Fall 2011

I have no excuse for my lack of blogging this fall other than pure laziness :)) But we have been busy, here are a few pics from the last few months. Gabriella started a dance class back in September. She is taking pre-ballet this year and after a few months, she fell in love with it and now she can't get enough.

In October, we took our last family vacation before Trevor went back to work. We decided since Gabriella had put up with her Mom and Dad's trips all year we would take her to Disneyland.

She didn't know what to think at first, I think we may have scared her a little since we were so excited, but after the first few hours, she finally got the hang of it and then we were trying to keep up with her.

Playing in Minnie's kitchen

Making silly faces with dad in line :)

Gabriella's favorite character this trip was by far Pluto. She was in love with him, she wanted to kiss him on the nose every time she saw him. Her other favorites were of course Mickey and Minnie. But she didn't want any thing to do with the princesses, in fact I think they scared her.

Gabi's favorite ride was Winnie the Pooh. I think we rode it about a dozen times and it never got old for her!!

Holding mom's hand because I was afraid of the ferris wheel ride

One last hug for Mickey

We had so much fun on our trip. Gabriella even did well on the car ride, I think she was so excited that the car ride was no big deal. After we got back, it was back to reality Trevor started his new job at Goldman Sachs at the beginning of November and we haven't seen him much since. I am so glad we took this one last trip before life kicked back in. 

Now this crazy girl is stuck with me all the time and I make her do weird things. Such as in this pic, she is strapped into a seat on the back of a bathroom door :)) Gabriella also started a sports class once a week. She goes with 3 other boys and she tries to keep up with them. They play soccer, basketball, and run around on scooters. Her favorite is of course soccer. Some of Gabi's other favorite things right now are:

• Dora videos
• Mickey Mouse old school videos
• Her dogs
• Telling me "no"
• Sprite
• Reading books
• Cousins
• Grandparents
• Playing hide and go seek
• Ring around the rosie
• Swimming

Some of the funniest things she has said lately are:

• "Mom I like your fuzzy jammies cause they make my mama feel soft"
• "No I do like it"
• "Mama, stop talking"
• "Copper and Coco are my favooorite"
• Her all time favorite word is no such as, "no do my hair" "no wash my hair" "no put on my shoes" and many many more

It's been a while

Well we finally made  it back to the U.S. and Gabriella is in heaven with her family!! I haven't posted very many pictures from our last trip, so here are a few more.

Gabriella running by Westminster Abbey, where the Princess was just married.

China Town in London

After London, we flew over to Munich. I think Gabriella liked this horse!

German food is the best!!

Beer Garden inside the English Garden, Munich

All over the place

Where in the world is Gabriella??!! That is the question these days, we have been traveling all over Europe the past few weeks and we have been having a blast!

Gabriella's Grandma and Papa came all the way over here to pick us up and travel for a few weeks! We started our trip with a quick drive down to the South of France. The picture below is at the Pont du Gard. It was so hot that day!!

This picture of Trevor and I is in Uzes, France.

All of us relaxing by the pool at the bed and breakfast where we stayed.

We made a quick stop at the Mediterranean for some swimming.

We even got to see a running of the bulls!!

This picture is in Orange France at the Roman amphitheater. 

Then we made it back to London! 

Then we flew over to Munich for a couple days.

Lots more pictures and places to come....

Shopping and Horses

Gabriella has been a great shopping buddy for me this week. As you can see she loves purses!!

We took her out to play games last night, I'm not too sure she had as much fun as we did.

Today we took her to Vizille and she rode on the ponies!!

She absolutely loved it!! Believe it or not that serious face means she's really enjoying it!

We had a blast, I think she would have stayed on that horse all afternoon if we would have let her. As soon as she got off, she had to give the horse and a hug and kiss. She then had to tell the horse that it was a good girl and thanks for the ride.