Pictures

Here are some pics over the last week or so..

Easter

Easter was SOOOO wonderful this year! Atalie did so good with everything. She was even calm during nursery at church! I'm going to post several pics. All are from Easter day. The first are opening her basket at home. The second set is at church of Jason playing. The rest are at Jason's parents for Easter egg hunt and dinner! Enjoy!

















The Gauntt Family


On the way home, all worn out & ready for bed!

Cindy the body builder!!

One of our greatest friends has done a few body building shows before, but we didn't know her then, so this was the first show she has done that we've been to. It was fun and Cindy won her class. In her last show, she won overall, but wasn't allowed to be in overall this show, because her class (Masters), aren't allowed to compete in overall. Anyway, she would have took overall too, Cindy blew the girl who won it out of the water!




Here she is with the other 2 in her class


And with her FIRST place trophy


Congrats Cindy!

Best birthday ever!

Yesterday was my birthday, and it was great! I had so many texts, emails, and phone calls telling me happy birthday, and that means SO MUCH to me! Thank you to all who wished me a happy birthday, it truly touches my heart that so many remembered and took the time out of their busy schedule to wish me a great one!

Jason did great this year! I woke up to a pot of coffee already made & a card sitting next to it...it was the sweetest card ever and had me crying! Then, once I got on my computer, I found this on my wallpaper...(he's called me this since we started dating!!)


Then I check my emails and he sent me an email instructing me to find this....


How sweet is that?! But that wasn't it! Jason always comes home for lunch, so he came home, ate lunch, then laid on the couch, and I asked if he was going back to work, he said "yeah, I got to go to work....in the morning!" So he took the rest of the day off!! I was so excited!

We didn't do anything else, but we have a date tomorrow. Jason's taking me to lunch and to see Fast & Furious....I am so excited. I loved the first one, and I LOOOOVVVEEEE Vin Diesel (and I'm watching him on Regis & Kelly right now...yay!! He's so sexy!). Anyway, so I am really excited about tomorrow.

So, this was the best birthday in a LONG time! Thanks to everyone who helped make that happen!

Life...

I just felt like blogging, nothing in particular! But since we have lots of out-of-town family that reads our blog, thought I'd just ramble a little about what's been going on here!

Poor Atalie has an ear infection :( but I think she's finally feeling better. We went to the doctor Thursday, so she's on her 3rd day of antibiotic, and she didn't wake up with a fever this morning...it's been running about 102, poor thing! She's saying a lot more words now, seems to pick up almost anything, if we say it enough! She has started saying 'mommy'!! I love it! She's been saying mama for awhile, but there's just something about that "mommy"! We're pretty sure she said chicken for the first time a couple days ago too, that one surprised us....but we do eat chicken a lot! I would say she's saying 1-2 new words a week now, it's great, we love hearing her talk!

Jason's work is going well, they are bidding like crazy, not getting very many of them (there are SO MANY people bidding the same jobs now), so please just keep Jason, and Seminole Civil in your prayers, they need work coming in! He's also started playing for our new church. Of course, as most of you know, he's GREAT, and he's even more great when he uses his talent for the Lord. Last week was his first week playing, and I think he left many people astounded. He's pretty much been asked to play full-time. YAY! He loves that.

I'm back to working from home. We feel so blessed to have that opportunity. Although, we've been throwing around the idea of me getting another part-time job out of the home, just to bring in a little extra, my job is very part-time, and very flexible, and until it really picks up, it may be nice to have another PT job, just to throw some extra $$ in the bank! Plus, my mom will be living with us in just a few short weeks, so we have a built-in babysitter, it won't be so bad if I work a couple days a week....if I can even find something!

One more thing....WHERE IS SPRING?! I want it to be 70s, everyday, and we had 40s this week, what the heck is that about?! Oh, and my birthday is next week, WHAT?! I swear, since having a baby, my birthday seems to come and go, I really don't even notice it anymore! I had to schedule an appointment, and they said "ok, next Thursday, April 2nd"....I was like WAIT? April 2nd, that's my birthday, it's NEXT WEEK ALREADY?!?! I didn't say that, but that's what I was thinking. AND I'm quickly approaching 30....oh Lord! At least Jason turns 30 a month and 10 days before me...that gives me just over a month to rag him about being in his 30s and I'll still be in my 20s, hahahaha!

Love you all!

Just to share the cutest picture (and baby) EVER...

Gettin so big

Atalie is now 15 months! We went to her well check on Thursday, and she is doing great! She is 23 lbs 10 oz (70th percentile), 30 1/2 inches (50th percentile). Her speech is a little ahead, which is great! She uses about 15 words consistently, but probably knows 20-25. I can't believe how fast she is growing, I feel like it was just yesterday! Here are a few pics from the last week or so!

She's bound to be a musician!








This was this morning, I have NO IDEA how she got in there!




And just cause I can't believe that she's 15 months, here is one from a year ago today, Atalie 3 months old!

3/14/08

What a beautiful weekend!

This weekend was the best! The weather was PERFECT! I have some pics I'll put up tomorrow (hopefully). All 3 of us just absolutely loved it! Yesterday we just hung out as a family and enjoyed the day. Today, of course we went to our awesome church and had a great service, as usual! And this evening, we went to a (new) friends house and had a blast! It was great hanging out with them and their adorable little girl! They all 3 are super sweet and lots of fun! Thanks for having us Bryan, Kelda & Kalleigh!

So, the beautiful weather continues for a few days, I'm excited and love it....pretty weather brightens my mood! Love you all and God bless!