so much for a relaxing weekend

This year's Thanksgiving weekend was supposed to be a weekend of relaxing and eating. Unfortunately, we experienced quite the opposite. Gracyn woke up Wednesday night with a terrible case of the stomach flu! It was so sad to see her sick. I've never seen anyone so small throw up! HORRIBLE! I headed over to the Miller's house alone on Thursday for a delicious Thanksgiving meal. Sharon made the most amazing pumpkin cheesecake! I brought home left over's for Luke since he was taking care of our sweetie. Gracyn started feeling a better on Saturday afternoon so we headed to Lowes to get a Christmas Tree. That's when things took a turn for the worse. We got the tree home and Luke was not feeling well. Needless to say, Luke was up all of last night with the flu. Gracyn was up all night as well with a relapse. I am exhausted! Both of my sweeties are struggling today. I am hoping that I do not catch whatever has been consuming them. I'm not sure if I will be mentally able to handle it!

Gracyn driving the silver bullet to Lowes

sad news.....

Our beloved Abe passed away unexpectedly last week. He was such a great kitty and we will miss him a ton! It's hard to believe that this orange fatty won't be roaming our home any longer. As you know, I AM the crazy cat lady. I've put together a slide show of some of my favorite Abey moments.

grandma b & auntie dawn....... mommy's birthday party

We had a great week! Grandma B and Auntie Dawn came to visit. Gracyn had so much fun hanging out all week. I swear she was showing off since Grandma was here. She is now talking in full sentences! She can pretty much say anything that we can....so mommy needs to work on her language! Gracyn and Grandma were inseparable .....cooking ....shopping .....swimming .....planting flowers. Gracyn's school also had a Fall Festival where we had cotten candy, doughnuts, and played in the hay. We went on a nature walk in the Everglades where Grandma took pictures for our Christmas card.

I also celebrated a birthday....32! Is that right.....1976??? I am old! Gracyn and Grandma made me a birthday cake. She organized the candles dozens of times before I blew them out! Luke and I had a dinner date while Grandma and Dawn babysat. We miss them already. We will see Grandma and Grandpa in just 4 weeks for Christmas!!!

ROCK the vote

On Saturday I waited in line to vote early. I waited for 3 1/2 hours!!! Lora can attest to it. She was on the phone with me for 2 hours of it. I still can't believe it myself. I don't know what I'll do if Obama doesn't take office!!!!! I finally returned home for Luke to document the monumental event.

Happy Halloween

As many of you know, Halloween is one of my favorite holidays! This year was no exception. Gracyn was the cutest lion! She was uncertain at first, but warmed up quickly with lots of ROARRRRS! Her school had a Halloween parade around my work where daddy met up with us and we did round one of trick or treating. We then headed over to the Miller's house to trick or treat in their neighborhood. Sarah, Lindsey and Gracyn had a blast......AND Gracyn had her first taste of candy!

Sarah's turns 2

Last weekend we celebrated Sarah Miller's 2nd birthday! We had such a great time seeing all of our friends. Gracyn LOVED the bounce house and cake! She also had fun playing with Katie and stealing all of her toys. We haven't quite mastered the practice of sharing.

Baby Schipper is 20 weeks old!

We had our big ultra sound on Thursday and got to see our little sweetie. Everything is tracking normal and all tests came back negative! I forgot how amazing it really is to see the baby this early along. He/she kept rubbing their head and putting their fingers in their mouth! It was so hard not to find out what the sex is....especially when the technician admitted to knowing what it was! My doctor had us schedule a c-section since I had one previously with Gracyn. The big date is March 19, 2009 at 7:30am!!!!!!