July 4th!

We had a great long weekend with family and friends at the lake for the 4th.  On Friday we went to dinner with Ron and Billie, then went to the volleyball games.  Gabs was having a rough day that day, but was so perfect during our evening out so that made a wonderful start to the weekend.  At dinner, the waitress came to the table with the big tray of food and Gabi immediately screams "ghi cheese!!!" (grilled cheese).  Ron and Billie kind of looked at us like how the heck does she know what she's getting - haha but really that what we always order for her when we go out.  Selfishly, we know that she can eat that by herself (i.e. no fork or spoon required) so that's what we usually get for her :) 

Gabrielle had fun playing in the sandbox and running around at the vball games, and we had a huge crew there that night so there were lots of people to give loving to Gabs.  Saturday morning we headed to the lake and had a fun/busy day there.  Gabi went strong all day and of course paid for the it the next.  Sarah, Mark, Steve, and Alexis came out the first day, and then Amanda, Todd, Jeff, Christine, and Ian came out the next.  Of course there were tons of people there on the 4th!  I was SO excited Gabrielle went to bed at usual around 8:30 and slept through the fireworks until 8:30 the next morning.  Awesome!  She actually slept really well all weekend there, minus the first night.  Nick ended up sleeping on the couch the last two nights, and Gabrielle slept really well then.

Gabi lived off of M&Ms, Twizzlers, Fig Newtons, and chocolate covered raisins the whole weekend.  I don't know why, but the kiddo will not eat anything but junk out there.  Right when we get home she will got back to eating normal though.  Oh well, it could be worse I guess.  She absolutely LOVED the water!  She walked in it, picked up rocks, swam deep with us, sat in her baby floaty.....pretty much anything to do with the water she loved.  She still didn't like the hard wakes than came into shore, but she got though it.  She also jet skied for the first time!  I was out on the boat with our friends and Nick drove by on the jet ski with our baby sitting in front of him!!  Ha!  I was the craziest thing!  He was going super slow and G really liked it.  We went out as a family the next day - Nick drove, I sat behind him, and Gabi sat in between us.  She's such a dare devil.  Oh, and a few new words of course  - door, hole, book, read, and bow (as in hair bow).  She's working hard on her two word combos, but they're not too good yet.  She has a few, but on her way to many more.

AND, she finally learned how to jump.  Yep, she's actually getting air and jump jump jumping away. 

The girls :)


She loved ice and drinking water out of Solo cups.


Trying to play washers with the boys


My Lexi and I


Gabi took Grandma Billie on a rock collecting adventure


Ah....bedtime for the kiddo means sunset cruisin for mama :)


Great combo, Sarah....


Two peas in a pod....


Whenever Gabrielle was inside, she pretty much wanted to go outside swimming.  All we heard was "ah-wah!  ah-see!!" (water outside) all the time...................












Gabrielle discovered noodles and had fun playing Gladiator with them all weekend!


Happy 4th of July!!  Got to love Gymboree clearance three days before the 4th :)






Uh....and a picture of us <3


Gabs had fun watching the boat parade in the morning.  She waved her flag as each boat went by






Steve and Ollie came down too


Grandma Billie found Gabi loves to play "horsey" with her!




When Grandma B's legs got tired Uncle Jason took over.....


Cousins!


And Grandma and Grandpa McCallum came over for to see Gabi and fireworks too!