Easter Egg Hunt.

Today (of course not today, I had started this but didn't finish) we went to a Easter Egg Hunt at the Park. Madison and Ashyln went with Gracie and I believe they had so much fun. The Egg hunt begin and then afterwards they all got a prize and a good bag. It was very nice. Then Gracie had some play time with Ashlyn and Madison. I believe that little girl had a good day

Miracle

OKay for those of you who are wondering., what Jonathan meant "feed baby Jericho"
Yes the Lord has blessed us with a baby. So nervous and exciting at the same time...Come end of Sept begining of Oct we hope to have a new addition to our family. He calls the baby Jericho just to drive me nuts. No baby is going to be called Jericho by me. lol..Thank you Lord for this miracle of life.



The flower that Jonathan gave me the day after our first doctors appointment. He surprised me at work with it. ..

SNOW-TASTIC

Okay so this is Jonathan, Jennifer's super lucky husband. Please bear with me while I tell you about our awsome day yesterday with Gracie and her first BIG snow. The story has to begin with Sunday night as a white wall ripped through the foothills of North Carolina bringing with it sleet, snow, a estatic Gracie and Jennifer and a fretting Jonathan. When we woke up at 5:40 to get Jennifer to her first day at her new job there was at least 6 inches of snow on the ground and at least 1.5 inches of ice underneath that. We watched and prayed to see if her doctors office was going to close down that day but no luck there so I braved the morning cold to start by Geekmobile to take her to work. I spent 20 min getting the car ready to warming it up, scraping the windows at all that mess. So all that work is done and I start to back out of the driveway and my car slides off the driveway and gets stuck!!! :( I was beyond frustrated but I wanted to get my beautiful wife to work so I turn the Geekmobile off and get her keys to the Equinnox and begin the process agian. We FINALLY get on the road and we head twoard her work, after stopping to get gas and get Jennifer some breakfast (Gotta feed Jericho) We drive the 40 min it takes to get her to work and guess what. The place is closed and since this is her first day she is not on the call list so she has no idea. She had to spend 15 minuets calling around just to find out if she is off that day. Oh well it was fun driving in the ice. So I take her to work with me for a minute and try to get her to let me buy a bunch of stuff (she said no) so on to home we go. On the way home the coolest thing happened we turned the radio to 95.5 and we start to listen to a preacher talk about the relationship between a husband and wife. He said one thing that really stuck out with me and I hope maybe you can think about it too. "When God created someone for Adam he did not creat 10 buddies to hang out with, he created on woman to be a help meet." Pretty cool huh! Why do some of us want to spend so much time wanting to hang out with our friends when the one person God created for us is at home wanting to be a part of our life?

Jennifer here, so yes. I got the option to go to one of our other offices or go home and call it a day and still get paid either way I choose.....So yes i choose to go home and enjoy my snow day with Gracie. Before hand when i still didn't know what was going on with work I got a call about 7:20am. A little girl had just woke up and seen the snow for the first time and she me and said ."Mommy there is snow outside, so much snow, can you come home and play outside with me.??" In such the sweetest voice and my heart was melting. We had a great day playing outside. Go out, come in side and get warm, then go back out...oh how she loved playing in the snow. She was not one bit scared. Jonathan hung out for a little while then he had to do a converance call and meet a guy to give keys so we had a fun morning at my mom's. We took the sleds , and memories were brought back for me. Took the sled put on top of a desent hill and down she went. She loved it. That evenening we played in our yard and made snow cream...Oh what a great day. Thank you Lord for this great time together with everyone. These are days that will stick out in my heart for days and years to come.

Friday Night.

Last night Come home from work. Extremely tired and different stuff going on. You know how it is..Debated if we were still going to our church's school spagetti supper and basketball game. We decided to still go. Supper was good and so was the game. We were playing Gospel Light Christian School. The school you just have to beat..right. The girls won but the guys did not. But it was so close. Gracie has enjoyed the past two games more than I thought she would. She loves watching the cheerleaders and tries to do what they do, but then she also asks when can I play basketball, Wonder what she will end up doing or liking the most years down the road playing basketball or cheering.????

For the Ritchey's here is Aunt Aletha with Gracie-I believe Gracie loves know that Aletha will help her bc she is capable of putting her gloves on my herself but she really wanted help from her...lol

Ready for Bed

Our nightly routine..
Gracie unless she is extremely hungry doesn't usually eat alot at one time. She grazes though out the day. Maybe like me. Normally I like to eat 2 or 3 hours. LOL. They even know me at work. I usually have some kind of snack around. Unless I haven't been to the grocery store...no I am just kidding. Anyways by the time we are getting ready to go to bed she usually gets some kind of snack. Maybe a piece of cheese, or yogurt. This one night she still had the silly giggles while drinking her milk as we were trying to wind things down. She was being to funny. So what do you know I grabbed the camera. (Do you think I take too many picture, I just love doing it????)





And then there are stories and prayer...Goodnight Gracie ..I love you..Sweet dreams..Tuck in ..as snug as a bug in a rug...Night light on, music on .. Goodnight I love you ...again.





PRECIOUS!

Game Time

Gracie got this game for Christmas. She is having fun learning how to get the bean bag in the slot.





On this one particular night (Sat. night)we played with her disney bean bag game, puzzles, and her Bible memory game.(which came from her Grandma and Papaw) She is too smart for the memory game and enjoys getting her matches. She amazes me. She can remember where they are better than I can and the last time I even tried to make it hard. LOL. We were playing all of these in the living room while Mommy and Daddy was watching a movie. Later on that evening my mom and dad came over with a treat of krispy kreme doughnuts and Gracie thought she could get Papa to play her bean bag game. He tried hard from afar off to get them in, and needless to say she thought she could show him how it was done by placing the bean bags in the slot...It was so funny. She is still learning that she has to stand back..This game may take a while....

Fish Night

Last Sat we were at Jonathan's Mom and Dad's for Fish to eat and all of the fixings. The fish came from Forrest, Jonathan and Daniel's fishing trip back in October of 08 My favorite was the shrimp. I think I could have eat the whole bowl. We definetly missed Geigh and Pa, being there. I believe everyone enjoyed there time together.