Friend Christmas Party December 13th.

Every year we invite our friends over for a Christmas dinner and white elephant gift exchange. Jamie and I decided that this would be a good time for the girls to exchange gifts. Addie and Maebrie exchanged School Buses made by Parents. It is a super cute toy!








Maebrie drinking Addie's juice. I think that this is a super cute picture of her!!!













Addie after she drank Maebrie's juice. I love this bow and somehow it got lost in the shuffle of Christmas. I think at Ma and Pa Yates' house. I had it in my hand and then Jeremy started throwing things in the car and I never found it again. So Ma if you see this bow save it for us!

Visiting Santa

Jamie and I had planned to take the girls to visit Santa at some point this weekend. So off we go to the Northwest Arkansas Mall in Fayetteville. As we were standing in line, I said, "hey whose baby is going to cry?" Jamie replies, "YOURS!"

So as we are awaiting our turn, apparently the camera broke. Santa walks through the line and both girls seem okay with him. Then they allow some people to cut in line I guess they had brought their own camera. We didn't know that that was an option. But I guess you don't have to buy pictures, you can take your own. I happened to have my camera in the diaper bag so up we go.

Jamie and I decided we would take a picture of just Addie, then throw in Maebrie and take a picture of both girls and then take Addie out and take a picture of just Maebrie. You can see below how that went for us.

OHH how you have changed us

My Sweet Girl,

I love you so much and am so proud of the baby girl that you are turning into. You are truly the most amazing and funniest person that I know. I can't believe that I lived 28 years of my life without you. Everyday you amaze me with your learning and your unconditional love for me.

I am most astonished by the way you have changed my life and your Daddy's life. I have never seen his eyes sparkle so much with love. He has done many things that he said he would never do all because his heart is full of love for you. I am thankful that God gave us you. I am proud of the mommy that I have became because of you. There is not a second that goes by that I am not thinking of you during the day.

I find it so rewarding to see you as a wonderful mix between me and your Daddy both in looks and personality. I look forward to the next year and all the wonderful years to come.

I Love You,
Mommy

More Birthday

This is Addie's pink chair that we bought her for her birthday. She was diving out of it in this picture. She is playing with her new baby from Auntie Vicki that we have named ChaCha
This is Addie eating her birthday cake. She really enjoyed it and we had to take it away from her.

Birthday Party

This is Addie's birthday cake! My friend Alix's sister, Autumn, made the cake. She is so awesome and available if you would need a cake. It was perfect and tasted good too. I received a lot of compliments on how good it tasted! We ate it all during Thanksgiving!

Here is Mommy, Addie and Daddy before the party started. We had such a great time and had a lot of people come and show their love for our little angel.

My First Birthday Present

Addie with her Uncle Will and Aunt Tracie. (Sorry guys this isn't the best picture of you two!)
Addie opening her present from Will and Tracie. They were unable to come to the party so they brought her present over the night before. She was super excited about the tissue paper. They bought her books and wooden blocks. She loved the books and we are working on learning to play with the blocks. Mainly, she throws them and gets them all out!

Updates and Apologizing

We would like to start this blog by apologizing for not posting in a while. We are usually better than this however, everyone in our family has had the stomach flu. Instead of all at once, we have each had it a different week and it has lasted 5 days. BEWARE--severe diarrhea followed with an occasional throw up and then an achy body and head ache.

So we are going to do a power post and tell you a bunch.

This is Addie pushing her push toy around the living room. She is able to push it easily and she can walk all around the table and couches but she has no concept at all that she can walk. I have to admit that this is one milestone I haven't really worked with her on. I enjoy her being a baby! I figure she'll learn to walk when she's ready. However, everyone is giving me a hard time about her not walking by her first birthday so I guess we will start practicing harder.

After shopping on Saturday, Addie was very tired and hungry. I was pretty sure that if we got her out of the carseat (she was asleep) and fed her she would continue to sleep in her bed. We fed her and laid her down. Then we proceeded to unload the car. We heard lots of squeals and playing. When we opened the door this is what we saw. Addie had turned on her mobile, was pointing at us and saying "Uhhh," there was also a very distinct smell of POOP!

Mommy and Addie love after work!

Daddy and Addie hanging Christmas Lights.

Playing in a basket. Addie, Jeremy and I
hung a floating shelf on Addie's wall and she enjoyed helping.


Eating Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Jeremy fed Addie a chocolate chip cookie the other night and she loved it.
But then she was wound up and didn't want to sleep.

When you're sick laundry doesn't get done. This is Addie scoping out her highchair which she enjoys pulling up on and playing with the straps. She has some goofy looking pajamas because we are behind laundry.