too much going on

Well my body has decided to catch a cold...now is NOT the right time for that! There is just too much going on and too much to get done.
Saturday we made a practice birthday cake, so my mom got a nicely decorated #1 cake for her birthday! and that night I had girls night with a couple of my closest girlies! It was fun, low key and the margaritas were yummy!
Sunday we had Presley's pictures taken as I posted before and then went to my parents for my birthday dinner! Then Tuesday Samantha watched Presley so Steve and I could go to Johnny's Italian Steakhouse for my birthday dinner! yummy!!!
I started feeling crappy on Wednesday and today it hit me hard! Headache, scratchy throat, runny, stuffy nose. I left work early to try and sleep, but wasn't able to sleep that much!
We are having Presley's birthday party on Saturday and we have a house to clean, laundry to do, a cake to bake and decorate, presents to wrap and we need to go to the grocery store at some point.....and I don't feel good. Steve has been very helpful tonight, while I just sit here looking hot as ever!
and with all that being said, I leave for Tempe Sunday at noon. I'm actually coming back on Friday but then I leave again next Sunday for another 5 days! I'm not sure all that traveling for 48 hours at home is worth it, but to be away from Presley for 2 whole weeks is just too long!
So as I said before......This is not a good time for me to get sick! ugh!

Presley Grace

February 3rd 2009, our lives changed!
After a couple months we got used to this screaming baby!
Our once 5 pound 12 ounce baby girl is now a 22.5 pound (68%) 29 inch tall (48%) crazy, walking 1 year old! (who cries and screams more when the doctor is looking in her ears and listening to her heart beat than she does when she gets her shots?!)

She is still a daddy's girl!

and she loves her mommy too!

Presley was so small, we went out and bought a couple premie outfits for her. She was the same size as my cabbage patch doll!

and now.....well she won't lay still long enough to get a good picture!

She is completely the apple of our eye. She lights up the room with her smile. Her laugh makes you laugh! She brings a new happiness into our lives.

Our 1 year old:

• prefers to walk, she still uses walls, chairs and people to get around but she does a pretty good job by herself too.
• loves books! She usually sits on my lap and we read... though she'll get bored after about 5 pages.
• has finally started babbling!
• shakes her head no, puts her hand to her mouth to blow kisses, will clench her fists to flex, and will find her nose and tummy every now and then.....when she is in the mood!
• just had one of her top teeth poke thru, so now she has 3!
• is happy as can be! She sleeps good, plays good, eats good!
• still loves baths and hates the car (I know! Babies are supposed to love the car!)
• takes her pacifer in the car (only b/c we get tired of listening to her cry every time we go anywhere!) and to fall asleep.
• is wearing 12 month clothes.
• will eventually have enough hair for pigtails and braids!
  

UNO!

Our baby is 1 year old! Here are her pictures that we had taken yesterday. She was shockingly in a very good mood! It helps that whenever we say 'cheese!', 'smile!', or 'show me your teeth!'...she'll smile! We went to Portrait Innovations. We had never been there, but we had heard good things so we thought we'd try it out! It was a little more expensive, but you get more pictures, so we have pictures coming out our ears! So if anyone wants a picture (or 10, or 20, or 30) let us know! ha!

Book It!

Remember back in day when they had the Book It program at school? After you read so many books, you got a free personal pizza from Pizza Hut....or something like that! I love reading and wish I had time to do it more. I love sitting on the deck in the summer and just reading! I really hope Presley will like books and reading too!
Here is Presley and Daddy reading Goodnight Moon before bed tonight.
Her favorite book by far, is Five Little Pumpkins (a Halloween present from Grandma Becky)! We read it every night and she smiles and gets so excited to read it! I guess pumpkins will be in our house year-round!

and this is just a good picture of us!

Steve is giving me a hard time b/c I want to join a gym....only b/c we have a treadmill in the basement. I used it a lot the first 2 years we had it, but we've become strangers over the last year and a half. Here's my problem.....I can't use the treadmill when she is sleeping! It's right below her room and the noise from that and the TV is too loud. I don't want to work out during the 2 hours I see her at night, soooo......those are my excuses. I think they are legitimate!

whatchamacallit.

- I'm watching Hoarders, as disgusting as it is I think I would like to help these people get organized and cleaned up. I can't keep my own house clean, but I would like to help them? What is wrong with me?

-Just filed our taxes! That child tax deduction is nice! Now we'll finally get our honeymoon paid off....over 2 years later!....oh yeah and that trip to Vegas haha!

-I'm doing terrible with my New Years resolutions...and January isn't even over yet! I've already missed our nephew Sam's birthday, my water drinking faded when I changed jobs....but I'm working on that again. I wanted to walk in the skywalk over lunch, well my new job doesn't have skywalks so I'm looking at prices for the nearest fitness center. I figure I can workout for 20 or 30 minutes over my lunch hour, which is better than nothing!

Not productive.

This weekend was NOT productive. I'm not sure where the time went, but with one weekend left before Presley's first birthday party and me leaving, we MUST have a productive 2 weeks ahead of us! But now Steve isn't feeling good, Presley is teething and not wanting to take her afternoon naps and learning how to walk....I just begin to feel that the house is caving in around us. The cupboards are full of crap, I have about 8 months of pictures that need to be printed and put in albums, the house is just messy and dirty, Goodwill stuff needs to be organized and dropped off. I guess what I'm saying, is that spring cleaning needs to start......yesterday!

Last night we had Dinner Club at Lisa and Jared's. Presley isn't around many other kids so we were interested to see how she would do. She can be aggresive at daycare, pushing Amelia around so it's good for her to be around other kids! She did pretty good, she played and mostly ignored them and watched them. Once she started to get comfortable then she started pulling and pushing for the toy she wanted. But Kamden and Preston (who are 18 months and 16 months) didn't let her bother them! :) It's kinda of fun to see her around some little boys....seems like everyone we know has had baby girls this past year!

Winter and cheese?

- Ice has coated everything! The trees look sad, they are completely white and heavy. They all look pathetic! The wind is picking up and I can hear the ice hitting the roof! It sounds like someone is walking around up there ! Kinda creepy! At least I hope it's just the ice and not the branches breaking off. When Steve walked to the house from the garage he said he felt like he was dodging bullets with the amount of ice falling!
- I know everyone always talks about the weather, but with the amount of snow, ice, extreme cold, rain in Vegas, massive earthquakes, huge waves off the west coast.....what is Mother Nature doing to us? I think she is trying to tell us that she is still in charge!
- My new job is going good! It is very challenging! The environment is much better than my previous position. They are actually training us! They introduced all the new people, gave out awards and due to the crappy weather on Wednesday we got to wear jeans and they ordered us pizza for lunch! So far, so good!
- Presley is an animal! She has done a complete 180 in the last 6 months! She is so happy and plays so good, and has been sleeping good! She is extremely active and is always moving around!...I'm telling ya, hyperactive! She cracks us up just by smiling, or cheesing!
How can you not love that face?? I just want to squeeze her all the time!