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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Sunday, September 25, 2011

7 Months

Our big girl turned 7 months old last Saturday, we can't believe it! She is so fun! Bella is changing so much and it is so fun to watch. Her favorite things to do right now are smiling, drooling, putting everything in her mouth, being on the move, watching Choo Choo Soul and STANDING UP! All she wants to do is pull up on everything to stand up, it's hilarious. Sometimes you can't even sit her down on her bottom to play because those legs are moving and she wants to stand/walk. I am thinking she may just skip crawling all together. We shall see! Bella also has 2 teeth!!! She has been teething for quite sometime now and finally we have something to show for it. Her 2 little bottom teeth are so precious. I am having a hard tie capturing a picture of them but will keep working on it. Unfortunately, due to the drooling and not wanting to sit still, we didn't get the best 7 month picture. I also included a video of her pulling up to stand.
7 Months!



Bella's Baptism and Navy game!

Last weekend we all made a trip down to SC as mentioned in my previous blog! We headed down there for the Navy game and more importantly for Bella's Baptism! It was great, as almost all of Fran's brother's and his sister made it down for the big weekend. Fran and the boys, as well as Aunt Liz all drove down in an RV they rented. They had a great time and the RV was hilarious! Aunt Liz was such a trooper. Aunt Re rode down with Bella and I and we had a great trip down, gave me and Aunt Re alot of time to catch up. The game was so much fun and it was such a close game!

Our sweet Bella got baptized on Sunday and it was such a special day! We started off our morning with a breakfast celebration at Mimi's house. It was nice for everyone to get together and enjoy a yummy breakfast. After we got Miss Bella all dressed up we headed to the church. She did such a great job. She was smiling and loving every minute. Right when the Pastor picked her up she pulled his ear piece out, it made everyone laugh.

Bella looked so beautiful and we have to thank Nana for that. Nana made Bella's baptism dress and it was soooo beautiful! Nana worked so hard and very fast to get this dress ready for her and it was so special. It fit Bella perfectly! We look forward to using this dress for generations to come. Thank you Nana!!

Here are some pictures so far. We are waiting for the photographer to get back with us as he has some good ones!
Bella's new gameday dress!

Crazy Hair!

Getting all dressed up!

Bella was loving the attention!

All dressed and ready to go!

Bella during the service

Family Picture!

Bella and Mimi

Love at first sight!

A couple weekends ago we headed home to SC for a big weekend! 3 big events! 1. Bella's Baptism, 2. The much anticipated Navy/SC game, and 3. Hampton and Bella's first meeting! I am going to blog about the first 2 in a minute, but for now I want to focus on Hampton and Bella. As you all know Ashley is my best friend and her baby Hampton is now 7 weeks old and I had not seen him since he was born! Ashley and I had already decided that Bella and Hampton would have an arranged marriage one day so we could not wait for them to meet each other! Needless to say it was hilarious! I don't think they knew what to think. I think Hampton was a bit terrified by his future wife to be as she is quite the mover and shaker these days. We had already ordered them matching outfits for their first photo shoot. The chair we took their picture in was the chair that Ashley and I used to take our pictures in too, so special! We had such a fun time with them. Ashley looks amazing and Hampton is just the cutest little boy ever!!

The 4 of us!

Gazing into each other's eyes

Bella making the first move, LOL!

1st Chair picture! There will be many more!
We told Bella to love the baby, notice her hand on his little head!

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

I got my new shoes on...

So yesterday my Mimi took me shoe shopping! Now that I am wanting to stand up all the time and want to walk, my Mimi took me to Stride Rite and bought me some new kicks! Thanks Mimi! Here are som pictures from our shopping trip and me showing off my new kicks!


While we were shopping, I was enjoying my feet!



My new shoes!

You like them??

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Weekend Visitors and Dress up

On Sunday we had some special visitors over to watch the Eagles game. Our friends Kyle and Tatiana and our Brother and Sister-in-law, Liz and Joe, came over! Tatiana and Aunt Liz looked in Bella's closet and insisted that we play dress up. I promise this was there idea, not mine! I have already played dress up with Bella way more than she ever wanted, haha. So anyway I agreed and the girls had fun. They picked 2 outfits that she had to put on. One outfit is not for her to wear until she is 18 months old, but it seemed to fit her okay. The other was just a cute dress she has not worn yet. So anyway, enjoy the pictures!

Bella with Aunt Liz and Tatiana

Her dressed in 18 month outfit, LOL!

Bella still doesn't quite understand shoes...

Cute Strawberry dress!

Bella playing with her doll baby!

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Hello from the Poconos

We are spending our labor day weekend in the Poconos at Fran's grandparent's house. We are having a great time and just wanted to share some pictures from our trip so far. Hope everyone is having a great weekend and GO GAMECOCKS!!

Umm...grass, what is this?

Bella and I at Lake Naomi

Had a fight with the rice cereal, haha.
Such a big girl standing by herself!

Kisses from Daddy!