Disney Train!

A couple of weeks ago the Disney Train promoting Disney's new movie, A Christmas Carol came to Jacksonville. Brooklyn and I along with some friends of ours went to the Amtrax station to take a tour of the train. Disney was doing a nation wide train tour promoting their new movie, which started in L.A. and would make their way to Orlando for the premier. It was a free event and really fun to see the props and techniques of how they made the movie. After the train tour, we were able to go into a big tent and watch special previews of the 3-D movie. Here are a few pictures from the train!

More 1 Year Old Pics!

Here are a few more of Brooklyn's 1 year old pictures! She is growing up so fast and is learning sooo much!! She weighs 23.8 lbs and is 30 1/2" tall! She still loves to show people her teeth and that she is one! It is so cute! One of her new talents is folding her arms when you tell her to say her prayers! We have been trying really hard the last couple of months to pray with Brooklyn at meals and bedtime. She quickly picked up on folding her arms and we love it! Brooklyn is such a fun little girl and we love her sooo much!

Sneak Peak!

Here is a quick preview of some of Brooklyn's 1 year old pictures that we are finally getting around to taking! I still have a few more pictures I want to take, but here are just a few from today just to show off how adorable our little girl is!

Incentive for the Grandparents!

While most of you are sitting at home back West, you are probably feeling a little like the people in these two photos....FREEZING COLD! Well, we have a little bit of incentive to get you guys to come visit us!!

This is You

AND
This is what we did today, in OCTOBER

Today was a perfect day to hit the beach!! The weather was nice and sunny and the ocean was sooo warm! The temperatures lately have hit the mid-high 80's and it is so nice!

Since our parents have called and told us about the freezing weather they've been having lately, we just wanted to throw out this incentive for them to come visit us in Florida!!! Brooklyn really misses getting spoiled by all of her Grandparents and is looking forward to your visits!

Random Pictures

Here are just some random that we have taken the last couple of weeks! Nothing new has been happening in our lives, we are just hanging out and having fun!!! Enjoy the pics!

Brooklyn showing you she is 1

Crazy kid likes to suck her toes, which is pretty gross
Brooklyn trying to share her toys with her friend Evelyn
Smiling for the camera

Ok so this is Brooklyn's new hobby. She loves to go into the kitchen and empty all of the pots and pans onto the floor and then climb in the cupboard and sit there for forever!

She thinks this is the funnest thing ever!

Last week Brooklyn and I went to the Jacksonville Zoo with some of our friends!

It was a hot humid day and you can tell Brooklyn was ready to be done, but the zoo was really awesome!

Giraffes are always my favorite and at this zoo you can pay $2 and feed the giraffes big leaves of lettuce. They get so close up that you are seriously like a foot away from their heads! Brooklyn loved it

The Gorilla that acted like an old man

Brooklyn posing with the gorilla

She would never look at the camera, she just kept staring and laughing at the elephants!

So that was the last couple weeks of our lives, in a nutshell! We are all still doing great and loving living here in Florida! Greg finished his midterms last week and so far has done really well on them, scoring in the top 10% of his classes! Brooklyn and I are so proud of him and of how hard he has been working, he is a great dad and husband and we love him so much!

Lots and Lots of Pictures!!

Here are a bunch of pictures from the last couple of weeks! Not much has changed for us but we are still loving Florida, Greg is really enjoying law school and doing really well!!! And as for Brooklyn, she is getting sooo big, smart, and funny!

Here is a list of things she can do:

Stand for long periods of time

Say Mom, Dad, Dog, Duck, and Ball

Wave bye bye

Give hugs and kisses

Show you her teeth when you ask her to

Holds up one finger when you ask her how old she is

Empty the silverware from the dishwasher and hand them to us

Stack all of her toys, books, and the movies

Stand up on all fours forever

Open chapsticks and eat them

Take her diaper off

Call random people on the cell phone

and soo many other things that I can't think of right now!

Brooklyn is growing up so fast, and now seems more like a little girl than our baby. It is sad how fast it goes by, but also so exciting and fun to watch her learn and grow up! She is definitely keeping us busy and always laughing!

Sound asleep on our way back from St. Augustine

Being stubborn and not smiling
Me and Brooklyn

Greg and I

She loves to swing!

Brooklyn and Jackson at playgroup

One of her squinty smiles

She loves to pose like this and look out under her legs

Showing off her standing skills

Her "show me your teeth" smile

Just a funny picture

Trying not to smile

Our happy girl

Greg's new Love

This post is a request by Greg, the king of vaccuming! Recently we noticed that our old vaccum wasn't working very well, so we took a trip to walmart and invested in our new Dirt Devil. Greg loves it so much that he insisted on showing how great it is! The pictures below show how much dirt the vaccum picked up, after we had vaccumed earlier that day. For those of you who know Greg, you know he is obsessed with vaccuming, so after seeing all the dirt he was in LOVE!! So for any of you searching for a new vaccum we recommend the Dirt Devil!