Happy 1st Birthday Annabelle!

It was Annabelle's Birthday Oct 16th and I am finally posting it!! (What a horrible mother I am!!) Well anyway, Annabelle is one!! I can't believe it!! My little baby girl is growing up! We had her birthday party at my parents house and had lots of fun. Annabelle loved opening her presents! She didn't want me to take the present she opened away to give her the next. Doesn't she looks so happy...

(gotta love this face!)

She knows what this is!

Annabelle didn't really dig into the cake like I thought she would. We stripped her down naked ready to get all messy but, that didn't happen. I had to put her hands into it but she didn't like it and tried to get it off. I guess she is just a girly girl who doesn't like to get all dirty!

I thought I would give her a spoon to see if she would dig in with that but then she just wanted to share her cake with everyone else. (What a sweet little girl :))

I know you all think I'm a crazy, anal first time mother but I don't give Annabelle any sugar, so I made her a sugarless cake. It took me forever to make but, I think it turned out pretty good.

Well I hope Annabelle had a fun first birthday! We sure did! We love you baby girl! Thanks Grandma, Grandpa, Aunts, Uncles and Cousins for all the great gifts and for joining us on this special day!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Halloween is such a fun holiday! I love dressing up, going through Spook Alleys and carving pumpkins! We had a really fun Halloween this year. We went to a few parties before Halloween like my parents, the ward party and our friends Dave and Joni. We had fun at them all! On Halloween night we went to our friends Lindsey and Jeremiah's house for a barbecue and then we went out trick or treating. Even though Annabelle can't eat all the candy yet, I think she had a fun time!

I was Dorthy, Bobby was the Scarecrow and Annabelle was the lion from the Wizard of OZ!

Isn't she such a cute little lion!


Annabelles first time Trick-or-Treating!

I Love NYC!

So I have been back from my trip to NYC almost 2 weeks now and I am finally posting my pics!! I am soooo bad! Oh well... so here they are!

We (Annabelle and I) had so much fun!! It was a girls trip to the big city! My Mom, my sisters Tana and Kami, my niece Baya, Kami's sister-in-law Kris and her little girl Rylee is all who got to go. Kris works for Jet Blue so she hooked us up with some great flights and she has been to NYC many times so she was our tour guide too. I actually have been to NYC two times before but, I have no idea how to get around by the subway so luckily Kris knew what she was doing or we would have gotten lost many times!! So thanks Kris for being our tour guide! You did a great job!

So here are some of our fun adventures......

Heading to the big city! Annabelle's first time flying! She did such a good job!! She didn't cry at all! What a good little traveler!

Taking a ride on the good old subway.

The bright lights of Times Square!

Got to support what brings in the doe! This pic is for you honey! :)

Mmmmmm.................... who wouldn't want an enormous bar of chocolate!!

The NYPD. Not to bad eh! :)

Annabelle's favorite thing to see in NY. The pigeons!!!

The classic Statue of Liberty. Now who wouldn't want to see this sweet little Statue of Liberty!

All dressed up ready to go to the Broadway "Wicked". It was AWESOME! I highly recommend it!

You got to take life by the horns!! Ewe!! Mommy what are those big scary things!!

We went to the American Girl store and it was awesome! I almost bought a doll for me, I mean Annabelle. Don't worry honey one day daddy will let us, I mean you get one! :)

Cheese! Smile for the nice man drawing you!

So here is the final product.........

I think it turned out cute, but she does look like she could be 2 in this pic.

So all in all we had a great time! I am so lucky Annabelle is such a great traveler!! Now we just need to think about where to go next! :)

Ok so I found Cally's blog from my friend Lindsey and she makes the most adorable bags! http://cally-cruze.blogspot.com/ Here is her link and you should check her stuff out! She is having a give-a-way of these adorable monsters! You won't be sorry!! ;)

Fall is Here!

I love fall! I love the crisp cool air, the changing leaves and the fun fall fashions! It's just a fun time of the year. It's Bobby's favorite time too. Not really for the same reasons as mine, but for the start of the football season. If you know Bobby at all then you know that he is a football nut! From the end of one football season to the beginning of the next, I hear him say, "I can't wait until football starts again!" " Just this many (months or days) until football starts!". I'm not going to lie. I hate football!! I really wish I did. I just don't enjoy it, but I try to be really good at letting him watch games especially if it is his team playing (Seattle Seahawks). Unfortunately (but fortunately for me) we don't have TV right now so he doesn't get to see all of the games he would like to see, but we do usually get to see the Sunday ones because we end up at his parents or mine watching as many games as possible! Even though I don't really care for football, it's fun that Bobby has that enthusiasm about football and fall. It makes this time of the year even more fun and exciting!

