Tori the Traveling Baby

Tuesday February 16th 2010 the beginning of many road trips for the Gripka Family with Baby in tow...Bryan had to go to St. Louis for 2 days of meetings so Brandi and Tori decided to tag along to meet all of the family (and some friends). Tori's Great Auntie Shelly and Uncle John (Uncle Von), all 4 of their children (Johnny, Krystelle, Blake and Brett), and her other cousins Ami, Joey, Tavi and Gabi all got to meet her along w/ Mommy's friend Deb. We had an AWESOME time and here are the pics to prove it!!

6 Weeks...

Mommy's tiny baby is...yep...still tiny :)

Tori was 6 weeks yesterday, Feb 23, 2010, time has flown by and we are documenting everything we can via pictures, video and writing important dates down for the baby book.

Here is a picture of our cute little penguin on her 6 week celebration day



We weighed our little peanut today and she is up to a whopping 8lbs 1oz!!

Here are a couple more pictures that I just thought were cute..the first one is Tori smiling at her Gigi, she loves that lady like crazy!! The second is our 5 week picture while in St Louis (post to come later about that trip) since Bryan and I forgot to take her picture in her glider before we left town.

Sisters

Someone asked Bryan the other day "where is a picture of Bertha?"

We haven't forgotten about her and no she hasn't been put on the back burner, I just haven't posted any pictures of Bertha.

Here is one of my favorites...

Happy 1 month birthday Sweet Baby Girl

Feb 12, 2010
Tori celebrated being one month old. She went to Lenexa KS to visit Papa Gary and his new office with Great Grandpa/Grandma Smith and Gigi. We ate lunch at Zarda BBQ. Then Tori made her first of many trips to the airport to pick up our favorite guy, Daddy! After dinner we went to Gigi's house and hung out and took some pictures. We didn't get one in Tori's rocking chair but here are some that we took.

4 weeks old

4 weeks old..WHAT..yep I said 4 weeks old!!

28 days 10 hours and 48 mins (while I am typing this anyway) our little Angel was born. I knew life was going to change, be a bit different, like going to bed at 9pm on a Friday night or every Friday night, scheduling dinner out at a restaurant around when Tori ate last or when she will eat again, but I didn't realize life was going to be so AWESOME once Tori arrived. We have had the best 4 weeks of our lives (well let me speak for myself since I am staying at home w/ the bundle of joy and Bryan is working his "you know what" off and trying to be the new Daddy and wonderful husband that he is). I am trying my best to take pics of Little Sister and will post some new ones later today but in the mean time here is a new video I took this morning!

xoxo,
Brandi, Tori and Sister Bertha

Round 3...

2nd round of newborn pictures to post...

Still can't believe how cute she is..I just want to eat her up!!

Photoshoot #1 of 999,997

When Tori was just 6 days old my dear friend Jen came over and spent some wonderful time with our daughter. Here are some of the memories she created for us on that day, I will post a few every day for a week or so, stay tuned for more...

3 Weeks Already??

Yep, you read that right, Tori is 3 weeks old already, my how time is flying by...