Happy Birthday to our baby!

Happy First Birthday Annie Brooke! It is so hard to believe an entire year has come and gone. What an amazing time we have had with our precious baby girl! She has brought us more joy than we could have ever imagined and we look forward to what the future holds. My only wish it that time would not go by so fast!

I took her to the doctor today for her one year well check. She now weighs 20 lbs. 10 oz and is 29 inches long. She has almost tripled in weight since birth! Wow! She was in the 50th percentile for height and weight and Dr. Johnson said she was looking good! Her top two teeth and getting bigger each day and you can almost see one when she laughs really big!

Annie's First Christmas!

We had such a wonderful first Christmas with Annie this year! It was so fun getting all of her presents from Santa ready on Christmas Eve night! I think Mitch and I were more excited on Christmas morning than we have been in years! Annie was more interested in playing with her Santa toys and didn't really care to open the ones we had wrapped for her! Oh well!

We spent Christmas morning at our house and then went to my parents on Christmas night. Santa had visited her there too! We are going to Kentucky next weekend to see Mitch's family and celebrate Christmas with them! We hope everyone had a great Christmas!

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11 months and counting!

We can't believe that Christmas is almost here and Annie will be a year old in a week and a half! Where does all the time go? It seems like every time we turn around she is doing something new!

She loves to chase Mitch and I around the house! She is such a fast crawler we don't know if she will every want to walk! She giggles and laughs the whole time! She also loves it when we chase her. She turns her head to make sure we are still coming and then cracks up as she heads to another room! Annie also thinks our dog Biscuit likes to play chase. Unfourtunately for Biscuit she doesn't! Annie crawls towards Biscuit's bed and Biscuit gets up off of it to go to another room. When she walks by Annie, Annie thinks Biscuit is chasing her and she laughs and turns to go to another room too. Then, poor Biscuit turns back around to go to her bed and the cycle continues! It is really funny to watch because Annie has no idea that the dog is trying to get away from her!

All Annie wants for Christmas is her two front teeth to come all the way in! They are there, you can see them but, they are still tiny! We can't wait to see what she will look like with top teeth! We have gotten so used to just the bottom two!

We are looking forward to spending Christmas with our sweet little girl this year! We hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!

Christmas Fun!

Annie met Santa for the first time last week! She did so good! She checked him out at first; I think she was wondering what was on his face! Then, she just sat with him and giggled at the camera!

Annie waved at people on their floats during the Christmas parade! I really think she was trying to shake her big mitten off her hand! Either way it was still cute!

Mitch's Skydive!!

If you can't tell by his face, he loved it! He already wants to go again!

Yah, he landed on his feet! I filmed the jump and fall so, I only have pictures of him safely on the ground!

All geared up and waiting to get on the plane.

Mitch and Annie before the big jump!

Halloween 2008

Annie trick-or-treating at Nana and Papa's house.

The prettiest flower I've ever seen!


We gave our pumpkin the same two bottom teeth as Annie!

The easiest way to carve a pumpkin! Seriously, it took two minutes!

Annie liked touching the mushy pumpkin. She wanted to eat it!

A Day at the Pumpkin Patch!

Last Sunday we went to a pumpkin patch and corn maze. We took a hayride out to the corn maze which was pretty big and confusing but, we made it out! Then, we took the hayride back and picked some pumpkins from the patch. They had all kinds of farm animals to see and we even witnessed a pig race. That's right, I said a pig race! It was a great day and the weather was beautiful! Happy Fall!

If you look close in the top picture you can see Annie's two teeth!

Recent Pics of Annie

We've been super busy lately and I haven't been able to find time to blog so here it goes. Annie is all over the place these days. She is a super speedy crawler and will pull up on just about anything. These things include furniture, cabinets, our legs, the dog and just about anything else she can get her little hands on! She is also quite the chatterbox. She says "Dada" all the time and talks VERY loudly especially on quiet Sunday afternoons when Mitch and I are trying to relax on the couch! She has the custest giggle and sometimes she even snorts! Which makes it even cuter! The other day she was giggling and fell over sideways from laughing so hard!

We went to see Dr. Johnson last week and Annie weighed in at 18lbs. and 8 oz. Not quite the 20 we were hoping for so that we could put her in the "big girl" car seat but, she will be there in no time. Especially with all the carbs she likes to eat! We have started on table foods recently and since she only has one tooth we weren't sure what all she could eat. We've really only been giving her breads and crackers and she loves them!

Here are some pictures from the past month. I can't believe how fast she has grown!

Pretty pink kicks!

Mitch and I bought Annie some pink Converse shoes a couple weeks ago and I've been waiting for it to get cooler so she could wear them. Well, it wasn't cool but I really wanted her to wear them to school the other day. When I put them on she was very interested in them. I was sure she was going to figure out how to get them off in 5 seconds after it took me a few minutes to get them on her feet! They looked SO cute and made her look like such a big girl especially when she pulled up.

Kentucky Trip

This past weekend we took a trip to visit Mitch's family in Kentucky. It was really great to see everyone. It has been two years since we have all been able to get together at the same time since we are all spread out in different states. Annie had a great time with all of her cousins. She played with tractors and monster trucks with all of the boys! She loved her older cousins, Sam and Luke, and would smile every time they came around her! She tried to keep up with Max who is the fastest little crawler-hopper I have ever seen! She and Liam, the baby of all the babies, had lots of conversations on the floor together! We attempted to get a group photo of all the children. As you can see in the picture it's not so easy to try and get five children under the age of four to pose for a picture! It makes me laugh to see Sam smiling with all the chaos around him! It was a great Labor Day and we hope everyone else had a wonderful one as well!

Happy Birthday Mitch!

Today is Mitch's 27th birthday! He is getting old right?! Well, I shouldn't say that because I am 2 months older than him and that would make me old and I'm definitely not! Anyway, that is all for today; just wanted to say Happy Birthday!!

Just For Daddy!

This Cardinal's outfit is probably Mitch's favorite thing Annie wears. (she doesn't have a UK outfit yet but, that will take the #1 spot when she does!) I call it her tomboy outfit but at least she has a red bow to make it a little girly!

Have a great day Mitch!