10 Months Old on Christmas Day

Yep that's right, every post is about Anabelle :) Anabelle is at a really fun stage right now. She is blabbing like crazy and it makes us laugh so hard. We are so lucky to have such a pleasant girl. Christmas was pretty exciting with a little one in the mix. Not that she had a clue what was going on, but it was fun to buy her a few things and wrap it all up. On Christmas Eve Anabelle was so darling she just wanted to walk everywhere! Of course every time she took more than a couple steps we didn't catch it on the camera, but in the end we caught a pretty good one. I'm sure it will still be a while until she is walking everywhere, but she is definitely trying. She is growing up too fast.

 

 Thank you Shane for picking out the darling Christmas outfit 

On Christmas we woke up and opened presents with just our little family. Anabelle wasn't too interested in the whole thing, but she loved the food that Santa left in her stocking (Santa knew what would get her excited :) Oh she also loved the box that her new shoes came in, and my nail polish. We went to sacrament and listened to testimonies and sang Christmas songs. I loved the spirit that it added to our day! Anabelle liked it too, she didn't stop singing and blabbing the whole hour.

Our stockings and nutcrackers - traditions that we are carrying on from two of our grandmothers. 

After church we headed down to Utah County and started the Christmas festivities and visited all of our family. Here are a few pictures at the Mink's house. Unfortunately, I only used the video camera at the Worley's and the Rowley's later that day.

Baby girl was so excited about the shiny bows on this gift

Coleson sporting the hat we gave him

The day after Christmas we went to my Uncle Brett's house for the Heninger party. It is always crazy and wild! Anabelle trying to get down on the candy, and Shane busy being the best Daddy ever.

 My cute sister, me, and cute cousin Shaylee (No I do not have a lazy eye, I was laughing so hard because we couldn't get one picture without a kid jumping in front.)

 A piñata in the house - the kids went crazy!

Thank you to all of our family for the fun memories and the overly generous gifts. We are blessed to be surrounded with so much love and support. Hope you have a safe and happy New Years!