One Whole Year!!

Guess who's ONE!!!

It is so hard to believe that Abbey is already one year old today! This last year has gone by so fast. We love this little girl so much!

She used to be so little and sweet... most of the time!

She has grown up so much in this last year! It is so fun to watch her progress every day and see her personality develop. She is such a little character!

She is still so sweet... most of the time!

Happy Birthday Abigail!

We love you so much and are so grateful to have you in our family!

Family Pictures

This last weekend we went to a park in St. Anthony and took some family pictures. It was SOOOO COOOOOLD!!! Seriously, by the time we were done, we couldn't feel our feet, hands, or faces! We had to hold our breath while the pictures were getting taken, that way there wasn't a cloud in front of our faces! It was so cold that as the icy water went over this little waterfall, it was steaming! Icy water= steaming!! Way too cold to be outside!

Poor Abbey's nose turned bright red by the time we were done! She behaved so good for the whole experience though... I think it is because she was too cold to misbehave though!

Overall we had a great time and ended up with really good pictures that we love, if only it was a little warmer though, that way Abbey would have smiled!

Birthdays

Abbey got a head start on her birthday by opening up some presents she got from my parents early! She loves her new clothes and toys!

I love Lidia so much! For her birthday dinner yesterday she asked for ice cream!!

I found a recipe online for making waffle cones and made waffle cone bowls to have with our ice cream dinner! It took me a few to get them to turn out right, but in the end they were really good and turned out great.

Little Helper

Abbey loves to help out! The other day I was feeding her (in the living room where I'm not supposed to - added by Lidia) and she hit the bowl out of my hand and it flew through the air and from the pictures you can guess where it landed!

Have you ever picked up angel hair pasta cut up real small from a shag carpet? It's tough! (I guess that's why I'm not supposed to feed here there!)

She loves to 'help' with the dishes as well.

Putting away the groceries is definitely her favorite though!

Now if she was only big enough to take out the trash!!

Thanksgiving Break

For Thanksgiving we had the last week off and went up to Washington and visited Erin and Chris. We had such a good time with them and the kids, and loved meeting little Cassidy. Abbey had the greatest time playing with everyone. We had so much fun... at least until Abbey got the stomach flu!

After we came home we put our Christmas tree up... It looks tall here, but it's not... it's just on top of a coffee table! Our 5 foot tree touches the ceiling!

Abbey was so curious about Cassidy! She has never really been around a baby littler than her. She looked so big and grown up next to Cassidy.

Haha, I think Cade and Carter played with Abbey's toys more than she did! They came up with some pretty challenging and creative games with them. I think in this picture they are trying to throw the rings on the cone, later they put it all the way down the hallway and threw at it!

Abbey loves looking at books and turning the pages, Cami loved 'reading' them to her!

Thanks Cox family, we had so much fun hanging out with you guys!!

Man Trip 2009

This weekend Tyler and I had our annual 'Man's Trip' and went camping. We wanted to do it much earlier, when the weather was nicer, but due to busy schedules we had to do it this weekend. We went out to Horseshoe Lake, and found the lake almost completely frozen! It was already snowing when we got out there, and snowed almost non-stop until we left this morning. Despite all the snow, we stayed pretty warm all night. We had a great time hanging out on what will probably be one of our last camping trips for a while!

Favorite Places

Here are a few of Abbey's new favorite places...

We got a gate to keep her out of the bedrooms and bathroom and everytime we are there, she is here waiting for us to come back!

If we can't find her anywhere... we just look in her new playground... under the kitchen table!

She loves playing under the table, and standing up and pushing the chairs around the kitchen. When she finishes it looks like a tornado came through our kitchen!

New Year's Eve at the Big D!

We are going to go to Disneyland for New Years this year. We are going to go down on December 30, 2009 until January 1, 2010. (2 nights). We are going to go for the afternoon and evening on the 30th to the park, and then all day on the 31st, and then in the morning on the 1st. We are going to be staying at the La Quinta Inn in Santa Ana. Hotel name is a link to the website if you are interested... it's about 10-15 from Disney, and has continental breakfast. We have stayed there before and liked it. It is also one of the cheapest hotels we have found for New Years. Right now rates for those nights, and surrounding nights, are around $65.

This is the official invitation for ALL family and friends

If you want to go, but different dates than us...

WE DON'T CARE

If you want to go, but don't want to stay at that hotel...

WE DON'T CARE

If you don't want to go...

WE DON'T CARE

This is just something we are going to do, and thought it would be fun to invite ya'll along!

We are gonna party like it's '010!!!!

What's New?

Is Abbey trying to tell you something...?

Yes! She is learning how to walk!

(She loves taking that book off the shelf and playing with it, by the way!)

Tricks and Treats

So very excited for her first Halloween!!!

Abbey was Tinkerbell for Halloween, and carried around a Peter Pan toy with her the whole time.

This is our set up for Trunk or Treat. We set up our tent, and had our camp chairs up too. That is spider web between the two cars, and in the chest behind Tyler has our candy, rope, and a saw inside. That's my rusty old tow chain on the ground too.

Lidia got mad at me when I told a little girl that she could take a piece of candy with one hand, but I would have to chop off the other one with my hatchet! (I was just kidding!)