First fort

Dave and Devin made their first fort together today. Devin was so stinkin cute! Every time Dave tried to leave the room she followed him around the house yelling his name and pulling him by his hand back to the room. What a wonderful man! It's been a long week for me since he's been working some long hours...they definitely needed some Daddy daughter time. It's been at least 45 minutes and she is still going strong. Every now and then I hear giggles coming from her. It's a good Saturday at the Gabe house.

Sorry Jeremy!!!

I can't believe I forgot to mention that Uncle Jeremy came to visit too!!! We were so excited that Jeremy got to come. He was one of our very first visitors. Here's Devin with Uncle Jeremy...We love you Jeremy.

Lovely weekends

Let me just start by saying I had such big plans for myself this morning. I was going to get up, get Devin fed and ready to go, and then head to the gym, the commissary and then home for lunch and nap. Well, I still haven't gotten Devin dressed, I don't have my grocery list ready, and it's already 9:15 (and now I'm blogging!). Maybe we'll make it before lunch or maybe we'll just wait until after nap time now.

Anyways, back to the subject at hand. We've had a few lovely weekends lately.

Let me start with Pops visit. Dave's Dad came to help us build a fence! I LOVE having a fence! It took awhile but it looks great. Here's Devin with her Pops...Yaya (Dave's mom) came to visit over Easter weekend and we got to take Devin to the zoo for the first time...she thoroughly enjoyed it.

And then this last weekend Oma and Opa (my parents) came and Devin was given an adorable red wagon...

We have thoroughly enjoyed having our families here. The visits never seem to be quite long enough. What a blessing. Oh, and I love being so centrally located between everyone...no more traipsing to the far West coast for a visit (for now anyways).

Reminiscing

I was looking through some pictures today and ran across some of our weekly "girls night" that we had in Washington somewhere between Thanksgiving and Christmas last year. What a wonderful weekly ritual. Oh how I miss you girls! Have a girls night for me ok?

Progress

I have been ever so painstakingly making progress on the house. Devin's room is pretty much done until we decide on paint colors. Phew! Sorry about the poor picture quality; apparently I am having technical difficulties this afternoon.

Moving Day:

Today:

Notice that she has two valances? Well in our old house we hadall the valance on the top and then we had a half curtain on bottom. Obviously this window is half the size of our old one so we have to wait and get the bottom piece fitted.

When Daddy's do hair...

you get adorable pictures like these:



Just had to share =)

And on a side note...Devin's hair is now long enough to get it up in a ponytail! Not that it stays for long, but it's so grown up.

Mommy Mobile

We finally gave in this weekend and got rid of our two door GTI for a more practical four door. *Sniff* *Sniff* Some of you will appreciate how hard this was for us. If you know Dave, then you also know that the GTI is one of his dream cars. We didn't make this decision lightly...it has been in the making for about 18 months now if not longer.

On one hand I'm so excited! No more climbing in the back and breaking my back to get Devin in her seat. Now I just open the door and voila done. But of course on the other hand we were both sad to see a car that we both loved go. Too bad we can't afford both or we would have arranged it so we could keep them both.

Saturday morning:

Saturday night:

Sarah you are not alone!!!