Annabelle is going to be walking soon because she has been walking around anything she can get a hold of. So, we got this walker from a friend and she just loves it! It is so funny to watch her walk with it. She is so happy to be free to walk anywhere except when she runs into the wall or something in the way. Then she just freaks out and starts screaming because she can't move anymore until I move it so she can walk again! It is too funny! As Bobby put it, "I guess our child does not work well with adversity!"


She is so happy! Just don't run into the wall!!


OUR LITTLE MODEL!

I just made these for Annabelle so I decided to put them on her and take a picture. I stood her right there in front of the couch table and she turned and smiled. She kept smiling and posing like that for the whole time I had the camera there! What can I say, she is just our little model! :)

LITTLE TROUBLE MAKER

Annabelle is everywhere and loves to get into everything! I left this cupboard unlocked so she can play with the tupperware but she sure makes a mess!

BABY'S GOT A NEW GRILL!

Annabelle is no longer our little vampire! All four top teeth have now broke through! I love them!! I think she looks too cute and so big with her new pearly whites!

Update!

I know that I have been such a slacker at updating my blog but we finnally got internet and I will try to update it more often!!

Well our little Annabelle is getting so big! She is now crawling, and has been pulling herself up on everything and walking around anything she can get a hold of! She is very busy and into everything! We finnally baby proofed our house.

This is a funny picture of a time when I was doing laundry and left the room to put some clothes away and Annabelle grabbed my sports bra and put it over her head! She is too silly and fun!

Annabelle's hair has gotten so long! I am able to put them in pigtails and I love it!! Doesn't she look like a big girl with her hair that way?

We love to visit daddy at work! Doesn't he look so cute in his T-Mobile clothes!:)

LITTLE LADY

As you all know I just love to brag how adorable Annabelle is (but don't all mothers do that with their kids?! :)). So, I decided to put Annabelle in a baby contest. Bobby is funny because he thinks that baby contests are horrible and creepy, but I convinced him that they are fine and it will be fun. So, he gave in and we went back to my good home town Sunset and put her in the Sunset Days baby contest. It was a lot of fun and low and behold Annabelle won!!

She won Little Lady in her age group (6-12 months)!! And of course I was a proud little mommy! (she looks pretty happy about it too huh?) :)

She got to be in the Sunset Days parade the next day and had lots of fun showing off her tiarra! :)

OUR BABY VAMPIRE

So Annabelle has been getting some of her teeth in this past month and she has been pretty good about it. So first she got her two bottom front teeth in at the same time and I thought that that was pretty crazy; but then her top left cannine tooth broke through! It is too funny! She looks like a little vampire baby! When she smiles really big you can see it and it just makes us laugh! My friend Joni that is a Dental Hygenist looked it up to see when she should get that tooth in, and she said it shouldn't have come in until she was 20 to 22 months old!! Crazy huh! Maybe she got it in so fast because I read all those Twilight books to her when she was a tiny baby! :)

Well, maybe she will get the right cainine in just in time for Halloween and be a complete vampire! :)

I promise I will try to update more often, so be patient with me. Thanks!

Fun Memories!

This has been on a lot of my friends blog!! I love it. 1. As a comment on my blog, leave a memory you have of you and me or of you and Bobby. It doesn't matter if you know me a little or a lot just anything you remember!2. Next, post these instructions on your blog so that others can do the same for you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave a memory about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or you don't have a blog, then I'll leave my memory about you in my comments.

I haven't been able to post anything for a while because I haven't been watching my niece and my sister has the Internet and I don't. So I haven't been able to do my blogging so here is an update of what has been going on lately.....

On the 24th of June it was South Ogden days and some of my friends and I decide to run the 5k. I didn't train at all so I'm not going to tell you my time :)! But we really did have a good time

Look at us getting ready to go!! Wow that was harder than I thought!! :)

On Monday July 30th my sisters Tana, Wendy and I, with all our kids, went to Timpanogos Cave. It was lots of fun and an adventure! We forgot what a big hike it was to get to the cave because we hadn't been there since we were little, so we defiantly got a workout!

Look at that view!

This was at the end of the hike and and Annabelle was pooped!! (and so was I!!)

On Wed June 2nd, my sister-in-law Amy and I brought our cute little girls, Mya and Annabelle, to the Clearfield Aquatic Center. We had such a great time! Annabelle loved there little swings she could sit in.

The 4th of July!

On the 4th we hung out with our friends Jeremiah, Lindsie, Brian, Keri and Lindsies' family. In the morning Bobby had to work so Annabelle and I went to the Cherry Days Parade.

After the parade we went to Lindsies' parents house and went swimming, had a barbecue and did fireworks. Bobby met up with us later for the food and fireworks. We really had such a great time. We are Proud to be Americans!!





Look at our cute little patriotic toes!

Now here are some random pics of Annabelle that I just have so show off! (because you know I am just a proud little mommy :)! )