I Know What You're Thinking!

Ok, I know you are all thiking, "Wow, three must have really done Melanie in!" Actually we are doing gret and we love our new little addition. I just got out of the blogging mood for a while. I thought I might be better at blogging than at journaling,(I am still using the same journal I got for my 8th birthday) but I guess not! :)

I guess we'll see how long my blogging mood lasts this time.

Tess Eva Gibson

Ok, so she is 6 months old now, but still worth announcing. Tess was born August 17th and was a sweet 6 lbs. 12 oz. She is still a petite little thing but we love every little bit of her. She is a very happy baby and has made me feel very lucky, once again, to have such a well mannered baby. I think things just have to be that way or I would be in the looney bin and my girls would not have a mommy.:)
Here are some of her highlights so far.

Summertime Fun!

We have had a lot of fun this summer. The girls have spent a lot of time in the backyard playing in the little pool and on the slip and slide. We had a fun trip to Utah where we got to go to a really cool family reunion and spend so much time with cousins.

We had fun at Grandma and Grandpa's house and Bella got to have her birthday party there. She had a "water" themed party. We did slip and slide and water balloon games and she even had an ariel cake. Bella turned six and is enjoying being older. She still had a very hard time waiting until it was time to open her presents. That was really all she cared about. I guess she will need to be a few years older before she gets past that. She is such a good big sister to Gracie and cannot wait to help with the new baby coming next week. (hopefully!!!) She starts first grade next week and is excited to make new friends and meet her new teacher.

Utah was the only trip we took this summer and since then we have been enjoying a regular schedule at home and just making preparations for another baby to join the family. I figured I would make some documentation of the summer and now you can stay tuned for the new arrival. Hopefully she won't be 4 months old before I actually post about her. :)

My Wicked Weekend!

I just got to have the most fun weekend in San Francisco. Two of my sisters and myself left friday afternoon and drove to San Francisco and went to see Wicked. I have been listening to the music for a long time and it was so great to see it all come together in a live theater. It is an amazing and very clever production. My sisters had seen it once before in New York, but this was my first time and it was so great to be there with them.

We slept in as long as we could on Saturday, which was not long since we are all used to getting up for kids or work and headed out for a day of shopping in the city. We hit mostly mainstream stores but they are huge there! I have never seen such a big GAP. It was so much fun to mostly watch my sisters try stuff on and see how cute they looked. Lets face it, it is not that much fun to go clothes shoppping when you are pregnant. :) I did find a few cute things though and had a lot of fun laughing with my sisters. Mostly I was so proud of how little I spent. They both spent quite a bit and then I realized that if I didn't look like a cow in everything I put on I would have spent more too. :) I was just grateful to get to sit and rest in the dressing room and let them know if they had found something cute or not.

The best part about the whole trip was knowing that Bryan was home taking care of the girls, and he did an awesome job. He took them swimming and to the park to fly kites and out to eat and they had movie night with all kinds of treats and snacks at home. He is such a good an fun dad! Isabella acted like she was really going to miss me when I left but she sure does love spending time with her dad.:) Thanks Bryan for all you do!

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So excited!

We are so happy to be having another girl. We really like the girl groove we are in and hope this one will fit right into it. There are so many adorable little boys out there and I think you all are doing an amazing job with them. I will let everyone else keep doing that and I will try my best to help my girls grow up to be the kind of girls that your cute boys will want to marry someday. :)

Thank goodness we will get more use out of all the adorable pink ruffles we have everywhere around here!

Walt Disney World 2009

We recently returned from an awesome trip to Florida where we experienced all of the magic that Disney has to offer. We got to take an 8 day trip and it really was fun. The girls loved it and have not stopped talking about it since. Gracie loved seeing the characters and giving them hugs. She prefers not to smile for the camera but don't mistake that for her not having a good time, she loved it. Bella had a great time and was a real trooper going on most of the "scary rides." Her favorite this trip was splash mountain. We rode it three times and were lucky enough not to get wet any of those times. She liked just the little spashed she got on her face and that was as wet as we got. It was a good thing too becuase it was quite cold as far as Florida weather goes. We did get pretty chilly the last few days but it didn' t really stop us from having fun.

We had the ultimate Disney dining experience. We ate and ate and ate. We did the prepaid meal plan and it was awesome. It kept things so simple and made it feel like you weren't paying for your food since it was already paid for. :) We did eat way too much though, it turns out that being on Disney's meal plan for a whole week does terrible things to your weight gain during pregnancy, YIKES! I have been learning to adjust my caloric intake since I have been home. :)

Here are a bunch of pictures from the trip. We are a family that loves Disney so I don't know if you can take our word for it but it really is a very happy, magical place. Gracie and I could not get enough of Cinderella's Castle!