pictures from the lake

I love these picture that Camille took for us at the lake in October. They turned out GREAT!

She's already 1!

So let me first say that I can't believe that I am a mom of a 1 year old. I seriously don't know what to do with myself. My baby girl is growing up.. shes a toddler now. She's walking everywhere, eating whatever we eat, drinking normal milk... ah! it's nuts. it wasnt long ago that she slept all the time, we had to carry her everywhere, make special infant cereal and baby food, and give her only formula. (well, she is still drinking formula, but only until we run out.) so I am just shocked. now i understand why people have kids soo close together because you start to realize that you dont have a BABY anymore.. you have TODDLER/CHILD. it is a world of difference. (fyi.. although i UNDERSTAND this concept, we are NOT trying to have another baby yet.. not for another year or so)

We celebrated Adaleigh's 1st birthday on Friday, November 21st! My parents, my sister (Tiffany), Alex's parents, and Alex's grandparents came over and we had tons of fun watching Adaleigh opening presents and shove her face with icing and cake! haha. Here are a few pics from the wonderful evening..

One of new favorite songs.. 

October <3

Just stopped by to say Adaleigh walks, claps, and is learning to blow kisses.... someday I will figure out how to put videos on here. She also has 12 teeth now.. we'll probably feed her steak now. haha. j/k. ;)

It's been awhile..

So, I haven't been able to find my camera battery charger.. thus being no new photos lately. Soon enough I will end up buying a new one so I can update with pictures more often.

We have been so busy lately. I am working 32 hours a week along side of Alex's 48 hours a week, plus we are both taking 2 online courses. So we are super distracted. We are still trying to make our house a home. Alex just built our new dining room table, but we still need to find some chairs and bench to match it. He also built a storage shelf for towels in our bathroom. It is so nice to have a handyman for a husband. I have plenty more projects for him to do still, but I'm giving him a little break for now. I am in the process of finishing my sewing projects. I am halfway done with all the curtains, but I still need to find fabric for the living room. And, I am going to making the cushions for the dining chairs and bench (once we buy them).
Here are some pictures of our 2 year anniversary vacation that we took in August. We stay in a beachfront hotel, with a beautiful view in Panama City. We had tons of fun and enjoyed the new outside mall, restaurants, and theater they are in the process of finishing. In the background of this first picture is our hotel. Adaleigh enjoyed having her pack n play on the beach, and so did we so we didn't have to worry about her eating sand. Haha.

These next two pictures were taking from our balcony in the hotel room. So wonderful.

These two were at a random park we stopped at on the way home.

Adaleigh is now crawling, and soon to be walking. She gets into everything. Still sleeps through the night. And loves to eat! She is definitely already becoming very independent, which is good and bad.

Adaleigh's 7 months!!

So were finally settling into our home. We love it. I still haven't found the charger for my camera, though. So no pictures of it yet. We only have about 5 little boxes that are unopened so if its not in there... I may have to get another one. Ahh.

So Adaleigh is 7 months now. She isn't crawling, but sooo close to it. She gets around in her walker though. She can go up and down the hall and through the doorways. She's super smart and follows us everywhere in that thing. So cute! She already has her 2 bottom teeth and is now cutting the top 4 teeth already. She is growing so fast and is 19 pounds already. 

Here are the pictures we had taken at Walmart. If you want some copies.. send me an email at brconner@gmail.com with your address. Trust me we have PLENTY for everyone we know times 100! hehe.

 

wrapping things up...

Alex and I are getting so excited about our new home. We have been packing things up the past couple days and now our apartment is beginning to look less like home and more like white walls with piles of boxes, with the exception of our room and Adaleigh's room.

It's a tad bit sad to leave this place because this is were we became a family and have created our lives together. We have shared tons of memories here.. but I am really looking forward to our new gorgeous home!

Front of the house

Backyard

Kitchen

Living room

I can't wait to get in and decorate and paint. We are closing on it no later than May 16th. :)

Playground and yummy time..

Adaleigh's first trip to the playground... and I'm starting to get used to my camera. yay! :)







Adaleigh is growing so fast.. almost 5 months old now! Crazy! She also just rolled over for the first time this weekend. Pretty soon she will be taking off.. crawling, scooting, walking.. she'll find a way.


She's also loooving baby food.





She is becoming such a character.. always making me smile and laugh. Alex and I are so blessed to have such a beautiful and wonderful baby girl. Total strangers ask me all the time, "Is she always this good?" and I love to answer them, "YES! She is such a good baby!" ;)

As Easter approaches..

We are super excited about Easter coming up this weekend. Even though Adaleigh is not able to hunt for eggs this year, I know she will enjoy all the pretty spring colors surrounding her. :) We have already received tons of gifts, mainly stuff for Adaleigh. Clothes, books, toys.. Adaleigh is so loved by her aunts, grandparents, great grandparents.. and all her other relatives. We got Easter pictures taken at the portrait studio on Tuesday. They turned out soo cute! We should have them back by April 1st.. and I will definitely be posting them for all to see.

As for now.. here are a few cute pictures of Adaleigh. She is now 15 pounds and 26 inches. And growing so fast!!

Adaleigh loved seeing her grandma and grandpa Hickman last weekend. And she is super excited they will be in LaGrange all summer!!

Adaleigh's first visit to the Georgia Aquarium.. she loved watching the fish. ;)

Adaleigh and Agape..

I can tell that Adaleigh and Agape are going to be great friends. Agape is so protective of her already, and he always wants to be close to her. And Adaleigh is always looking for him. Whenever she find him, they just star at each other.. its the cutest thing. It's like they have there own way of comunicating. Here are a few pictures that I took with our new camera, I am still trying to figure out how to use it, my pictures usually end up blurry, so I am still learning. Here are few that turned our pretty cute. :)

This one is my favorite!!..