Fingerpainting

Grace trying out her new fingerpaints!

Family Christmas

"Christmas" morning (last weekend)




The Lancaster "Christmas"

Gracie feeding her new baby

The McIntyre Christmas Party

We celebrated Grace's second Christmas last weekend. She had fun opening her gifts and got some cool stuff. She got a new baby doll with a stroller, a tricycle and a vtech interactive tv system from Nonnie & Papa, Aunt Karen and Aunt Cathy & Uncle Mike. She also got a learning laptop, fingerpaints and some other small stuff from Mommy, Daddy & Santa. Now we're getting ready to head to Florida on Saturday for 10 days. It should be a lot of fun! Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Christmas card attempts

This year was interesting. We thought it would be a lot easier, but with her being so mobile it was still a challenge. We got some cute shots though and she was a very good sport. Matt put up our Christmas village this afternoon which she really likes!

Christmas Tree

The finished product

Grace "helping"


Gabby & Grace decorating

The girls

Last Saturday we went out and got our tree. It was pretty cold so I ended up zipping Grace inside my jacket.

She had fun looking at all of the trees. Then we babysat Gabby that evening and after dinner the girls helped me decorate. I had to move most of the ornaments because they were all in the lower front section, but they had a good time.

Grace loves all of the lights, and suprisingly she has been really good about the tree and ornaments! Now we are working on getting our Christmas card photo...wish us luck! :)

Some random pics

Just a few fairly recent pictures of Grace to share. The last one is "the face". Grace likes to scrunch up her nose and smile - she's not a ham!!

I finally got the halloween pics!

Sorry about the red eye- I tried to remove them but wasn't able to...oh well!

One year ago...

On the way to daycare - we got to turn her seat around when we got home!

Dressed in her cute new birthday outfit

Hmm...this is familiar!

Try some Daddy!

Wow, it's hard to believe that one year ago at 6:45pm this little girl came into the world!! My, how time flies!! Our baby girl is no longer a baby (tear). She had a good day today though- she must have been excited because she was ready to go at 5:30am!! I tried to get her to go back to sleep but she thought it would be fun to play peek-a-boo with her blanket instead. We brought some cupcakes into daycare today to share with all of her friends, then we had her favorite dinner- grilled cheese & grapes, yum! When the cake came out it was all too familiar. She wasn't shy this time & dug right in!!

The Big Birthday Party

Where's Dessert?

My very own cake!

I'll just try a little...

MMM...this is good stuff!

The finished product

It's party time!

Gracie & Aunt Megan

What do we have here?

The birthday girl

Gracie & her Great-Grandmas

Gracie had her big birthday party last weekend. She was a little nervous with all of the people around, but we were so glad they could all share in her (and Gabby's) birthday! She had her own little cake and she destroyed it!! We had a great time, thanks again to all who ccame and for all of the birthday gifts!!