A Great Saturday!

I love Saturdays! Our day starts with babysitting Bailey and Charlee and we totally look forward to it every week!

Today was a Great Saturday! Bailey is growing fast and today was an extra fun day with her - Here's a short video I got of her this morning:

I got video of Charlee also, but having trouble converting it to files usable and it takes so long - I need to find a better converter program - I will add them later! It was so precious - She was flitting/dancing around like a little Dancing Princess!!

As you can imagine - after babysitting, Pap is WORN OUT!! lol - Charlee sure keeps him going!

Today, Sunday, Dave and I, Heather and Alan headed to the Strawberry Festival in Plant City, FL. It a great festival and I always look forward to the Make Your Own Strawberry Shortcake and that was our first stop - as you can see:MMMMMMMMMMMM So, Good!!!

The weather is getting warmer and soon we will be heading to the beach or the pool! So glad the cold weather has past! Looking forward to a fun summer!

Bubble Wrap!

We always look forward to Charlee coming over for a sleepover - and we got to have one this weekend!! After we brought her here, she found a sheet of bubble wrap I had - and you'd have thought we had given her the moon!!
She'd sit and pop them, then lay it out and run back and forth just popping them and laugh! Well - I already know what to get her for Christmas - hahaha!

It was so fun to watch - and even more fun to do it with her! It's fun to act like a kid now and then - that's why we love having her come over - we get to be kids again!


When we have a sleep over, Dave (Pap) blows up the big air mattress and Charlee just thinks it is so cool - we have pizza, watch TV and just play - last night she had Dave playing with her Cinderella doll - and he totally gets into it! lol

Before she came over for our sleep over, we watched Charlee and Bailey at their house, as we do every Saturday. Charlee is always such a big helper and was helping me by brushing Bailey's hair - she is such a good Big Sister - Bailey couldn't be any luckier!!
Bailey is starting to really reach for things and hold things now. She was holding onto her butterfly teether type toy for the longest time and would of course put it right in her mouth! lol
I still cannot get over how much she looks like Justin! I'm going to have to scan some pictures and put them up here - it's so neat to compare the similarities! She's such a pleasant baby too and is starting to "talk" back and smile! and a BIG milestone - she is starting to roll over! Justin and Krista noticed that she rolled from her back to her belly the other day, but didn't "see" her do it. I did see her do it yesterday - she got over and has not yet figured out to pull her arm out from under her! I did get a picture, though, as she started to roll over!
Gosh, I am just loving being a Grandma - can you tell?

We had a great day today. Heather and Alan, and Justin and Krista, all came over for dinner today! I always love when we can all get together and enjoy an afternoon together and have dinner and just hang out! Heather and Alan got here first and her and I got to make a few cards before we had to clean up the table for dinner. Usually when they are all together Justin and Alan end up on the lanai playing guitar and singing - nothing different today! I love listening to them.

So now the house is nice and quiet - it was a good, busy weekend.

We are so, so blessed.

Love,
CherylAnn

Grandbaby Update!

I just love Saturdays!! We get to babysit Charlee and Bailey while Justin is working and Krista is at school!! When Dave isn't on call he comes with me - we love spending the day with them! Bailey is growing perfectly and Charlee is becoming such the little Princess!Bailey is starting to make noises and reach for and grabbing things and just smiles from ear to ear!! She had a doctor's appointment this week and she is doing very well, right where she's supposed to be! and Charlee is just too darn smart for her age, I swear! It was so funny, for Valentines Day she told Justin she wanted watermelon, an apple, ice cream and chocolate milk! And he got it all, even the watermelon! We always get Dunkin Donuts when we go babysit - Charlee loves to eat the top part and leave the rest of the donut! She's so funny!

We are just loving being Grandparents and so glad we get to spend so much time with them as we do - we love every minute!! Can hardly wait for next weekend when Charlee spends the weekend with us - she loves having a sleepover!

Nothing much else is going on these days. Heather and Alan are doing well, Alan is back to work, and things are getting on track for them!

