Carving pumpkins

Since Charlee was only a couple of days old last year when we carved pumpkins and she was taking nap.. this year she decided to dig right it and she did a great job of helping... Zoey drew the faces:)

First Birthday party!!

Last Sunday we did a little bit of partying and celebrated charlee's first birthday with friends and family.

It was a good party and she had a great time starting with a great dinner and of course finished with CAKE!! She loved it.

Char had to take a quick break from the party to take a bath.. she was a little messy and then we opened presents!! She had a lot of help with Zoey, Marlee and Maddie all helping. They all head a great time seeing the news toys.

It was a wonderful party. Enjoy the pictures!

One Year Old!!!

Charlee had a great first Birthday!!! She woke up to snuggles from the whole family!! She spent some time at Chris's because she had to take snacks.. her and her friend Sam shared a cupcake!! I went and got her early and we did a little shopping just me and her!! It was wonderful!! Then we went and picked up Zoey. We played at home had spaghetti for dinner (one of Charlee's favorites right now)and of course we ended the meal with a cupcake singing Happy Birthday and watching Charlee smash it everywhere, she had a great time! After a bath  we opened presents. Of course like most one year olds charlee wasn't that interested in opening the presents luckily she has a sister that could help with that. We played with the new toys. At first she didn't know what to think about Rock and Roll Elmo... she giggles with delight when he's in the box but the first time he came out and started moving around she wasn't real sure what to think. We played with the new toys a little bit and then decided to go and get some frozen yogurt as a special birthday treat! It was a wonderful day and such a blessing that a year ago we were blessed with our little Charlee. One year ago today was our first day at home as a family.. its amazing how much has changed in the last year and just how blessed we are.

We are celebrating Charlee's birthday again tomorrow with a small family party. I will post pictures from that as well.

We love you Charlee, you are a happy little girl that makes me smile every day!! I love your funny faces, I love the funny noises you make, I love your adventurous attitude... Just this evening you got stuck under a bar stool in the kitchen and you weren't scared at all. I think you think you are much older then you are and I love you so much more then you will ever know.

Mommy, Daddy and Charlee date

Friday night Zoe got to hang out with some friends and me, Jake and Charlee went out to dinner and it was SO fun!! It was great being able to give Charlee all of our attention and of course she just ate it up... you could tell that she missed her sister but was okay with the one on one time for awhile.. of course the minute Z walked in the door, Charlee was tackling her to welcome her home.

Sunday we headed to Shellsburg for Charlee's one year pictures. She did a great job and I can't wait to see them. We did some family pictures, some Charlee pictures, some sister pictures and then did of course the cake smash...Charlee at first wasn't interested at all which seems so odd considering she LOVES to eat!! but as the time went on, she started to get the hang of it and in the end we had to remove the cake because we were worried about her eating to much!!

Charlee has started on whole milk this week and so far so good. Can't believe in two days she will be one year old.. where has the time gone?

some new teeth...

Just in time for halloween Charlee has gotten more teeth, but its not the teeth you would think.. its her eye teeth on the top.. so to put it in terms everyone will understand... it looks like she has fangs;( She must know it looks kind of silly because she isn't quick to show them off.

Charlee has converted to walking... and I might even say that she is faster at walking then she is crawling now. She is such a happy little girl. Hard to believe in one week, she will be a week old and we won't be able to call her a baby... in my heart she will always be my baby girl!

Trip to the pumpkin Farm

Char made her first trip to the pumpkin farm this weekend and had a pretty good time. She looked at all the animals and checked out some of the pumpkins. We also did some work in Grandpa's Garden before we went and she had a good time riding in the wheelbarrow and the wagon..... She picked out some good pumpkins!