Monday, December 22, 2008

Blizzard in Sellwood!

We have been happily hanging out all weekend but by Christmas we may get stir crazy. Matt has taken a few walks to the store and to play shuffle board with Mike Roth. :) I love the feeling of not being able to leave because you get very inventive with your time. I have been baking a ton in hopes of bringing them to Christmas.

Here's Allie hanging out with Mom and Dad

Cuddling up with Daddy

A bath is a good way to warm up

This is a huge icicle outside our window. It has grown and grown over the last few days and now is growing past the window!

A view of the icicle from the outside

Just outside our house

Our car

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Our Love Bug

She finally fit into her Halloween costume my cousin bought her. It's a Newborn size! and that's the pumpkin I bought for her when I was pregnant.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

A Festive New Look For The Blog

As you can tell we are preparing for the holidays.

We enjoyed lunch with some of the Pastore clan

and took Allie for her first trip to a restaurant.

We did some shopping and even got our tree all set up!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Cutest Baby Ever!!

Check out my friend Christy's blog and see Allie's newborn pictures. They are awesome!

http://www.studiochristy.typepad.com/

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Like Mother Like Daughter

Remember this?

Allie likes to do it too!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Thanksgiving

This was Allie's first official holiday (besides being born on Halloween). We ate dinner with my family and then visited Matt's family for dessert.

Our first family picture

All the activity tired her out

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

One Month!

On Sunday Allie turned one month old! I can't believe it has been a month already! It has been the best month of my life.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Sleep

I am already 18 days old! and have been doing plenty of sleeping.

All cosy in my bassinet

In my favorite pose mom and dad call "The Kick Is Good" pose

Snuggled up with mom

Or this funny one with my finger in my ear and my arm straight up in the air.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

First Model Shoot!

Allie had her first modeling job today. Our friend Christy came over and took newborn pictures of Allie. She did great. She peed a couple of times and even managed to drench herself the first time but she held up okay through it all. Thanks Christy! These are not the photos but here are some of her practice poses.

Happy!

Passive

Surprised!

Thursday, November 13, 2008

The Closest Winner

About 3 weeks ago I gave you an assignment. Whoever came closest to guessing Allie's b-day would get recognized on the blog. So here are the 3 people who came closest! Here are Allie's stats again.

Born on October 31st at 10:58am and weighed 7 pounds 2 ounces

Ford Jordan!! You guess she would be born on October 30th and you were the closest. Here are a few words about Ford...He recently moved to North Carolina with his wife and beautiful daughter and we miss them all very much. We have only really personally known Ford for about a year but we came to call Ford one of our really good friends. He was one of our Pastoral Interns and I loved it when Ford preached. I miss your sermons. :) He made us aware that Portland has very little fashion sense when it comes to bow ties and we now are used to hearing ya'll used in everyday conversation. Thanks Ford! So I hope this at least makes up a bit for Matt's promise to say something nice about you instead did this.

Matt got her weight right at 7 pounds 2 ounces. You guys already know I think he is awesome so I will just leave it at that. Although I didn't know I could love Matt on another level until I saw him kissing our daughter.

and Lindsay (Ford's wonderful wife) this wasn't your official guess but you did mention that you hoped I would have a 7 pounds 2 ounce baby so I will give you honorable mention because that was very sweet of you to wish that! and I will just say that Lindsay is the most awesome person and again we totally miss you guys!

Shelia! guessed she would be born at 11:30am and you were very close! So here is your recognition..Sheila has known Matt's family for forever and has kept in touch over the years. She has been so generous in showering Allie with gifts that we feel her love all the way from Washington DC. Your a wonderful baker and we love receiving sweets from across the US. and we think it is so cool that you are able to get us White House ornaments. We can't wait for another visit so you can see Allie in person! Thanks Shelia!!

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Matt's mom generously threw a Pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving on Sunday with a bunch of family and friends. Allie stayed awake the whole time and crashed when we got home. It was a great night. Thanks Donna for putting it all on! I ate 2 bites of my plate and then Allie got hungry. Oh life as a mom. Loving every minute. :)

Napkin Heads!!

Matt's sister and my niece Brynne

Will is the only one aware that

a photo is being taken

Matt's grandparents in

from California

Kisses for Auntie Heather

Isn't he soooo cute!! I call this pose "The Cheese" Everytime

I take out my camera

"The Cheese" appears

My mom and sister

fighting over her all night

4 generations

The other side of the family

generation of 4 only Matt

wasn't in the picture

Matt and Brynne

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Happy Birthday to Allie!

HELLO EVERYONE!

Happy Birthday To Me.

Yes that's right I am one week old today.

Even though it's my Birthday

I decided to give you all a present,

more photos of me!

VISITORS YEAH!!!!

FIRST BATH!!!!

MORE FRIENDS!!!

Check out Me & Mera my BFF!

Blog B-day

Tomorrow I will post more pictures of our little one since tomorrow is her week b-day. but I thought I would share with you something we just discovered. Our blog turned 1 year the very same day our daughter was born. :) Happy birthday to our baby and our blog! She has made the blog 10 times better! and we can't wait to share this next year with you guys.

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