Love the double stuffed!!

So I'm eating some Oreo's after my lunch today, I know I do not need them, but they are way too good to resist! Well, Gabby is sitting next to me and eating her lunch. When she was done I thought I'd see how she would react to some Oreo's. He he!! This is what she looked like after eating just 1/2 of one!!! I did keep Zaidy from licking her but Gabby thought it was hilarious when I would tell her not to try and kiss Zaidy. You can see it on her face after each time she tries to kiss her!! I love some oreo's and apparently so does Gabby! =0)

Family is so much fun!

Ella had her birthday this past weekend and it was a blast! Once again, I'm just going to send the pictures I have taken to ya Kerri so you can put them on your blog. I'm putting up the ones of Gabby with the family! =0) On Sunday we actually headed to Raleigh to see the Dedication/Blessing of our newest little cousin, Jesse!! He is so adorable and Jamie and Cara Lynn are such wonderful parents!! We had a great weekend just hanging out in Jacksonville and riding to Raleigh! =0) Kerriann had the awesome idea of having the kids eat outside at Ella's birthday since it was nice and breezy out so of course Gabby had to eat outside too! She was thoroughly enjoying her chicken nuggets and veggies here! Ella hanging out with Aunt Molly!Pop Pop had to do a hay ride of course!! The kids absolutely loved it and Gabby even rode with Aunt Molly!!!I have no idea what Gabby is eating here but it sure looks funky! She actually bit her lip twice during the night. The first time was all my fault and the second she did as she was falling down on a toy! Ay! We thought she was going to have a horrible time with her bottle but she actually did okay!!!She loves to try and get Pop Pop's glasses from around his neck!!! =0)Molly's sister-n-law decided to get her ear pierced on Saturday so here is Gabby waiting with her mom!! She did not like this hat at all, yet somehow it kind of suits her!! He he!!This is at the Blessing!! Gabby did very good before and after but I ended up in the back of the church with her during the Dedication because she wouldn't settle down!! Ay! At least we got to hear most of it!! =0)Molly and Nick are patiently waiting to take a big family picture!! =0)Hanging out with Grannie, looking out at the garden down below!! =0) Here is a big old family picture of a bunch of the Vogel clan and their families!! I couldn't feel my legs by the end of it!! It was a beautiful day!! =0)

Gabby is always doing something now!!

Miss Gabby is getting into everything now and is absolutely hilarious to watch as she does so. Her eating has become much messier and I don't even try to keep a bib on her anymore. Her usual attitude towards it is fine in the beginning but as she progresses through her meal, she slowly starts tugging until she has it off. The video is of where we discovered most of her food a couple of nights ago. She was having way too much fun eating and we didn't notice how big of a neck line was on the shirt she had on. She is always peaking down her shirt, maybe I should have been looking closer all a long. =0)

I have slowly been collecting a bunch of pictures of what she has been doing and learning to do and play with for a few weeks now. Here are a bunch of pictures of her latest conquests!!! =0) This next picture is for you Katie! She has finally started enjoying drinking out of her ECU sippy cup. Thanks for giving it to her!! =0)
Zaidy loves to love on Clay when he gets home from work. Always ready to play too!!
I was in the kitchen cleaning up after breakfast and so Gabby was doing her usual running around. I was washing up some dishes when I heard plastic hitting the ground, turned around and discovered Gabby had found the pan/tupperware cabinet!! I let her play in it until she got bored and moved onto something else!! Zaidy is never to far from her when she is out on a mission!!
This is generally where she tries to go afterward, the dog bowl. Ay!! We are working on keeping her out of it and it out of sight! =0)
I think she was trying to get on the vent but I kept asking her to look at me, so this was the look I got!!
This is her newest obsession. She loves to race to the door now too look out and talk, talk, talk, and talk, whenever I let Zaidy out!!
We went to Jacksonville this past weekend to celebrate Johnny's bday. Saturday morning there was a Farmer's day parade in Richlands so Mom, Molly, Kerriann, Julia, and Ella and Gabby and I all met up with Tina and Kim and her little ones to watch it. It lasted maybe 25 minutes so it was definitely short but sweet. Afterward we went over to the fair part of it and walked around the different tables and watched the kids play in the fun park area! All in all, it was a fun morning!!
Gabby for some reason, did not like this little umbrella stroller for nothing. She had her cry face on the whole time so I finally took her out to hold her! =0)
Aunt Molly trying very hard to get her to calm down!! =0)
While at the fair Mom thought it would be fun to buy two marshmallow launchers! Yeah hilarious until Clay decided to aim it at me when we had gotten back to Johnny's house and hit me right under the eye with one of the little demon balls. Man that puppy hurt. I had some choice words for Clay but I held some of them in. =0) I was trying to be nice. Ay!! Here is a picture of Jason with one of them. I got pelted with them when I went outside to see what was up with Jason and Molly later on. Boy was that the wrong thing to do. =0) It ended up being a chase and in the end, I got marshmallows stuck in the thing and Molly had to get them out. =0) I went in afterward, I knew I was going to loose big time!! =0)
Gabby had discovered the railing around the porch and was peaking through the top and bottom of it. So silly!
Gabby loves her Pop Pop! She was talking to him in this picture about something, I didn't quite catch it though! He he!!
Happy Birthday Johnny! I figure Kerriann, I won't put pictures up on the blog of his party in case you are going to put them on your blog. =0) I'll send you the ones I took!!! =0)
I took these pictures today of Gabby discovering the world outside through the window. She was in the office with me earlier and as she was playing and standing when she realized that there was a window and she could see out of it and so she started talking! I didn't want her around the wires and plugs for the computer so we immediately went out into the living room and I showed her the window in there. She would crawl back to it every once in awhile and stand up and start talking! So I had to snap some shots!! =0)
She finally got bored and decided she would rather examin this pen and then came crawling after me into the kitchen!! She is so funny!!
Hope everyone is doing great!!!

