Thursday, November 29, 2007

Step By Step....

Bella has been taking a few steps for a couple weeks. Two weeks ago she took 10 steps to Uncle Ernie but we haven't got her to do much more than that...until tonight...she was walking back and forth like crazy! Hopefully she remembers in the morning or Grandma M will just have to come to our house every day!

Sorry about the footage again...forgot to turn the camera around and her walking on the first video is near the end! Just wanted to catch what I could on film while she was doing it!

Fascination....

Bella LOVED her gloves....
she wouldn't let me take them off when we came in!
She even played for awhile with them on!
I thought it was too cute! Hopefully she always wants to leave her gloves on when it is freezing outside!

Bundled Up....




Once Bella Raye woke up from her nearly 3 hour nap after play group I just couldn't seem to make her happy with anything! We let the dogs out and she went back to the door and was trying to reach the handle. So....we bundled up and headed outside for awhile where she was completely happy!!!

Another Special Birthday Wish....

Happy Birthday, Katherine!!!!
I hope you have a nice relaxing day, full of all your favorites and all your birthday wishes come true!
Sure wish we lived closer so we could celebrate doing something fun!!!
Love,
Alli

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY, Ella Nicole

What is this ridiculous hat you put on my head?!?!
Yeah, It's My Birthday
Diggin' in for the first bite...not so sure!
It's my party and I'll cry if I want too...
Ella, we have had so much fun watching you grow, laugh and learn over this last year! What an exciting year you have in front of you!
We hope you have a very happy day!
Love,
Alli & Bella Raye

Have a finger...

What a gentlemen at such an early age!!!
Lending his finger to Libby so she has something to suck on!
Soooo Sweet!

Play Group....

Yes, I love when play group is at my house and my mommy gets all the toys out and it is a free for all...I am waiting for my friends to get here!!!
Look, Hayden and Ella made it
and

Gavin gets to come to our play groups now! Yeah, another boy...isn't he cute!?!
And Libby is looking so much stronger...no more infant becoming a baby
Mimi got to join is the fun too!

Thank you to all my friends who got to come today and we missed those of you who couldn't make it!

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

New Favorite....


Gotta LoVe the messy face!!!
Bella Raye has become quite the little breakfast eater, she likes eggs and toast, yogurt and cheerios but her favorite is sausage breakfast links with cheese until yesterday! I pulled out the frozen blueberries and she couldn't eat enough!
We have been busy little bees this week...mommy has the week off in order to try to prepare for the extremely busy but blessed December we have a head of ourselves! We haven't taken pi cutes yet because it has been busy no fun home stuff, but hopefully the last part of the week will be fun with some play dates and seeing some friends we haven't seen in a long time, Christmas tree going up and hopefully staying up and some birthday celebrating!
Stay Tune...it should be fun and hopefully I remember the camera!

Sunday, November 25, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,

AUNT SUZI!!!!


We hope you have a wonderulf day and all your birthday wishes come true!!!


We love you!

Tim, Alli & Bella Boo

Friday, November 23, 2007

Amaze Us...

Wyatt sharing who every one is cheering for this year! (No one is coaching him on what to say)

We know we are a little bias but our nephew continues to amaze us with his knowledge base at only 2 1/2!!!

Thanksgiving Baby Shower....

Megan and Nick are awaiting the birth of their
Baby Lily Early in January...
Glowing Mommies-to-be...Lots of new babies coming to the family this year!!!
Megan due Jan. 4th, Angie due March 4th and Julie due July 5th...
After our bellies were stuffed from a wonderful Thanksgiving meal and since the family was together we thought it would be a wonderful time to have a Baby Shower!
Megan and Nick got lots of baby must-have items and of course lots of cute pink clothes!

Thanksgiving 2007

Happy Thanksgiving
from our Families to Yours!!!!

So Many Reason to give thanks this year!

We are most thankful for all our wonderful family and friends! Also for our very healthy and happy little girl!!!

