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So, it's been almost a month since my last post - which is soo not like me - I try to post weekly if I can. Several of our "faithful" followers :) have emailed or called to make sure everything is ok - so glad to know someone is actually reading this other then me and my mom :) The main reason in the lack of blogging has been my camera - the batteries died and I didn't have any on hand so it took me a while to remember to pick up more at the store - we've been busy bees around here but I have very few pictures. We had a Valentine's party with some of the boys closest friends - they LOVED it! They loved getting to make cards for all their friends and getting them as well. James still loves to pull out his bag of Valentine cards and have me read them to him - this boy loves mail! One of our local museums also recently had "Big Machine's Day" and the boys got to sit in all kinds of tractors, fire trucks, cranes and more - of course the camera died as soon as we got there so no pics of that either.
Here are a few pics I was able to grab in the last month:
I LOVE this little coat - she looks like such a snuggle baby! I'm so glad we're starting to get some warmer weather but I will miss putting my girl in this sweet coat every day - luckily I already have another one for next winter!

James wanted Daddy to play the guitar with him - then everyone else wanted to join in too -
An Allen family jam session - Gracie was our dancer - she LOVES to dance!
Gracie and James - it took me forever to get her to look at the camera because she was loving smiling at her big brother - sweet love!
Um, yes, they are sitting in our shoe bin - don't know why but all the kids love to play in this thing!
Walking?!? Sort of - she still won't walk on her own but she loves you to hold her hand and walk with her - How cute is this skirt!?! I love it!
Since she's not walking on her own I have to keep her in a walker when we go outside which she has mastered and I have to be careful or she'll be all the way down the drive way! She sooo badly wants to get down to the play ground with the boys - so much so that she will literally sit on her bottom and scoot all the way down to it! Once she figures out how much more freedom she can have when she starts walking she's going to be gone!
4 Generations! This past weekend my mom, Gracie and I went down south to visit my Aunt and Uncle and my grandma. We have a picture like this when I was a baby as well.