So...

TWO WEEKS AND FIVE DAYS D:

Happy Birthday Abby!

My baby girl turned 1 on January 7th, 2012! Can't believe she is already 1, crazy how fast time flies!! We had a fun little party for her with family and friends and I think everyone, especially Abby, had a blast! Happy Birthday Abby!!











Abby's birthday cake! Matt baked it and we both iced them together, it was fun doing this together and I think they turned out pretty dang cute!

This picture cracks me up! She loved mushing her fingers in the cake.

Abby got so many presents from family and friends, she is one lucky girl! She loves pulling all the tissue paper out of the gift bags, so funny!

What a wonderful birthday! So grateful we were able to have family and friends come out to celebrate. We can't wait to see what 2012 will bring!

Baby Blessing

As the due date gets scarily closer, Tim and I thought we should start talking about dates to have the baby blessing so that way our families can start planning accordingly. 

We have two dates in mind, either May 27th (Memorial Day weekend) or the following Sunday, June 3rd.  Our Bishop has given us permission to do the blessing on Memorial Day weekend even though it is not a fast Sunday.  We don't know if doing it on that weekend will make it easier for people to come (because of a longer holiday weekend) or harder (because of a crazy weekend to travel).  We want to know what is easier for everyone in both of our families as far as travel, work, and school go.

Please everyone reply as soon as possible for which weekend works the best and why so that way we can make a decision and let everyone know so travel and work arrangements can be made by everyone.  Remember, we also have to take Tim's family's availability into consideration too.  Once we hear back from everyone, we will let everyone know what the date will be.

Family Fast

So Matt will be having surgery on his eye on Monday (at 6am, talk about early!!) and Danielle asked if we were going to have a family fast which I think is an awesome idea! We would like to invite everyone to participate in family fast for Matt on Monday, December 19th. Your prayers and thoughts are very appreciated and I will definitely keep everyone up to date. Thanks!

11 Months Old!

Seems like Abby is growing in leaps and bounds! She can talk "ma-ma, ba-ba, da-da, la-la" and even imitate some sounds. She knows her name and when you say "where is grandma?" she knows who to look for. But one the coolest things is...Abby can walk! So sure she is still crawling from here to there on occasion but she can walk all over the place now and it's still pretty hard to believe! We are so excited to watch Abby open her Christmas presents on Christmas morning and see her excitement! We sure love our baby girl!!

Thanksgiving pics!

NOTE: So I know we were all there so the post below might seem a little redundant but I figured it would be fun to see some of the pics we took down in Cali, enjoy!

(On another sidenote...I found Abby's cute panda beanie but lost my star earrings Matt got me for Christmas last year at the hotel, out of all the things to loose this one really sucks!)

For Thanksgiving this year we decided to take a little trip to California to spend the holidays with Matt's family and we had a blast! We drove to San Jose (12 hours, yikes!) and though it was one the longest drives I've been on (not to mention driving with a baby which of course you have to add a couple more hours) Abby did a really good job and I couldn't be more proud of her! She only fussed a couple of times, such a trooper!




We arrived at Matt's sister Allison and her hubbie Tim's house in San Jose on Wednesday, November 23rd around 9pm. We went right to bed and waited for the rest of the family to arrive the next day.

On Thursday, November 24th (Thanksgiving Day woot, woot!!) all the family made it out and it was so nice seeing everyone. Some of the siblings we haven't seen in over two years (WAY TOO LONG!) so it was just so good catching up! Abby loved playing with her cousins Luke, Leona, and Emma-Lee, I just wished we all lived closer.












After many, many hours of cooking (THANKS Tim and Alli, the food was AMAZING!) we enjoyed our delicious Thanksgiving dinner! I loved every single part of it!!







After Thanksgiving we enjoyed a little relaxation! I loved just kicking back, catching up with everyone and not having a worry in the world! Gotta love holidays!!

This is so cute, lol! Abby LOVED hugging her littel cousin Emma who is only a month younger then her but about 8lbs lighter. We had to tell Abby "be soft" just a couple times, lol. Love this video!

On Friday, November 25th we took some family pics (to be posted soon) and just spent the rest of the day relaxing and spending time together. We also did a Christmas gift exchange since everyone was there and not everyone (including us) will be there for Christmas day. Matt's brother Thom and Sarah drew our name and got us the cutest monkey pj's! I was so excited to get them cause Matt and I still needed to get Christmas pj's and these are going to work out perfectly!

On Saturday, November 26th we headed home. Abby was a little more fussy with the drive home but after sitting in the same car for over 12 hours you can't really blame her, lol. We made it home safe and sound and ready to not take step in another car for a week! We had so much fun visiting our family and spending so much time together, gotta love holidays!!