Family Pictures

If you know me well, you know that I love photography and wish wish wish that I was or could be really really good at it!! I just think that its such an amazing talent to be able to capture the true essence of people in a photograph, and I treasure all of my pictures!! So, in light of me falling short of being a great photographer, I have been blessed to have found someone to take pictures of my sweet family and sweet baby girl, keepsakes that I will treasure for ever!! I use her often and will continue to use her to document our life here on this earth!! Enjoy the pictures, Erin from Erin Renee Photography took them, look her up, I promise you will not be disappointed!!

Reagan's First Birthday!!!

Reagan turned one on December 3rd, 2009!! I can't believe that my baby is one!! We celebrated Reagan's birthday on December 5th, 2009. We threw Reagan a little birthday party with some of our closest friends!! We really had a great time, and I think Reagan enjoyed herself!!! We had the party at our house, and kept things pretty simple. I came up with the theme of her party based on the invitation that I chose.



I ordered the invitations from Minted. I thought they turned out so so cute!! So, the theme of the party was adopted and the planning began!! I had way TOO much fun planning her party!!

Decorations....






Food.....

Brownie Pops, yummy!!



Marshmallow Pops, so so cute, and super easy to make!! I thought they turned out too cute!!



The cake was wonderful, lemon cake with buttercream icing!!! Yumm!! My mom always made a lemon cake for me each year for my birthday, so I decided to adopt that tradition for Reagan's birthday's (until she tells me otherwise:))



Spinach artichoke dip, buffalo chicken dip, rotel cheese dip, veggies, fruit, etc...



Birthday Girl:-)).....

Happy Birthday Beautiful

Reagan Avery, you are a big one year old now, my big girl. How I have relished in each and every moment that we have spent this past year. You have brought so much joy into our lives. I love you more than I ever thought possible, and celebrate your first year of life with so much joy in my heart!! I have watched you grow and change from my sweet little baby girl into a big girl full of energy and life!! I have enjoyed this journey so much and feel so blessed to be your momma!!

I pray that sickness and strife evade you and joy and happiness abound in your life!! Each night as I lay you down to sleep, I place you in God's capable hands, knowing and trusting that he will love and protect you always!! I pray that you always find truth and peace in the promises of God, and that someday, in due time, that you give your heart and life to Jesus!!

Happy Birthday Beautiful, you are loved more than you know!!

(More details and birthday pictures to follow :-))

Thanksgiving 2009

I have so so many things to post, we have had a busy few weeks. So, I am going to take it one step at a time, and one post at a time (this is the only way I can ever get ANYTHING done without getting overwhelmed). So, on to our exciting Thanksgiving. Jeremy, Reagan, Maggie and I had a quiet Thanksgiving at home this year, no traveling, no family, no big plans, just relaxing and spending quality time together. It was really nice. We started the day off with a little turkey trot!! We participated in the annual Fort Worth Turkey Trot (5K run/walk) that helps raise money for the local YMCA programs for families and children in the Fort Worth area. We got up early, bundled up and headed to Fort Worth. We met some friends and we walked and walked our little hearts out while Reagan rode in her stroller and took a nice little nap:-))


Reagan all bundled up and ready to go!!



A new family tradition



There were TONS of people there, it was crazy!!!



It only took us a little over an hour to finish:-))



After we got finished with our turkey trotting, we stopped at starbucks and then headed home to put our turkey in the oven. We had tons of food for just the three of us, really just the two of us (Reagan was NOT interested in any of the Thanksgiving food). We had a 16 pound turkey, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes, cucumbers (a Sobray family tradition), squash casserole, focaccia bread stuffing, and pumpkin pie. The food was really really good....



We cooked and baked and prepared our Thanksgiving feast all day long, Reagan was an angel and played and just had a great time. And then, as soon as we set the table and sat down to enjoy the fruits of our exhaustive labor, poof, our sweet angel that played contently all day long turned into a not so sweet angel, and she screamed and screamed and screamed her cute little head off the ENTIRE time that we ate, seriously, it was crazy!! So, we ended eating our delicious meal that took hours upon hours to create, in less than 5 minutes!! And not long after we were done eating and has started the clean up part of the Thanksgiving meal, she decided she was ready to play again and our angel returned.

