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Monday, October 27, 2014

Gracie's 3rd Birthday and Our First Gotcha Day Celebration!

It has been a long time since our lastpost! So here's an update...

Our baby girl is doing great! Gracie is a sweet, loving, caring, polite and funny little girl! She is also a wonderful little helper... 
Our Lil' Cupcake is growing so fast, sometimes it's hard keeping up with her!  She's so young yet she has a sense of humor, she likes to make us laugh. She wants to do everything we do and always have a million questions about how things work or why things happen- she needs to make sense of her world and everything happening around her!

More about our baby girl lately…
Height  38 inches tall
Weight  32 lbs
Some of Gracie’s favorites: She loves anything pink and sparkly, Anything Disney princess(especially Sleeping Beauty), Minnie Mouse, playing dress up, bubbles, makeup, shoes, drawing, storybooks, tea parties, stickers, bubble baths, jumping, singing, smelling flowers, Blue’s clues and ice cream.

Our home is filled with giggles, laughter and silliness!

Here’s some of the things we did during August, September and October…

August 2014
We celebrated our baby girl’s 3rd birthday!!!
Of course we had three separate celebrations for her...

Her first celebration was at home (just our little family) on her actual birthday 8/25/14- Since our baby girl love tea parties... that’s exactly what we did for her.
A tea party with balloons, presents and all kinds of goodies, sweet tea and a tiny cake just for her :0)we also visited one of her favorite places ( Dutch wonderland!)








Second celebration (August 30th 2014)
Following Saturday with family and friends- She had an awesome circus theme party with bouncy house, games, prizes, clowns, face painting, balloons, cotton candy, popcorn and all kinds of circus-related goodies! It was so awesome to see her happy and very surprised little face when we took her into her uncle’s back yard where the celebration took place, it was just priceless! We all had so much fun!!!





Third celebration (the next day August 31, 2014)
Celebration took place at her Lola’s house with Daddy’s side of the family.
Of course it was a Disney princess celebration with lots of balloons, cake, good food and lots of presents!



 Our baby girl was so happy and loved her parties so much that for the next few weeks she asked every day if it was her birthday :0)

As we planned her birthday celebration(s) I became very emotional. So very happy to have the opportunity to celebrate with our daughter,finally having her with us,  thanking God for the privilege and  hoping that somehow, someway her birth mother know in her heart that our baby girl is healthy, happy, safe and loved.
We released a balloon to honor her in this special day.




 September 2014
We celebrated our first Gotcha day! (September 8, 2014)

We are so blessed; we are humbled, we are grateful! Words can’t describe how we feel about the gift God has given us! God chose US to be Gracie’s parents. We pray for continued guidance as we raise our precious daughter.  It has been such an amazing year together!  We have such an amazing little girl, she is so perfect for us. It feels unreal sometimes, we are just amazed! 

To celebrate our special day we stayed at Great Wolf Lodge (another Gracie-favorite). As a gotcha day present we gave our baby girl an engraved music box ("Mommy and Daddy will love you forever" and a necklace. She loves it! Every day she gently opens the box to listen to the music and see the ballerina dance, when she's done she gently closes the box. She's too cute!



 




It’s a wonderful life! 
Thank you Lord for all our blessings…

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Ocean City Maryland vacations...

Baby girl had a blast at our first vacations in Ocean City, Maryland! Last time we were there we just kept talking about how awesome it would be when we returned with our girl! We had a wonderful time with our little mermaid, boy she loves the beach!

Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland...



Ocean City Maryland…












 



Making memories with our baby girl…. love it!



Gracie pictures :0)

Life is crazy busy with our Lil’ Cupcake!
Our baby girl is always on the move, laughing, playing, jumping, running and exploring. She's always talking, singing and asking why! She loves playing dress-up, tea parties, baby dolls and make-up. She's definitely a girly-girl.

It is hard to believe that our girl has been with us for 11 months! Life is always an adventure with her.  

Here are some pictures of Princess Gracie :0)

Playing dress-up is so much fun!

Make-up...another favorite!

Mommy’s favorite…
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just being adorable as usual...

 Baby wishes…

Loves her Gymnastics class!

Thank Heaven for this little girl!

Is not easy being a princess...


 I am a daughter of royal birth,
my father is king of Heaven and Earth.
My spirit was born in the courts on high.
A child beloved,
A princess am I.


Friday, July 4, 2014

Fourth of July...

So sad that we don’t have many pictures of our first Fourth of July together due to technical difficulties with the camera :o( 



 We went to Dorney Park where our girl had fun on the rides until it was time to see the fireworks. We all enjoyed the fireworks while enjoying yummy ice cream. Traffic home was another story but it was worth it…

~Hope you enjoyed your Fourth of July!

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Time flies when you're having fun!!!

It is always fun doing new things with our baby girl, everything is new and exciting… always a new adventure!

Memorial Day 2014

Vacations...On our way to California!

 

                                      Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego, California


At the beach for the first time…She loved it!





Sea World 

 





 

South of the Border /TIJUANA




Disneyland






 


 




 

  Favorite days…
First Mother’s day with baby girl at Dorney Theme Park

 


First Father’s day with Baby Girl... Water Park!




Our baby girl is healthy, happy, growing, learning and having fun What more can we ask for? we are so blessed!
 

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