Photos!!!

Tania has done it again! Here are just a few pictures from Abby's 1 year photo shoot! There are so many more I wanted to post... but it would take me forever to get them all uploaded.

Abby has this cute scrunchy face smile.... for the longest time we couldn't figure out where she got it from. Apparently that is how Nate and I smile!

This is a classic Abby face!

Tania, they turned out beautiful! Thank you so much... now the hard part is figuring out which one to hang on our wall!!!!

Birthday!

For Abby's birthday we went down to Tucson to share it with family. Here are some pictures of the day:

We started it off with a photo shoot at the crack of dawn to beat the heat! Surprisingly Abby was in good spirits about it. More pictures of that to come!
Waiting for her cake

It took her a minute to dig in, but once she did, she didn't hold back!

Nate helped her eat it.

She enjoyed feeding Daddy more than she liked to eat it herself.

She got pleanty spoiled!

It was a fun day, but by the end Abby was sooooo ready for bed!

1 year!!

What??!?!?! Really?!?!!? Already!?!??!? I am so not read for this milestone in Abby's life. It is very bittersweet. All I keep thinking about is what I was doing a year ago today. At 8:45 sitting in the hospital waiting for my sweet baby girl. At 3:08 I'm pretty sure I'll be crying! Abby has been the sweetest blessing in our life, I don't know how we were happy before she came along!

• She is very sober. Smiles and laughs have to be worked for, Abby doesn't just hand them out, unless you are under 3 feet!! She loves kids, and I mean loves them! When Abby was 6 or 7 months we had only gotten her to laugh a handful of times, when she got around her cousin Daniel she laughed at every little move he made! There's a little 6 month old girl in our ward that Abby loves! One night she sat and hugged and kissed this baby for an hour (of course her kisses are more like an opened mouth slobber).
• Abby never cries, unless she needed something. She was the best newborn, at the hospital the first time she cried was 30 min after she was born, when she was getting her bath. She doesn't cry when she falls or hits her head. She is tough! Except maybe when she gave herself a black eye, that was pretty bad! (She is starting to throw tantrums these days though, and she lets me know what she thinks!)
• She's a mama's girl. Don't get me wrong, she loves when Nate comes home from work, and cries when he leaves. She loves her Daddy, but she's still a mama's girl!
• She does things on her own terms. There is no getting her to preform! She can wave "bye", she says uh-oh, she claps, she can give kisses, she just started taking 4 steps at a time, but good luck seeing any of these things. She will not do them in front of a stranger (she just stares them down!), and she will not preform for the camera.
• She is in big trouble! I just discovered that she erased a bunch of pictures off of my camera... she's lucky it's her birthday!! :)
  Here are some of my favorite pictures that I had already saved to my computer

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABBY!!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!!!