Mother's Day and Father's Day

Robert and I always seem to go out of town and be gone for a long time. This year we were out of town for both Mother's day and Father's day. Regardless of having to travel on both days we still managed to get some sweet family time in which is all that matters. We are not big on presents but love spending quality time together and enjoying what it means to be a parents. We both feel that God has blessed us so much by giving us Georgia Grace. Traditionally these holidays are to celebrate and appreciate your parents, but I find myself thanking God for the gift of being a parent. 

 

Weddings

This spring we had 4 weddings, none of which were in town. We took Georgia to 2 of them. I unfortunately can't find all the pictures but here are 2, mainly just to show you how cute Georgia Grace is. Unfortunately for both brides, Georgia stole the show. She was the first one out on the dance floor and entertained everyone. At one wedding the band was playing songs just for her. There is a video of her dancing, sorry it is sideways. I don't know how to turn it. 

 

 

This is also 1 1/2 hours past her bedtime. She was in a pretty good mood. 

Easter

I know this post is WAY over due and many more but we lost this camera and just found it a little over a month ago. I am going to try to catch up on posts, but my memory is not the best.

Georgia had a fun event filled Easter. She had three celebrations: Church, neighborhood, and friends.

Our church had a breakfast, puppet show, Easter egg hunt for the toddlers and egg roll for the older kids. Robert was not feeling well during the weekend so he did not come with us. During the puppet show Georgia FREAKED out. She loves Sesame Street, especially Elmo. She also loves music and can't get enough. She is usually up dancing when she hears music. I thought she was going to love the puppet show, but I could not stay in the room with her. I tried multiple times thinking it was just a certain part of the show, but the full on screams started.



 

 Breakfast at Church

 First Easter Egg hunt.

This is the second year we have celebrated Easter lunch with friends. Since none of us have family in town and we don't like leaving town for every holiday it is perfect to have lunch with friends.

 Georgia and me, Robert was at home resting

 All the babies. Abby, Georgia, Sage, Jasper, and Jude

 

Our neighborhood had a little Easter egg hunt in our park. It was fun and a good way to get to know some neighbors. Unfortunately the grass was wet and muddy and Georgia had not perfected walking yet. She was a big mess afterwards.

 You can't tell in the picture, but she is crying from being so scared.

I am trying to keep her from getting muddy. It didn't work that well. They did not have candy in any of the eggs. They had a bag of candy each kids got. I like that idea. They also had a prize egg and Georgia won it for her age group. She got a basket with a few toys.



Dress up

I promise I am working on updating from months ago but I had to post this. Georgia grace had really started to like to play dress up. I have been sorting through her clothes for the winter and she decided it was play time.

All by myself

Since turning 1 Georgia has really started to show her independence. She likes to try to do things on her own from wiping her face or bottom, to trying to dress herself. None of them are perfected yet but she is sure trying and having fun doing it. Georgia also loves to try to use silverware herself. We did not have any little kid forks or spoons so I went out and got her a set. She has loved trying to feed herself with fork or spoon even if it doesn’t work right like a goldfish cracker. Here is a little video of Georgia feeding herself pudding at 14 months.

First night away

Back in March our friends Greg and Megan got married. It was down in Montgomery, which is about 3 hours away. Since that is a little too far for us to drive after a long reception, we decided to spend the night. My parents were able to come down and stay with Georgia so we could have a night away. It was my first time to be away from her over night. It was nice to not have to worry about her and get her to bed early. Greg has a nephew a week older than Georgia. When I saw him at the reception, I did miss her, but was still glad to have a night free. Gigi and Bopa also had fun with baby girl. She put on multiple dance shows for them but they didn't snap any pictures.
The church they got married in was absolutely gorgeous. It looked like it belonged in England. After the wedding we drove past the hotel to the reception. We noticed that a lot of the lights were out. When we pulled up to the reception it was completely dark. Thank goodness that people use a lot of candles at weddings. The atmosphere was very romantic with all the candles. Luckily they had already cooked all of the food. After about 2 hours the lights came back on and the reception went off without any other problems.

