Christmas 2009, well it could have been better, but it could have been alot worse! We are lucky to have a home to live in and heat to keep us warm and food in our pantry to keep us full, and Beautiful, smart, loving, silly , wonderful little girl that keeps us on our toes at all times and the world completly revolves around her so she thinks, but in our house it totally does! We love her to peices and she got wayyy to many toys from Santa and us and all the grandparents! When Chloe first saw her toys, she stood in the doorway for what seemed like 10 minutes, she is a thinker and had to take it all in before she was going to play with them! It was really cute to watch her! With that said, Christmas could have been better because not only was chloe sick, but I also had the flu! Everything that day seemed like I was climbing a mountian! I was so sore and weak! But I put on a hapy face and drank 6 cups of Coffee through out the day and took 4 doses of dayquil, and took a long 2 hour HOT bath while Chloe napped and the turkey was in the oven and Jeff was cleaning up, getting ready for the family to come over. It was pure bliss until the water turned cold and I looked like a raisin, and Chloe woke up! So I had to put my happy face back on and made scalloped potatos and then played with Chloe while my wonderful husband took care of the rest! Then the family came over and Chloe recieved more presents and A beautiful necklace and a braclet that her Only Great-Grandmother gave her! We ate wayyy to much food, and just enjoyed be together on Christmas. I hope that we are all Healthy next year! I missed my Mom,Dad,Sister,Brother,Neice,Nephews
and all the rest of my extended family. It is hard for everyone to be together but they were in my thoughts! Merry Christmas everyone and have a Happy New Year!

Daddy and Chloe decorating a gingerbread house together. She is little bit yound for this, but still had fun eating icing and making a huge mess with all the candies! Very cute! What you don't see is that they both ended up stoing and leaving Mommy to finish decorating the house and claening up the mess, while Daddy went and watched football and Chloe played! But they take all the credit for it!! Well I will let them think it was all their doing! HAHA!

These are just a few pictures of Chloe and her cousins Jonathan and Jayden. My mom and I took them to the Children's Museum in downtown Charleston. They had soooo much fun! They were all a little sick, so we were running around behind them whiping their little noses and we also had to change our share of diaper's too that day! But that is what you get with 3 kids under 4! We spent almost 4 hrs there and the kids got to make snowmen out of Bannans! Which they mostly ate as we tryed to make the snowman before they could but they are fast and the snowmen did not have a chance! They also enjoyed being little painters in the art room, which I did not post pictures of but I will try and add one of those on here, very cute! All in all they had lots of fun! Chloe ended up falling in love with Jonathan, she gave him lots of hugs and I had to pull her off of him, she was totally crazy for him! She was a different child around him, more subdued and very quiet around him, she had a look of awe in her eye!! Very sweet but we will have to let her know later on that it is her cousin and that he can't be her boyfriend! We also to them to the Battery, as they call it in Charleston, to swing on the big swings that is on the peir downtown! It was very windy and cold that day, so we did not stay long, just long enough to get a few pictures. We also got to spend time with my sister and My neice Amber at their new house, and Chloe loved climbing their stairs and she learned all by herself to go down them, I was so proud! She did the same thing at my brothers house, what can i say, she loves climbing stairs! It was a great trip and I can't wait to go back, especially when it is hot, so we can got to the beach and play in the big fountian downtown! I love Charleston...so pretty!

That was us baking yummy cookies together, I ended up burning the bottoms of them but the tops were very yummy, Jeff said he broke a tooth trying bite one of them...Opps!! the next day I had flowers on the counter and a bag of the cookie mix, and a note saying, when you do not suceed, try, try again! He just wanted more cookies, so he thought the flowers would be a good way to get me to try and bake more! So Chloe and I did and they turned out much better the second time around, which in life rings true, sometimes it is the 2nd or 3rd try when you get it right! Chloe did have fun helping me though, she mainly wanted to eat the dough and smear it everywhere! She enjoyed eating them, she even liked the burnt ones, She makes me happy, because whatever I do, she loves me, even if I burn the cookies!

Halloween 09!

Having fun at the pumpkin patch!

We all had a great time at the pumpkin patch! Chloe had fun tiding her first Pony, and playing in the corn pit! She is growing way to fast, I feel like it was just yesterday when she was born! We are just trying to enjoy every moment,and to love eachother like there is no tomorrow!

My beautiful Chloe!

Life with Chloe has been everything I have imagined and more! I did not know that love like this was true until I had her in my arms. Life around our house is full of energy and excitment! It is starting to get cold outside and the leaves are starting to change colors. Spring is my favorite time of year but I enjoy fall too, because I know Christmas is around the corner, and I LOVE, LOVE christmas! It is so much fun to decorate, and I love Christmas music too! I can't wait to get a big pile of leave so Chloe can jump in them! We will have plenty of leaves for her to jump in that is for sure! Anyways, I just wanted to post a few pictures and that I am so grateful to have a loving husband and happy and healthy daughter!

Pictures of Chloe having fun!

Being silly for the camera!

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Chloe crawling through the tunnel at Gymboree!


Riding her car!

Chloe footprints in the sand!

I look at her footprints and I want her to stay this way forever! She has brought so much meaning to my life, and I treasure each and everyday with her! I want to live in these moment's forever! We had the best time on vacation with her!! She loved walking up and down the beach and splashing in the water! Vacation is a wonderful thing and wish we could have one every month! Chloe loved having Daddy around for a whole week! She is a daddy's girl for sure! Although these days she is attached to Mommy! We just love her so much and We can't believe how fast she is growing! She says almost 15 words now and can understand almost anything you ask her to do!! I can't believe how smart she is! I am so happy and to have her and I am loving life with her and Jeff!

Our beach vacation 09!

Chloe loves to walk up and down steps, it is one of her favorite thing's to do!! Our condo had a extended balcony with step's, perfect for her to go up and down, until her heart is content!

Chloe's first day at the beach, hard to get a good shot with her big hat on!!

Chloe!

Chloe's first birthday party!

I can't believe she has already had her first birthday! The year has been the best year of my life! Chloe makes me smile everytime I think of her! She is such a wonderful baby! I love watching her grow and learn new things! She loves to dance and likes to for us to dance with her! She loves walking around the house and waving her arm's back in forth!

Her birthday party was great! She had lots of friends that came to celebrate with us. We had cake and icecream and hamburger and hotdogs and pasta salad and bake beans and watergate salad and chips and a veggie and fruit and cheese tray. Chloe loved her cake..she put one finger in and said mmmmmm and then eventually her whole hand went in..it was very funny and cute! She had lots and lots of presents...it seemed like christmas for her! Overall it was a great party for her! I love you so much Chloe!

I am so thankful that we have met some wonderful people that we get together for playdates with! It is nice to have other moms to talk to and friends for Chloe! I am so glad to have them as friends and to get helpful advice from them! I would be lost without them! So a big thanks to Debbie and Macy and Jill and Lily!

Chloe's first birthday party!

Pictures of Chloe through out her first year.

Chloe getting sleepy and looking cute in yellow!







She loved it!! She did not want to get out, I see that we are going to be going to the park alot!