Playing Dress-up!

When Gracie was born, I asked my mom to bring up the pile of clothes that I knew she had kept from when my sisters and I were little. I opened the bag and saw this dress and thought I better put that on her before it doesn't fit anymore, I'm glad I did because the pictures are absolutely priceless!

Gracie in a dress worn by Katie

I'll have to search for the pictures of Katie in this dress, but I am pretty sure I have them somewhere! Isn't she an absolute doll in these pictures!?!

I have more in a different outfit, but I didn't want to ruin this post with those, so I will save those for another day!

You be the judge!!

Gracie @ 2 1/2 months Mommy @ 2 months

In the last month I have started to see an extremely strong resemblance between Gracie and my baby pictures! You be the judge, let me know if it is just in my head or if I succeeded in producing a child that is going to look like me!!

"Cheeeese!"

Cutter has really been into me taking his picture lately! If he sees my camera or my phone he says "Cheeeese!" and normally holds the smile for a second or two! Sometimes I'm not so lucky and by the time I get my camera out - he's done posing and all I get is "NO Momma!".
Last night before bed, Cutter brought out his camera and said "Cheeeese"! I smiled and got out my camera and took this picture of him taking a picture of me. Since I cooperated for his camera taking, he cooperated with mine and he said "Cheeeese!" for my camera!

We have been feeling a little under the weather the last few days! Gracie has (another) ear infection, Cutter has a throat infection (10 blistery ulcers on the back of his throat, OUCH!!!), and Greg and I have tested positive for the regular influenza!! YUCK! So, needless to say, we are staying closed in tight in our little home, hoping and praying that Cutter and Gracie don't get it. Greg bought us masks to wear, so I will be sporting one of those later tonight when I get up to take care of Gracie!

Say a little prayer for me and I'll say a little prayer for you!!

We've moved!!!

We switch practice facilites and can now be found at www.thenixteam.blogspot.com!!

Come over for a visit and join our fan club!!!

See you there!!!!

Get to know our players - Gracie aka "Sweet Pea"

Gracie is our sweet, cuddly, almost 4 month old. She is definitely different from her laid back, go with the flow, big brother. Always needing to be held, rocked, or talked to, but well worth it when she looks up at you and gives you the biggest grin ever. She was born with a head full of dark hair, I have made the best of it and always putting little bows on her. I can't wait until I can put pig tails and braids in her hair. I know she will look super cute!

"Sweet Pea" is NOT a lover of sleep - unlike her momma, daddy and big brother. We have spent countless night wide awake, cooing and laughing, when we should be sleeping. She is, although, an angel when she does sleep!! We have recently switched from nursing to bottles and seems to be much more content and sleeping much more soundly!!



Gracie is the cutest little thing when you get her laughing! Big brother, Cutter, is good at making her giggle out loud. Almost always it takes her brother walking by to put a smile on her face.

We are so blessed to have her in our life! She is the light that brightens our day and we couldn't imagine our days without her!!

Get to know our players - Cutter aka "C"

Cutter is our adventurous almost two year old, a big brother, and the sweetest little man around. He loves all thing boy, whether it be playing in the mud, swinging a bat or golf club, picking up rollie pollies, or jumping in the leaves, he LOVES to be outside. He definitely has most sports figured out, he may not have them perfected, but knows what each piece of equipment is for. C isn't quite the talker, but the actor, instead of using words to describe what happened, he shows you. His vocabulary is getting bigger by the day, but he still prefers to act things out, (hmm, maybe Hollywood is in his future). His favorite things to say are: "I do it", "Dwinkle" (for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star), and "mine"!! When I ask him what his name is he says one of three things - "Wyatt", "NOT Wyatt" or "Dutter". The little boy down the street is named Wyatt and Cutter started saying his name months ago. Then I decided that Cutter needed to start learning what his name is so I would ask him "What's your name?" he would say "Wyatt" and I would say "No your name is not Wyatt, it's Cutter". He then started replying "Not Wyatt" and soon started saying "Dutter" on occasion.

