Visiting Family from Pennsylvania

The last two weeks have been a lot of fun! Aunt Margaret and Uncle Sam arrived in Lawrence nearly two weeks ago to visit with us and attend the KU vs. Duke football game. They stayed another week, and then last Thursday, Gabriella's Godmother, Marlynn and her husband, Jason and their sons Jason (Samantha's Godson) and Andy arrived to visit for a long weekend and they all attend the KU vs. Southern Mississippi football game. Both were great KU victories!

We had a great time with all of them the last two weeks. We were so sad when they left this morning. Here are some photos of the kids after the game on Saturday evening. Gabby decided she didn't want to wear pants anymore so she was running around in her KU jersey and underwear! The life of a two-year old!

Gabby and Andy having some dinner together. They are only three weeks apart in age.

Gabby, Andy and Jason playing in Nonna and G-Pa's basement. (above)

Andy and Gabby being silly! Look at Andy's adorable dimples. (below)

Less than 3 weeks...

Until our new baby girl is due to arrive! We are getting very excited! Gabriella talks about "Baby Sister" all the time and she understands on some level that we will have a baby in the house very soon. She often times rubs and kisses Mommy's belly and says "Baby Sister is growing." It's darling!

Last week, Samantha had another sonogram and baby girl #2 is growing nicely. She is now in the 28th percentile so things look good. The sonographer took 3D and 4D photos of her, but our new scanner is giving us problems so unfortunately I can't post any of them. We think she looks a lot like Gabby, but we shall see!

I can't remember if I mentioned it in a previous post that Gabby is completely potty trained. She has been for a couple of months now. We are so proud of her! She occasionally has a wet pull-up in the morning, but most mornings is dry or gets us up in the middle of the night and tells us she has to potty. She is such a big girl! On August 28th she turned 2 1/2 years old!

Below is a really fun picture from the other night. Nonna came over to visit and brought Gabriella new Jayhawk stickers. Gabby spent some time putting every single one of them on her body. We had to convince her that they had to come off before she took a bath. Can you tell she was having a good time?!

The 2009 KU Football season is underway!

On Saturday we attended KU's first football game of the year against Northern Colorado. The Jayhawks won big 49-3! Gabby had a great time at the game and loved all of the fanfare that comes along with college football. It was a long evening for her, but she did a great job.

In her game day outfit - her new KU dress.

Before the game, Daddy brought Gabby in the stands to see the band and all of the football players up close. We spent the entire game in our family's suite in the press box. Here's Gabby smiling for the camera and enjoying the pre-game festivities.

She was so excited to see the band, cheerleaders, Big Jay and Baby Jay. She couldn't stop talking about them that evening. She loved all of it!