Happy Easter 2010!

Gabriela helped dye the eggs for Easter. She really enjoyed picking out a color for each egg and checking to see how bright the colors had become. She was so excited about decorating eggs it was hard to get a good picture of her, but these capture her enthusiasm!

She also helped make Easter bunny cookies. She decided she wanted to leave some out for the Easter bunny with a note that she made herself. The Easter bunny ate all of the cookies and left her a note in return.

In the morning she followed a trail of Easter eggs to her basket and then found even more eggs hidden all around her playroom.

We enjoyed a great breakfast made by Papa and then after Mass Gabriela participated in yet another Easter egg hunt! (More to come with her cousins tonight! Now for a nap!)

"Diapers are for babies..."

One of Gabriela's favorite things to say these days is: "Diapers are for babies. I'm a big girl. I'm not a baby!" She is totally potty-trained and Mama and Papa couldn't be happier!

The back to back snow storms really helped us out because we didn't leave the house for a whole week! We're all excited to have a break from diapers until August! :)

We are so proud of you, Gabriela! You are such a big girl! Love, Mama and Papa

Baby Sousa #2

We're happy to announce that our family is growing! Our new addition is slated to arrive in early August. Gabriela is in practice mode for her new Big Sister duties. Happy to report that Mommy and Baby are doing great and we're thankful for this wonderful blessing! See you all soon.

The Sousa Family

Snow days!

watching the snow fall...

ready to go outside!

all bundled up...

that's a lot of snow!

it was still snowing in our faces as we played... but we had fun!

Thanksgiving 2009 at our NEW HOUSE!

Our turkey...

the chefs!

big kids table...

all smiles at the kids table!

cousins

Halloween 2009

Gaby loves to dress up as you can see by her multiple Halloween costumes. Luckily she had a couple of different events to wear them to.

New House pictures!

I know these are long-awaited, but as you can imagine, we've been busy! We are hosting Thanksgiving for both sides of our immediate family, so getting the house ready for that has been our focus. Many of these pics are pre-paint and pre-furniture, but hopefully we'll add more once we get our Thanksgiving photos up! Enjoy!

(that's our awesome, warm, pumpkin colored kitchen in the background)

We love our 4 bedroom, 3 1/2 bath, 2 car garage, new townhouse! I think you can see from this last photo and the photo of all of her toys that Gaby loves it too!