Well I have definitely let time go by without writing in a while. There has just been so much that has been going on, it is hard to keep up with it as it is.

Work is BEYOND crazy for me. I am just more tired than I have been in a long time when I get home...I am hoping that it starts to go back to "normal" again soon but right now I don't see that happening at all for a while.

It's been so long that we are now less than 3 weeks away from Camydn's first birthday! Can you believe it, because I surely can NOT. Getting everything together for her party has also taken up a little time, I think we are pretty close to having everything lined up- but it has definitely been a little more challenging than what we had originally thought, which would have made it nicer to start earlier. But we are moving along.

Camdyn is just turning into such a big girl. It's so amazing to see her grow up in front of our eyes. She is up to 8 full teeth and starting to make her way to walking. I think that for some reason she LOVES to crawl and is in no rush for walking, which to be honest is ok with us :) She is full of life and energy and can talk like crazy- mind you it's hard to understand 100% what she is saying but she says it like she knows so we go with it. She is truly a joy and a blessing.

Additionally, I have really started taking my love for photography seriously. It is something I have always enjoyed but never gave myself a chance to really dive into it. Ben has been such an amazing supporter of it and I am actually doing this. I have bought a couple new things for my camera including an awesome new lens and am even taking a class on child photography. I had my first "photo shoot" last weekend, and I think it went pretty well. It was for friends of ours and I really had a great time doing it. So my plan right now is to continue to practice and who knows?

We started another house project- the patio. We are pretty much tearing down what we have now and starting from scratch. We are getting a new patio roof, new screen with windows, built in dog door, new doors, and then new flooring (which we are also redoing the ones at the front of the house). I can't wait for it to be done- the weather is great and I would love to be able to sit out there with Camdyn which right now we can't.

So....that is a rough idea as to what has been going on here. We will definitely update soon with pictures from Camdyn's birthday. I hope that this finds you all well.

Love,
Ben, Gabrielle, and Camdyn

Picture error

So I forgot to unlock the album for the pictures from Savannah, but they should now be visible to everyone in the post right below. Sorry about that!

Just to let everyone know we posted two new videos to You Tube- one of Camdyn's new dance moves (she is building up quite many these days) and then one of her chasing the dogs in her walker.

I have placed the videos here for easier access. Enjoy!!

Love,
Ben, Gabrielle, and Camdyn

Pictures as promised

I had a chance to upload our pictures from our trip - Enjoy!

Love,
Ben, Gabrielle, and Camdyn

9 month update with a little vacay

Oh vacation- How I have missed you!!! It feels like forever since we last took one. I think our last one was when we went up to North Carolina to visit Ben's family in December. Feels like forever ago. We took off of work this whole week and last Sunday headed up to Savannah for the 56th Annual Porsche Parade. It is a week long event but we decided that we would stay till Wednesday and then come home for Thursday, Friday, and the weekend so we still had some time to get some things taken care of and relax before heading back to work. We rented a home that was a Bed and Breakfast with my parents (who also went, but were going to stay the whole week) in the historic area. The heat was crazy but we still managed to try and walk around and see a little bit. I thought Florida was bad at times, but it was even worse there. The trip was great though. We had a wonderful time and Camdyn had a blast. She made lots of new friends from across the country and even more within our local affiliate group. We will definitely put up some pictures.

While we were gone, Ben's mom came up to stay with the dogs and to spend time with Camdyn before we left and when we got back. This has also allowed us to get some stuff done with an extra set of hands and eyes :) We plan on trying to enjoy our time as much as possible before Monday. Makes us already look forward to our next vacation. We are leaning on trying to take a cruise in May to the Mediterranean. It was something we have been wanting to do for a while now. So we will see, we have started to look into it and hopefully if all looks good with work and timing we can go ahead and just book it sooner than later. It is always nice to have things on the books to look forward to.

So a little update on Miss Camdyn. She now has 6 teeth in!! I can't believe it. A couple weeks ago she had 3 coming in at once and then not long after that another one came down. So 4 at once, our poor little girl. But Camdyn seems to be doing great with it now and is loving having more teeth :) Last week we also had Camdyn's 9 month appointment. Holy cow our baby is growing up so fast! She came in at 29 inches tall (90%), weighs 21 pounds (75%), and an 18 inch head (93%). Her next appointment is going to be at 12 months- can't even believe that she will be 1 year soon. While I know we still have 3 months till she is 1, we have started to think about her party. As of now we are thinking about doing a Minnie Mouse theme party (she loves her) with pink, black, and white (zebra like). We found some really cute ideas already so we will see. As of today at least that is the plan :)

So that is a brief update of what is going on here. We hope to post some pictures soon from our trip. We hope that this finds everyone well!

