After my last post so many people told me that Anna looked so much older. That makes me so sad. My baby is growing up and she doesn't look so much like a baby anymore. I can't believe how fast time goes. I used to nures Anna to sleep but since I stopped I just hold her in her blankie with her binkie until she falls asleep. She does this thing where she pinches my neck- in a way that doesn't hurt - and just lays there until she falls asleep. Well a couple of weeks ago she would just lay there for like an hour and not fall asleep. This girl doensn't like to miss anything- she has always fought sleep. I started just putting her in her crib and she wouldn't even cry just fall asleep. It kind of broke my heart- like she doesn't need me anymore. I still hold her for a little while because I think I need it but now my little girl goes to sleep all by herself. As much fun as it is to watch her grow up it makes me sad too.Anna loves to build towers. It doesn't matter what it is: cups, books whatever she like to build them and knock them down. And don't you just love babies in pajamas?
Anna doesn't get people over to play very often but she has been lucky the last few days. Sydney and CJ were over yesterday so Cliff and Amber could celebrate their anniversary and was Anna in heaven. Those little girls played dress up and dolls and everything in between. They were so sweet with eachother and kept giving eachother hugs and kisses. Last Friday Creed came over for a few hours and Anna just couldn't get enough of him. The poor little guy missed his mommy and wasn't too happy about it so Anna kept trying to hug and kiss him to make him feel better. I don't think it worked. He cheered up soon after though and was a good sport about his doting cousin.

The other day I had to take the car seat out of the car when Beau went to work because my Mom and Dad were coming down and I was going out with them. I had it sitting right by the front door and I walked downstairs to find this. One of Anna's favorite places is this window and she likes to watch whats going on outside. You can't really tell from the picture but right by her feet is a drape and she had her little feet propping it open and was just sitting back watching whatever was going on outside.

The other thing Anna loves to do lately is wear my heels. She can get them out of the closet put them on all by herself and walk around in them impressively well. She loves shoes and always has to have them on.

Anna overload

Beau and I only have one car so some days I drop him off at school or work and other days I decide to just be stranded at home. Sometimes those days are kind of long and so I have to be creative. I hadn't taken any pictures of Anna in a while so I decided to do a little photo shoot.

Beau loves this picture because it looks like she is really thinking about something. More than likely it is something naughty!

She was a little tired of it at this point. My girl doesn't like her playtime messed around with. As I type this she is going through all of Beau's school binders and pulling out all the papers. He isn't going to be happy. At least I took the pen away this time.

Yesterday Beau finally had a day off from school and work. YEA! Unfortunately our car was is the shop all day trying to pass inspection. So we were stuck at home. I was kind of excited though because most of December Anna had a cold so she never got to go play in the snow. Normally when January hits I am ready for the snow to go away but I was so excited for Anna to play in it that I kept waiting for it to come. Who would of thought most of January would be gone before any finally stuck. Well we got Anna all dressed up in her snow clothes and walked over to the park and after my long wait--she hated it.

Even though I don't like the cold and I think Winter should only last one month- I have to admit snow is beautiful.



After coaxing her a little bit and trying to teach her to throw snowballs at daddy she warmed up to it a little bit. The swing helped get her in a better mood and than as we walked home she kind of liked walking on the snow so of course she didn't want to go home anymore. I think I need to take her to play in the snow with some other kids or go sledding or something.

I can't believe Christmas is over and its already 2010. I have to admit I wasn't very good at taking pictures over the holidays. I just looked through them all and I am disappointed with myself. There are none of Beau and I really- but I think thats fine with us. But there aren't a ton of Anna either- opening presents or anything- although she didn't really care about opening presents! I took this today at the mall. We thought she would really like this car. I put a couple of quarters in it and it started moving and she was interested for a sec but than just wanted to get off and wander around the other toys and the kids.

I was taking down all the Christmas decorations and Anna crawled under the tree and she thought she was so funny under there.

Anna and Addie had matching pajamas for Christmas (thanks Cand). They looked so cute and Addie was so cute trying to share all her presents with Anna.

