Growing girl

So much for not going another 3 months without a post! I'm going to back track a little bit so if I ever end up printing a book of my blogs it will be in order.  First off Annalee turned 11 months and her sweet silly personality was showing more and more each day.

Then we celebrated her 1st birthday Thanksgiving weekend with family & friends. She devoured her cake and loved being the center of attention, of course! Here is her invitation that I designed in Photoshop & a few pics from the party:

 

After that Christmas was right corner.  We took Annalee to see Santa and of course she highly disliked it (she has not been a fan of many men, besides her daddy, up to this point and Santa was no exception!).  She loved opening her presents - more to play with the paper and boxes than what was actually inside.  After her birthday and Christmas we can pretty much open up a toy store now (and maybe clothing store too!).  We are very blessed by how many people love on our sweet girl!

 



 

Here is a picture of this big girl from last weekend at the park.  She is walking & running all over the place now, she loves being outside, she says a few words and babbles a lot, still loves dancing and really has quite a bit of rhythm, and chocolate milk is her favorite. She goes to school one day a week right now and cries everytime I drop her off.  Let's hope this phase passes quickly because it makes it harder to leave her. She is such a joyful little girl and time is flying!

Other news: I started my new job drawing house plans on the computer in January.  It has been challenging at times but I am really loving it! Dallas is almost done with basketball season and then he moves on to track.  He is already wishing summer would get here faster.  His new favorite hobby is riding his motorcyle that he got back in December.

And our most exciting news for the month: we start BUILDING our HOUSE tomorrow!! Yay! Pictures of that process to come soon!