10 months

It is so hard for me to believe that my little snuggle big is 10 months old already.

This little girl is so sweet and her smile just melts my heart.

 She is so full of personality and she keeps us smiling.

She is talking and I just love watching her learn new words.

Right now she says mama, dada, jack ( she calls all dogs jack),  uh( uh oh) and bye bye. 

She is getting so good with her balance.

She will stand by herself and has even taken some steps!!!

Here are some things we want to remember about our Annie at 10 months

- your sweet smile. I love how you crinkle up your nose of one side when you smile. I love your sweet teeth too. They just look so big when you smile!

- your sweet little feet. I just love them and could eat them up!

- how you play with your sister. Y'all are the sweetest two girls ever and it just makes me so happy to see y'all play and laugh together. I hope that y'all are best friends forever. 

- your soft sweet curls. I just love them.

- your crawl. It just makes me laugh but it gets you around...fast!

- how you love to be outside and swing. You are so content being in the swing. Just the other day you stayed in there so long you fell asleep. 

- your curiosity. you are into everything...learning and exploring. I have a feeling you are going to be busier than your big sister :)

- your sweet, mouth wide open kisses. They are slimy but oh so sweet.

We love you so much sweet Annie girl!

Navarre beach

We spent last week at the beach with my family.

This is such a fun and special time for our family.

This year was different since our sweet uncle Jay and Randy were not there. Every year we go I always think...I wonder what next year will be like. I wonder who will be able to come, who will have a new baby, what will we do? We have been doing this trip since I was little and we have have a lot of things change in our family but I really never imagined last year that our family would go through such hard losses this past year.

Ellie has learned to love this trip. She likes to hear stories about the beach and spending the week with her cousin. This makes my heart so happy. I know as Annie gets older she will love it just as much. The weather was not great but we managed to find things to do. It was just nice being away :)

Here are some pictures from our trip!

Summer Reading

We have been doing the reading program at the library this summer.

Even though the library brings out the worst in Ellie, she still loves, loves, loves it.

So we go :)

The 4h was there last time we went. He had some pretty cool animals but he talked too much for a three year olds attention span. 

It's. good thing we had cousins there to play with when we got tired of listening. 

Living room redo

I have been wanting to paint our living room for a few weeks now.

Last Saturday I finally couldn't stand the green anymore and so I got busy on painting while Matt was outside working on the fence. He was a little surprised when he walked in the house and saw all the furniture moved to the middle of the room and a coat of paint on the wall :)

It ended up looking great and now I have been on Pinterest getting inspired on how to redecorate it!

I found some great things and finally just had to get off Pinterest because I was feeling so overwhelmed with all I want to do. 

Here are a few things I found.

I found some great tips on how to decorate my mantel.

I always have trouble with it because its so thin.

And I found a tutorial for  DIY picture canvas!

Hooray!

First visit to the dentist

My little Elle belle was such a big, brave girl.

She has her first visit to the dentist and she did great!

I guess that it helps tat aunt Melissa was the one who cleaned her teeth, but there was lots of new and kind of scary things. She was so brave. Melissa said she must have her Mommys teeth because they looked great :) 

Helena Park

We met some of our friends from small group and headed over to the waterfall at the Helena park. I have seen the waterfall before but never been down to it. It was such a neat place. The kids had a great time. After playing in the water, we walked over to one of the restaurants nearby for some ice-cream to help the mummy's cool off :) 

Mcwane fun

We met soe friends at the Mcwane Center a few weeks ago. The kids had a great time playing. This was the first time we have been since Annie has been crawling and pulling up. She had a great time...and she had a great nap when we got home :)