Horses and Balloons

We attended a play group at the local stables- she was more preoccupied with getting down and walking through the grass!

This was our second annual balloon festival with Jillian. She was in HEAVEN with an entire grass field to run through- she had no interest in eating or playing; just going and going and going....
....paused for a moment to pet lil murphy
energizer jilly.........
She would have continued walking until daybreak if it weren't for OUR exhaustion.

Elmo Live, hand-foot-mouth..... AAAAND she's off!!!

We got to go see Elmo Makes Music- Jillian LOVED it! She stood in my lap and jumped the whole time.
(Obviously star-struck in this picture)
Lisa and Sofie- she's a HUGE Elmo fan and ended up falling asleep!
Thank goodness- her last day of recovery from hand-foot-mouth disease! Once she really started feeling better, her first few steps progressed into walking all over!
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Mommy's Helper

(above)Just practicing wearing shoes before it gets cold out....
(below)She has really taken to the vacuum; now if we can just get her to stop eating the paper towels, she can start wiping all her fingerprints off the windows!

Cat Brush Rampage

Little Miss Muffet

This deadly widow was hanging out near Jillian's hand on a chair outside. Along with the fire ants and scorpions, she just can't scoot around in the grass like she wants to!

1 year and Birthday Madness!!

My birthday at Gma and Gpa Arnold's in Oklahoma- I got a 4-wheeler, a baby doll, a phone and some clothes. I also ate some carpet and helped feed the cows.



Still not sure what to think about cake.....but I loved opening presents!

My Friend Lydia (6 mo)

My Birthday party in Iowa
We went to the state fair and visited lots of friends and family. I got lots of clothes, a winter coat, a purse, some new shoes, a play kitchen, some dvd's and a parasite.






Girls gone wild! I think you can actually see them passing around the crypto parasite in this picture.

(Jillian babysitting Kermie)
I got to spend a week playing with Uncle Jake, Aunt Kate and Aliz


I fell on a toy at my play group in Abilene and cut my lip!