So Much Cake

Addison has eaten more than her fair share of cake over the past few weeks! Here are a few pictures from her Birmingham Party!

I made Addison's cakes for this party. She enjoyed her own 3 layer cake. While hers was not that pretty she thought it was tasty.

First Christmas

I can not believe this year is coming to an end. We have had a great year with its many ups and downs. But as most parents will say, most of our ups are with our little punkin. We celebrated Christmas and birthday all at one time this year. We really wanted all family members to be a part of her firsts. First Christmas, first birthday......so we celebrated a lot!! I am pretty sure she thinks life is one big party!


Addison opening her presents.





Jared enjoying his new chair and dump truck!

Birthday FUN!

We had Addison's First Birthday Party Last night and here are only a few pictures. We had a great time, Addison loved the attention and the party guests. Little does she know she is going to do it again next week at Birmingham! I cheated this week and used Cupcakes, I have to say they worked out so well I am tempted to use them again! I really want to make at least one cake for her first Birthday, so I guess I will not cheat with the BHam Party. Enjoy!

Addison eating Lasagna. She loved that, I was worried she might not eat well. But needless to say she had one of her favorite meals and she was not missing it!

This is Uncle "Bob" giving her another cupcake. Daddy did not really want her to have another one but Momma planned on such events occurring and so she bought the whipped icing instead of the butter cream icing. Jon complained at the store but thanked me while Uncle Bob passed out another cupcake. Yes, Robert hates the name Uncle Bob, but that is just the price to pay for calling me names growing up! She also says it very well, she has added two words to her vocab, which is "WOW" and "Bob."

This is her enjoying her 2nd cupcake!

Family Fun

Addison is having so much fun. She went and saw another Santa, then she had her first Lolly Pop. Seeing family is proving to be very exciting for her!!

Santa Baby

We are here in AL and we are having a blast. Today we went to see Santa and while we were out we rode the Carousal!

Addison thought Santa was pretty neat. She liked the Big Christmas Tree as well. Her little mind was busy planning a way to get all those "shinys" off the tree. On the Carousal she loved the pretty lights and the pretty animals. However once it got started she had other ideas about how things go......

Her idea was that it was much safer in Daddy's arms!!

Dinner Time

Whats for Dinner????

We will give you a hint.

There is noodles and red sauce..

Bossy Pants

Today I witnessed something that was very interesting. Addison heard Lil Bit growling at something today out the window. So Addison went over and told Lil Bit, "No Da. No Da" So we know she is a bossy girl we are just not sure where she got it from. I know, I can hear a few people snickering already, thinking that her momma is where she got it from. But I am here to tell you that she comes from a long LONG line of Bossy Pants!!! So enjoy this picture I snapped during the dog training session of Addison and Lil Bit. Please excuse the window. That is the window everyone waits for Daddy at. Dogs and Addison sit at that window until he gets out of the car to get them. So it has a few smudges....

In the Holiday Spirit

Our little baby is really loving this season! We went out today and she had fun dancing to the Christmas music!

First Steps

We have been waiting a few months for the big day when little Punkin would take her first steps and today was the day. She has been standing all day and dancing, so I knew it would be soon. I tried not to encourage her too much, I wanted her daddy to be here to see his little girl walk for the first time! We were so glad to get this on video! I was multi-tasking, so you can hear me talking on the phone with Nana. In some parts of the video you can even hear Nana. This is an exciting time for all of us! Hope you enjoy!

Growing Fast

Our little baby is so funny! She has began to figure things out fast! She decided today that she wanted to get in her walker. But she looked around and saw daddy fixing a sandwich and mommy was working on birthday things. So she pushed her walker to the wall and began getting in herself. She started by standing behind it, we were not able to get that picture, but we did catch the following. No one helped her she did this by herself. I just stood close in case it went bad. It went great that little stinker made it in...

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11 Months Today

Only one more month until our little lady is ONE!!! We can not believe it! All week we have been talking about what we were doing last year at this time and how things have changed! I think we ponder these memories for two reasons, one is the fact that the tree is up! Putting the Christmas tree up always makes one think about the last time they put it up. And the second reason is we are realizing our baby is growing so so so fast! Last year when we put the tree up, I was swollen and very miserable. Jon actually did most of the work, poor guy. And this year I did most of the putting together. Addison LOVES it! She oooo's and awwwww's at it all day, we love it. Poor Christmas tree it is naked on the bottom half, because she has picked off half the ornaments and I have moved them higher. We only used half of the ornaments, we were worried she might manage to pull it over.

Not only do we think about how Christmas was, but we think about how our lives were so different a year ago. A year ago, I was swollen from head to toe and on bed rest. NO FUN! And a year ago on this very day we were watching it snow from a hospital bedroom window. This year we are watching it snow from our house out of any window we want too! We are so glad our little Punkin is here, we love her so much! She is the blessing that gets us through this thing we are calling life.