Happy bday Adalaigh

Today was addie's birthday. Seems a little crazy but we went from this....


















To this.

















I make cupcakes for her birthdays. Nothing fancy seeing how we just got out of driveway today after our lovely many many inches of snow.
However she was not interested in the cupcakes. She just wanted the wrappers. This was the as dirty as she got.

















This video is of Addie being sung to by the majority of my family. Yes they sang really bad and they do it proudly and on purpose :)






I am about to retire for the night but we love all of you and hope you have a Merry Christmas.

Walking and the occurances thereof

I don't have a lot of time so this will be short. Also, for the sake of playing catch up, I have added an older video (like a month or 2 old) at the end.


So Addie is walking! She started actually walking on Jeremy's birthday and it has increase exponentially since. I wish I could tell you that I have many videos of this event, but I can't. Every time I pull out the camera she stops what she is doing and makes a b-line for it! I haven't gotten a decent shot of her in months.

Anyway, this video is one of her first attempts. She is walking better and farther now.




With an increase of movement, we have also got an increase of accidents. The picture is blurry but she has a good bump on the side of her nose from one of these tumbles.

And I know they aren't related, but I can't tell you how many times she has smashed her fingers in drawers....just when I thought I baby proofed the place.


















This picture is of addie sweet talking her daddy out of his strawberry shake. He let her have a sip and then not 2 seconds later she was on his lap cuddling with him and then opening her mouth when he took a sip. It was SOOO cute.


















This is addie's new favorite toy. The monkey sits outside Jer's office and everytime we are near there she does gives it kissess, plays, and laughs with him.




Addie has been eating alot of new food. I do have to give it to her in portions or this happens.




Luckily I learn quickly and I haven't given her anything messy while unsupervised.

This when right after Jer came home from Iowa. He was so amazed with all the things she had learned to do while he was away.

We're still alive!!!

I promise :)

So we are finally here (asheville area I mean). Here are a couple of photos of addie before we left utah for no other reason but that she is adorable.

































So addie and I took a flight into Asheville and the first flight went smoothly and amazingly well. I had several people tell me when we landed that they hadn't even heard her. She was seriously sooo good. I don't know why I was bracing myself for bad, but it was probably good that I did.

We landed in Atlanta a half an hour early which was great because before I got my ticket that day I noticed that they had moved my 2nd flight up an hour and I had barely enough time to make everything work. And I was right.

The flight before at the gate had broken down. We ended up to sitting at my gate half an hour longer than arrival time. The captain said he called ahead to connecting flights to let them know so I thought we would be ok.

But when I finally got off my flight and ran 2 terminals down I had missed my flight because no one had called and let them know I was coming (whopee)

To make a long story short, I walked around the airport for an hour before I went to the main ticket counter to find someone to help me. They then proceeded to cover 3 of my meals and my hotel stay.

So everything worked out just right and addie was still amazing the next day.






















I love living here. I have been unpacking like a mad woman and progress seemed slow for a while but then I banned Jeremy from bringing in any boxes for a couple of days and that made me feel better. I am down to several more...though organization of our new places is still in need of some refinement (not the house...me)

It snowed a couple of days ago and the above picture is out of my bedroom window :) while it was still coming down.


Today we went to jump off rock. It is quite amazing...don't really feel the pictures I took really show the grandness that it is. There is almost a 360 degree view...maybe more like 280 but either way quite gorgeous. There are also a bunch of hiking trail that I am planning on braving come spring time

















It was really windy today so I have some crazy shots of lots of hair.


















Addie and I took shelter underneath jump off rock
















This is pretty cool. This is all you can see from this place. Didn't take great pics because addie's nap was fast approaching by the time I got around to it.

















Anyways, we love you all. And miss all of you that we left behind. We are having a marvelous time here and we truly believe this is where we are suppose to be.

Oh and if any of you are wondering why you have heard from us. We get no cell reception at the house currently. This, hopefully, will be rectified in the next couple of day.