Happy Easter!

We hope everyone has a wonderful Easter remembering God's son and his sacrifice for us. I was overwhelmed in church last Sunday thinking about God sacrificing his child for me. How much He must love us to do that and how easily I can forget it or doubt it! What a gift we have been given to be saved by a just God! Jeff, Kate, and I hope and pray your hearts are filled with peace and joy always as we celebrate how Great our God is.



Here is Kate showing off her Easter outfit from Nonnie. It's so cute with its bunny rabbits and it's just the right shade of blue for March Madness time!!!



Kate is enjoying the NCAA tournament-she's been practicing her dunks and her cheering for all our teams-Go Tarheels! She even filled out her own bracket by following her heart and choosing her favorite teams-UNC, Butler, and Duke-to go far in the "Big Dance". This picture is actually a bit scary because she looks like me (Maria-as if you didn't know) yelling at the TV screen during a basketball game.

Spring is Finally Here!

We had some fun in the warm weather today. Kate loves to have her feet tickled and was so glad to be barefoot! We also went on a long walk today to a horse farm that is behind our neighborhood. One of the horses seems to know Kate and comes up to the fence to see her everytime we visit. He is so beautiful (and huge) and Kate loves it. She calls him by making clicking noises with her tongue and everytime she sees a toy horse or one in a book she makes the same noise. It is so cute, but of course I think everything she does is cute!

Sweet Girl

Need some help Dad?

Kate likes to be outside anytime, but especially when her Dad is out there working. I'm sure she's dreaming of the day when she'll be big enough to help!

Happy Birthday Nana, Mama-Mama, Uncle Dan, and Grandma

Okay, as the title suggests, we celebrate a lot of birthdays in our family in the month of March. We've celebrated two thus far, two more to go! Uncle David came to visit to celebrate Nana's birthday. We had lots of fun all being together. Very special people are born in the month of March. We love you all! Here is Kate helping Nana open her gifts.

Gina the Great Visits!

Aunt Gina came to visit at the end of February and she brought birthday presents!!! Some great clothes, pink puppy, and a little duck that goes quack, quack-which Kate now says when she sees one of her rubber ducks. We had a great time visiting with her and visiting every restaurant possible-ranging from super nice places like 1705 Prime to your good ol' southern establishments like Knighdale Seafood and Barbecue. Come back soon Aunt Gina (not just because of the food)! I also must add that Aunt Gina keeps Kate in style-see the cool Uggs that Kate has been wearing all winter below. I mean really, how many babies have an Aunt that lives in New York City and keeps her trendy? Kate is one lucky girl.

Marbles Museum

For President's Day we took a trip to the Marbles Museum downtown. It is a hands-on learning museum for kids. We had a good time watching Kate explore. She had fun crawling and climbing on various things, "driving" a fire truck, walking with Daddy through a huge pirate ship and building with giant Legos. The only downside was that a little boy tried to kiss Kate while we were playing with some toy trains!!!! Don't worry, Mommy saved her, but I don't know where that kid's mom was! Luckily, Jeff had walked around to another exhibit and wasn't there-who knows what he would have done!


I'm not sure who had more fun playing with Legos-Daddy or Kate-

I love my puppies!

Kate loves watching Precious and Max and being outside with them. We can't wait for spring to get here!

Happy Birthday to Me!

As you all know, Kate celebrated her birthday the first week of February, but it has turned into a month long celebration. Her Nana brought Kate balloons for her party and this one is still afloat. Everytime she is in her high chair, she points to it and wants me to sing "Happy Birthday" to her-she can't seem to get enough of that song! The cutest thing is that she, again thanks to her Nana, has learned to say "please" even though it sounds more like p...p...p...p... I can't resist giving her what she wants when she adds p...p...p to her request...I think this is setting a very bad precedent!

Happy Birthday Kate!

Kate turned one on February 7th! We can't believe a year has already gone by! Our precious 6 pound little one has turned into a cruising, fun-loving toddler who has left baby food and formula behind and says Dada, Mama, Baba (for bottle) and can clearly indicate what she wants and doesn't want. She even has her own sound for a dog. Just say the word puppy and she makes (what I think she believes) is a barking sound, although it sounds more like ah, ah. It's hard to put into words how much joy and love she has brought to our family and we are so thankful that God has blessed us so richly!

Here she is 7 days old on Feb. 14th, 2007:


Here she is a year later with her same pink bear:

Kate's Birthday Last Year

Just for memory sake-here is a picture from her birthday last year. What a face!

Fiestas!

We had two parties for Kate. One on her actual birthday-a dinner with her parents, grandparents, and Nonnie who came in from New York. Here she is blowing out her candle on a platter of cupcakes-with her birthday crown of course!

Her second party, complete with a pinata, was the next weekend with her grandparents, great-grandmothers, aunts, uncle, cousin, and friends. Kate was battling her first ear infection ever-I know you can sympathize Kate B.!- and her Dad stayed upstairs because he was battling a terrible sinus and respiratory infection. Kate was a trooper and we all had a great time celebrating with her. Dad made it down for the last few minutes of the party.

The pinata had candy for the "big kids" and cheerios for the little ones.

Hurry and get some candy-before Uncle Dan gets it all!! Kate was actually very happy just holding one piece of candy and a bag of cheerios

Everyone was so generous with the toys! I think Kate was a little overwhelmed with all her new things. I don't know where we are going to put everything!

We're Still Here!

Hello everyone! First, let me apologize for the almost two months of blogging neglect-can we say blog slacker? Christmas, visiting family and friends, a trip to Florida, a rampant stomach virus that affected everyone including grandparents, massive teething, the start of second semester, and jury duty have all conspired to keep us away from these digital diary entries. But finally here I am, at the computer, wondering how to update everything since Christmas. My sweet husband has offered to accomplish various household chores if I would finally update this website. Our little girl is almost a year old!!! So folks-let me warn you that I will be adding many, many pictures as seen in the posts below-so feel free to view them in installments. Enjoy...

Happy Birthday Aunt Jennifer!

We went to visit cousin Scarlett a couple of weeks ago to celebrate her mom's birthday. Kate and Scarlett had so much fun watching and playing with each other. Kate especially enjoyed Scarlett's unique exersaucer.