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Real Life....

I can't believe I am even posting this picture...but around 6:30 pm it was just one of those real life mom moments...when I just had to laugh or I would cry....
-I was trying to keep my daughter happy who decided she didn't want a nap this afternoon so now was melting down
-My kitchen was WRECK... I was making dinner and 4 different things for Thanksgiving since I am working until 3 am tomorrow!
-Tim was stuck late at work because they are installing a new email server and he was talking with one of their service people!
-The dogs were on my heals b.c it was 30 minutes past meal time
Like I said REAL LIFE MOMENT....
CALLIGAN TAKE ME AWAY....
My Train Wreck Kitchen....
My exhausted baby girl who was a mess again and already had one bath today..
AN HOUR IN A HALF LATER....
Daddy comes home, we have a nice dinner, he gives Bella Raye a bath and puts her to bed.
I get to clean my kitchen and all is ready for Thanksgiving!
All in time to sit down and watch Dancing With the Stars and have Chocolate covered strawberries with Tim!!!
Tim thought is was pretty silly we were taking this pic and I couldn't keep my eyes open!!!
Life is good...just a little crazy at times!
Which keep us all on our toes!

Friday, November 16, 2007

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Bella Raye can't get enough of Wyatt "aytt"!!!
She loves spending every second with him and following him every where!
We were so happy to play with Wyatt for a couple hours tonight!
Sorry there was such bad traffic getting here!
Thanks for coming over!

Mommy's Helper...

Helping mommy with the salad...
Cucumber, Tomatoes....bring it on....I even ate some red onion and didn't flinch!
Salad is Ready...Let's Eat!!!

It was pizza night...Uncle Ernie and Wyatt were coming over and Great Aunt Beth stayed late from playing with me... so mom and I threw together a salad to go with the pizza!

Rocky...Rocky....

Look at this great rocking horse my mom got me!
My babysitter Jenny has one and I love it!
Mommy found this on Craig's List for $10!
She loves good deal!

I'm Rocking!!!

Thanks Aunt Beth...

Having fun with Great Aunt Beth today...I was in a mood when mommy was trying to get a picture!
Today Aunt Beth came over to play with Izabella for a few hours and I got to run out and get some errands done!
Total undivided attention and play, play, play! Bella you are sooo lucky!

Date Night....

I tried to find a recent picture of Tim and I without Izabella for our date night posting and couldn't. I saw this one when I was scanning through and thought it would work! (little younger and thinner 2004...taken by Nate)
Auntie Sara came over to play with Bella Raye and we were off on our date...once again using gift cards which makes it even better! We went to Ram for dinner and enjoyed a great casual dinner. We realized how much easier and quicker it is to eat when one of isn't juggling with Bella Raye even though she is still great to take out! We were done with an hour to kill before our movie so we got a Starbucks. Then headed to see Dan in Real Life.
Sarah had suggested it earlier in the day at play group. What a fun and entertaining movie! It had me laughing out loud most of the time and a few tears too! It was a perfect date night movie that we both enjoyed!
Although we love every second (which isn't enough) that we spend with Bella Raye it is very nice to get out with just each other every once in awhile too! We are trying to make this at least a monthly outing and once the holidays are over we hope more often!

I LOVE YOU TIM...thanks for fun night!!!

Play Group....

Another fun Thursday play group at Abby and Ella's this week!
Happy Fallyn rocking on the elephant...
Diva Libby chillin' in the Bumbo.....
I think I look forward to play group more than Izabella. It amazes me still how much these kiddos can change in 2 weeks and the mommy talk and friendship is wonderful!

1 year ago

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
I just looked back and realized it has been a year since I have been a blogger!!! I know I spend too much time doing it sometimes, but thank goodness I have beacuse this is the only form "scrapbooking" I have done regulary for Izabella!
I have heard from so many family and friends how much they enjoy keeping up with our lives activites through our blog! I know that same enjoyment as I check our family and friends who have blogs daily. I miss when they haven't made a post for a long time.
Happy Blogging...more post to come after a super busy but fun day yesterday but my camera battery is dead!
Thanks for reading!!!

