A couple of pics from Christmas

Here are a couple of pics that we've taken recently. The top is my stepsis Emily, me Adam and Allie, my brother James, and my mom. Mom had a post Christmas party at her house. The bottom was taken at our Christmas Eve party after Allie had changed into some of her pjs. We learned over the holidays that Allie LOVES to be the center of attention. I'll try to get some videos of her running around showing off that she can walk/run/tumble =)

Allie's Getting ready for Christmas

We went to Nanny Gwen's the other day here's Allie looking at the tree. She is making a fishy face in her picture with me. Magen and Nanny were trying to get her to laugh and were making kissy faces and fishy faces. Allie's Maw Maw is the ultimate fishy face teacher, so she knew what they were doing and mimicked them. The middle pic is her with Mae Mae and the bottom is Allie with her Nan!

Allie & Santa

I was SO worried that Allie would pitch a fit. She didn't, instead she just looks a little shocked. She wouldn't look at Santa, he tried to talk to her, but she wasn't having it!! Hopefully he read her mind and knows what she wants for Christmas this year!

James' Graduation

My sweet baby brother finally graduated from college Saturday! We are so proud! Here are a couple of pics from the big day! Sorry they're so small, they saved strangely and I didn't fix them!!

Allie walking

Allie's elephant (see below) has truly inspired her to walk. She'll do whatever it takes to get to her new little friend (who is a little bigger than her). Here is a quick video of her taking a few steps to get to the elephant. She also gives him kisses towards the end of the video. She is so sweet!!

Allie's Elephant

Everyone who has seen Allie lately knows that she LOVES doing the elephant. So the other day while shopping I happened upon a big fun elephant for her to play with. It's a Christmas present, but since she doesn't know when Christmas is we gave it to her Friday. It is her FAVORITE!! We named him Sprouts....isn't he cute?

Snow Baby

Well this is pretty late in the snow day we had last Thursday morning. I hated to wake her up!! But here is what was left at about 8 a.m. Adam was snowed in at the Houston airport, so he saw plenty of snow there, but it was all melted by the time he made it back home! I guess in the next couple of years we'll have to take a winter vacation to somewhere snowy!!

Allie and friends

Allie and Lauren (Allie's new bff, Melanie's step-daughter) hanging out by the Christmas tree at Melanie's.

We went to see Amanda's new baby Owen last week. Here are Allie and Noah (Owen's big brother) playing with his camera. He was SO good with her. Isn't he so cute? Today is his birthday party and I'm so sad we aren't going to be able to make it back to Baton Rouge =( Hope you have a great time Noah!!

Baby Dedication

We had baby dedication at our church last month. Here is a pic of Allie in her dress.

Allie & cousins

Brandon (my stepbrother) and his family came in for Thanksgiving and we went and had Christmas pictures taken with Allie, Graham (younger brother) and Reed. Aren't they sweet? Allie was running 101 fever at that point, so her cheeks look a little rosy =)