HAPPY THANKSGIVING

We are heading to KC tomorrow to spend Thanksgiving with Junior's family. We are very excited - the girls can't wait to see their Abuela and play with their cousins. Everyone is excited to meet Gabriella (Abuela can't wait to get her hands on her again).

I'm very happy to be going home to KC for Thanksgiving. I miss it so much. It will really put me in the holiday spirit. We plan to spend Thanksgiving night at the Westin Crown Center hotel with the whole family - it is so festive around there. We will all go down to The Plaza for the annual lighting ceremony. It will be a very special holiday - Junior and I used to do this so long ago and now we can share it with our girls.

Happy Thanksgiving to all. We will miss my family but will love hanging with the Silverio's.

Pictures to be posted upon return.

Gretchen & Junior

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

We love you,
Caroline & Gabriella

CAROLINE SAYS SOME FUNNY STUFF

Caroline is talking so much and the stuff she says amazes me and cracks me up. Last night when I picked the girls up from Papa's house and we were driving home I took a little different route to avoid some traffic. As we were driving Caroline says "Mommy, where my house go?" I replied, "we are almost home honey". She responds "My house, where are you?".

Daddy has been working late every night this week so dinner has kinda been relaxed - when he got home last night at 8pm he threw in a pizza. I was holding Caroline and she was eyeing the pizza. I asked her if she wanted some pizza. She replied "Hmmm, my tummy not so good mommy!"

The kid cracks me up. I have to write these things down or I will never remember them all.

Scentsy

I have recently become a consultant for Scentsy wickless wax warmers. These things are GREAT. Check out my website - www.gretchens.scentsy.com (link on the left of the blog page). These are great gifts for the holidays. Anyone would love it.

My main motivation for this was that I have one of these and love it. I've bought them for mom, Amy, Kathy, and a few friends. They are really great. Also, any extra $ I make will go into the girls college fund - you can't start saving for that too soon.

Let me know if you have any questions on the Scentsy stuff.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Halloween with Aunt Amy

Little Pumpkin

Daddy & his bumblebee - she was more interested in eating her Halloween candy

Grumpy bumblebee

We had a great Halloween. Caroline was really into it this year - she actually wore her bumblebee costume most of the day. We had a birthday party to go to that afternoon and she wore her costume to the party. I was proud - I was afraid she would not want to put it on.

Nonnie, Aunt Amy & Uncle Brian came over for dinner and trick-or-treating. Our neighborhood has so many kids so it was really fun. We parked our chairs at the bottom of the driveway and just waited for kids. We walked around to about 15 houses and Caroline was very good at the trick-or-treating. She was so cute.

Trying to keep everyone healthy. We all have little colds but doing our best to stay away from the H1N1 virus. A little baby at daycare was diagnosed over the weekend so fingers crossed we are all okay. The grils have one more round of vaccines and then hopefully we will be in the clear. Gabriella's cold is much better today.

Gabriella is pulling herself up to standing on anything she can get ahold of. Yesterday I was folding laundry on the couch and she was on the other side of the living room. She crawled over to me and pulled herself right up to where I was. She is so quick. I bet she will be walking within a few months - Lord help me. Junior was an early walker, she is taking after her daddy - he was 9 months old. I was 14 months old - I know, a little slow. Caroline was also 14 months old.

We are ready for the holidays and enjoying a little cooler weather here in AZ. The Georgeson's are coming from Denver next weekend. We will celebrate Junior's bday and our 1 year wedding anniversary. Wow, what a year!

SICK GABBY

Sick baby - oh so tired
She was so restless and this is how she finally fell asleep

Yummy blueberries

Love that face

Caroline loves to do "her" makeup while I am doing mine

Oh no, we are in so much trouble with this little beauty queen

Gabriella is home sick today with mommy. She has a nasty cold and is having trouble breathing so I thought she could use some extra kisses and hugs today. Take a look at the picture of her finally falling asleep last night in her crib - she was so tired - poor little thing. She only lasted about an hour in her crib then daddy was booted to the couch and she got in bed with mommy.

We are looking forward to Halloween. Gabriella is a pumpkin and Caroline is a bumble bee. We will take lots of pictures. Nonnie, Aunt Amy and Uncle Brian will come over for trick-or-treating. Should be a fun night.

Not much else new is going on - we are getting so excited for our trip home to KC for Thanksgiving.

Happy Halloween to everyone.

OUR LITTLE PUMPKINS

OMG, she loved this teething biscuit - this is the first time I gave her one.
Enough with the pumpkins mom

Little Pumpkin - Gabriella's first Halloween

Caroline eating Kettle Korn this year

Caroline & her Kettle Korn last year (she has grown up so much)

Picking her pumpkin this year

Picking her pumpkin last year (she downsized this year because we made her carry her own pumpkin)

Our Sweet Little Pumpkins

The Silverio's

Nonnie and her girls

Mommy and her girls

Gabriella's first pumpkin patch visit - she will be back next year

Last weekend we went to Schnepf Farms in Queen Creek, Arizona. We did this last year with Caroline and it will now be a yearly tradition.

We had so much fun.

Not much else new going on except our little Gabriella pulled herself to standing - yeah, that's right, not quite 7 months old (will be this Saturday) and she wants to stand. Nonnie was babysitting so I did not see it happen though I saw her after she got to her feet. She pulled herself up on her activity cube that my friend Kelley got Caroline for her first birthday. Both the girls love this activity cube and Gabby has found that it is stable enough to pull herself up. We are in so much trouble with her - she wants to do everything.

We are good and looking forward to going home to KC for Thanksgiving and being with Junior's family - can't wait for all the girls to be together. Caroline and Gabriella will have so much fun with their 6 girls neices in KC. Abuela will love having all her granddaughters together - we plan on having family pics taken.

Love to all. BTW, I finally joined Facebook so you can look there for pics too though I will continue to update the blog because I want this for the girls someday.