Millions of Milestones!

We went to Anden's 2nd birthday party today. It was so much fun! This is Grandma playing on the swings with my neice and nephew. They were lovin it! Anaston and Daddy on her first attempt with a pinata!

Grandma and Anaston
Corinna and Anden opening presents
Yes, she still does this! Everone is always asking to see it! Amazing!
First time on the swings by herself. She absolutely loved it! Good idea Daddy!

Anaston and Grandpa playing with Max

Kisses for Grandpa!!!
Getting into mischeif!
Just when you think she can't possibly get any cuter...she DOES!!!
Anaston having a yelling war with Grandma McLelland
How could I ever say no to this face?

I love that she cuddles Mickey still!
Anaston playng with Max
Anaston's highlight at Grandma and Grandpa's...playing with Max
Grandpa had a great idea for a cute picture!

Love this pic! She was being so cute!

Anaston loves to play with my glasses. She liks to take them off my face and put them back on me so I do it back to her and she laughs every time
How cute is this one?!?
Our three hour nap the other day! Daddy and us all passed out on the couches after a long day!
I love her face here. She has the sweetest face!


This is Anaston going to wake up Daddy!

Tiff came to visit! We missed her so much! Anaston has always had a special bond with her! We had a great time catching up with her and her sweet Payton!
Anaston looking like a little lady!
Abby and Payton playing in the toys at G&G J's
I can't get enough of her smiles!
Anaston couldn't get enough of London and JaNae at lunch! She had so many kisses for them!

She loves her cousin London, can you tell?!?
Mama and Annie
I love when she wears her piggies!
Look at me?!? Standing up all on my own!
Posey took me and Anaston out to this desert area behind her house to do some pictures. She was trying to get a neat one of the kids for her website and I got the benefit with some cute pic's. I had to add these on!

Another week or so has gone by and once again I don't even know where to start! Anaston continues to grow at such an amazing rate and doing so many new things each day! She now has eight teeth and is working on her ninth. It's adorable when she smiles now with a mouth full of teeth! She monkey walks like nuts! She'll walk to anything as long as she's got a little something to hold onto. We'll find her many times throughout the day standing up all on her own though in the middle of the room and staying there so sturdy for like twenty seconds. She knows she's all that when she does it, I love it! She gets so proud of herself, as she should be! Tonight at Brian's games all she wanted to do the whole time was walk. She was barely putting any weight on my hands and was walking so fast, well running is more like it! She'll be all on her own in no time and I'll tell ya what, she'll be cruising right away! Jen and I were dying at how great her form is! She walks like a little lady! So cute! She loves being outside and pointing out airplanes. She'll point to them and say,"PLANE!" Tonight as she was watching them she's say,"WEE!!!" and follow them across the sky with her little finger. She also loves to spot the moon and point at it while saying,"MOON!" These are two things Daddy and Grandpa McLelland recently taught her. She has now figured out that when I'm coming to get her and she's doing something she shouldn't or just plain doesn't want me to get her and take her away from playing to do something like change her diaper, eat, etc... , she'll take off and run from me! Well right now it's actually a really fast crawl but ya, she just takes off in the other direction and cracks up as she's going and shakes her head cuz she knows exactly what she's doing! She can climb up a very decent amount of stairs in no time! Anyone who watches her do it is just in awe! You would think we have stairs with how well and quick she does it but NOPE! So I have no idea how she literally mastered this in one day and has been doing it ever since whenever we're in a home with a staircase or two! Now that we hav her foward facing in the car, she's become very aware of her surroundings. Visiting Daddy at work is something we do atleast a couple times a week. The other day, the second we turned in there she knew exactly where she was and started getting all excited saying,"Da da! Da da!" Now that is smart! These are just a few of her accomplishments this week! Life is absolutely great right now! It's a busy time of year, which I love! This will be an exciting week with family in town, Thanksgiving and Anaston's first birthday party! Ah, I can't believe it! Where has the last year gone?!?

She's on a roll!

There's nothing like a good bath and then going to bed! Peek-a-Boo!

Always on the go!
My little cheerleader in training! She has unbelievable balance! Between Daddy and Grandpa doing tricks with her she'll be ready for try-outs in no time!
Pre-front flip!
Anaston finally felt the need for a snuggle toy and will snuggle him while falling asleep! I thought she's never do this and of course it's Mickey!

My little lady!

This is Anaston after her napkin war with Grandma at Applebee's. She was tearing off pieces and throwing them to Grandma and cracking up as Grandma would throw it back. By the way, she's in a jacket because on the way over she had one of her sessions where she played with her sippy cup and drenched her shirt! This is all I had!
So serious!
Could it be?!? Is that my Mickey?
She's all smiles!

Anaston is keeping us on our toes and suprising us each day with everything she is learning. We are just having the time of our lives with her! She is full of energy and just loads of fun to watch and interact with! I am getting quite the work out trying to keep up with her! She does the funniest and cutest little things everyday! In just this past week, a few things that have stood out to me are...

1. The night my mom took me and Anaston out to Applebee's and Anaston was so hungry! As soon as she saw the waitor coming toward our table with food in his hand, she's so dang smart that she totally nderstood he was coming to give us our food! She got all excited and as I was cutting up her chicken for her, she could hardly wait! I look up and see her motioning with her hand to her mouth like she was feeding herself. It was so cute! She was pretendig to feed herself! She has kept this up throughout the week whenever I'm preparig her food she gets excited all over again and does her little thing of pretending to feed herself until I start feeding her.

2. Anaston loves me to give her the sippy cup in her car seat while we're driving and she'll take sips and let the water run all down her mouth, while making noses of blowing bubbles and talking/making noises with the water. It sounds so funny and he gets a kick out of herself doing it. Only problem, she's drenched afterwards!!!

3. One of her favorite past time right now is going over to Grandma and Grandpa's and having Grandpa take her in the backyard and play with their dog, Max. She LOVES him! He is the most energetic dog you've ever seen but they have become quite close, he'll settle down for and lt her hold him and just give him hugs and kisses! He wont even let me do that! Any time she see's Grandpa, she reaches for him and says,"Ma?"(Max), meaning take me to see Max. They could spend forever together out there playing with the dog and playing ball with eachother. Grandpa is coaching her and she already has quite the technique with throwing and catching the ball. She loves the game, could I expect anything else considering the families she comes from? She also loves when he lays on the ground and picks her up and does front flips and back flips with her. I can't believe this doesn't scare her! She sure trusts him!

4. Anaston now has 7 teeth! Two new ones this week! That makes three on top and four on bottom! Poor thing! All seven teeth in only a three month period!

5. She loves taking things out of boxes, bowls, cupboards or whatever and handing them to me one by one as I count them.Then we put them all back and start over.

6. She loves to give kisses and share! When you ask for kisses and a hug she gives you the sweetest kiss and big bear hug, it melts my heart. Any time she's eating, she wants to share it with whoever is with her. You never know though, sometimes she wants you to really eat it and other times she's just teasing and will pull it away and laugh just before you bite it! Smartie!

7. Anaston loves to play peek a boo with you and to run from you as you chase her. I used to be the one playing peek a boo with her. Now she does it to me, I love it. I'll say,"I'm gonna get you!" And she screams and takes off crawling super fast while cracking up and occasionally looks over her shoulder to see how close I am till she's worn out and will just lay flat on the floor and laugh . I absolutely love it!

I have been a little sad these last few weeks, as I have realized Anaston has finally made the transiton from a baby into a little girl but she's making it easier on me every day with this new phase. She is just so much fun!

Trick or TREAT?!!! (Halloween 2007)

Me and my perfect little TinkerbellHappy Halloween! The gang passing out our candy...Mom, Jordan, Shane, Dad

My adorable little pumpkin

Anaston's first Halloween was sure a hit, or should I say she was the big hit?!? I couldn't have asked for things to go better, the day and night went better than I expected! (Thanks to my sweet little girl) For lunch, we picked Brian up and went to this cutest little pumpkin patch out here. We had fun playing around there and picked out a couple perfect little pumpkins! Anaston loved playing in the hay between the pumpkins and just being outside in the nice weather. I was a little nervous for the evening. She didn't nap very good so I thought she'd be tired and cranky...who was I kidding?!? She took a cat nap on the way over to Grandma's so she was ready to go! She was a little unsure about the costume once we put her wings on, at first, but as soon as we walked out the door to Trick-or-Treat, she was having so much fun she forgot about them! She was all about Trick-or Treating, she was eatin it up! She loved going to each house and seeing the people there. She would pick out her own candy and toys. Everyone was giving out awesome stuff in this neighborhood, it was great! She would talk like crazy to each person and get so excited when she saw the other kids. She put a show on at every house. My favorite ones were her reactions to picking out her candy and then after Grandpa introducd her to her very first sucker(very first piece of candy actually), she went nuts and was wanting to share it with me. But since she was so excited and who knows, maybe on a suger high, she would come at my face with full force with the sucker to feed it to me, it was hilarious! It looked like she was gonna stab me or somethin! Everyone was dying! Anaston was the cutest little Tinkerbell there ever was! She put the actual Tinkerbell to shame! We stayed out for quite a while, Anaston did not want it to end! She filled up her little pumpkin Grandpa bought for her, part of the Boo sack from Grandma, and the majority of the inside of Grandma's witch hat!!! We've got candy, pop corn and play dough to last us a while! My mom made her traditional chili and bread, which is the best chili on this planet, it kicks serious butt! Anaston fell in love with the corn bread! On the way home, we stopped by Poppa's house so he could see Anaston and what do you know, she put on another show! Poppa let her see the basket of candy he had filled to the top and she had the time of her life pulling each piece out and chucking it! Also, shaking the ones that were boxes and made a noise! We were all cracking up! Nat finally made it just before I changed her but Anaston was done at that point! She wanted out of the costume and into her PJ's. She crashed out on the way home and slepped great! It was a perfect Halloween for my sweet little Anaston! I'm so glad she loved it!

Where's Anaston?

Whose cute face is in that caboose?

Anaston and I at the pumpkin patch
Grandma with her cool witch hat and Anaston getting dressed for the night


Who could resist kissing this Tinkerbell?

First sucker(given by Grandpa)...this was the highlight of her night!
Mmmm...delicious!!!
Carefully examining her play dough and laffy taffy at a neighbors
Daddy, Anaston and Mommy

Mommy and Tink wrapping up the night

Wouldn't be Tinkerbell if she couldn't fly!
Disco Jade with Tinkerbell Anaston
Devouring Poppa's candy bag