Baby Talk

         
          

Annabelle's recently learned the meaning of the word: "No!"

And although I'm sure I'll eat my words, I think it so cute to hear her say it!

Also, no. 

We are not expecting.

Hehe.

I mean, after hearing what she has to say, who knows if we'll ever have anymore ;)

My Sweetest Hearts Golden Day

I don't know the last time I've done a blog post, so this might be a little rough. But I wanted to tell my Emma girl how much I love her, in the form of the top 10.

10.) She is the best mom that I have ever met!

9.) She is the most FUN girl ever.



8.) She is committed and dedicated.

7.) No other beauty compares to her.


6.) She is patient.

5.) She loves her family.

4.) She married me in the Temple.

3.) She makes me laugh.

2.) She makes my house a home.

1.) She's my best friend and she makes my life complete.

Happy Birthday Golden Girl!

New Year's Eve

HAPPY 2012!!!!

We rang in the New Year with this little one-year old. 

It wasn't really by choice that she stayed up past midnight, but she seemed to love all the partying.

She quickly ZONED-out.

Definitely wondering why she's still awake. Haha.

We hit up a couple parties, and here we are at party #1:

And party #2.

Annabelle didn't like it much:

JK. I actually have no idea why it looks like we're having a major cat fight. Haha! We really do love each other.

Hope you all got a midnight kiss!!

And if not (C,L,B) 

there's always next year...

Actually, make that 10 more years.

Haha :)

Jake builds a TRAMPOLINE!!

    

Do you see it? It's the empty box of a TRAMPOLINE!!

Marie and Will's kids got one for Christmas! 

And Uncle Jake built it for them. 

But somehow all I've ended up with are pictures of Tiny in the box, and the kids, and me too.

Haha! Sorry, honey.

He built it in the freezing cold rain. And well into the dark night. With Marie's help too.

Luckily Aunt Emma made everyone hot peppermint cocoa with freshly whipped cream afterwards :)

Yum!

I still can't believe I have no pictures of the man of the night. With the actual trampoline! Haha!

At least I took a video. ((That's mainly of Annabelle.)) HA! 

There's definite evidence though :)

                                

Christmas Continued

Here are a couple snaps from Christmas morning. She was such a little angel and loved pulling everything out of her stocking.

Note for next year: A bundle of bananas will do the trick ;)

Christmas 2011

It feels like this year was Tiny's 1st Christmas!

I mean, she slept through her real 1st Christmas. Does that even count?!

So technically this was her 2nd, but who's keeping track, right?!

She was really fun this year.

Like, she stayed awake, through all the gift opening :)

ROCKSTAR BABY!

We got to spend this Christmas in WA with almost all my family.

It was by far my favorite Christmas to date.

Annabelle got to play with her cute cousins all week long. Her and JuJu really hit it off and I can tell they'll be best buddies.

It was so cute to see how much they loved each other.

And both Annabelle and Cole lit right up when they saw Bella. She is such an adorable oldest cousin. She loves those babies so much.

Well, Annabelle's officially 13 months old.

And she has seriously gotten so much older in this past month.

SHE TOOK HER FIRST STEPS ON HER 13 MONTH MARK! 

Ahhhhh. 

It was so so exciting!!

And she also somehow picked up on the "cheese" face. Haha!

At first I thought it was a crazy coincidence that she was making this face in EVERY picture of the week: squinty-eyed, goofy smile.

Then I realized she was saying cheese.

And I think it is the most adorable thing.

Ever.

She's not a total walker yet, but she is super close! She stands up a lot on her own, and I think all this progress is due to watching JuJu run around all weekend.

I'd either find those 2 giggling standing side by side, or crawling after each other.

She really loves all her cousins!

And so do I.

I feel so so blessed to have such a beautiful & loving family.

I love them so much.

The worst part about saying goodbye, is not knowing when we'll see each other again...

But I pray that it's real real soon!!

Merry Christmas.

I hope everyone's was as eventful as ours!

Sneak Peek

We got some cute family photos taken yesterday and I'm loving them. A lot :)
Sweet Sue took them and she did such a good job!

Here are a few of my faves.

I'm trying to choose one for our Christmas card. 

Help a girl out?

:)

I'm especially loving the first and the last.

Aside from Christmas cards.

It's my baby's birthday today.

TODAY!!

I still have goodies and cakes to bake.

And I still need to rearrange my living room.

And then somehow sneak in some sleep.

But mostly I'll just love on my little girl.

She's my whole world!

Happy Birthday, beautiful baby.

I love you.