Bug's First Visit to T-Town...

Most of you know that I am a HUGE football fan and love my Tide.  It was only natural that we bring Graci to a game early on.  Below are a few shots we took of her on the Quad before kickoff.  Mom (now known as CiCi - somehow that came from GiGi) came with us - we all had a great time.

Allen took the middle picture of us.  It was really special to me because I have a picture of me as a freshman at Bama standing in front of Denny Chimes in that very same spot.  So very cool.

Halloween...

Okay, so I admit that I didn't dress her up for Halloween.  We put her in the car and drove to Tuscaloosa on Halloween night to make it to Alabama's Homecoming game the following day.  I figure that I could only get away with not doing the trick-or-treat thing one last year.  We tried a costume and that DID NOT go well.  I ran around Party City like I was trying to kill her, so I didn't push the issue.  I did, however, take her to her preschool's fall festival in her pumpkin dress.  It was the best I could do.

Below we strike a pose before we leave for the festival.  The last picture is of Graci that morning before school.  Note her shirt...my magical power is being cute.  How true!

From the summer....

Here are a couple of random pictures from the summer.  I love the one of her in the pink outfit.  At this point she really started loving the camera.  You can get one out and she is all smiles.  She totally "hams" it up.  The other pic shows her in a Metallica shirt - gotta love it.

I am the world's worst blogger...

Okay, so I am officially the world's worst blogger.  The sad thing is that we set these up for clients all of the time, so when it comes to doing it for my personal life I am less than excited. However, my goal is to get back on track with it.  Maybe that will be my New Year's resolution...

While I don't have photos for every month (for the last year) that I have missed blogging, I do have a few snapshots for you to look at...  We are so blessed Graci is growing up so fast. 

These were shot at the beach over the summer.  We would go to this area that you can only get to by boat and she would run and run up and down the beach.  She would be asleep before we could get the boat out of the water.

Roll Tide...

Here are a few pictures of Graci in her new Alabama dress. She decided that she would chase me around, climb up in her dad's lap and finally just strike a pose for the camera. Sadly, these were shot the morning we lost to FSU. Roll Tide.

I know...I am a terrible blogger.

Okay, so my deepest apologies. We have been a little busy here in the McLaughlin house since the spring. We finally moved into our new house back in June and then I had to have surgery in July - we are finally getting somewhat back to normal. Anyway, here are just a few pictures of Graci to catch back up on how she is growing.

Miss Graci hanging out with her dad at about 9 months.

This is at 7 months. We used this photo for several ads for my client, Gulf Reflections Studios in Fort Walton Beach, FL. You can check out the website we did for her at www.gulfreflections.com.

Easter 2007 - As you can see little Miss Thing was not happy about sitting through church and then having to come and be the center of attention at Mema Daisy's. She was about 5 1/2 months at this point and DID NOT sit still that morning in church.

Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

Well, the McLaughlin's had their first outing to the Gulf Breeze Zoo this afternoon. Miss Graci enjoyed being out of the house and mommy & daddy enjoyed watching her observe all of the animals. Below are a few snapshots from our visit...

The mommy and baby orangutan...no, not us...behind us.

We thought it safer to sit her on this lion, instead of the real one.

Graci and Papa chillin' with the gators.

No, it is not too early to start promoting elephants...Roll Tide!

My little bug.

She was more interested in posing for the camera, then looking at the bears.