Last night I took some pictures of Gracie playing with BO. They are just so cute together and he is so good with her. So as I was copying the pics off of my camera onto my computer I was looking at the pics of Gracie and BO in June when we first got him. It is amazing how much they have both changed in so little time it seems. She is just growing up so fast I can't hardly stand it! I hope you enjoy!
Trampas took Gracie to ride her mustang Sunday, but when she got up there she decided to ride her tractor instead. He caught a couple of cute pics of her on her tractor that I thought I would share with you. She acts like a poppy's little helper on her tractor. She thinks her's can do anything his does.
Every morning as we are headed to daycare or sometimes before we ever leave the house, she has 2 things in particular that she asks for regularly!
The first is a "woo-hoo", which in translation is a yoo-hoo (chocolate drink). She loves them! The other thing is "little brown things", which in translation are hash rounds from Hardee's! Trampas got her some one morning for breakfast and it has since become her favorite thing to eat. She gets so mad during the day when she asks for them but they aren't serving them! A tater tot won't do, she wants the little brown things. She also has a hard time saying Hardee's for some reason, she calls it Potty's. Well that is what it sounds like! So she wants to go to "Potty's" and get the "little brown things"! Too funny! You just never know what she is gonna say next...the little stinker!
I've been tagged by Tara so here goes....
1. Gracie is my angel! She means the world to me. I look at her some days and I'm just in awe. I wonder sometimes how I got blessed with such a beautiful and smart little girl!
2. She has my attitude! She turns most everything into an argument. She always has to be right. She always has to have the last word. Sometimes she just amazes me at the things she says!
3. She is so excited about the new baby coming. She will be a little momma! She loves the babies at her daycare. She just wants to hold them and love on them. I can't wait to see her with her very own brother or sister.
4. Gracie is a good eater. That kid will eat just about anything in front of her EXCEPT sweets. She would take beans and taters over a cookie any day of the week. She orders salad at restaurants and will eat the whole thing. We were very blessed with her eating habits. Eating has never been a problem with her.
5. Gracie is finally a good sleeper. She usually tells us at about 8 or 8:30pm that she is ready for bed. She will sleep until about 7 or 7:30 the next morning.
6. Gracie is full of questions! I'm sure most 3 1/2 yr olds are, but she may be worse. I don't guess it is bad, she is just very curious. She wants to know everything that is going on around her. She's a little nosy at times!! It is cute though. Trampas gets up out of his chair and she wants to know where he is going, what he is doing and if he is coming back. It is too funny.
7. Gracie has the biggest imagination of anyone I know! She just comes up with stuff right off the top of her head. Sometimes its hard to tell if she is making it up or if she heard it somewhere. She tells us of phone conversations she has with people and she never really talks to them. It is cute. She is infatuated with one of our employees and thinks he is her boyfriend. She talks to him on her cell phone all the time and tells him to quit tickling her all the while he is clueless to it. It is funny!
8. Gracie is really a good kid. She is very spoiled and very rotten and she knows it, but none the less... a great kid.
I hope you enjoyed reading about Gracie!
That's right... I'm pregnant. Probably about 5 weeks. I go to the doctor on Jan. 31, so I will know more then! I am due in September! Wow I get to go thru the whole summer EXTREMELY PREGO!! WE are so excited, especially Gracie. And for some reason she is telling everyone that I am having 2 babies!! WHAT!? Wouldn't that be crazy! Well I just wanted to fill everyone in, please keep us in your prayers for a healthy pregnancy! (Some of you know of my history and know that I am border line HIGH RISK)
Well last week we spent several days searching our neighborhood for 2 missing dogs. One was my parents black lab, Brutus and the other was Gracies puppy, Bo. We looked and looked and called them, never to find them. On friday last week, Trampas called the animal shelter to see is just maybe someone had taken them in. He gave them a very detailed description and they said they didn't have them but took his number just in case they showed up. So we spent the weekend still looking and on Saturday evening we got a call from a neighbor that another neighbor (owner of several dogs themselves) had called animal control to come and get our 2 "strays". I mean come on, they are both very well groomed dogs with matching collars on. So it was too late on Sat. to call the shelter and they are closed on Sun and Mon. Finally Tuesday comes and I give them a call. I answered a million questions and she finally says oh yeah they are here. Whew...what a relief. Then she goes on to say "you kinda have to bail them out when you come pick them up. I was like hmm well okay. Then she starts spouting off all these fees.... I was getting madder by the second and I said, without thinking (kinda lost my cool), that is bull S***. She says ooooo, then she whispers to someone else standing near her "she just used profanity, she said bull s***". Well for some reason that ran all over me and so I asked her how much she was charging me for profanity... she proceeds to tell me that it will cost $155 each to get our dogs out!!!!! Can you believe that!! It only costs $80 to go down there and adopt one. Well, come to find out they picked the dogs up on tuesday the 8th so when Trampas called them on the 11th, they didn't even go look to see if they were there. They charge you so much per day per dog, so if they had told us on the 11th that they had them we could've saved a ton of money. Well I told her all of this and all she said was "hmm well i don't know what to say". RIght...that's what I would say too... Well I went and told daddy what they said and he was like no way am I spening that kind of money on a dog that was given to me. Well I had an emotional breakdown. I called Trampas and I was just squalling "daddy won't go get Brutus for $155 but you have to get Bo, I don't care what you have to pay". I mean I was tore up!! Well Trampas called them and went thru the same stuff with them but he just told them he was NOT paying for his dog but he was coming to get him! Biggo teddy bear Trampas acting all tough... well he goes down there and they weren't backing down either. So he leaved w/out the dog. Later that night I was just so tore up about it and Gracie was devastated b/c her dogs were in puppy jail, so Trampas called my dad and they decided they would go back the next day, yesterday, to get them both out for me and Gracie. Well they went and when they walked in the lady working said that she would take $22 each...so to end this long story... we got our puppies back!! Bo was so pitiful..he went to sleep on the porch last night at 9 and this morning at 5:45 he was still in the exact same spot!!
I just wanna say thanks to my neighbor for calling in on these 2 puppies!!!
On Sunday, Trampas, Gracie and I got to celebrate Brody's 1st birthday with him at his JOHN DEERE PARTY! It was so much fun. He is one handsome little fella, I'm telling ya! He got so much awesome stuff! Happy Birthday Brody, I hope you had lots of fun! I have posted some pics below as I'm sure Maranda will too!
Good job on the party Maranda & Adam, it was awesome and the cake was beautiful!
