Marissa is one year old

Happy Birthday to my little Marissa! OK so her birthday was a week ago, but we seem to have a computer from the stone ages and every time I tried to upload pictures it freezes up on me. For some reason it's working today, so here is a long post of b-day pics starting in the morning.

Happy little one year old!

We got her a little musical jewelry box, Lexi is having a hard time letting Marissa play with it.

Showing off her new toy to the video camera.

Excited for all her guests to arrive for her Flower party.

Jasmine got a hold of a a doll Grandma Marykay gave to Marissa, now when Jasmine comes to visit she wants that doll.

Some of Marissa's party guests: Grandma M.K., Sarah, Marque (holding my sister's new baby Christian), Grandma Kate, Amy, Lexi, and Daddy.

Grandpa Rick and Cameron

Grandpa Rick and Jordon

Batman princess
(Leah)

Jeff (he was very excited to be there!)

Jaime, Amy, Sarah (holding Christian), Q, Dez, Andrea, Ethan, Grandma Kate, and side view of Chase.

Skyler, Tinkerbell Lexi, Belle Brynn (Brynn knows where we keep Lexi's dress ups so as soon as she got here she wanted to put one on), and Daddy.

Tawni and Tiffani. Tawni was taking pictures for me and Tiff got a hold of the camera and surprised Tawni with a sister shot.

Opening presents!!

Ready for some cake

Never mind the singing, she just wanted cake :)

Dug right in

My girls and me

I decided to just do cupcakes and ice cream instead of a cake.
I didn't realize how long decorating cup cakes can take.

Marissa's cake was really fun to make. I hope you can tell it's a flower.

Preschool Christmas program

Santa never came to any of my school programs :) Lexi was being a little shy.

All the kids looked so cute singing Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.

S-A-N-T-A and Santa was his name-o.

"Do you know the Apple Man?" I always thought is was the Muffin Man. At any rate Apple or Muffin this was one of two songs she knew really well. Santa was his name-o was the other she knew well.

Cheesy grin, what a goofball.

11 Months old

Fun with big sister! Lexi likes to have Marissa either ride her like a horse or give shoulder rides.

Finally got a hold of the flash light. Lexi doesn't like to let her play with it, so Marissa was quite pleased when she got to play with it.

Taken on the actual day she turned 11 months.

Side note: I have late crawler kids, Marissa started crawling in the evening of the day she turned 11 months. Lexi did the same exact thing even down to the time of day she started crawling, the evening of the day she turned 11 months. Weird huh?

We had a huge wind storm, that pile isn't even all the leaves in the yard.

Sweet face :)

A Witch and a Butterfly

We got a cookie set from one of my visiting teachers, it came with pumpkin shaped sugar cookies...Orange frosting...

and sprinkles.

Lexi had tons of fun decorating, and even more fun eating them.

Here's out little witch and butterfly headed out to trick-or-treat.

Luckily the huge wind and hail storm stopped so we could go out!

I didn't get very good pictures before trick-or-treating (weather), so I dressed up the girls a few days later when it was back in the 60's. I'm sure my neighbor's were laughing at me.

The girls were having fun running and jumping in the leaves (except Marissa of course, she enjoyed watching). As soon as I got the camera out, the smiles disappeared.

Getting so big

Just a few updated pics of the little cutie :)

8 Months

9 Months

10 Months

Here comes the Bride

Lexi saw a show on TLC called "Say yes to the dress". She told me that the dresses are so beautiful, I told her that they were wedding dresses. Ever since then she tells me that she wants a wedding dress. I thought she would like to look at my wedding dress, the second she saw it she wanted to put it on. So I put it on her and she said "I'm so beautiful mom, I want to get married"

Side note: She says she's going to marry Lincoln (across the street neighbor) in the Temple. He's already proposed to her :)

1st day of "pretty" school

Ready for her first day of Pre-school (pretty school as she calls it).

She's been so excited to go to school ever since I told her she was going over a month ago. It's been a very long month of her asking "can I go to school today?".

All ready to go :)

Loves her new "pack-pack"

She had no trouble at all finding something fun to do.

I was on the verge of tears leaving her, and she just shouts "bye mom, you can go".

Her first school project. Didn't she do such a great job :)

She loved her first day of school and wants to go back!