Anna's in trouble

So I've always heard that with toddlers silence usually means there is trouble. I have been finding this to be true a lot this past month. My busy little one year old loves her independence and is little miss curious. These pictures are from a few hours ago. I was sitting on the computer right behind the couch paying some bills when I realized she had been playing pretty quietly for a while. I walked around the couch to see her drawing all over a book with a red pen. She had gotten the front and back cover and several pages inside. I got mad at her, picked her up and told her no. She just laughed and gave me a big kiss on the cheek (she loves to say umm mma and give big kisses). I put her back down to play with her toys when I noticed the couch. Can you tell how good she got it? And she covered it from one side all the way to the other. At least we have a couch cover because the actual couch is Beau's parents. It is in the washer right now for the second time, I'm crossing my fingers this time. I've used pretty much everything I have in my laundry room on it. Just tell me though how do I get mad at her when she looks at me like that?

Go BYU!

I just had to put one more post up here in honor of the BYU Cougars. Anna isn't quite showing how excited we were when they won but there was a lot of enthusiasm in our house. And if you look at the bottom picture you can see the winning touchdown. Go Cougars!

Happy Thanksgiving

I can't believe how fast November just flew by. It's crazy that Thanksgiving is already over. It is one of my favorite holdidays so it makes me sad a little bit but I LOVE Christmas too so I'm excited for that. I love having all the decorations up and Anna is making it so much more fun this year. She loves the lights and the tree and she is being pretty good with it. I didn't put any ornaments on the bottom though just to be safe. Here are some pictures I took of Anna at the park while it was still Fall. She was loving the leaves and the swing and threw a huge tantrum that day when we tried to go home. I swear I didn't know tantrums started this young but this girl knows what she wants and she has the screaming, fall to the floor and hit all down. Don't let her smile fool you!

Anna loves babies and she loves to hug and give kisses. I was babysitting her cousin Creed and she just wanted to hug him the whole time. I am not sure he liked it too much. She is not shy at all. The other day we were waiting for our car while the oil was being changed and she went right up to like a 6 or 7 year old boy and gave him a big hug and she is always chasing the other boys around church when we are out in the hall. Beau is really going to have to watch this one. These are Anna's 3 favorite things-her binkie, her baby, and her milk.
This was Thanksgiving day. We went up to my Mom and Dad's house this year.

I guess the turkey got to her. She was out the whole way home.

We tried to take our family picture while we were up there. They didn't turn out so well and so we have nothing for our Christmas card. Who would have thought it would be so hard to get three people to smile in a picture- I don't know what we are ever going to do with more kids.

We even tried to take more at Temple Square when we went up the day after Thanksgiving. Those didn't turn out too well either. Oh well better luck next year I guess.

Anna loved the lights at Temple Square and all the people. I often wonder why I even bring her stroller when she only sits in it for 30 seconds before insisting to get out and wander all over the place not even caring if anyone she knows is around. I followed behind her while she just walked and smiled at every stranger we passed by. Where did this girl come from? I used to cling to my mom's legs every time we were in public.

Happy Halloween!

Anna was a little ladybug for Halloween this year. She was all over the place and loved her costume. She left the antennae on almost all day and I thought she would hate it. I can't believe it was only a year ago that she was only a week and a half old and was wearing a little Snow White costume made for a doll. We pulled it out last night and couldn't believe how tiny it was. We realized how much she had grown up though looking at it and realizing she's not a little baby anymore. (Just a disclaimer in case that last sentence gets any of you thinking- we are completely happy with our little Anna and have NO plans for another one in the near future.)

First stop Trick or Treating. Gotta love the grandparents- they were only a little excited. I wasn't going to take Anna this year but Beau had to work so I went up to my mom's and Candice was there so the ladybugs had to go out together. Cute Sydney came too as a BYU cheerleader but I didn't get any pictures. We had fun going to some homes in the ward I grew up in and it was so fun to see everyone. Anna wouldn't carry her pumpkin basket though so Addie was such a big helper. She insisted on carrying it to every door and she would take two and put one in each basket.

This little ladybug is about to jump into the river.

We went to Gardener Village to look at the witches in the afternoon. The little girls loved it.

Before Beau left for work I got Anna into her costume so he could see her and we took a picture. It looks like Beau was dressed up too! We were so sad he had to work and miss out on Halloween. It will be better next year though when she really knows whats up.