Happy First Birthday Allison!

Wow. I can't believe a year has passed since our sweet baby girl has come into this world. It's been a roller coaster of  sleepless nights, unimaginable love, and the sweetest girl I've ever met. We are so lucky!

We started off the day with this little mound of heaven. She was so dainty when picking out her doughnut...eating it on the other hand...she was not.

For her first birthday I wanted something very simple yet timeless, so we went with the theme "Our Little Love is Turning One"! The main colors were pink and gold and I would say it turned out beautiful!

I made all of the decorations by hand, and at times I wanted to throw in the towel and buy princess themed crap from Target, but I prevailed! lol

 

I wanted to incorporate a way for all of our family to leave Allison a note of 'well wishes' or hopes for her next year of life. I had an extra canvas lying around so I thought I'd have everyone sign their names and write a little note. It's now hanging up in her playroom. :)

 

The picture garland was by far my most favorite decoration...one picture from every month. It was so awesome to see how she's changed over the past 12 months!

All in all I think her birthday was absolutely beautiful!

Happy Birthday Sweet Girl!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!! We have had a busy couple of days and needless to say we are all pooped, but our hearts are full! Yesterday we went back home to visit our families. Charles and I were very excited to spend Christmas day at home with our cute little babe! We enjoyed watching her eat all the wrapping paper and bows. She's still a little young to fully understand but it was still just as magical! Can't wait for next year to when she'll be a little more into unwrapping EVERY present!

Christmas Eve Activities:

Huntin' for a Christmas Tree with the Free family

Presents at Grandma Annie and the Darby family

Christmas Day Magic

Santa came!!!

Christmas Reindeer Pancakes for Breakfast!

Allison's favorite part of opening presents...eating the paper.

Playing with her new toys!

Opening Presents is HARDDDDD work!

Third Christmas of the Season!

We hope your Christmas was as magical as ours!

Advent Calendar: Fro-Yo & Cookies

Merry Christmas Eve Eve! Since I've been doing a terrible job of making sure we did all of our advent calendar activities these are the last two I will post about!

We went and had frozen yogurt at Spoons! Allison loved it but wasn't so sure about how cold it was! She would make this adorable little face and then immediately want more. Silly girl.

We also made cookies for Santa after we got frozen yogurt!

Merry Christmas Eve Eve!

Slobbery Ornaments and Christmas Trees

Since  I got off of work early today, Allison and I popped on over to Brenham to help my grandparents get their house ready for all of the Christmas festivities next weekend! Allison had a blast! She played with their puppy Cooper and slobbered on all of the lower part of the Christmas tree!









 

Best present under the tree!

 

 

 

Advent Calendar Activities: Part Two

December 10th: Walk around the Neighborhood and Look at Christmas Lights

Cute little Snuggle Muffin!

December 11th: Make up Day-- Visit Santa (Worst Santa Ever) 

First off, Allison was so tired. Secondly, Allison knows how to look at the camera better than Santa. We had to take literally 20 pictures just to get this mediocre one. Oh well...at least she didn't cry.

I know I'm biased but She really is the cutest!

December 12th: Play with Christmas Lights

I plan on doing a better 'photo shoot' of her in her jammies and I "HEART" Santa outfit but these were for fun!

Happy Friday!! More activities to come this weekend!