                                          Huntsville crew that was able to come down

Colorado

It has been way too long since I have posted. We have been really busy and trying to keep up with our posts has not made it to the top of my list. Unfortunately I then forget and miss posts that I would want to document and remember for later. For now, I will just recall what I can.
Back in late February my mom, Georgia, and I flew out to Colorado to watch my brother's 3 kids so he could go on a vacation with his wife. Robert came out and met us toward the end of the week. It was so much fun getting to see my nephews and niece. I love them. To be completely honest, I have never been so tired in my life. Emma, my niece wakes up multiple times during the night. Miller, the other baby also woke up one night screaming for a couple hours because he had an ear infection. Then we spent the whole day running around with 4 kids. I normally have a lot of energy, but man they wore me out. On the second day we were there Ryan and Emma were supposed to go to school. We got everyone ready and still had over an hour before we had to leave. We thought we were going to be rushed for school, but on the contrary we were wishing we could leave early. I don't know how Sharon does it.  The kids had so much fun playing together and getting special time with their Aunt Gooey(that's me) and Gigi.

 Since Georgia was not walking on her own at that time, she was wanting to walk with a walking toy ALL the time. Since she was still learning how to walk she put too much weight on the stroller and then it would fall over on her. The way to keep that from happening was to put something heavy in it. Miller worked perfect. He got to go from a long walk up and down the hallway. If you can't see Georgia has a huge smile on her face

 Cousins having fun together. Emma liked playing with Georgia more than Miller...poor Miller. Good thing he has a great big brother.

 Last year for Ryan and Emma's birthdays I sent them this jumpoleen. It never got blown up and I was determined to get it blown up for them. I did it while they were at school. They had so much fun playing on it. It produced a lot of static electricity. we invented a shock game. They would try to see who could shock me the biggest.

                                                                     Look at that hair

                                                         Gigi with the two babies

Since all three of the younger kids still nap, Ryan got some special time with each of us. I downloaded a few games for Ryan and we would sit and play them together.

                                                        Reading stories before bed time

 One morning we took them to an indoor jump place. We left miller at home with my mom. The other three kids had so much fun. They even had a lot of stuff for Georgia. The place was called Monkey Business. I think this picture of Emma says it perfectly

 They has a special area for Georgia to crawl over everything. She had so much fun. She is posing.

                                                            Do you think she is having fun?

 With all the fun things to play on, crawl over and through, Georgia still found and wanted to play with the shoes.

 They had a special time with music. Ryan is the blur in the picture. That is a good way to describe how he was here. He met a few other little boys and ran around with them most of the time.

 My mom stayed and extra day so we could leave Georgia and go up skiing. It was perfect, no one was there. It was a Monday morning and had just snowed a little. We never had to wait for the chair lift and the slopes were great. It was a good warm up for Breckenridge.

 The next day all three of us drove up to Breckenridge. It snowed 11 inches on the day we got up there. We walked around the town and enjoyed the snow. It was so pretty. The town was really cute. The following day we put Georgia in daycare and went skiing. We had fresh powder. We went down some ungroomed runs. Bad move for me. The picture does not do it justice. The natural moguls were huge and when you tried to slow down, your skis went in the snow because it was so soft. I stuck to the groomed runs. It wasn't too cold, but the wind was awful. A couple of times the lifts stopped because the wind was so strong at the top that people couldn't see getting off the lift. I actually saw a tornado of snow. When it wasn't blowing, it felt nice. When the wind was blowing on you, it was brutal.
After we were done we went to pick Georgia up. When I told them her name, they said which one? There were 2 Georgia's a month apart. I thought that was funny. It was nice to relax in the hot tubs after a long day of skiing. Sitting in an outdoor hot tub while it snows is the most magical thing.

 It snowed so much while we were there. The snowbanks were almost as tall as me.

                                       We are still big kids. We wanted to make snow angels.