So, overall, Reagan's first Thanksgiving was a success, and we had a good relaxing time (minus the 10 minutes of screaming)!! We spent the rest of the day and weekend doing some shopping and decorating our home for Christmas!!

Here are some pictures of our sweetie in her sweet Thanksgiving outfit:

Eleven Months

Reagan Avery, you are now ELEVEN months old!! I cannot believe that you have been in our lives for 11 months now, I can't remember what life was like before you came along (besides being a little more rested)!! We are so blessed to have you in our lives baby girl!! So, what new things are you doing now in your eleventh month of life????

If I hadn't been here to witness your transformation from a baby to a big girl in this last month, I do not think I would have believed it!! You have changed so much in this past month its unbelievable!!

1. You are starting to talk, and have several new words now. You say momma, dada, hi, OOH, and Maggie (Gee). It is the cutest when you say Maggie, which you started doing this past week. You will follow Maggie around saying hi Gee, hi gee!! Its just precious.

2. You are FINALLY starting to eat more table food. You will now eat cut up bananas, blueberry muffins, cereal bars, puffs, goldfish, and other finger foods. You are still a big fan our your yogurt. You still eat lots of squash baby food. You are still nursing, but we are just now starting to cut out some feedings to work toward weening you from breastfeeding (which I dread).

3. You are a clapping fool!! You love to clap your hands, and you clap clap clap ALL the time, for everything, and its too cute! You also have started playing peek a boo, which is really fun. You will play peek a boo with just about anything you can find, your hand, your shoes, a diaper, a towel, doesn't matter, as long as it covers at least one eye, you are good to go!! You will put something up over your face (or at least covering one eye to make sure that you are completely hidden), I will say "where's Reagan and begin to look all around for you," and then you will uncover your face with a big smile and I can imagine you saying "Here I am Momma, no need to worry, I didn't go anywhere, I was just hiding behind this shoe, silly momma!!"

4. You are kind of sleeping through the night. This has been a source of difficulty for us, not because you can't do it, just because alot of times, I am too weak to let you try!! But this past week, again, we have done some consistent sleep training, and finally the past few nights you have slept almost through the nigh with just one time awaking, crying for just a few mintues and then going back to sleep.

5. Did I mention that you LOVE Maggie, I mean, LOVE that dog!!

6. I am not really sure how much you weigh right now, but I am sure that its more than you did last month. I also think you grew a little taller this month also. I recently put on a pair of pants that I swear last month fit you perfectly, and this month you sported a cute little pair of high waiters!! You still are wearing size 3 diapers, and will be for some time!!

7. You are a big teaser, you love to play and tease me!! You will grab something, anything, and then come up to me like you are being really sweet and letting me have it. Then you will start to hand it over, and as soon as I go to grab it, you snatch it right out of my hands, and proceed to laugh, run away, quickly, stumble, fall (because you really aren't coordinated enough yet to run), get up and do it all over again!! So fun!!

8. You are doing really great at school, and love all of your friends at school. You have taken a few naps at school on a mat like a big girl. You are napping a little bit better at school and at home. You still take about 2 naps a day, but the length you sleep has started to increase, thank goodness!!

9. I hope I didn't forget anything!! You are just as fun as you can be, your personality is developing right in front of my eyes, and its such a joy to watch you change daily!! We are enjoying this so much that its ridiculous. You are our precious baby girl, Happy 11 months!!

Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween!! Reagan had a lot of fun dressing up this year for Halloween!! Ok, so that is kind of a lie, let me rephrase that, I had a lot of fun dressing Reagan up this year for Halloween. She looked so cute in her scarecrow outfit, although she WOULD NOT leave her hat on. So, we decided to rename her the "fall princess" since she really didn't look much like a scarecrow!! We had a fun time though, Reagan got to trick or treat at a friends house, and then she got to go and hang out with her best friend Audrey Kate for a while!! Here are some pictures of our pretty little scarecrow!!

 

 

 

 

GO VOLS!!!

We routed for our Tennessee Vols today, We got all dressed up and cute, and they ALMOST pulled it off, they ALMOST beat bama, ALMOST!! They ended up losing the game in the last seconds with a blocked field goal, daddy sure wasn't happy, but not all was lost. I sure did look cute in my orange and white!!