Summer Days

Yay! I love hot weather, and we've had plenty of that lately! On Sunday, I ran to the grocery store, leaving a sleeping baby home with her Daddy. When I got home, I found THIS picture stored on my digital camera.

Chris said he had to throw her in the tub to clean her up, she had popsicle EVERYWHERE! Oh well! Looks like she enjoyed it - plus this picture gives us a great view of her beautiful teeth! Only two so far... they sure are taking their time showing up!

Another sunny day last week, we took a walk to the park, and tested out the wagon that we (meaning Chris) FINALLY took out of the box and assembled. I was strolling behind these two and had to run home for the camera because I thought they were too cute!

Finally, this is a rose that was actually growing on a bush in our backyard. I'm glad I took the picture when I did, because now there isn't a bloom left on that plant! Hope we didn't kill it already! Yikes!

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all you Dads out there!

Especially, Happy Father's Day to MY Daddy. I miss you Dad! I hope you had a fabulous day! I admire you so much and I am so lucky and proud to be your daughter. I love you!

And as for my husband... You are a wonderful Daddy! Its so obvious how much our baby loves you - she lights up when you come home from work, and you can make her laugh better than anyone. She is so lucky to have you! (And so am I!)

Here are a couple clips of our little one showing off her fabulous language skills to wish her Daddy a special day! She has a great vocabulary (almost 30 words!) in sign language, but the verbalizing is coming along a bit slower. Happily, "Dada" is one of her favorite words. Happy Father's Day, Daddy!

More pictures...

Gabi celebrated her first birthday in our hotel room, while we were waiting for our house to close. Here she is sitting on her stack of presents.

She loves her ice cream cake!

Our new house!!

At the playground.

Finally, Pictures!

Okay, I FINALLY sat down and got organized this weekend! Here are some of my favorite pictures from the last couple months of travel and craziness!

The whole family at Chris' graduation.

Enjoying the warm Wisconsin weather

Gabi giving her cousin a big, sloppy kiss!

Hitting the road... what's that in my rearview mirror?!

Pitstop at Mount Rushmore

Home Sweet Home

AHHH!!! Boxes EVERYWHERE!!

Surprisingly, moving doesn't usually stress me out... TOO much! What DOES bother me is the craziness and clutter immediately AFTER the move, but before you figure out where everything is supposed to go. There are piles of boxes and miscellaneous items all over the house and its driving me nuts! Those of you who know me know that I am not even close to a neat freak - but for some reason, I cannot relax after a move until I have everything put away. I spend the entire day walking around the house trying to find places for everything, and after 5 days of this, we are still living in chaos.

Of course, I have the added challenge of being followed around all day by a little shadow that likes to undo all of my tidying. I find myself re-organizing the same things over and over again. The contents of my tupperware cupboard, linen closet and newspaper stack seem to get scattered all over the house, over and over again. Ah well... at least one of us is having fun!

I apologize for not having pictures yet. Give me a few more days - once I get the house in order I'll finally get around to updating the pics and I'll give you my first impressions of our new home.

Moving Day

Finally!

Tomorrow we move into our new home. Our internet will be hooked up on Monday. I can't wait. I have so many pictures to download and thoughts to share!

Gabi had her first birthday last weekend! We're still living in the hotel, so it wasn't much of a party, but there were presents and cake - so what more could you ask for? She is running all over the place and making friends with all the other guests here. She is a handful, but she is a sweetheart and she keeps us all entertained. I took her for pictures last week as well, and they turned out really awesome! I will post some of them once we get into the house and get the computer set up again.

I can't wait to get settled in!!