Merry Christmas all ya'll

I'm only a year late..

Congrats BEN!!!

On December 3, 2009 Ben graduated with his Master's in Science. He is now officially a Nurse Anesthetist and finished with School. YEA!! We couldn't be prouder of all of his hard work. My parents, Ann, Blake & Taryn flew in for the event. It was a great day! After graduation we had a private room to celebrate at one of favorite eats...J.Alexander's for dinner. It was such a great day. Thanks again family for all of your support through the years! CONGRATULATIONS BEN!!

After many job interviews we have decided to take the job at Vanderbilt Hospital, here in Nashville. We wish Tennessee was a little closer to Utah but think this will be the best for us now.

thanksgiving '09

we had a fun holiday weekend, Ben's brother-Jake, Jill, Nolan and Luke made the long drive (unexpected traffic) from Wisconsin to see us. Also, Ben's mom and dad flew in for the holiday. We were so happy to have half of the Rabe family with us. We had so much fun all being together and had a wyummy Thanksgiving dinner, thanks to the Critchlow's. We had fun running the annual turkey trot, eating too much pie, showing them the town, eating bbq, hanging-out, getting pedi's, eating ice cream or shuld I say setting records for ice cream, playing games, shopping (always Jake's favorite) and just being together. It was a great weekend. Thanks again for coming everyone, we love you guys!

Our True Southern Thanksgiving Dinner



Don't the kids look like they are having a blast shopping??

Sweet Graham getting pushed around in Sophie's doll stroller, I don't know how much longer he will fit in it. This is in honor of Jill's goal setting record at sweet cici's. We loved teasing her all week.

The boys doing their elvis impresonations..I don't think Ben has a future in show bizz. Sorry Hon!

Visit from Cor, Alis & Elsie

I have a lot of catching up to do...

In early November we were lucky to have my sweet brother-Corey, Alisa and Elise visit us. We LOVED having them, with some minor drama...Graham getting sick and me running into Ben (both of our cars managed to get damaged..dang!)other than that we still managed to show them all of our favorite things about Nashville. Thanks again for coming to visit us we had a blast with you guys! Soph misses Elise! We love your sweet family!

Thanks Alisa for taking all these great pics!

portland, OR

We took a little trip to Portland to look into some jobs. We had a great time! It was a little rough getting to portland (flight drama) not Graham he was great just cancelations and what not, but we finally made it a day later and got to enjoy the beaufitul city of Portalnd. We stayed downtown in a fun area with plenty of shopping to keep me content. We also enjoyed some yummy restaurants. Plus the best part was seeing our sweet friends the Ben & Megan and Andy & Rachel. It was so fun to see both of them. Thanks for letting us see you guys!

little graham at our hotel...we missed Sophie but she didn't seem to miss us. Maybe we should go out of town more often...
2-babies, 2-ben's and cute Megan at the Portland Market

Multnomah Waterfall

What! The trees and leafs were ridiculously huge! Could you imagine racking these? I felt like a vampire was going to come out and get me...

The Portland temple was truly beautiful. I could have stayed on the temple grounds for hours.

three months

sweet graham was offically 3 months old on halloween. I can't believe how fast he is growing. He is so much fun! He is smiling all the time and just started to giggle...we can't get enough of that sweet sound. He recently started rolling over and is getting pretty good at grabbing things (it's sweet to watch him concentrate). Sophie can't get enough of him. She loves to squeeze him (sometimes a little too tight) and when he cries she sings a song called best buddies...pretty much all she sings is best buddies....best buddies.....best buddies. It is too cute! We are LoViNG both ages of our kids right now.

Halloween...boo!

We had a fun Halloween. The night before we carved pumpkins and had homemade hot chocolate. Then on Halloween we went to Pumpkin Fest during the day in downtown Franklin (which is one of my favorite things..it full of all these fun activites for FREE) Sophie had a blast! That night we went to the Critchlow's for Chili then headed out for some trick-or-treating. It was perfect weather, a little cool..felt just like fall. The best part was when people would ask Sophie what she was for Halloween she would say" A titty tat." She was a cute Kitty Cat and enjoyed every minute of it! Graham enjoyed his ride in the stroller...maybe next year he'll get some candy.

Sophie only wanted to make a happy pumpkin...so this is what Ben came up with.


John looks like a ghost in this pic...pretty spooky!!

Look at that face..she was so excited!
the cozy little giraffe
The end result, now I have to hide her pumpkin because she wants candy 24-7.