Ballerina girl

I know you shouldn't live vicariously through your children (and I promise I'll do my best not to) but I couldn't help but put her into dance. I promised myself if she didn't like it I'd take her out...but she absolutely loves it! Here she is my ballerina girl, a girl after my own heart.

And here she is with her little "polar opposite"...do you know how hard it is to get two almost two year olds to pose? HARD so I didn't even try and this is what I got...mirrror images.

LOVE IT!!!

Nanny would be proud =)

For those of you who knew my Grandmother well you'll understand this post. My brother recently brought me some childhood stuff from my parents house and I was so excited to see these dishes. I have to admit if it had been up to me, these probably would have been long gone! BUT I am so happy that someone (probably Nanny) had the determination to keep them. I washed them while Devin took her nap today and here she sat most of the rest of the day. (I was a bit teary eyed throughout the afternoon.)

Notice the wild nap head hair?

School

Well, school starts tomorrow. I finally took the plunge and registered for some online courses. Two classes for 8 weeks = full time student. This semester is Principles of Management and Business Law I; nothing like easing myself back into it. Hope it all goes well. BS degree here I come.

Rain play

So this morning we were sitting in front of the tv~Devin was watching Handy Manny and I was drinking my coffee, when it started raining. For some reason Devin was determined to go outside. She even got both of our shoes and struggled to put them on us.

Here she is playing in the rain. It was so cute. She was soaked by the time we were done but it was totally worth it. (Good thing she was still in her pj's)

I just love this face!!

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).