Cutter is quite acrobatic! He can roll, head over feet, tightrope on the stones in the flowerbed, balance himself on one foot and jumps off the couch with perfection!
Gracie couldn't ask for a better big brother. When he talks to her, he refers to himself as Bubba, and speaks to her in a language only siblings have. I can't really understand what is being said, but I do know that she loves, loves, loves him so very much!! Her face just lights up and he can almost always make her happy in a snap, he tries to "tickle, tickle" her and is rarely unsuccessful at making her laugh! She is one lucky gal!!

Off Season...

After we won the World Series on August 5, 2009 (thats right, our seasons are a little different 'round here), we took advantage of off season and went on a little hiatus! The team manager has been busy getting us back in shape and working on a good routine. Expect more from us in the coming days, weeks and months as we work together as a team! We can't wait to show off the new moves our players are learning on a day to day bases. Please join our fan club and check back often!

Whew...where have we been???

We have been busy preparing to welcome this little one into the world...

GRACIE LEE NIX!!

And making this little boy a BIG BROTHER!!!
On August 5, 2009 at 7:45 AM, we became a family of four! Gracie weighed 7 lbs 5 oz and was 19 3/4 inches long. She is doing GREAT and we are adjusting well to becoming a family of four.
She seems to look a little more like me than Cutter did. She has a head full of dark hair and is small and petite.
Cutter is loving being a big brother! He wants to hold her and is continually saying "baby, baby, baby". After everyone left on Sunday, (we had lots of family over) we let Cutter hold her for the first time. He was so, so gentle and wouldn't let her go. He gave her lots of kisses, and lots of love! I can tell this little boy is going to be one protective big brother to his little sister!

Please come back soon for more pictures, I promise to update more often!!

Preparing!

Well, we have been busy preparing for baby girls arrival!! This weekend my two fabulous sister-in-laws and mother-in-law gave me an amazing "sprinkle". I was overwhelmed by the graciousness of my family and friends that are just as excited as we are to welcome our baby girl into the world!!

36 weeks and counting....

My mom made a special trip to Dallas to be here with us. We had a great relaxing weekend!

My hostesses- Lindsey, Darlynne, and Melissa

Thank you ladies for an amazing shower!!

My baby girls FIRST pair of shoes!! I can't wait to see her wearing them!! She is going to look as cute as a button in them!!

Once again, I'm apologizing for NOT being a good blogger and getting updates on here!! I have been trying to keep Cutter and myself busy this summer. We have just 3 short weeks left before we welcome our baby girl into the world and we are trying to take in every minute we can together; trying to spend as much time indoors and at the pool as possible!!!

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day Daddy!!!!

I can't say enough how much I love my son's dad! We spent most of the weekend working on Baby Girl's room. She will be here before we know it and we just had to get started on it, we are running out of weekends. The summer tends to be our most busiest time of the year and fitting in time to get it done has been hard, but we did it. And it looks AMAZING!! I will post pics later once we put the finished touches on it.

I had planned on making a big breakfast for Daddy when he woke, but he told me not to and we made plans to go to brunch with Papa Nix, Aunt Mel, Uncle D and Aunt Lindsey! I let Daddy sleep in, but Cutter knew better and was just banging at the door to go in, so I handed Cutter daddy's gift and he made his way in. He crawled on the bed as fast as he could and handed it over. Cutter knows just how to make someone feel special and he did it this morning. A big hug and kiss and Daddy was ready to start his day.

We miss Papa Homan sooooo much!! Papa made his way back to Iraq last month, but I had this photo that I hadn't posted yet. Happy Father's Day Papa, we hope you had a GREAT day and were able to get some sleep!! Love you to the moon and back!!

I do apologize for the lack of posts. I am on maternity leave and have been doing my best to keep Cutter and I busy before the new little one arrives. We have quite the tan going because we visit the pool at least once a week. Cutter has really taken a liking to the spray park we have at our pool and I am staying busy chasing him around.