2009!

I can't believe that tomorrow is the beginning of 2009! I am so behind in posting 2008 and 2009 is about to begin!

Here is a picture of Addy on the last day of 2008!



A future Puma model!

Birthday Party!

Addy had her second birthday party at The Little Gym. We go to The Little Gym every Saturday and Addy loves it so we thought it would be a good place to a her party.

We were right!

There was...

lots of friends



Ryan, JoJo, Blake, Brie, Ally, Mallory, Laynie, RiRi, and Kiki.

lots of running and playing





the air trek





two year old tantrums



these tantrums happened because of the air trek. The fact that Addy wasn't allowed to just jump on the air trek like we do on Saturdays made her very mad!

lots of hanging







the parachute





singing





pizza and cake







I would say we had a very successful second birthday party!

All About Addy

Things I want to remeber about my BIG two year old...

* She says "I don't fink so." and "probably." all the time.
* She LOVES Mickey and everything that goes along with Mickey.
* She started watching movies. It's a Mickey movie, of course, but she is can't get enough of it.
* Garth has to read her a pop-up version of The Night Before Christmas every night.
* She tried to climb out of her crib about a month ago. She now has a "tent" on her bed.

I need to get back into documenting Addy's life. It is so awesome to go back and look at how she has changed. I think come April my time at the computer will be very limited, I need to get to work while I can!

2 Years Old!

It is hard for me to believe that I had my baby girl 2 years ago. That at 9:32 pm, 2 years ago, we were holding a 7 hour 20 minute old baby. She was so tiny.





Addy,

I love you more than you will ever know. You are my sunshine, best friend and the light of my life. I feel completely blessed to be your mommy. I cherish every second I have with you and soak up everything about you. You are mommas baby girl and will always be!!! I LOVE YOU!!!

Love,
Momma

2 Years Ago...

2 years ago...I was laying in a hospital bed, turning over and putting down a magazine.

2 years ago...Garth was trying to sleep on the waiting room floor of the hospital.

2 years ago...to almost this very minute my water broke.

2 years ago...the happiest day of our life was about to begin!

November 13th...

was a very good day! We found out we are having a beautiful, healthy, baby GIRL! Addy is going to have a baby sister!

I have been dreading November 13th. Everything was before the 13th or after the 13th. Would we be excited, or sad? I had no reason, other then some bleeding at the beginning, to think that something was wrong but I still thought the worst.

I remember being at Addy's sonogram and not even thinking something could be wrong until my mom started crying when the said everything looked great. Then it hit me...something could be wrong. I am so thankful that Addy was and is still perfect in every way. I couldn't help but think this would be different. I wanted to prepare myself in case something was wrong. Everywhere I turned someone had something wrong with their pregnancy. I am more than THANKFUL to God that we are going to have two healthy daughters at the end of this pregnancy!

my baby + a day off = FUN!!!

I had off last Tuesday so, Addy and I visited the pumpkin patch! {Days off are the best part of teaching!!! ;o)}

We went to a the "learning part" of the pumpkin patch that had a ton of animals...bunnies, cow, goats, alpaca, pigs, and chickens, a ton of open running space, a huge slide (too big for Addy), bikes, mazes, straw "trampolines" and more! Addy had a blast and loved every minute of our trip!







After all that "learning" we went on a hay ride to the pumpkin patch!







When we got home I asked Addy if she would let me take a picture of her and her pumpkins on the step and {gasp} she let me!



Yes, she has three pumpkins in this picture and many more at home now. Addy loves pumpkins!

I love days off! For one day last week and one this week I get to pretend to be a SAHM! I love those days!