Alice's Christmas Dress

Okay. So I really wanted to post a picture of my little creation. I'm quite proud of the end result or maybe I am proud of the fact that I didn't give up and throw the whole thing in the garbage and just buy a dress at the store. I thought it would be fun to make a dress for Ali. It was my first attempt at a dress for her not my first attempt ever making a dress. The last time I think I made a dress was probably when Neal's sister Kara got married. (Let's see; I guess that was over four years ago. ) Anyway, I must really be losing my memory because I forgot a lot. I ended up doing almost everything at least twice. So I guess you can imagine it took awhile. I'm just glad I didn't decide to do it last minute like I usually do things. I'll have to actually take a picture of her in it now to prove that it fits and looks pretty cute on. We will have to see if I attempt a project like this again next year.

Christmas 2009

Christmas Eve this year we decided to make homemade pizza. We let the boys each make their own.
We later had a little Christmas program where each person read or told a story about Christmas. We also sang lot of Christmas songs. We then all got to open a present from me. I decided to make everyone PJs this year including me. This the first year in our marriage that I have made myself pajama pants. Tanner and Josh helped me pick out the material this year.



After talking to Neal's family on Skype we ended the night by frosting some sugar cookies so we could leave a few for Santa. We also left some carrots for the reindeer.

Alice's One Year Pictures

Alice's One Year Pics continued and Check-up Stats

I had my same friend take picture of Alice again. As always, she did a great job. Here are some of my favorites. On a side note; Alice had her one year check-up on Monday. I don't usually post her stats but I always forget them so I thought I would document them on here so I don't forget.

Weight: 17lbs 4 oz 5%
Length: 29 inches 50%
Head: 45 cm 50%

So I guess she is pretty average except for her weight. I tell ya, I'm not used to such a small baby but I guess if any of my children are going to be petite I guess it's okay if it's my little girl.

Gingerbread House Making

Neal's mom give us a gingerbread house to decorate and made everyone in the family festive little aprons. Alice looked so darn cute in her's we had to get a full body shot. I love that she only has one sock on and no pants.

Alice turns one!

Here she is in all her cuteness. I actually took this today because I wanted to show off one of her cute outfits along with the pink horse she got from Grandma . I got her to smile too. Usually she is more interested in grabbing the camera from me and doesn't want to smile when I try and take a picture.
Her brothers were so helpful in unwrapping the presents for her.
She wasn't too messy with her cake. She was actually quite danty (sp?); just using her two little fingers to eat the frosting and small bits of cake.
This is the little cake I made for her to eat.
This is the cake everyone got to eat. It turned out pretty good. I got worried in the beginning because it wasn't turning out how I wanted but by the time I finished I was pretty pleased.

It was also really fun having her grandma Fraser from Georgia there as well as my parents and her two aunts: Shelly and Kelsey. Thank you everyone for coming! It was so much fun celebrating her day with you.

Alice Pictures

I got a request for more pictures of Alice from Neal's sister. Here you go Stacey! I have been slacking a little bit in that area. These are just random pictures of her. She is so active and close to walking. I can't believe her birthday is in less then two weeks.




This last picture was my attempt to show her teeth. I could never get a really good picture. She finally got her first tooth at about 10 months and then within a months time she had four. The funny thing is she got one on the bottom and then one on top and then another one on the bottom and another one on top. She looked so funny for awhile with just one on both ends. She looked like a little snaggle tooth. It was cute.