Her First Words!

She has been a very vocal baby from the get go, but we heard her for intelligent words the other week.  This is not what I expected to be the first thing to hear her say (besides da da)

It was "see ya"!  She said it the first time when we were saying goodbye to our friends, Tyler and Michelle.  We were waving bye (which she has been doing for a few months now) and she mimicked us saying "see ya".  It was adorable!  

Also, I have figured out that she says "de de" to indicate a dog. Her vocabulary is slowing growing :)  

She is growing fast and is in all 18 months clothes.  She has been sick A LOT lately and also started to get her first molar.  I am trying to stay as patient as possible, but I hope to have my happy baby back soon!  We are trying to stay busy in our freezing cold house! 

She is always blurry in pictures! Ready for church at 13 months!

Thanksgiving 2013

This year I was able to home for Thanksgiving-the first time in 7 years! I have always been in Utah and then last year my family all came up to Michigan to partake one of the best meals of the year.  So this year, it was nice to finally be back home for one of my favorite holidays.

We left Monday night (super early) because of course the weather was supposed to be bad in PA and we wanted to travel before the storm.  The weather was pretty miserable the whole week, very typical for Johnstown.  I wanted to play a turkey bowl game on Thanksgiving morning, but it was only in the high 20s that day, so ya that didn't happen.  The week was full of yummy food, shopping, movie watching and socializing with family and friend (Lindsay, one of the only people I still talk to from home).  

Unfortunately Madeleine was a total terror on this trip so that kind of put a damper on things.  She is starting a temper tantrum phase and just yells and throws her head back with the least provocation.  She was also fighting a cold and probably teething so it is understandable, but its still hard to deal with!  

My whole crazy family (minus Robbie) was there for Thanksgiving,  It was a full house!  But it is always good to get together since it doesn't happen enough.  

Kids table!

Madeleine enjoyed her time with Grandma and cousins.  

Playing the piano with Lexi

Birthday Weekend

I am aging quickly! 30 is just around the corner.  I will stop worrying about that looming day and try to enjoy the rest of my 20s.  I mean I did only turn 28!  

I said this last year, but I am amazed how much different my birthdays are now that I have a baby.  It just doesn't seem right to focus so much on myself anymore, even for my birthday.  Don't get me wrong, I still LOVE birthdays, but they just feel different now.  With that said, I still had a great weekend and was able to spend some baby free time! 

We had visitors (Tyler and Michelle) staying with us for the weekend, which made it extra fun. On Friday Brody also surprised me and took me to Catching Fire, the next Hunger Games movie.  I loved it!  He also got Tyler and Michelle to buy me a birthday cake while we were out.  I loved having my own cake and that he thought of doing this for me.  On Saturday, my actual birthday, Tyler, Michelle, Brody and I all headed to South Bend, Indiana for the BYU vs Notre Dame football game! Angela kindly watched Madeleine for the whole day while we enjoyed our little road trip and game.  Well we tried to enjoy it.  It was in the 20s that day and bitter, bitter cold!! I really have never been that cold in my life.  BYU sadly lost, but really we didn't care much who won.  We were just anxious to get out of the cold!! While on campus we visited the Cathedral, the Basilica and ate some delicious, soft, hot pretzels (they were seriously the best soft pretzels ever).  It was a fun experience, even if I almost lost some appendages to frost bite! 

On Notre Dames campus

Happy 28th to me :)