Happiest Place on Earth

Hello everyone!

Well summer has officially started in our household and we have been busy ever since! We started our summer off by heading to Santa Barbara for Father's Day to visit Jeff's dad, Kathy, and Grandma Graf. It was a great visit, so excited we had the chance to see Grandma all the way from Ohio.

Then the following Tuesday, Tiffany and I had planned a trip for our oldest girls to Disneyland. The best part, they had NO idea we were going. So Emerson woke up Tuesday and we went about our normal morning routine...cartoons, juice, breakfast. Then I suggested she hop in the bath because Mickey Mouse doesn't like it when we are dirty. And she looked at me funny, and I asked her if she would like to go to Disneyland today? LOL! She of course responded with an overwhelming YES! Tiffany picked us up about 1/2 hour later and we were on our way for two fun filled days in Anaheim. We spent all day at Disneyland on Tuesday, riding just about every ride imaginable, watching the parade, Fantasmic, and even catching some of the late night fireworks as we were heading out for the night. On Wednesday we headed back to Disneyland for a quick (yeah right!) stop off at the new Finding Nemo right, waited just over an hour (better than the 5 hour wait for some the day before!) and then spent the rest of our day at CA Adventure Park seeing the Playhouse Disney show, riding some fun rides, and just having a great time. The weather couldn't have been better, maybe just a little bit warm. But overall the girls had a fantastic time and so did we.

This past weekend Tiffany and I jetted off to Sacramento for a good friend, Aimee's baby shower. It was great to see friends and have a fun girl's weekend.

Now we are back to the craziness of summer at home, swim lessons, daycare coop, and just fun in the HOT sun!

Here are some Disney pictures!

Lots of love,

The Grady's

Graduation Time...

Who would have guessed when I first walked into Patty's house back in the summer of '03 that we would spend so many great years there? Emerson has been under Patty's amazing care for 4 fabulous years. And tonight was her graduation.

It is hard to imagine what it will be like, come Fall, when I don't drive to Patty's with both kids in their car seats and walk them in, hand them over, and kiss them both goodbye. Hard to believe the Em is really growing up. She is on her way to Sacred Heart Preschool in the Fall. I know she will love it there, but the comfort and care of Patty's is going to be hard to beat. The silver lining of all of this though, is I still get to see Patty everyday, as I will be walking Brennan up that walk each morning in the Fall...and I look forward to it!

Tonight Patty and company put together the cutest graduation ceremony. They sang, danced, and received their diplomas. It was really sweet, even made this mom shed a few tears. Em has been with most of these kidsfor years, and a few of them for all 4 of those special years.

So here are some pictures of the Graduate!

Lots of Love,
The Grady Family

4 more days!!!!

I can't even believe it....4 more days and school is out and summer really begins! The kids are done with daycare on Friday as well. Emerson will actually be "graduating" from Patty's Thursday night, complete with a little ceremony and dinner. I promise to take lots of pictures of the event. We actually have our 2nd set of swimming lessons on Thursday afternoon as well, so we will be running around crazy that day.

Once summer is officially here I am sure I will be on more to update with all the exciting things that we are doing.

Hope everyone is having a great week!

Lots of love,
The Grady's

Memorial Day Weekend

Post number two....I am here to try it again!

We had a great Memorial Day weekend. We took a short trip to Big Bear Lake to spend the weekend with the Black's and the Butier's. We really lucked out with beautiful 70 degree weather and a very mellow weekend. Thanks to some family friend's of Tif's we were able to stay in a gorgeous house, complete with "bunk house" for the kids, trampoline, spa, and play equipment. It was wonderful to just hang around and not have to worry about doing laundry or yardwork or whatever seems to occupy our normal weekends. And it was even better to hang out with great friends and share a lot laughs.

The upcoming week should be an easy one, only four days to handle. Just the normal routine this week....Oh last week we had our orientation for Emerson's new preschool. WOW! So much information to take it, but so exciting! They have so many extra activites going on for fun and fundraising of course. Jeff and I are required to volunteer 20 hours total for the year, which shouldn't be too hard with the both of us working at it. The fundraising part might be a little challenging though!

Well, better get us all ready for tomorrow...

Here are a few pictures to share with you all from our Big Bear Weekend.

Emerson playing in the lake one evening.

Brennan making silly faces at me in the play house.

Have a great week ahead!

Lots of Love,

The Grady Family

Welcome

Hello friends and family,


Well I got to thinking about all the emails and such that I either don't have a chance to respond to or don't have a chance to start...and I thought, what about a blog? Great way for me to keep everyone up to date with the goings on in the Grady Family. So here we are!


A quick update....


Brennan celebrated his 2nd birthday about two weeks ago. We had a great pool party, in our already warm weather. He is finally starting to talk a bit more. Although we just went to the dr. to find out that he has some fluid in his ears that may be causing some hearing loss. Might be an easy fix with some antibiotics, which we plan to try for the next 4 weeks. If those don't worry will be have to entertain the thought of surgery to put in ear tubes....but we shall see.


Emerson is doing great, growing up SO fast. We actually just went to our first of two orientations to her new preschool at Sacred Heart Catholic School. She is SO excited to start her "big girl" school. We are so excited to see how much she will learn there as well.


Jeff and I are busy with work. Jeff is super busy as usual, the whole idea of the "valley" slowing down for the hot summer months, seems to not be the case as much anymore. Traffic is just as crazy as usual. I only have 20 school days left (but who is counting!) in the school year. Then a fairly hectic summer ahead, with mini-trips, swim lessons, and playdates. Looking forward to some quality time with the kids.


Well, better get going. We hope this finds everyone doing well. Please check back often to see how we are all doing. I will do my best to update as much as possible.


Lots of love,
The Grady Family


Here are some recent pictures of the kids having fun in the pool at Brennan's birthday!