look who's walking!!!

amelia has been taking a few steps for a a few weeks now, but this weekend she decided it was time to do more!  i think she is beyond thrilled with her new skill! :)

happy walking sweet girl!!!

ps-this weekend she also climbed our entire flight of stairs and climbed on top of the kid table...this girl is keeping us on out toes!!!

bye, bye little green...

its been two weeks since we took little green (the pacifier) away.  the first two night were a little rough, but after that it was smooth sailing.  this silly miss had such a love hate relationship with little green.  she loved it, but also would throw it across the room if she was mad or didn't want it.  so their we were crawling around the floor looking for it.  the best was when we were using the flashlight on our phone to try and find it in the middle of the night.  at some point you have to say to yourself, what am i enabling?!  and that is when we decided that little green needed to go bye bye. :)  i would much rather see that sweet little smile then a little green sucker fish anyway! :)

on a differnent note, a few updates about miss amelia:

-she weened herself from nursing around 11 1/2 months.  since we were so close to the 12 month mark, i just decided to go ahead with the whole milk in a staw cup, which she loved.  i guess she was done with me. :)
-she has 3 1/2 teeth (one is just poking through) on the bottom , but still no teeth up top.
-LOVES to paddy cake, wave bye bye, and dance.  this girl has moves...i love this stage when they start doing the head bob and the hip sway! :)
-still not walking, but i think we are super close...the last few days i have caught her taking 2-3 steps!  she has crawled a lot longer then evelyn ever did, so i would have to say that she gets around pretty good doing her speed crawling! :)
-she still has that spicy side that we talk about, if she doesn't get her way she throws herself on the floor and throws a little tantrum.   it is hard not to laugh at this age when they do that. :)
-this girl gives the best hugs ever!  she is always wanting brian or i to pick her up and then she squeezes our neck really tight while she lays her head on our shoulder...i think this is probably one of the best feelings ever!  she is such a little lover!!!

one of these days i'm going to have to post a picture of evelyn  next to amelia at this age.  i just can't believe how different they look from one another.  amelia still has those blue, grey, green eyes and that super blonde hair.  where as evelyn had those dark brown eyes and so much black hair that we were wearing clips and ponies at this age.  i love their differences!  these two girls are just so much fun together, i'm so glad that they love playing together.  i'm one lucky mama that gets to stay home and love on these two little sweeties....i can't imagine having it any other way!  thanks to my hubby for making that happen!
love you!!! 

fun weekend!!

what a busy fun weekend we had with our bff's!  the douglas crew came up for the weekend and we all had a blast!  i love when our friends stay with us especially when they little tykes that like to play with our little tykes!

we visited the antique apple press...they only run it one day a year, so its a big deal in out neck of the woods!  

(lila, evelyn, tanner, easton)

cool bees nest...

then it was the pumpkin roll down the hill at the park...

lila and evelyn getting ready to roll...

miss e's and lila's  pumpkin veered off into the trees....

the most important event of the weekend was the BEAVER game!!!

her are the littlest ladies lila and amelia tailgating or should i say ice chesting!

lila belle...this girl is a hoot!!! 

evelyn, tyler and makenzie showing off there beaver eye stickers....

mama kat sporting her bjorn with her almost 2 year old...i would have to say you wear it well and that little owl makes it even cuter! :)

look who we squeezed a quick visit in with at the game...yep, that's are other bff, wendi from idaho!  ahh, i just love these girls!!

us girls and all our kids!  

game time...did i mention that we had 5th row seats, not sure how we scored them, but they were amazing seats!!!

the douglas crew sporting tanner's sign he made...it says "vaz-tastic," in support of the new quateback! :) 

it was so fun having the thompson crew there too, i think they had a ton of fun!

easton and evelyn watching fireman u-tube videos! :)

watch out world, look at the sas in this girl!  love this pic of miss lila, glasses on, phone up to her ear, leg kicked out, she is full of it!  ijlove the spice in this girl! :)

there you have it a super fun weekend even if it did rain a lot, we still managed to enjoy every second of our company!  and the beavers won which is just the icing on the cake!  thank you all for coming up, i can't wait until our next party of nine happens again!

xoxoxoxoxo

pumpkin patch time!!!

we have been making our rounds to a few pumpkin patches this year.  miss e asks to go to them all year, so we seem to make lots of visits so she can store up her need of pumpkin patches for the year! :)

the first patch we visited was close to our house and i think it was in the high 70's that day...not a typical pumpkin patch day, but we loved the sunshine!  instead of a corn maze they had a sunflower maze...how cool!

 amelia loved playing with the pumpkins, in fact she kinda threw a little tizzy when we had to pick her up...silly girl!

 last friday we went on our annual pumpkin patch outing with my mom, tiffany, and the kiddos.    we always have a blast, but this year i think we picked the rainiest day of the year.  it didn't seem to faze the kids they were ready to do it all!

grandma and evelyn...

 gwynn and miss e...

 gwynn showing us her prize pumpkin...

 miss e's pick...she wanted a tall one for dad! :)

 and payton's HEAVY pumpkin....

i love this time of year, fall in such a good time to wind down from a super busy summer.  i hope your enjoying some fall activities and maybe even visiting a few pumpkin patches! :)

miss amelia's first birthday bash!

what a fun party we had for our little miss!  it was fun planning a fall party.  we went all out with butternut squash soup and sandwiches for lunch and then apple cake and cupcakes with cider to drink.  it seemed that all the party goers enjoyed the food and the company of our smiley and spicy birthday girl.

payton sneaked into the party and started teasing miss amelia with his monkey...she loved it! :)

cousin love...

and more cousin love...this girl is the number one babysitter!

happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you...

she never did eat any of the cake...

party kids...

yay...presents!

after amelia opened caleb's present she gave him a hug...so cute!

what she enjoyed most about opening presents was putting things on her head....like bloomers!!!

you have to read my dad's shirt in this picture... seriously i think he loves retirement too much!!!

and a box on my head...how fun!

more hugs for caleb...i think he might be amelia's first love! :)

uncle colton with all the kids

and the dogs!!!

evelyn and i had lots of fun planning for miss amelia's party.  i asked evelyn at one point during the party if she liked birthday parties and she said, YES, especially sisters!  such a sweet big sister!  i do think that she loves all amelia's new toys, maybe even a bit too much.  she is lucky that miss amelia is just one and would rather eat paper then play with her new toys. :)  i think next year might be a different story. :)

thanks to everyone who came and made our little miss feel loved.  she was spoiled with lots of fun new things, but who could resist not spoiling that sweet smiling face?!
xoxoxoxo