19 months

Wow, I can't believe Grace is already 19 months!  She has been learning lots of new things recently...especially words.  One of her favorite things to do is look through photo albums and point out every person she knows ("dada" is her favorite person to point out as well as "baby" (herself)).
Here are a few photos of the last few weeks:

Hanging out with Nana and Papa over Thanksgiving weekend.

Another one of Grace's favorite things to do, is to walk around in other people's shoes.

She finds most things hilarious these days.

Grace loves walking around with a bag over her head (don't worry, we don't let her play with plastic bags!).

Grace's favorite things to eat: yogurt and kiwi (cheese and strawberries are among her favs too).

Hamming it up with her crown and pink princess slippers.

She is definitely a girly-girl...she pointed at my nail polish the other day because she wanted her toenails painted!

Michael is 'Over the Hill'!

Happy 40th Birthday Michael!

Michael's giant birthday card created by his friends and family.

Grace had lots of fun celebrating her Dada today.

Grace kept saying "hot, hot" when her fingers got to close to the candles. :)

Old Man River passed out at 3pm.

Thank you for being such a wonderful husband, father, son, brother, friend, Airman, Major, and faithful follower of Jesus.
Love you so much and hope you have many, many, many, many, many more birthdays to come!!!  

Baby #2- 17 Weeks

We hit 17 weeks with Baby #2 a few days ago. As you can probably tell, I'm much more large and in charge with this pregnancy!

Grace is fascinated by my ever-expanding belly.

Roll Tide

Grace was all dressed up for the Alabama vs. LSU game this past Saturday. Although she only watched the first quarter (since it was her bedtime), she was able to watch 2 out of the 3 missed field goals by Bama. It was definitely a frustrating game to watch!

Excited to cheer on the Crimson Tide!

Perplexed after missing the first field goal.

Let's rally back Alabama! Go, Fight, Win!

Much needed pre-bedtime snack break.

Now i need to buy her a Washington outfit so she can represent the Huskies down here in SEC country. Go Dawgs!

A Baby Cow, Farmers, & Drag Queens! Oh My!

Our little cow had a fun Halloween this year. She got a lot of use out of her costume...Gymboree costume party class and neighborhood Halloween parade on Saturday, and then tricking or treating last night.

Someone mentioned to us that this is a costume we can keep using since Chick Fil-A has dress up like a cow nights throughout the year, which gets you free food!

Excited to play at Gymboree during costume day. Sadly, only one other kid dressed up!

Her favorite two toys are this wooden rocking horse and wooden slide.

Look at that booty...the costume had an amazing amount of stuffing in the rump.

Our neighborhood Halloween parade.

The farmers and their mini moo.

Grace with our neighbor Ava (or the cupcake princess).

After we got back home, Grace became obsessed with Michael's John Deere boots and wanted to put them on her feet and walk around (which is impossible without assistance since they must weigh 5+ lbs each).

And then she saw the cowboy hat and it became her new obsession.

I couldn't resist but to steal a few photos off of my sister-in-law's blog since my family is so amazingly creepy (thanks Kaitlyn!).

Stacy (a.k.a. brother Mac)

He seriously has the nicest, longest legs in nylons and high heels...not fair!

Dolly (a.k.a. Grantpa)

It looks so frighteningly real. I hope he didn't moon too many children.

Pumpkin Patch

Grace had her first pumpkin patch experience this weekend. We went to Berry Patch Farms and had a lot of fun despite the lack of healthy looking pumpkins (I was constantly steering Grace away from the rotten/moldy/nasty ones...gross!). But we had a great time taking a hayride, looking at the baby farm animals (that smelled absolutely disgusting, but they were cute at least), walking through the pumpkin patch, pulling cotton right off of the plant, and eating fried apple pie (which is simply the best thing I have ever sunk my teeth into).

Hayride!

Grace loved picking up as many gourds as she could.

Michael introduced Grace to cotton picking.

We finally found a few pumpkins that were not rotten, but they were huge (and therefore expensive), so I just waited to buy our pumpkin at Trader Joes. You can't beat $3.49!