Winter "one"derland

Happy Birthday Halle

Halle Digging in :)


All the cousins

Halle's #1

Halle with G&G Croft

Halle's Personal Cake

THis was the first cake i ever made :) (ps i do make michael a cake but he always likes cheese cake for his birthday)

Where has the year gone Halle has turned 1 on Dec. 18th and it just seems like yesterday we were bring her back for the hospital. Time flies even faster when you have a baby! Halle is such a joy in our lives. She has brought Michael and i so much closer and much more them a couple we are now a family! Halle can make us smile on a drop of a hat....she is our little jokster and we love ever minute of it! I would have to say that Michael and i were very blessed halle is such a good girl except with sleeping....she is getting better! :)

I also wanted to thank everyone for coming to halle's first birthday....as you can tell from the name we haad a Winter"1"derland party for her! there was so many people and she really got spoiled! Happy Birthday Love!!!

Christmas Fun!!!!

Halle went and saw Santa Claus and i was pleasantly surprised...she did not cry...but she did not smile either! It was so funny because all she wanted to do it play with Santa's beared!

Hear is halle right before she sate on Santa's lap...her dad was down below and she really wanted him to come save her...she is such a daddy's girl!

lori and i Made the wreath...i think it turned out way cute!!!

It getting to look a lot like Christmas around our house...i love decorating for the holidays. I wish i could have went all out but Michael says we will get a little at a time! Which i guess i agree with :) We also did put up some light but i have not taken a pic. of them yet...Michael did a great job putting them on thought...i will post a pic. soon!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Michael's 25th Birthday!

Friday Dec. 11th was Michael's birthday! It was so much fun we all went to the lamp lighter and then topped off the night with ALL of the fam. coming over to our house for cheese cake (made from scratch) and ice cream ( not made from scratch :)) It is always so fun to get together with family!

Michael, is such a wonderful husband, daddy, and person!!! We just love him so much...he is such a hard worker (maybe to hard). I can truly say he is my EVERYTHING and i don't know what i would do with out him! Babe, i hope you had a wonderful birthday and always know that Halle and i love you so so so much!!! Happy Birthday babe!!!

Halle's On the GO....and Halle's First Thanks Giving

Halle Is a go getter when it comes to walking...she started a week before her 11 month birthday....and now she is walking all the time!!! she can even stand up all by her self and start!!! as you can tell Michael and i are very proud :)

Also halle experenced her first Thanks Giving....and she LoVeD it!!! She had so many serving....she really liked the stuffing! she is so fun and so cute!!! We love you Halle and daddy and i are very thankful to having you!!! Happy late thanks giving everyone!

HALLE JUST.....

took her first steps yesterday morning!!!! Our little girl is always on the go and trying to walk by her self and she finally did it....she is still and little shaky but we are still so proud :)..thought i would let everyone in on the great news!!!!

10 Months

Halle is now 10 months old and i really cannot believe it( i think i say that every month but really it is so crazy) halle is getting so big and she know it...she is so independent and loves to do things on her own. Also, Halle now has her two bottom teeth....i love them they are so adorable!

This month halle is 21 lbs and growing like a weed!

Halle has been trying all kinds of big great food and really loving everything...she really loves green beans, Mashed potato's, and bread! (gotta love those carbs...just like her mommy)

Halle is also crawling like crazy and can walk along furniture really well...she also really loves her walker....we have wood floor threw out our house and them we have a 10 by 10 rug in the living room...she would not go off the rug because she gets going to fast so she would bell off! Now she is getting more evil cunevil on us and going on the wood flore! I think halle is going to walking any time now....i cannot believe i have a baby who is crawling and soon will be walking!

Halle is also our little jokester...she loving being silly and loves people to laugh at what she is doing and clap for her...we went to my brother Joey's football game and when the crowd would clap she would get all excited like they were clapping for her...then she would clap to!!! So cute

Our little VOGUE BABY

I have been trying different things with Halle's hair and this is one that i came up with....ps...the trick is to do your kids hair in the tub...Halle loves the tub to much she does not care what i do to her hair!!! makes it easy and cry free :)

halle is my world and micheal and i love her with all our heart!!! halle thanks for loving daddy and i so so so much! we love you girly!

HaLlOwEeN!

Halle's First Halloween was so fun...Michael and i loving seeing our liitle pumpkin (she was the cutest pumpkin i have EVER seen ) Halloween is so much more fun with a little one!!!