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Sesame Trance....

What stops Bella Raye in her tracks??
Good Ol' Sesame Street
I was trying to put dinner together before Tim got home and Bella wanted all my attention or to get into everything she shouldn't! So I put Sesame Street on and sure enough it stopped her in her tracks and as you can tell by her the picture she wouldn't even look at me!
Cookie Monster cracks her up and she loves when the count, counts!
Needless to say I got dinner done and we enjoyed watching the end of Sesame Street together!

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Fetch and Giggles....

Bella loves playing fetch with Peyton...they do this numerous times throughout the day!

Tonight I had just gotten home from work and daddy was off to watch the COLTS game. He had already fed her and gave her a bath so we were just playing, reading and cuddling on the couch before bed! She was laying down when Peyton brought his toy up to her and she just thought it was the funniest thing! When they first started playing she was laughing much harder but it took me a few minutes to think to get the camera!

Her giggles always make me laugh and warm my heart! Had to share our happy baby on camera!

Friday, November 9, 2007

Look what I found...

We started off our day with going to MOPS (mothers of preschoolers) with Sarah and Libby. The moms eat brunch, talk and then there is usually a craft or a speaker. This mornings speaker was Lauren Dungy. She was fun to listen too and has an amazing faith and family! They have 6 children from ages 22years-18months.
Can you imagine how busy she is?
After MOPS we went to Bravo for lunch, hit Target, saw Papaw real fast and then came home! She was almost asleep when we pulled in the driveway so I changed her diaper left her pants off and put her in her crib for her nap! She was talking and playing for awhile as I put groceries away, checked email, opened the snail mail but then I she was quiet so I peeked in to see if she had fallen asleep and to my suprise I found a....
DIAPER-LESS BABY!!!!
Yes, some how she figured out how to take her diaper off! We could be in trouble! Luckily I peeked in soon enough and there were no accidents...could you imagine the mess I could of found???
So from now on Miss Izabella will have a onesis on or pants when she is napping!!!
Also did you notice she must have a beaver sleeping her her?
Look at her crib rail.....She has chewed it!!!
We put a guard rail on the front of the crib when she started to destroy it and now I guess one will have to go on there too!
So much fun each day never knowing what she will learn and do next!

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Long lost friends....

We finally got to play and have lunch with Ann and MiMi today and it was so much fun!!!
Ann and I have been trying to get together for months and it seems like our schedules just couldn't match up!
Today we made up for lost time!
The girls played, Bella mastered the few stairs, Ann made a wonderful salad for lunch and we had lots of mommy talk! They are headed to Ann's parents for 2 weeks so we were so glad we finally got to see them before they left!
Bella and MiMi loved looking out the big dining room window at the men cutting down the trees and the beautiful day!
Thanks for having us over!!!

Sunday, November 4, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

TIM & DADDY!!!!!




We hope all your birthday wishes come true today! We know you are really wishing for a COLTS victory!
GO COLTS!

YOU MAKE OUR WORLD FULL OF SO MUCH HAPPINESS AND LAUGHTER DAILY!!! THANK YOU!!!

HAPPY 35th BIRTHDAY!!!!

WE LOVE YOU SOOO MUCH!

Allison & Izabella

Birthday Celebrating...

What a birthday celebrations for Tim's 35th!!!
He started out his day with golfing with 7 of his buddies and it was perfect Fall day to be on the course
Then a great dinner with some more friends....
up for some bowling?
The birthday boy got the high score with a 151!

Cortne, Amber, Angie, Allison Maines, Allison Matusin, Molli
Jim, Tim, Doug, Gordie and Brian
Finish the night off with some Golden Tee with his buddies and NOT having to work that night! A fun and perfect night!