Happy Birthday Miss Annabelle!!!

This time last year we were in the hospital, preparing for our lives to change yet again. It's been such an amazing year Annie has been such a blessing to us. She's such a happy baby and Rachel enjoys being her big sister...most of the time! We had our families over yesterday afternoon for her party and we had friends over later in the evening for a get together. It was a long day but Annie was champ for all of it.

She had fun walking around and going from lap to lap. Her favorite part of the day was the CAKE. We had a feeling she would prob eat half of it. We had no idea she would instantly dig into it and eat the entire thing. It was 30 minutes of non-stop eating. She was covered in cake from head to toe and she enjoyed every minute of it, and we did too. After taking a bath and playing it was time for nap #2 of the day. She slept a few hours and got back up around 8pm, had some pizza and went back to bed for the night.

This morning we got up early (ok, 8am but that's early for us on the weekend!) and to have breakfast at Hy-Vee. Annie enjoyed some pancakes and then we came back home and cleaned, cleaned...and cleaned some more. Scott's running errands this afternoon and both girls are napping. After I finish this, I'm prob going to take a nap too!

Thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate!!! A BIG thanks to the Felbers for taking Rachel on Friday night so we could get ready!


ready to go!


approx 2.5 seconds later









...and she finally hits a wall.


Annie and Papa


Quinn & Rachel