the napping house

thoughts on today.

1. today was a day of rest

2. Tranquility, mother knows best

3. I can still read a book in one day

4. Accomplishing nothing (everything I wanted to do)

5. napping during the day to the sound of the surf is highly underated

the napping house

don't you just love a deep sleep?

finally dressed at 4 pm to venture out into Panama City

mother daughter team

enjoying a much needed vacation

My sister sara has a gift for finding funny signs. I am learning from her. Here are a few for her (poor girl, nesting in the final month of her pregnancy.)

If you are caught in a rip currant tips. My favorite

1. Know how to swim

how about don't go in the water let alone the ocean if you can't swim. You are just asking for trouble!

What happened to those bumps

Seriously. Ben wants to know how much knowledge it takes?

very big shark

the funny thing is that I didn't know that ginormous plastic sharks swim in the ocean

okay

Sharkys

mom: fish tacos

dad: seafood diane

ben: fish plate

andrea: fish tacos

gracie: breast milk on the rocks

the battery died in the car.

Gracie praying please start!

upcoming events:

1. more napping at the napping house

2. one more book to read in the series

3. night time walking on the beach

4. Snorkeling

5. swimming with dolphins on a three hour tour

See you tomorrow

changes in attitude/changes in latitude

I am about to have a change in attitude. For five days I can do nothing but sit and read and think with a daily nap thrown in here and there for the mom. Today the veranda tomorrow the beach.....

What can be better than that you ask? Maybe a baby with humidity hair.

The view from my napping spot today

The stairs to my own private beach.

Toes in fresh unmarked sand. Yes my feet are swollen.

My very own footprints.

Tomorrows napping place.
Sundays napping place. Pretty soon these babies will be decked out with pillows and umbrellas and diet coke and oh yes, me!

The napping house

Can you feel it? Can you smell it? Close your eyes....and relax!

first dip

seashells for the brownie bites who are living it up in Fillmore.

Self portrait.

Tiny Blessings

We did it! Check one more thing off the list! We blessed Gracie! Hooray! She is getting bigger and better everyday. She is off her oxygen completely and only on the other monitor at night. A friend said to me "she isn't a project anymore, she's a real baby!" It's true. We have been waiting to bless her until we felt like she wasn't so fragile. I went to church late (so people couldn't touch her) with her wrapped up tight in a blanket. We left after she was blessed, again so people wouldn't touch her. I was a tiny bit panicked when the little girl behind us started to cough up a lung. Oh boy, I am a germaphob now. We figured out that 33 years ago to the day I was blessed in this dress that my Grandma Joyce made. Grandma also made the white blanket that I have used for all my childrens blessings. Now little baby Schmalz will get to use it. Thanks Gigi. I know she was watching us from heaven.
The Dress

The shoes
The tiny star

The family

Grace Elizabeth Brown

I think I am excited about this!

The food, thanks mom.

The people.......

The sisters

The Grandma
The birthday present from Michelle. Awesome (kind of naughty:) ) birthday present! I am a ipoder and a blogger now!

The skinny girl (not me, Michelle :) )

The nap, on cousin Sydney and Auntie Sara

The end

Today it rained. For the first time in months. For all of 10 minutes. The first 25 drops fell and then the wind blew the red dirt from the construction behind our house and coated our windows. Do you know why it rained? I washed my windows yesterday. The doorbell rang and I answered to find this. The Desert children. Who don't really know what rain is, or any cold weather. Tyler cried when it snowed at our house last year,...he was scared. The drops were not quite enough to cool them off so they ran under the neighbors drainpipe to get a thourough soaking.

Rain in St. George is hot and muggy. Not cool and refreshing like the raintorms of my childhood.

Free from the hot dusty wind, they dance.

Keep dancing the cement isn't quite wet.

Thats better.

for the Aunties

Auntie Sara,
Here is a little preview of me before the weekend starts. Get here quick, just slow down in Cedar City.
Love and stuff,
Gracie
Auntie Rachel,
My mom says to come prepared to show her how to download songs on her/your ipod. She says she doesn't know any of the songs she has listened to so far and she needs to be able to sing along.
xoxoxoxo
Gracie


Auntie Becky,
Did you get the mouse?
Love,
Gracie