Girls, girls, girls

This past weekend Tiffany and I headed up to Lake Arrowhead to have a girl's weekend with some moms from Emerson and Kaitlyn's school. We drove up Friday after work, straight into a nice winter storm. We were prepared for snow, ice, rain, whatever was handed to us....except the dense fog that we encountered. I have driven in fog hundreds of times, I mean we lived in Northern CA for years. But, I have never seen anything like this. You know it is bad when you can't see the hood of your own car and you are driving by the yellow dots on the left and the guardrail on the right. We made it to the top of the mountain and to our friend's house in a little over 2 hours.
The rest of the weekend was a lot less eventful, and an all around great time. We played board games, Wii, watched movies, and talked about anything you can imagine. What a great way to really get to know some of the other moms.
Can't wait to do it again!!!

Lots of love,
The Grady's

Conversations with a 2 year old

Me: "Let's get you in your car seat."
Brennan: "No, ME do it!" (gotta love being 2!)
Me: "Fine, you do it, but we need to hurry."
Brennan: ...taking his sweet time getting up into the seat...
Me: "Okay, B, we gotta hurry, Mommy needs to go to work" (finally in his seat, while I am buckling him
Brennan: "But, Mama, if you go to work, who is going to drive the car?"
Me: "Well, you are!"
Brennan: "I, not big enough to drive, might crash."
Me: "Oh, okay, I guess I can drive today then." (close his door and walk around to the front)
Brennan: laughing, making car noises...."Me driving, Mama!!!!.....CRASH, Uh-Oh!"
Me: laughing...."Guess Mommy should drive, huh?"
Brennan: "Yes, please!"

Lots of love,
The Grady's

Happiest Bday on Earth!

Saturday afternoon we drove over to Anaheim with the Black's on our way to Disneyland. We met up with the Butier family, all to celebrate Mason and Kaitlyn's 5th birthdays. See, Mason and Kaitlyn were born literally 7 hours apart, on different days, 5 years ago. So, there was only way to celebrate their special days, and that would be at the happiest place on earth!
We had a great dinner at Joe's Crabshack Saturday night. That particular restaurant is a parent's dream dining place! It has a full-size playground on the premises, completely fenced in and visible during your meal. It is awesome!
Sunday we all headed into CA Adventure park for a fun filled day with rides, shows, and amusement park food. With the exception of a yummy Princess Lunch at Ariel's Grotto. The lunch was complete with apperances from 5 princesses!
You can imagine that our drive home Sunday was very quiet, all but the driver (ME!) was sound asleep before we even got onto the freeway.
Happy 5th birthdays, Mason and Kaitlyn!

Lots of love,
The Grady's

Happy Heart Day!!!

Hearts, flowers, cards, candies, balloons, stuffed bears...

This is LOVE to me!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Lots of love,

The Grady's

Cogential Heart Defect Awareness Week

February 7-14, 2008 has been named "Cogential Heart Defect Awareness Week". As you can imagine, this awareness week, is important to us. Please take some time this week to tell someone about this important week and what it means. Here are a couple of important facts to remember:

• 1 in every 100 babies is born with some form of a heart defect
• The cause of most heart defects is unknown, this is the reason why more research is needed.
• Most defects are not diagnosed right at birth, but often days and weeks later.
• CHD is the most frequently occuring defect in babies and the leading cause of birth defect related deaths.
• Most defects can be treated through surgery or dr. observations, although some can never be "cured".

Valentine's Day is the perfect time to bring families, health professionals, and local organizations together, and to draw attention to the needs of the congenital heart community. For more information you can look at http://www.tchin.org/

Lots of love,

The Grady's

Randomness

Wow, it has been some time since I have been here to post something...guess we have just been very busy with the craziness of daily life.
So I thought I share some of our randomness...

• Jeff took me away for a couple days to San Diego and Huntington Beach for my birthday. It was a great, few relaxing days just eating, shopping, watching the Superbowl and being by the beach.
• Emerson continues to love school and comes home each day with a handful of pages that she has worked hard on. She is now writing her first and last name so well!
• Brennan loves his blanket and elephant, yes a little stuffed elephant that goes EVERYWHERE with us. He is truly Charlie Brown's friend Linus, complete with thumb in the mouth.
• Took a field trip with my class yesterday up the Palm Springs Tramway. There was 2 feet of snow on the ground, and I think the teacher's had more fun than the kids!
• One of my best friends, Carrie, had a beautiful baby boy last night. I am SO excited for her!
• Jeff and Signarama just opened a brand new, 2nd location this past week. He has been very busy lately, but it is so exciting.
• I have a mountain of laundry to tackle this weekend....and often wonder where we accumulate all the dirty clothes!

Have a great weekend!

Lots of love,

The Grady's