Thanksgiving 2011

This Thanksgiving was "my family's Year" and we all went to my sister's house in Phoenix. It was a much needed break from school and work, the weather was beautiful and Rebecca of course had a jam packed week O' fun planned for us. It was so great to spend time with the famiily and to introduce the new cousin into the mix.



Miss Aimsley in her Turkey-Dinner-Best.



Aimsley has two older lady cousins; Kate and Sammie Lou, they loved her so much they could hardly keep their hands off of her.


Literally.


It may have caused some arguments :)



During the week we went to Out Of Africa; which is kind of a wildlife adventure park. It's pretty amazing and stocked with Lions and Tiger and Bears...OH MY!



We rode a window-less bus around like a safari, and let giraffes eat carrots out of our mouths (well, the brave ones did at least :)) the workers called it "Kissing". The Giraffes grab the carrots out of your mouth with their long black tongues of course!!





Mom gave us our Christmas gifts early! Merry Apple Christmas to us. It was a wonderful week; fun, food and family. Nothing can top that.

Halloween 2011

Halloween might be my favorite holiday and lucky for us we had a wee one to share the magic with this year. I think we had more fun dressing her up than anything else. We were able to have one last year with out trick or treating and just being able to enjoy the festivities with our little sleepy bundle.


We had a little pumpkin carving party where mostly Porter showed his skills off.

Aimsley thought she liked her pumpkin costume...then maybe not so much



Our wonderful friends the Youngs agreed (they might have been forced) to throw a rockin Halloween party. A few of us moms spent the day making the house spooky and cooking scary goodies. I think the party was a success with pictures, a costume contest, food and games. Thanks so much Nicole and Kinzie, we need to throw another..St Patties Day perhaps??
Lucky for Aimsley; all of her boyfriends showed up :))

We had some hand-me-down costumes from the cousins. One was a frog...so we took it from there.


The Princess gets her frog AND her Prince, made for one happy Princess.



The Ladies...


And Gents of the party.

Whats a Halloween with out some cross-dressing right??

All and all, great night, great friends, all dressed in costumes. Success!

Fall 2011

Aimsley was born the end of August which made for an extremely hot and uncomfortable last couple of months pregnant but an amazing mild fall full of outings and adventures with a new-born.
Once I was able to venture out of the house it was about mid september, perfect time for some beautiful hikes with the fam

We also had some wonderful visitors including the Bowens. We took them all over Colorado in hopes that someday soon they will move here!!! We really tried to be festive by hiking to see the beautiful fall colors, watching scary movies, carving pumpkins, Carmel apples, cornmazes...you name it. So fun to have them out, we love you guys.








And of course Aimsley was born at the start of Daddy's hardest semester...so there was a lot of this action going on. I don't think he minded the distraction.

Baby Love

Stop growing baby! I keep telling her but she just wont listen. I know this is an obnoxious amount of photos, and I am so sad to admit that I think I have about a thousand more pictures of our baby on my stupid cell phone. Darn iPhones. Here she is in all her glory, I think the first picture is her the first day we brought her home, and the last was taken yesterday, when porter discovered the face she makes when he blows in her face. (Oh, the things we do to our children for a good laugh)

Aimsley has been such a blessing in our lives and quite the addition to our little home. Such a happy, giggling, squeaking, drooling, lovable baby girl.

New Born Shots

With Aimsley just 9 Days old our fantastic, talented friend Macquel took some pictures of our sweet little bundle. Although they look sweet and peaceful, all moms fail to tell you how much work these shots are; waiting for baby to fall asleep between each pose, sweating thru the heat of trying to keep a naked newborn warm, waiting for all the pee to dry up :) All jokes aside Macquel did an amazing job and we are so grateful that we have these.











Oh Dear I miss her this little, I miss her tan jaundice skin, I miss her sweet sleepyness, I miss her hair.... Baby #2 are you ready!?!? Just kidding. :)