi everyone! I don't have much time to blog, it's been a really stressful week and it's only TUESDAY!! I wanted to post some quick pics from Disney but all I could find were pics from christmas, so I decided to post these instead. Stay tuned for more pics from Disney!!