Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays!!!

Todd and I really enjoyed our Holiday season this year. We got a lot of family time in, and for the first time we really decorated too!! To start off, Zoe and I spent as much time outside as we could. She and I anticipated a white winter, but have yet had one. Here are a couple pictures of us outside.You can't quite see the facial expression in this picture, but no worries there are tons to follow that will show this new fun face. After retreating to the inside, we had all of our friends over to celebrate. There really aren't any pictures, so you'll just have to use your imagination on this one.

Then we made it home to Arkansas!!! My whole family got together and we all stayed at my parents. I think we all agree that it went really well and that no one actually wanted to kill anybody!! These are a couple of pictures from Christmas day.

This one was taken after we found out what the, "blue sea cumber" did.

We then proceeded to make this face to everything.
I mean everything!

Let's see, this year Zoe got a slinky,a basketball,a vacuum cleaner,

and a key board,

After all of the excitement for the day, all the kids, including Mimi, ventured to the couch for a movie. If you notice, Zoe is making the fun new face here as well.

On our one big outing, we went downtown to the "Square" and the girls and James got to ride some horses. The girls also got to ride a camel, but we didn't manage to get a photo of that.

Zoe decided to just supervise during all of this, but had a great time!

When we got home that evening, she decided it would also be fun to help clean while just wearing a diaper.

Over all, it has been a great year and Todd and I continue to feel blessed with lots of love and family!

Hadley turns 1

Sunday morning is my morning to sleep in, so Todd gets up with Zoe and has breakfast and watches the food network. When I made my debut, they, the "food network," were featuring pancakes and I decided they looked good. I quickly threw some pancake mix together and we all enjoyed some yummy blueberry pancakes. As you can tell, Zoe really loved them! After naps, we got the pleasure of going to one of my best friends daughter's 1st birthdays!!!

Elizabeth gave Zoe a "Birthday" plate for her first birthday, so we returned the gift by getting Hadley one. Hadley didn't quite get to enjoy it till Zoe had inhaled a ton of "smokies," but I think she liked it.
I can also say, she loved her cake!!!
The funniest thing about the cake was the little surprise that came for Elizabeth on Monday. She said Hadley had a very pink poop!!!! She worked her way through it and finally realized it was the icing that Hadley had eaten tons of on Sunday!

On a side note, Zoe had her 18 month appointment Monday afternoon. New stats:

weight: 21.8 ounces (15%)

length: 33 1/8 inches (90%)

Head: 36 3/4 inches (<3%)>

She is a tall and lean kid!!

Chocolate Pretzel

Todd got me a couple of treats last night to finish off the long week. Zoe just happen to find those this afternoon and started munching away. After convincing her to eat dinner, take a bath and then put on some pj's, she got to finish it up! She loved it!!

November

So November came and went very quickly for us. I was finishing up orientation for work and we had a number of family members that came to visit us. We spent a lot of time prepping for Thanksgiving and then it was over. These are a couple pics of Todd and Zoe mowing the yard: Then Zoe spent some time vacuuming:

And then, we made the bird. It was a beautiful bird in my eyes, and it was really good: