Long Overdue Post!

I have a lot to catch up on! We celebrated Nate's 26th birthday in November. I got him the Kinect, and he loves it. So does Abby, she loves to play with him!

For Halloween we found whatever was in the closet for costumes. Grandma A bought Abby this cute hawaiian dress when she went a couple months ago, and it was the perfect costume! Abby loved the glowsticks, and scored tons of candy. She LOVES suckers, they are her favorite.

This little girl is growing like a weed! She's working on getting more teeth, so some days are better than others, but she's still just a sweet little girl! She loves to dance, and she is starting to talk. She says hi, hello, bye, more, please, no (which is currently her favorite), yes, momma, dada, baby and binki (but they both sound like dada), and she does a bunch of animal sounds too. I have yet to get a good video of her doing her animal sounds!

Sorry the video is sideways, but I don't know how to change it.

We also got a new tv. A little bigger than our last one. Big enough for Abby and Grandpa A to fit in the box!

We bought a fresh Christmas tree this year, love the smell! And Abby had a blast decorating it. She was super helpful..... all the decorations she put on the tree ended up in the same spot, it was pretty funny.

Last weekend we had all the Williams side of the family up. We had way too much fun, going to see the Mesa Temple lights, taking family pictures for the first time since I've been in the family, eating lots of yummy food, a gift exchange and just enjoying having everyone together. Unfortunatly the only pictures I did take were of my little family! Abby loved the temple lights, she would have stayed there all night long.

Life is crazy these days. Nate has a new calling. He was a young mens advisor, but now he is the 2nd counselor in the Bishopric. Crazy right?! It has been good so far, we don't see Nate as much as we would like, but we are being blessed in other ways! Until next time!

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!!!!!

Haircut!!!

Abby had her first realy haircut today! I'm surprised I've lasted this long without touching it, but her hair really has come in beautifully! Here's a few pictures of the cutie!

IDAHO!!!!!

Not one of my favorite places, but some of my favorite people live there!!! Nolan and Keree were so nice to let us visit for a week. Abby and I went up with my parents and Seth. We got to meet Harmony Leila Anderson and be there for her blessing. She's such a sweet tiny little thing, it was so fun to snuggle her! I was a horrible photographer while we were there, and I keep kicking myself for it, but I did get a few pics.

Here's the new family of 4!!!

Perry, Nolan, Keree and Harmony

Mom and Dad and baby Not sure who put who to sleep but they both stayed asleep for a good couple of hours!

We had a good 4th of July up there. It was a little bit ridiculous becuase by the time the fireworks started (around 10:00) it was 5o-something degrees outside!!! I couldn't believe it, us whimpy Arizonans were freezing! Unfortunatly I packed for summer weather (it is july right??) Abby was nice and warm in a fleece blanket and I froze! But the fireworks were great, Abby was mezmorized by them.

Abby loves her cousin Perry (she's not quite sure about Harmony). And like I said I wish I got more pictures but they played and played and played.

We also spent a day in beautiful Logan with my aunt and uncle. Logan really is one of my favorite places. We had Aggie Icecream (so much in fact I felt like exploding!) but it was good. And we went and visited the house my mom grew up it. The house is for sale and we tried to get into it, but because of the holiday weekend it didnt work out. It didn't stop my mom and aunt Karine from peeking in all the windows and sharing their favorite memories. Here are the girls