March 2011

Introducing Lilah Maria, born 3/3/11, 5.15 lbs, 19.5" And her big brother loves her! Gabriel has adjusted very well to having a sister....

Daddy and his little girl...

Lilah is taking in some afternoon sun while her daddy and brother swim in the pool...

Gabriel found a torpedo toy at the pool that someone left behind...

Our House...getting closer

Front of the house and side yard...
Back of the house...

Foyer / entry way...

Most of the kitchen, the side you can't see has a pantry, refrigerator, and 2 ovens...

Close up of the granite and backsplash...

Master bathroom sinks...

Guest bathroom vanity...

View out of the sliding glass door in the living room to the back yard...

Garage door which will be brown when it is finished...

And, that's it for now. We are expecting to close in early March...just in time for Lilah to join us!

Trains and Bicycles

The last few weeks have been busy as usual! Thanksgiving and now getting ready for Christmas. We took Gabriel to the mall to ride the train. As you can see, he had fun...oh and we also got his picture taken with Santa. That was not quite as good as last year. Although he isn't smiling, he also is not crying!

One of Gabriel's fun things to do is to climb up on the chair and touch the beads hanging from the lamp. So far, he hasn't pulled it over.

Thanks to our upstairs neighbor, Gabriel has a Radio Flyer tricycle. It is so cute since I can steer with the extension part until he is able to reach the peddles. He loves his new tricycle!

And, this picture is just to show you that our little boy isn't quite as little anymore. He is growing so fast and getting so big! Here he was ready to go with mommy to work this morning! I might add, that he isn't quite a morning person. My boy likes to sleep...even on weekends! Yeah! Yes, I know we are spoiled. Maybe that is why we haven't started on #2???

Christmas will be in Atlanta with Mops and Granddaddy this year. I'm sure we will have lots of fun pictures to show off!

The Garbage Man

Gabriel's fascination with the taking the garbage out reminds me of my brother, Adam's, fascination with the garbage man as a child. Adam was so excited to watch the garbage men come and collect the trash. He even got to ride on the back of the garbage truck with one of the garbage men! Can you imagine that happening today? Well, it looks like it is a boy thing. Gabriel is so happy to take the garbage out with his daddy. Mommy doesn't dare enter the garbage shoot room. Gross, disgusting, and whatever else I can say! Roaches, need I say more??? Here is our champ...(Oh, and check out his new flip flops, or flippies as my dad says)
Get on up the step to open the door...

And, with a little assistance...out goes the trash!

Yet another fun trip to the trash shoot! Gotta love it!

Halloween Weekend

Halloween was an eventful day at our house. On Saturday we had a birthday party for one of my old friend's son, Luke. He was turning 4 and his grandma who lives her in FL was having a party. Gabriel had so much fun in the pool, kiddie pool, and bounce house. The party was filled with food, cake, and snow cones. A 4 year old kid's dream! Here is Gabriel with his new friend Brady who is older than Gabriel by a couple of weeks.
And here is Gabriel and William in the bounce house. Gabriel loved to bounce with us.

And here is the crew of Westminster Academy alumni. Quite a group came for Tyson's son, Luke's, birthday celebration!

And, all the kids, of course....

What would Halloween be without a little trick-or-treating? Gabriel got to go trick-or-treating for the first time. We went with Kristin and her daughter, Adriana. Adriana was a great teacher for Gabriel. Adriana the hippy and Gabriel the pirate.... The funniest part was Gabriel wanting to go inside everyone's house. Of course, what else do you do when someone opens the door...you go in! How silly to stand outside and wait for them to give you candy???

As you can see, he go the hand of it pretty quickly! It was lots of fun, as you can imagine!

Pumpkins and Fall Festivals

After uploading all the pictures to the blog, I realize I put them in reverse chronological order! Oops! I'm sure it doesn't matter.... Anyway, last weekend Gabriel and I carved a pumpkin for the first time. He seemed more interested in playing with the cut out top of the pumpkin than digging inside.
Here is what we ended up with. I had to throw it out Thursday because the heat really got to it. It was gross!!!

We also went to the Parkland Fall Festival. They had puppy adoptions. No, we didn't get one. But Gabriel loves dogs...he always grabs their nose!

He was so into the picture of the dog on this sign and even kised the dog on the sign.

The Fall Festival was complete with balloons.

The most exciting was Friday's Fall Festival at the JM Family Center. Below you can see Gabriel didn't want to wear his hat with the pirate costume. He looked so cute!

You can see that eventually he was okay with the hat. Maybe the cotton candy was distracting him. He loved the cotton candy!

What is a Fall Festival without cotton candy and pizza? A little boy's dream!

All in all, it was a great weekend! Gabriel had fun and we kept very busy!

Stay tuned for pictures from tomorrow (Friday's) halloween day at work and the Family Center!

Pumpkin Patch

Today, we went to a pumpkin patch. This is what we call a pumpkin patch in Florida! We had lots of fun even though Gabriel didn't want to pose for any pictures. We caught a few...

Kinda looks like he got caught doing something he shouldn't be doing???

No, this is not our cart of pumpkins! We did buy a pumpkin, but none of these.

I'm not sure what Gabriel is looking at here, but it almost looks supernatural!