Happy Easter

I hope you are enjoying today with your families and friends. I will be searching for eggs in my yearly easter egg hunt and eating a lot of yummy food at the winery. Happy Easter y'all!

Merry Christmas

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I hope Santa brought you what you wanted; I hope you got to spend time with your families and loved ones; I hope you got to see the joy in the children's faces when they opened gifts; I hope you got to see the love that this holiday is filled with;I hope you remember the reason for this day; I hope you got to enjoy your perfect holiday- any which way it might be.

Merry Christmas, Buon Natale, Feliz Navidad- for anyway you say it, I hope you had a splendid holiday and a wonderful day.

Warm hugs and kisses.

Christmas Card 2015

I am very excited to reveal our Christmas card for this year. Eric helped us out by taking our photos down by the bay and it ended up being such a beautiful day. The weather was warmer than usual and the sky did not have a cloud in it! We lucked out for this early December day.

 We had a ton of fun taking these photos. The sign we are holding says "smile if you are naughty" and Daddy and I are holding coal.


Here are our past Christmas Cards. I want to get frames and display them each Christmas. I love seeing what photos we choose and what was the big moments for us each year.

This was the year I graduated college and we took a trip to Disney World.

This old photo is one of my favorites. Daddy had to go to work so he was in his uniform; Mama and I were all dressed up.

 My Twenty-Fifth birthday party (top left/bottom right) and we attended a wedding of a family friend.

 This was a variety of photos from the past year. 

What was your favorite Christmas card you received this year?

Christmas Photo Outtakes

On Saturday afternoon, we took our Christmas card photos. We had a lot of fun but of course not all the photos were perfect- we had a lot of goofs! I love these goof photos because they show our fun side.I'll show our Christmas Card in a few weeks but here are some of my favorite goofs!

Do you take Christmas Card photos each year?

Laughing all the time

When I was in the hospital, my parents wanted to start a prayer chain and they were pretty successful with doing that. It was easy for them to do- Text everyone in their phone book letting them know what is going on and for them to keep us in their prayers. Simple enough right??

Daddy was busy texting people and I was laying down in bed when I heard my phone go “zzzzzz zzzzz” I thought it was someone else texting me but I looked down and saw this:

I could not stop laughing!! Yes my dad sent me a text about me asking me to pray for myself.  I was sick and did not feel good I laughed and I laughed. I think I almost cried. My parents were so confused to see me laughing; I barely could get out that daddy sent me the text about praying for me. We were all laughing for a good ten minutes. It was a nice break of sadness in the hospital for us.

THEN…… 

Daddy sent me the same text AGAIN! Poor daddy, he tries really hard! We still love him. He makes us laugh all the time and for that I am thankful for that.

Here are some fun throwback photos I randomly found this past week:

 and in honor of back to school here is the car all packed for college freshman year

Hope your week is going well!

XX Gabrielle

the first day of the new year...

Beginnings are scary: the start of a new relationship; the first day of school; the first day of a new job; the first day in a new city... Beginnings are a way to start fresh, start new, forget what happened in the past and be something else. The first day of a new year is a great beginning- you can ((finally)) close the door on the previous year; you have the good memories, the lessons learned all tucked away in your memory. January 1st is the beginning of something new. If you want to change something, you can; if you want to start doing something new, you can. The possibilities are limitless.

How I spent the very first day of 2015, you ask?

In my pajamas, sitting on the couch, playing mindless games on my phone, reading and just relaxing; something I don't always get to do. My parents took it easy today- my mom watched some of the honeymooners marathon and daddy watched NCIS. We ate dinner as we always do as a family and we quietly welcomed the new year with open arms.

In case you were wondering, I kept on dreaming right into the new year last night.... I fell asleep watching Cutthroat Kitchen. HA. I am getting old.

As I settle down for more relaxing, I leave you with this photo from last New Year's Eve with my parents.

xx, gabrielle