Across the plains of Texas ... from sea to shining sea

We have been blessed with a daughter who loves to travel. She took her first trip on an airplane when she was just 4 months old and she has been going strong ever since. The list of places she has seen is growing quickly as she will be in Miami this weekend and has another trip to Utah followed by a tour of New Hampshire in the coming months. And that is just the trips we currently have planned! Besides traveling often (by car and plane) to and from many of the hot spots in Texas, including: Dallas, Houston, Austin, Corpus Christi and College Station...here are some of the places she has enjoyed around the country: Provo, New York City, Miami, Atlanta, Phoenix and Las Vegas. We are grateful for such an accomodating child who loves "big airplanes" since we recently received her first passport in the mail.

So many dresses...so little time

Almost every Sunday I end up taking a picture of Isabelle because she looks so cute all dressed up for church. She loves to wear dresses with "tights and shiny shoes" and twirl around and dance while holding the bottom of the hem. She asks me every day for her "dancing skirt" so she can dance all around the house and asks many times a week if it is time for church. We are fortunate that she is a girly-girl since she has Grandmas, Aunts and a Mom who love to shop!

*** Today she wanted to take her new kitty-purse to church with her that she got from her Aunt Alee for Valentines Day!

Her Mama's Baby

This is how Isabelle puts herself to sleep. Our routine is to lay her in her bed and then sing her a song or two. (Interestingly enough she prefers Dad's singing voice.) When we leave her room, she pulls her "puppy" over her head and hums herself to sleep. I always wait until her humming ends and then go into her bedroom and pull the blanket off her face! It is a funny thing because I am what I would call semi-claustrophobic, but I do the same thing at night when I go to bed. I like the sheets completely covering my head so I am totally under the blankets! Ben on the other hand sleeps mostly on top of all the bedding!

Mitt-mentum

It only seems appropriate for my first blog post to be political since we are celebrating a victory for Governor Romney's first Gold Medal in the 2008 Republican Primaries today. With Huckabee winning in Iowa and McCain taking the gold in New Hampshire, the Michigan contest was a must for the Governor. We are on to Nevada and South Carolina this weekend and the race just got more exciting!