Enjoying Life And Our Blessings

This past week we have been enjoying the blessing of friendships. Last Friday, we had a girls game night at Becky's house. We had pizza, an amazing dessert, and played Scattergories. I picked up Holly F. and her new baby Evie and we rode together. I just love Holly and I really enjoyed our chats while in the car. While, the ladies and the kiddos got together, the Men had a guy's night and played ball, etc. in the gym of our church. It was all A LOT of fun!

On Saturday, Holly F. invited me to come along with her and Lynn S. (another friend) to go shopping at the Mall. Us three and our kids went and we even had lunch together. Holly had some coupons for free food at Chick-FIL-A so we couldn't beat that!! I just love both of them.

Sunday night, was combined worship at Fegenbush and we all REALLY look forward to this as it comes quarterly. It didn't disappoint! It is always such a blessing to me! After the service, the Valley Station crew went to the local Mexican restaurant to eat and hang out! It was a BLAST! Let me just say we also found our new favorite Mexican restaurant (Puerto Vallarta) that was GREAT and AFFORDABLE!!

Now on to Thanksgiving! Sadly, Adam doesn't get any nights off this week but thankfully, he will have this evening to eat Thanksgiving with us and enjoy the day. He caught up early on his homework so he would have the end of the week free (besides work). So I am cooking our Thanksgiving meal and it will just be us. But we are fine with that. It is a special time for our family. Grace has already been helping me in the kitchen and I DO cherish those times! We know we are TRULY blessed and forever grateful to the Lord!

On Friday, Grace and I are going Black Friday shopping with Holly F. and Evie. We are SUPER excited about that!:) Then the Iron Bowl!!

Trying to focus though, on what this whole season is about!!

Enjoy Thanksgiving every one!!

Pictures Done!!

We have been meaning to take Grace to get her picture made for a long time now. We attempted to when she first turned 2 years old and she just cried and we had to leave with out getting any done. So we prepared her better this time and we also got a long overdue family pic made. It is always an experience but we are glad we did it!

I am adding a slideshow. You can click the arrows to make it go faster if you would like..

Family/ Grace pics Nov. 2010 - slideshow maker with music

It's a First!

You see this little girl...


She can now wear a REAL pony tail:)



Knows her right from her left..



And can play a video game:)

Baby Frasure is HERE!!!

Some of our very best friends here in Louisville are Isaac and Holly. We have gotten so close to them. We always have a blast with them and they both just crack us up when we get together. They are really so much fun and so down to earth. We just LOVE them!! I remember them telling us not so long ago that they thought they were ready to start a 'family'! Before we knew it, little Evie was on the way!! I helped host a baby shower for Holly at our church and on Oct. 14th little Evie was born. She is just beautiful and we are very happy for them!!!

Some of us from church were providing meals for them for two weeks. Last Friday night, Adam and I took them supper and we were happy when they asked us to plan on staying and eating with them!! So we took them up on the offer and had dinner with them and visited for a while on Friday night. Evie was so sweet and slept most of the time but did rouse up to check us all out:)

We thank God for their friendship and ever so thankful for the precious little healthy blessing that has been added to them!!



Grace was so sweet and gentle with little Evie..

Birthday Party for Two!!!

Our next door neighbors Andrew (5) and Mattie (3) both have a birthday very close together this time of year so their Mommy and Daddy decided to celebrate both together. Grace just LOVES our neighbors little boys and plays with them every chance she gets. She had been anticipating this party every since we got the invitation. Every day, she would say "Andrew and Mattie's Birthday party is tomorrow??" She did that day after day until the day finally came.:) They had a dinosaur party that was decorated ALL boy, of course:) They got so many dinosaurs for presents, had a dinosaur pinata, dinosaur cake, etc. They even rented a bouncer and she had so much fun!!







Andrew and Mattie with their Mom and Dad (Ben and Staci) trying to bust the pinata:)

Halloween 2010

Last Wednesday night our church Highview Baptist at Valley Station hosted a Fall Festival. We always have a great turn out and the kids just LOVE it. Grace was Minnie Mouse and the weather was great with the exception of being a little windy so her Minnie ears didn't want to stay on to well:) Grace could play most of the games at least in a simple version so she still managed to collect a good amount of candy. Daddy even got in on a game. (You can see the pic of him sitting on the balloon to pop it:) All her little buddies were there too and they all looked SOOO cute. They also had a bouncy that is always a hit with Grace these days!!




Madison and Grace


Paige, Grace, and Maddy






Grace and Maddox

On Halloween all three of us went Trick or Treating in the neighborhood. We were excited about it this year because Grace could actually do the trick or treating. She was looking forward to it. I even put a little make up on our little minnie mouse and we all had a lot of fun going door to door and Grace kept saying "trick or treat" in the faintest little voice but when they gave her candy she would say "mank you" very clearly!:) She got so much candy she could hardly tote her bucket back home! Grace was very excited with all the candy, of course!! Now, what to do with all that candy. Ha! We don't need it!:)









Here is a little video of her in action..

Adios Paci:)

Well, today is the big day!! I made the decision yesterday that the paci would be no more starting TODAY!! As you all probably remember, right before her 2 year old Birthday we worked on getting rid of the paci and it was SUPER hard for her. She got SOOO furious when we cut a whole in her paci that she kept climbing out of her crib and hitting her head on the floor. It was like she would stop at NOTHING to get our attention that she was NOT ready for that. It was SOOO traumatic for her. So at that time, with the direction of our pediatrician, she recommended giving her the paci back to only have when she sleeps and just work on the adjustment to a toddler bed. She said the paci can come later after she gets past adjusting to a toddler bed. So that is what we did, and she did great after that adjusting to her Dora toddler bed. Since then, we have had excuse after excuse to wait a little longer; travel, big event, etc. etc. But I felt like she was ready now at 2 and 1/2 years old, she was starting to realize that pacifiers are only for babies and she is not a baby. We have been talking about it for a while now and it is like she almost felt guilty using it knowing she is a 'big girl' now.=)

So this morning we talked about it and I told her we need to get her pacifiers and put them in the mail and send them to another baby that needs a paci. We talked again about how she is a big girl now and she could share her paci with a baby that needs a paci. She said "okay". So I thought, here's our shot!! So I got her 2 pacifiers and I let her put them in the envelope and we addressed them TO: BABY, FROM: GRACE. We let her stick it in the mailbox and we put the flag up. She was very happy with what she did and kept talking about how sweet it was to give her paci to another baby:)

So nap time today, she started to ask for her pacifiers but we reminded her that we mailed them off and she was okay with that. We put her down and she talked for a little bit and then she started crying some. I went upstairs and had to explain to her about her pacifiers again and I comforted her a little by singing to her and rocking her a little bit (because she asked). It was starting to get hard for her:( So with a little more encouragement, she is ASLEEP after an hour of mostly talking with little crying. I heard her upstairs telling her babies in the bed with her, that "I'm alright, I don't need my paci, etc. etc. Very cute!!

We will see how the night goes but as of right now I am happy with how strong this little girl is!! For Mommy, it is actually sad to see this chapter close in our lives. That may sound silly, but that was her LAST 'baby' thing that we have clung to. It makes me realize that she is REALLY not a baby any more! Over all, I am very HAPPY to see it go though, because this is something I have worried about off and on for a long time, because I knew the day would have to come sooner rather than later.

I will keep you all updated on her progress!!:)