It's been kinda chilly here in the Sunshine state lately, especially in the mornings, even have had frost on the ground, go figure! But by the afternoon it warms up. I am looking forward to the warm weather and spending more time at the pool or the beach this year since I don't have to work weekends anymore - YAY!

Not much more to write about tonight! Just wanted to update with a few Grandbaby pictures!!

Love,

Cheryl

Remembering Uncle Eddie

It's been a couple weeks since I blogged. The year has not started out very well. On February 2nd I lost my hero, my Uncle Eddie. He had been not well for a while and lost the battle. I can't tell you how deep of a hole this has made in my heart. He was more of a Dad to me than an Uncle and was always, since I was a little girl, my hero. Whenever someone would tell me I looked like my Mom or Grandma, I'd say, "No way, I look like my Uncle Eddie!!" When I joined the Army, I wanted to go Airborne just like him and get an Airborne tattoo - just like him.

He touched so many people in his life and had so many friends, who I am sure can tell lots of stories of good times with Uncle Eddie. You see, with him there was NEVER dull moment. Whether it be at home aggravating Grandpap, at the bar (his bar - Fat Eddies), at his camp huntin, or at the Legion - he always made someone laugh, and was very well respected wherever he went!

We will all miss you, Uncle Eddie. STS

GO STEELERS!

Even though we live in Florida - we still LOVE THE STEELERS!! We all got together on Sunday to watch the Steelers trample the Chargers!



Krista had a great time too - she got to practice - Heather and Alan both wanted their hair cut and both were very happy!! Krista is very good at what she has chosen to do and I'm sure she is going to do very well once she is out of school!






But the best part of the day - besides the STEELERS WINNING - was spending the afternoon with the Grandbabies!!! Charlee is getting so big and she is so darn smart and such a joy to just play with! She has such an imagination and can make up something with anything she picks up! And she LOVES to hang out with Uncle Alan!!



Bailey is growing so much already - hard to believe she's 3 months old now!! She is smiling and "talkin" to us and ALMOST rolled over! Geez - before we know it she'll be just chatterin away and starting to walk, then school, then college - oh geez - it all happens too fast!






And how can you resist this little angel? Don'tcha just want to squeeze those little cheeks??



So happy to have everyone together - for whatever reason!! Can't wait for this Sunday - we'll probably all get together again, maybe at Heather and Alan's house - for the next playoff game - and then plan a SuperBowl Party -'cause we all know the STEELERS ARE GOIN TO THE SUPERBOWL!!

I've been busy getting back in a work groove - thank God I'm working. I'm taking more time also to work on my scrapbooking and stamping - you can always check out what I'm doing at my stampin blog - http://stampingfunn.blogspot.com .

It's getting a little cold down here - expected to go down into the low 60s during the day and in the 30s at night by this weekend - can you imagine? Geesh - break out the electric blankets! hahaha


Stay warm - wherever you are!!

Love,
CherylAnn

Online Albums

I just wanted to remind you that over to the right are links to online albums - I just added Christmas 08!

Love,
Cheryl

A Wonderful Christmas!

Well, despite the crazy economy, it turned out to be a very nice Christmas! This is the first Christmas in about 7 years that we had both Justin and Heather together!!!

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve - it was all about the kids! Charlee is just at the age where she totally was excited about Santa Clause!! It was so cute - we had her looking up in the sky for Santa and Rudolph!! She was so excited to come in the house and find that Santa had snuck into Mimi and Pap's house!

She just kept saying "This is the Best Christmas Ever!" lol Nothing like being with little ones on Christmas to make you believe the magic again!

And of course, this was Bailey's first Christmas!! Doesn't she look like a little CandyCane Elf?

It was such a nice Christmas Eve! By the end of the night - Bailey was pooped and comfortable in Pap's arms!!

Like Father - Like Son!

Christmas morning we woke up and had Heather and Alan over for Breakfast and then headed over their house for a wonderful Christmas Dinner and enjoyed a few movies and played Guitar Hero. At the end of the day - even Heather was pooped - lol!

That's what it is all about - being with the ones you love. So, it was the most Wonderful Christmas as we were together with the ones we love!!!