Love always,
Ben, Gabrielle, and Camdyn

Three teeth and counting!

Camdyn's first top tooth decided to finally make its way down. Yesterday morning as I was getting her ready and brushed her two teeth with a facecloth I felt something on the top. Sure enough...the tip of one of her top teeth was poking through. Today when I saw her laughing you could see it. It is amazing how fast they can start to make their way down once they break through the gum. Her first two came in just at about the same time so hopefully her 4th one isn't too far behind.

We are trying to update the blog as much as possible. It has been a little hard lately as I am in another new role at work that is keeping me pretty busy and Ben is just as busy as he was...so when we get home at night we try and spend as much time together as a family before Camdyn's bed time and then before you know it is our time to go to bed. But we are really trying :)

Well I just wanted to report the news :) It is nice to have all of these memories on here for Camdyn when she gets older. But anyway, we hope you are all doing well!

Love always,
Ben, Gabrielle, and Camdyn

Happy Fourth of July!!!

We hope that everyone is having a wonderful Holiday and is able to spend time with family and loved ones! It's hard to think that 3 years ago Ben asked me to be his wife and here we are with our own family.

Camdyn wanted to wish everyone a Happy 4th, so here she is in her red white and blue!

Camdyn has been extremely busy picking up her speed on her crawling though I am not sure that there was more speed that she could have gained but sure enough she is even faster than she was. She has become the Michael Schumacher of crawling and standing. She can stand on pretty much everything! It is quite impressive.

I have finished my time at my assignment at our Corporate office for work. I learned a great deal and am so very thankful for the opportunity that I had. With that being said I am looking forward to getting back to my normal division and a normal routine again. This new job is going to be a great opportunity in itself and I am looking forward to it. Ben has still be extremely busy work but at least had this weekend off. To celebrate having the time off, we decided to take Camdyn to the Magic Kingdom for the first time on Saturday. She had such an amazing time, and while we know it isn't something that she will remember when she is older she enjoyed it at the moment and that was important. She did so great!!! While we were there we also got our season passes for the year so we will be making more trips with her very soon!

We did take a couple vidoes from the Magic Kingdom and have posted them below as well!! We hope you enjoy!!

Hope this finds everyone well. We love you all!! Talk to you again soon!

Love always,
Ben, Gabrielle, and Camdyn

Look at me!!

I have been attempting to try and get on here a lot sooner than I am, however, Miss Camdyn has recently changed up some things in our life that has required a little more attention and some later nights. We had been on a really good schedule with her for a while, she was sleeping great in her crib, and able to put herself to sleep when we put her down. Somehow, that all shifted. I believe part of it is due to teeth 3 and 4 starting to make their way in but for the rest not sure. I know she is learning how to do a a lot of new things now and I am sure that is probably playing its part as well.

Camdyn loves, absolutely loves to pull herself up on ANYTHING that she can. She has tried on just about everything she can as well. Tell you what, that girl is strong!! It is quite amazing that someone so little can pull herself up the way she does and on the smallest things. This also goes with in the crib. We usually wake up to hearing her talking and standing. She was getting so good at it and is so tall we had to take it from the 2nd level to the lowest level and she can still stand, however, she can't topple over and out, which was a huge concern.

She has also started to walk around the coffee tables, its slow but crazy to see! We actually were able to catch it on video the other day so I have put it below for everyone to see. The newest thing she has started to do though is clap! She just started it yesterday and it is the cutest thing. We were at church today and she just started clapping with everyone. I also have put in a video of her clapping below.

Camdyn has also earned the title of Professional Crawler. She is crazy with it and just goes goes goes. She is so freaking fast too!!

So as you can imagine that keeps us pretty busy! Her new activities have also found her fighting on a later bed time, which has definitely not left us with a lot of time at night to do anything but shower, get to bed, and get ready for work. We are in the process of trying to decide what our next house project is going to be. I think hurricane shutters are going to be taking the priority. Then I am not sure. Ben got a quote from a landscape company to come out and do the back yard, but they didn't quote the WHOLE yard, so there are still areas that he wants to get pricing on. Then we still need to re-do the patio outside. I could probably continue on with a list of things, but those are definitely are top ones.

Well it is late and I need to get sleep, especially if Camdyn is still going to be participating in a 8 month wakeful period. Hope this finds you all well.

Love,
Ben, Gabrielle, and Camdyn