Happy 1st Birthday Mila!

Here we are. We made it a year!
Sam and Mila. Mila is contemplating her birthday wish.

A messy Mila with her favorite person in the whole world. (Sam is glaring at me as I type this!)

Mila wasn't quite sure what to do with her cake at first, but she started to squish it in her hands and loved it.

We all enjoyed some delicious dirt cake.

Mila was enjoying her cake so much that she didn't want to get cleaned up!

Mila's 1st birthday was on Friday the 13th. We had a really small get together because we had been sick all week and hadn't really planned much. I had been trying to decide what kind of cake to make and how to decorate it. I decided on dirt cake because Mila has the most amazing eye sight and picks up every little speck of dirt off the floor and puts it in her mouth. She really loved being able to eat all of the "dirt" she wanted!

I can't believe that my little baby is a year old already! I won't lie and say that it has been poodles and candy canes the whole time. Being a mother has been the hardest, most exhausting thing I've ever done in my life! With that said, it has also been the most amazing thing to watch this tiny little bundle grow and learn all that she has in this short time. There is still nothing that melts my heart more than to have her snuggle in to me and lay her head on my shoulder. We are so lucky to have her!

White Christmas

We had a beautiful white Christmas in Utah. This icicle was outside the family room window at Lee and Teressa's. It started out shorter and fatter, but by the last day it had reached all the way to the ground. It was taller than me!

Look How They've Grown!

Mila and I visited Amy, my old roommate, and Lucy when Mila was about 2 months old and Lucy was about 3 weeks old, I think. Boy do I look so tired! Believe me, I was.
Here, about 8 months later, the girls are so much bigger! We had such a fun visit. The girls were obviously a little more interactive. They had fun stealing toys from each other and racing for the rubber duck. We wish that we lived closer to them so that Mila and Lucy could play more together.

More Christmas Fun

Mila being Mila and trying to eat the studs on the couch.
Grandpa helping Mila ride the pony.

Mila tuckered out after her big, exciting day of wrapping paper, new toys, and ponies.

My FAVORITE Picture!

I LOVE THIS PICTURE! Like I have said before, it is so hard to get a good smile out of Mila for a picture. I'm sure you can imagine my delight when I saw this on my camera screen. I just love her chubby cheeks, her double chin, and how you can see her little teeth. She is so cute!

Merry Christmas!!

Mila in front of the tree on Christmas morning in her Christmas jammies.

Aunt Ruth gave Mila a purple Adidas track suit. Sam was excited and couldn't wait for her to wear it because he absolutely loves babies in athletic clothes.

She loves paper so she actually tried to help open some of her presents. She didn't care to see what was inside, she just wanted to eat the wrapping.

With all the presents she got, the bows were her favorite part! She would hold a bow in each hand and try to play with her toys without letting go of the bows.

Mommy's Little Helper

I was trying to go through all of Mila's clothes so I could take the ones that she had grown out of back to Ohio. While I was doing this, Mila was "helping" me by taking clothes off of my pile and eating them or rubbing them all over the floor. Thanks Mila, you are always such a big help to me!