Rachel on the Move

Rachel just started crawling this week and so we thought we would post a video of her in action for everyone to enjoy. As you can see, she is still getting the kinks out. However, it gets her where she wants to be!

Christmas Vacation

Sweet girl - 7 months this Saturday

Check out those teeth!

Rachel Gonzalez, Rachel Faye, & Rachel Murray - the darling women she was named after

HO HO HO

Thought this one was great of them looking at each other :)

Rach's Christmas Dress (given to her by Grandma)

Christmas morning - the face says it all - she couldn't believe her eyes

Wow - good work - you made it through all those pictures (which are in random order I must add). We had such a great time visiting family and friends in Utah over Christmas and Rachel did great. She totally exhausted us during the first flight, so we came up with a better action plan for the way home (including some new toys, and what we call 'Puffs' for her to eat) and it worked like a charm.

I couldn't believe how much it snowed while we were there, but the temperature stayed nice (much better than Chicago - we missed some gross weather). We went to lots of family Christmas parties and ate tons of yummy food. We also relaxed a lot, which was fantastic! Thanks to our parents who were such wonderful hosts and let us crash and stay a few weeks; and they were so sweet to Rachel. Miss you already!

Holiday Cheer

Happy Holidays everyone!  What a great year it has been - I will spare you a year-in-review summary, but just know that we love all of you and are grateful for our wonderful friends and family.  My lack of blogging has been due to some lovely computer issues, and now we're headed to Utah for a couple weeks, so SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!  

p.s.  Can you believe that Rachel is already 6 months old?  Unreal!  See our most recent family picture below and sorry for little Miss no-smile-chubby-cheeks - it's the best we could do that day.  :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Sorry to have overwhelmed you with three videos in the last post (mostly for the grandmas), but the first one is pretty funny. Unfortunately, she is done with her growling phase which only lasted a few days. Now a few pictures of the little princess - can't believe she's five months.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Two new teeth! Can you see them?

Just chillin' - check out those cute tights

Happy as can be!

Hmmmm..

Funny faces

5 months old

Rachel just turned 5 months old a few days ago.  It is hard to believe how fast she is growing up. We feel like she has changed quite a bit over the past few weeks and so we wanted to post a few videos to make sure everyone is up to date.  It cannot be seen in the videos, but Rachel just got here first two teeth this week.  

Rachel being a Monster

Rachel laughing at Mom and Dad

Rachel in her new jumper

Friends with many talents

My friend, Kelly (worked with her at Tag), has a darling Etsy Shop and she's having a sale this weekend - check it out. See the link to the right under "Shop with Friends" and hers is "the urban thimble" or you can click here.

I am always impressed with all of your amazing talents - photography, handmade items, design, etc.! Leave me a comment with your link if I may have forgotten you (Cami - I couldn't find your site, can you send it to me please?).

Home Videos

Here is a video of Rachel being funny - she just discovered her voice and loves to squeal.



The video below is of her rolling over - she almost always flips to her tummy now when we lay her down on her back.