Birthday Bash

We had so much fun celebrating Abbie's 1st Birthday!
Abbie and I met Grandma Anderson and Ali and Spencer for lunch at Red Robin. The kids loved the balloons and Spencer was kind enough to give Abbie a birthday smooch (okay, it was mutual) Are we terrible parents for promoting this? i think it's darling, but probably not on her 2nd birthday :)We had a super fun party that night - so many family members came - (Thanks again for coming everyone!) Abbie tore into her cake ... there was zero hesitation, we put it on her tray and she dug in. It was so much fun to watch her make a mess and she definitely LOVED the attention.

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABBIE

How does a year go by so quickly? Our Little Abbie is turning 1 today - and we are so excited to celebrate her first year of life. She is such an angel and we are extremely blessed to have her in our lives. Last night she was giggling extra hard (it's the most adorable sound in the world) and Clark and I just looked at each other and said "this is what life is all about." We love our Abbie and want to wish her a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Lots of pictures

I can't believe the holidays are over ... December flew by so fast and we crammed in as much fun as possible! here's some pictures of what we've been up toWe spent Christmas Eve with the Caldwells and had a great time. Abbie got a hold of some clementines and went crazy. silly girlSanta came to our Christmas Eve party and Abbie was not very fond of himAbbie Christmas morningShe was much more interested in the dogs than the giftsAbbie took over Spencer's gift - she LOVED cruising around. she squealed the whole timeSpencer and Abbie went sledding in Grandma and Grandpa's front lawn... Abbie spent a lot of the time like thisWe've all been a little under the weather in our house the past week, so abbie has spent a lot of time in her jammies and with a sippy cup (looking like an orphan child)Yes, this is Clark's sweatshirt. I came downstairs a few days ago and he had her all bundled up
Here's abbie in her big girl car seat - she LOVES it. she's been climbing all over it - we can't believe she's going to ONE next week. Hope your holidays were filled lots of joy!

Walking/Shaking

Abbie is walking EVERYWHERE! it's so much fun... other than walking she is really into "shaking her bootie" these days - take a look at this video. She has me Laughing ALL day long

sorry for the poor quality, it's from my cell phone

3 years

it's crazy to think how much life has changed in the past 3 years!
Our wedding day was wonderful. It was a gorgeous weather (50 degrees!) and the absolute perfect day with our family celebrating with us.
Today is a freezing cold day, but wonderful just the same. We have the most beautiful daughter who has made our life happier than we could have imagined 3 years ago! We are blessed to have her in our life and are excited to see what the coming years will bring.

25 years

Yesterday I celebrated my 25th birthday - WOAH! i was thinking about how OLD that seems, and how it means I've been out of high school for 6 (almost 7) years... but when i woke up this morning i really didn't feel any older :)

My mom and i had planned to spend some time in Park City shopping, but when we woke up to a snow storm we decided against risking Parley's Canyon - so we ended up going to lunch at the Cheesecake Factory (YUMMY) and doing some shopping at Fashion Place Mall - we had a really good time.

Clark and i had planned to take Abbie downtown to see the Christmas lights on Temple Square, but the snow kinda messed with that plan too - so we just went to dinner close to home and then came back here for Cheesecake :) I have actually really wanted it to snow, so overall it was a great day.

long time no blogging

Where do i start? I cannot believe that Thanksgiving is gone and December is here...
We had a great Thanksgiving. We spent the day with the Anderson family - some of us ran a 5k in Bountiful in the morning (which was a joke for me - the fact that i haven't run in quite some time became a little too obvious). My parents hosted Thanksgiving dinner and the food was great. It was Abbie's first Thanksgiving and i dare say she enjoyed it. My 2 brothers and their families were in town for the week so we spent a lot of time at the parentals hanging out. It was great to see everyone and we're hoping we convinced them to move back :)abbie dancing to uncle nick playing the guitar. she dances whenever she hears music

The BYU/Utah game was pathetic. oh well. Abbie enjoyed it though - every time our room full of people would cheer she would clap and squeal...it was lots more entertaining to watch her :)
I got all of our Christmas decor out today, which turned the house into a disaster zone, but we got it all put together and i'm glad to say we're all decorated (except our tree, which we'll go get in the next week or so) ... Abbie played in my empty storage containers while i was sorting through everything. she's such a sweetheart. She's walking like crazy now... getting more and more brave, with fewer bonks and bruises. She's also doing the sweetest thing - she snuggles EVERYTHING. She'll crawl around on the floor and snuggle her toys and blankets and me and clark. it's adorable - she makes a little "ahhhh" sound when she does it... she even had a night where she wouldn't stop snuggling the tile floor in our kitchen :)