Family Frenzy

These last few weeks we have had a lot of fun family time with Justin's family. Gracie has enjoyed playing with her cousins and we have enjoyed having more people to visit with and play with in Pine Valley. It has also been raining a lot and we have been very thankful for all of the moisture- it has been an answer to our prayers.
The picture to the left is of Gracie with her cousin Maddie. They are about 8 months apart and Gracie loves following Maddie around. We have noticed that Gracie has been talking more jibberish since she has been around Maddie so much. They just chat back and forth in their little baby language. What we would give to understand them!

This is Gracie with Justin. She loves her dad and especially loves it when he takes her close up to see animals.




This is Gracie with her aunt Carrie riding Buddy. Justin's cousin bought this miniature horse for his son and they have been really great to let all of the cousins go on rides. I love this picture of Gracie because she has such a bewildered look on her face. She did, however, do a really great job of hanging on to the saddle horn and did a lot of smiling.


Gracie had fun swinging in the tire swing and we had a lot of fun over at Grandma Gardner's house with all of the Gardner family. One of the events of the evening was passing out the awards for the Gardner Family Fitness Frenzy. We have all been in a competition since February and working hard to get points for exercising and eating right. In the end, I (maggie) took 4th place in the individual competition and Jusin and I took 1st place in the group competition along with his parents. It was exciting, especially because it became a close race in the last few weeks of the competition.Here is a picture we took of Justin's family. We thought we would hurry and snap a picture while we were all together.