The other day Allie was pulling things out of her diaper bag and decided her baby needed a changing. How adorable is this! Her baby does everything she does, she feeds it, puts the tag she has been chewing on in the babies mouth, and now changes her diaper. The other night she was trying to put the baby to bed. I know one day I will go in her room and she will be nursing the baby. :)

This statement no longer applies. Matt was sitting on the edge of the bed this morning putting on his shoes. Allie and I came into the room and I sat down on the end next to him and the bed frame broke! It landed on Matt's heals but thankfully it just stung for a few minutes. Allie's hand could have been under it, or one of our feet. Scary. Granted we have had it for almost 4 years but seriously our bed frame broke! So here is our makeshift "hotel". I told Matt that Allie is going to love this in the morning. The only problem is Matt won't get to sleep in.

Lately Allie has loved putting things on her head. Mostly this hat but also burp clothes, bibs, shirts, coats, ect. I think it steams from peekabo but she doesn't always pull it off right away, it can sit there up to five minutes sometimes. :) Isn't this hat so cute.

Dinner + New Moon (again) = Awesome

Tonight was our annual So You Think You Can Dance show. My mom and dad give me tickets for my birthday every year. I am sad to say I forgot my camera though! The show was amazing. As they always are. The show ended months ago and I had forgotten my favorite dancers and my favorite dances that they did so it was really great to see and get to relive them all. My favorite dance still is the addiction dance with Kayla and Kupono. Always brings me to tears. As does the breast cancer routine. It was so much fun! Thanks mom and dad! Can't wait to go next year too. :)

Okay so you all know by now that I love the Twilight series. My sister begged me to read them and I was hooked. I watch the movie in March and was slightly disappointed by the acting and the movie as a whole but I was willing to stick it out for the next one because I love the books so much. and I should mention my sister is a super fan with Twilight t-shirts and Twilight makeup so as the summer went on the anticipation for the next one began to build because of her enthusiasm. We got tickets for this Saturday months ago but a mutual friend of ours heard about a fan website that does work with a charity got a theater to do an advance showing today! So she got us tickets and we headed up to Vancouver. My sister got off work early expecting to have to stand in line for forever but she was the first one! I got there shortly after and snapped a few pictures for you guys. The movie was amazing! It was an actual movie, with great acting, and amazing action. With this one being so great it just makes me mad about the first one. Why couldn't it have been like that one! But I did not think driving up to the theater that the actual theater would be a highlight in itself but it totally was. I will explain with pictures. We had a really fun time. :) and we will get to see it again in just two days. :)

My sister in one of her three shirts. If you have seen the movie or read the books then you should get the meaning behind her shirt. If not Edward the main character can read minds. Except for Bella, his love. :)

We got to choose any seat we wanted but we couldn't have chosen wrong. They all had a great view and these amazing leather seats with ottomans. and pillows!

Every other seat had a tray like this. and they actually had waiters that came around before the movie to take our order! We were in the over 21 theater so we could order alcohol if we wanted.

Today I got to play Guitar Hero with my niece (6) and nephew (14). While Nathan was playing Brynne and I were dancing to the music. :) I am still learning but I can't go past easy. My nephew should join competitions or something because he is amazing. I don't understand how his brain works that fast! It makes me feel really old.

For her birthday we gave Allie a baby doll and the other day she was playing in the living room and I looked up to see her hugging and kissing the baby and putting her safely in her stroller. What a good little mommy.

Wow a whole year. What an amazing year. A year so full of love, fun, goofiness, patience, caring, understanding, and faith. She has made our love for each other stronger and we feel stronger in the Lord. The Lord has shown us a glimpse of His love for us by giving us Allie. She continues to amaze me by the amount of love I feel for her that grows on a daily basis. We are truly blessed.

Some updates! She is becoming more and more brave in standing. She has yet to walk but is letting go of things regularly. She is trying out alot of new signs but can't quite do them on her own yet, but I have a feeling she will just take off with them. She LOVES music, she has a toy that plays music and everyday she stands next to it, pushes the button, looks at me and shakes her little body. She started doing a little shimy shake when she gets excited. It's so cute! She laughs for no reason and she does this often. and sometimes to strangers in the store. and she got her first taste of cake today and loved it! She is her mother's daughter. Pictures to come of her very special day. Here are all the monthly pictures I have taken of her over the last year. Enjoy!

You know what sucks even worse then your baby being sick (which is pretty bad in itself), you being sick as well. You know whats even worse then that, your husband is even sicker then the two of you. We experienced this ALL weekend.

I thought I should post this super cute story even though it isn't mine! My sister's friend was giving her son (5) breakfast the other morning when he asked what book she was reading. She said it was a book that my sister had given her. He said does it have a character named Holly in it? She said no I don't have any books with a character named Holly. He said yes you do you read it all the time, her name is Holly Bibble. Mel had no clue what he was talking about. So he went to get the book and he brought her the Holy Bible. Cute huh. :)

All throughout my pregnancy I wasn't able to get my ring off. I was agonized at the thought of having to cut it off. Well it finally came off after a year! Granted I haven't been trying all that hard but I am super excited to finally have it off. I think I will have it sized now so that doesn't happen again. :)

Yesterday we celebrate Matt's 27th. It feels like such a treat to have dinner and a movie now. We had dinner at Todai downtown and then we saw The Invention of Lying. Both pretty good. :) Allie and I love you with all our hearts. Your the best husband and father EVER!

Here are a couple more videos. She just started doing the cutest little dance. It's the smallest little movement but worth the watch. Sometimes she moves her arms back and forth and today she started shaking her shoulder - only one. :) Check them out here and here.

Check out this video of Allie talking to Dada on the phone. It's so cute how she holds the phone to the back of her head instead of to her ear. She just started doing that a few days ago.

I was so busy planning her first birthday party I forgot to take her 11 month pictures so these are a few days late. She is learning and growing everyday it's hard to keep up! She now knows 10 signs (give or take) but her favorite sign is dog and our favorite sign is elephant. She started doing that sign after we went to the zoo for the first time and she got to see one up close. Of course when we went to the zoo both my friend and I forgot our memory cards, bummer. She now pulls her self up on anything, including toys laying in the middle of the living room but she has yet to let go of anything, on purpose anyways. My favorite thing that she started doing this month is actually puckering up and giving mom a kiss, oh and when she does the itsy bitsy spider, It's so cute! I know she is going to be a dancer too because anytime she hears music even background music on a show she starts bobbing up and down. :) This will be the last normal month pictures because the next one will be when she is 1 year! and in her cute little costume.

I had a hard time getting her to sit for these because she is such a busy body!

Remember this....Well this time it happened at my sisters while her friend was watching him. She said he finger painted with the poop, it was up his nose and in his hair. Gross! I am so scared he will do it at my house! I don't think I could handle it! Anyone have any ideas to keep his clothes/diaper on?

Allie was playing in my sisters living room and Heather and I were talking. I looked over at Allie and noticed she has something brown in her hand and was lifting it to her mouth. I realized it was cat poop! I dashed across the room with super mama speed and snatched it out of her hand before she ate it. I have never really liked cats but I am starting to side with Matt even more then I did before. :)