8 Months

It's been a while since we posted any updates because we have been extremely busy with the Thanksgiving Holiday and Christmas shopping every minute that we can find. I'm posting quite a few pics today to catch us up to the present:o)



Rachel and I spent the day with Ma a few weeks ago. We raked leaves in her front yard for what seemed like forever, bagging up 6 huge bags of leaves. Unfortunately, this was only the beginning. There are probably at least 10 more bags of leaves that need to be raked...but at least it was a start! Adam's cousins raked quite a bit over the Thanksgiving break, so there's only a little more to go until Ma's yard is lookin' good! Ma sat in a chair in the front yard while Rachel played in her Exersaucer and I worked on the raking. The question of the day from Ma was whether or not it was too cold for Rachel to be outside:o) I think I answered it about 100 times. Gotta love Ma!



Rachel and Ma before we started raking...





Taking after her Dada...here's Rachel tearing it up on her new guitar from Ms. Stephanie...an early Christmas present. Thanks Ms. Stephanie! I love my new guitar!






Dana and Kassidy came to visit us one Saturday and we took a trip to the zoo. Here are the girls in front of the giraffes!



...and Kassidy on the Carousal...



Pa also came to visit one day....Rachel loves it when her grandparents visit. It means undivided attention all day long!