Ummmm happy 4th of July OR??? belated everything?

Yes it's been weeks since I blogged!!! UGH. i hate that. I love coming here and writing and sharing updates/new info/etc. with everyone. Maybe my ramblings are just that??? But I do miss it.

SO we've had a BUSY busy month. The huge party /reunion - thank you to EVERYone who came, who brought gifts, who brought food, who just came with yourself and made us smile for being here!!! We had a blast! It went by too quickly as always :) I have a couple of pic's from that day BUT... I need yours! If you have some email me okay? cindy.markovcy@att.net

Um that WAS an Elmo cake?!
EWWW!

My awesome and sweet and wonderful DEAR friend Mary :) Gabrielle does love her Aunt Mary!
Playing peek A boo with Emily:

My good friend Susan and her daughter Chelsea, GOSH she's all grown up too!
Then we went and got family portraits done, how fun :) SInce Kimberly was here, we wanted to do all 4 of us. I LOVE them! We sent out thank you's with a Gabrielle pic but here are the rest:

So Gabrielle got SO MANY beautiful gifts !! I have to just show off some that Uncle Mike picked out :) I am so impressed with him, he picked the perfect little outfits for our sweet girl.

PJ's so cute and Daddy-snuggle time :)
Pink and brown, our favorite colors. ALtho this is quite the serious face!

Well anyway, THEN we have been busy with the Mom's club events; I'm working on My Lititz craft show -aaaah, less than 2 weeks away!!! And new patterns, new dolls, new 'stuff' for my biz. And Mike's been traveling alot! WOW! What a crazy time?!

We were so lucky to have a visit from Gramma & Grampa too! I'll save that for another post tho.

If ANYONE has any info they want to share, please email me, I'm so happy to add it!!!!

Happy First Birthday Gabrielle!!! AND Happy Birthday to Mike!

What a great morning - I am awake and excited today. I have been thinking of my baby turning ONE today all week (well okay maybe for 2 weeks? ). And this morning Mike is awake too - eating roast beef and mashed potatoes at 6am! He said "It's my birthday, I can eat whatever I want to" heehee. I really LOVE that my 2 favorite people share this birthday!

I have been so sentimental, reliving the day and experience of her arrival into the world; coming home with her - check this picture out! This is her 'coming home' outfit that we dressed her in the day we brought her home from the hospital:

Such tiny little hands and feet and little tiny button nose!! Oh here I go again!!!! I thought it would be fun to relive each month of her life just a little :) I am so amazed mostly at this MIRACLE of life - the changes that happened over the last year! The things she can do. Yes this is how sentimental I've been ALL week!

At 6 weeks she was smiling and started sleeping through the night (mommy was smiling too :) In September, we had her Christened. Our party was during one of the hurricanes - we lost power for hours! But we had fun anyway :) She looks so much like Mike here!

In October she really started smiling and coo'ing back at me. I love this little monkey shirt!

Gobble Gobble it's November!
In December, we went for a fun outing with some of my friends all the way in Harrisburg. On the way home, we got stuck on 78 for over 3 hours, NOT fun. But she was still cute as a button.

In January, we went to Uncle Peter & Aunt PJ's wedding; that was one of the first times she was very social around a large group. It was so nice to see!
In February she started doing alot of this:
In March, we had Easter and our first cold. UGH. But such a cute baby bunny :)
In April we went to see Gramma and Grampa in NY again. Her first swing ride!
In May we started doing so many outings with the mom's club; lots of fun!
And just last month, here's my little sweetie all dressed up as she was JUST learning to crawl. It wasn't easy in this dress! And now here we are in July 2009 and she is one year old. I am really amazed at life today, how things happen and how much she has grown. Life is good :)

Happy Birthday Gabrielle! And Mike too!