Aspen's Dress

I know the quality of the picture isn't very good, they are from Brent's phone. I had to get pics of Aspen in her Winter/Christmas dress. She loves this dress and says it turns her into a princess. What kills me is that I had to get it in the Girls section instead of the toddlers! She is very excited to wears her dress as many times a possible before she out grows it!

Thanksgiving

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day! We had a great day together as a family. Dane is spending his holiday weekend with his family so it was just Brent, me, Aspen, and Ella. We had a great dinner all our food was wonderful, Brent and I love to cook Thanksgiving Dinner. The girls favorite part was Brent's dumplings. Later that afternoon we went over to a friends house for pie.
Friday morning at 4:15 am I headed out with all the crazies. I went to Wal-Mart, Target, and Joann's and got some great deals. I actually almost completely finished my Christmas shopping in those few hours. Now we have the Christmas Decorations up and even presents under the tree (thanks to Granna and Grandpa's trip earlier this month bringing some of their gifts with them). The girls love to see the Christmas tree with it's lights on. It's funny having grown up with a real tree I was very anti-artificial tree. Now that we live in Florida we decided to convert to a 'fake' tree for safety reasons (plus the real ones either don't look healthy or are exspensive)! Now that we have been using our little 3 foot tree for 3 years now I don't think I'll ever go back! I love being able to put the tree up the day after Thanksgiving and keep it up till New Years and I really love NOT having to put the lights on it!
Well now that you've all heard my thoughts on Christmas tree.....I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, a blessed Christmas, and Happy Holidays!

Elf Yourself

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Luvys

I have always been a big fan of children having a luvy. Aspen became attached to her Ducky at an early age, and he is still luvy #1 (along with blankie) Ellas trek to luvyhood is a different story however. She also has a blankie that she loves and sleeps with and she was showing partiallity to a baby doll of Aspens. So, Granna and Grandpa Smith got her her very own baby doll for her 1st Birthday. She loves this doll and does sleep with it, but over the past few days I've seen a trend and an apprent #1 luvy standing out. Ella loves-and I mean LOVES-her shoes. She demands that I put them on her right after I change her diaper in the morning, she must hold them if I have to changer her diaper or her pants for any reason, and if I neglect to put them on her she crawls around with them following me. Oh and did I mention, she naps with them on! It was the only way I could get her to go down yesterday! So it appears that my crazy daughter's crazy luvy is SHOES. And these are not soft soled little slipper shoes, she has sandles, black shiny sunday shoes, and her favorites are her pink velcro sneakers! What am I going to do with these crazy children of mine!

At 1 year....

At 1 year Aspen was
28 in and 18 1/2 lbs
Wasn't walking yet
Said "Mommy, Daddy, WaWa, Apple"

At 1 Year Ella is
29 in and 16 1/2 lbs
Isn't walking but probably could be!
Says "Mama, Dada"

Both girls were/are amazingly friendly little girls.
I can't believe how lucky we've been to have two such amazing girls in our family!

Ella's Frist Year

Here's my little baby all through her first year! I can't believe how time flies. She is becoming such a cute little girl and less a baby every day. Hope you enjoy.
PS there is music if you want to turn your speakers on :)