These are some of Halle's cousins...Tiffany kids....Kennadi and Cole!!!!

Halle's Grandma and Papa Grandalen



Me and my love bug

Daddy and Halle

Our Little Pumpkin

This is Halle's Topper that i made for her costume...her costume had a hood on it but i knew she would had to Ware it so i decided to make her one!!!

Halle's Pumpkin face

This Halloween was great...and it was so much fun seeing Halle enjoying Halloween...Michael and i where mean parents thought we did not let halle have any of her candy she got from trick-or-treating!

GREAT NEWS!!!

So as everyone knows halle had to get tubs put in her ears on Monday. And she did great!!! The only hard thing was at the very beginning...they gave halle vitamin "v" which helps her to be calm when they take her to surgery....it was not so fun...she was so out of it and it broke mine and Micheal's heart to see her like that. So after she left i broke down....i did not like not being by her side. Luckily the surgery only took like 30 min. and then we could go see our little girl! she was not the happiest coming out of anaseshya (cant spell) but we made it threw! I am so glad we put tubs in she has not tugged at her ears and she is a lot happier girl ( I must say though she has always been a happy baby...the doc. said she must be a strong cookie because she is not showing any singes of pain except for the tugging on the ear) Also i wanted to thank everyone for the advice...it made me feel better to see that other people got tubs for there kids also....being a mom is a hard job you ... i never want halle to feel any pain or to ever be scared...now i understand how my mom always said she wished she could take some of our burdens off of us! Well i hope that it is the end of our surgeries for halle and the rest of our kids....thanks again everyone

Bad News

Well I have some not so fun news...our little girl has to get tubs in her ears this Monday :( Halle has had a constant ear ache for about 4 months so we thought that it would be best. it is a little scared and i know that it is not a big surgery...but to me any surgery on my little girl is scary. I am also a little nervous because she cannot eat pass 12 that night and halle is still waking up once a night around 2:30 am wanting to eat...so that is going to be hard not feeding her...and she is not going to know what is going on! I just hope everything goes well....her surgery is a 6 in the morning so hopefully we will be in and out and on our way home! keep halle in your prays! And if anyone has any advice we would love to hear it :)

8 Months

Halle is now 8 months almost 9 and i really cannot believe it!!! I must say it is really bitter sweet because i am loving all of the new things but am really missing some of her baby things! But she is ONE FUN LITTLE GIRL though! She cracks us up all of the time....she is our little jokester :) This month though has been a little hard, because Halle and i both got thrush...and that is not fun at all so after the second go around of it I decided to supplement with Formula to give me time to heal...and halle is a little trouper...she took it great and i did not realize how much that girl can eat!!! we go threw a can of formula about ever 3 days 4 if we are lucky! But thrush is not the only fun thing that we had to go threw...helle one day started getting all the these rashes and i was not sure what from i didn't know if it was from the formula or what....we later found out that she was getter Heat rashes....then lets not forget about the ear aches....Michael said i guess if it is going to rain it miswell pore and that it did... really hate not knowing what is wrong when halle is acting up and am really glad that the things were not that major! But other then those 3 things halle has been feeling great :)

Halle Faves:

*Water bottles

*Biter Biscuts

*Bunny (of Course)

*Wanting you to help her walk

*Daddy ( Halle has just became a big time daddys girl when she is wanting to play...Michael it loving ever minute of it...i love waching them two...Michael is so cute with her :)

Halle is now Standing up on everthing...and Crawling. She started with the army crawl then like a week later she went to crawling...and now she is starting to bear crawl (it is so cute on leg will do the normal crawl and the other will to the bear crawl) halle is also busting out the tri-pod stance she will stratin out her legs in the crawling posision...Oh and her little head dance she is bustin out the night of the rocks beary head shake she does it all the time and she know it makes us laugh so she just keeps doing it :)....she is so funny!!!
we are enjoying halle so so much and she is such a sweet little girl!!! We love Halle and we are very blessed to have you in our life!!!

ps i will add the videos of the crawling :)

Some friends and i went to the kelly Clarkson Concert this weekend and Tiffany was rockin and got us 2 row tickets!!! We were so close to her and it was such a blast! She seems like such a fun girl and i love her music!!! She has great songs!

Here are all of the girls who went!!!

The concert was great and it was fun hanging out and having a girls night out!!! thanks for being so fun girls!!!
AND THANKS TIFF FOR GETTING SUCH GREAT TICKETS!!!