Fun stuff and Updates!

Here are some videos of Gabby when she had started rolling about four months ago. All of these videos are ones I had wantd to put up right away but unfortunately my computer did not want to cooperate. =0)

Helping Mommy? =0)

Gabby of course is into everything now a days and she loves to follow me around the house. She'll follow Clay around too. One time when he was in the bedroom she was in the living room with me and she managed to make her way back to him. It was so cute listening to her and her hurried breathing as she was heading back there. =0) Here though, is a picture of her helping me with the dish washer. Zaidy had to make sure we weren't messing with food and that Gabby wasn't getting all of it if there was any. =0) This is a video we took when Gabby was about 6 months old. I'm sorry it is side ways, I wasn't even thinking about how hard it would be to see afterward. Anyways, we took this because Gabby was figuring out that she could take Zaidy's toys and, drum roll please...put them in her mouth. =0) I'm kind of loud in the background, sorry, just mute it if I'm too much. I couldn't help it! =0)

Yee-Haw!!!

I have my lovely computer back now and it is up and running thanks to David. It is so awesome to be able to get on now and have things run quickly! I love it and didn't realize how much I missed it until it wasn't there to turn on. Although loosing the computer came at a great time. Gabby had started becoming mobile and she hasn't stopped of course so it kind of forced me out of the office. Now we spend most of the day on the living room floor crawling around and her getting into everything she can find that isn't one of her toys! =0) I'll put videos and pictures on later!!!

Gardens are so fun! Maybe?! =0)

I thought maybe y'all might get a kick out of these pictures of the sunflowers that had been growing in our front yard and some others of our garden. Sonja had given them to us back in the spring and had even helped me plant them. Well, actually she planted them while I watched her. =0) Thanks Sonja! He he!! Two of them were massive and I finally tore them down tonight. Clay hadn't seen them so I brought them in for him to see and he was amazed. =0) I'm saving a ton of the seeds if anyone wants any!!! The first is next to my hand.

This is the same flower as it stands. It was up at the window when it bloomed, but the next day it had fallen over and stayed that way of course. Here are all of the flowers. The far left has the biggest, then next is the second biggest, but ya can't see it because it is also hunched over. This is one of the rose plants that Katie left me to take care of for her. It has bloomed only about one at a time through the summer and this was it's latest. It is so tiny so the picture after is of it up close. =0)These are our beautiful roses that bloomed and then I cut them to bring into the house! =0) The next picture is of them inside. There was a little jumping spider living in the biggest ones' petals. It decided to come out finally after they had been inside for a few days. =0) It was hilarious trying to catch it and put it out.

This is one of the sunflowers left out back. I have trimmed that plant way down and so now it only blooms these tiny little flowers.

I had to save these poor flowers which I had planted too close to the sunflowers and it's fellow pink flowers. They bloomed after I put them in their own pot and it's sister flowers starting blooming more often with more room in the garden. =0)

Here is our little friend the garden spider. He set his web up in the oddest place. On the end of the trailor where there were absolutely no flowers or bugs. Unfortunately the next day after I took this photo the lawn was mowed and we didn't see him again. He was cool while he was there!!