More Mylie Birthday...

Here are more pictures from Mylie's birthday celebrations. She had a little party with some of her friends around town and friends from her class at school. It was a great time...and we realized that we can fit 12 kids and 9 adults into our little house.



Mylie and Trey

The birthday girl



Libby and Grace

And here are a few other pictures from her big day with the families in Albuquerque.
Uncle RyRy and Dan's daughters Chelsea and Courtney




This is Mylie opening her Elmo Live

Grandpa Dobbs and Mylie sticking their fingers into her cake

What is a birthday without a little Dion's pizza???

Mylie's 2nd Birthday

Our little Mylie turned 2 on November 28th. I think that every year we will say, "I can't believe she is another year older." Or, "It seems just like yesterday we found out we were pregnant with her." But it is the truth. Children make time pass so quickly.

We call our girls "joy-bringers" because how wonderful it is to have a little girl make a grown adult belly-laugh, sigh with delight, tear up with unmeasurable love. We have officially entered the "stinker" phase with Mylie, but even as a little stinker, she is so darn cute that we can't help going just a little easy on her with our reprimanding. She is a great helper. She loves throwing the laundry into the washing machine, loading the bottom drawer of the fridge with cokes and making a "ssshhh, ssshhh" noise when she pretends she is spraying the cleaning spray on the floor. She loves to hug her sister "Toley" (as she calls her) and climbs up on her crib when Coley wakes up from her nap. Mylie will smile big at her and say "Hi Baby." Mylie loves to take baths, go for walks, watch videos of herself dancing, color, play with play-dough, go to Wee School, her grandparents (Grum-pa, Mani and D-D, Nonna and Papa...that's how she pronounces their names), watch Elmo and Abby Cadabby, Barney and Yo Gabba Gabba (even though she'll still only watch any of these shows for maybe 10 minutes). Her favorite foods are hot dogs, cheese, any and every fruit, fruit snacks, sandwich meat, pizza, raisins, and anything sweet, really. She can count to 10, sing her ABC's and knows most of her colors (we think...or she's just a really great guesser.) She is just a little joy in our life and we are blessed to have been given Mylie as our daughter.


Our sweet little Mylie around 8:31am on the day of her birth, Tuesday, November 28, 2006


Mylie turning 1 at 8:31am on 11/28/07


And our big girl at 8:31am on November 28, 2008 when she turned 2

We're having a little party with Mylie's Texas friends later this week, so I'll post pictures of that celebration as well as pictures of her celebrations with our families in ABQ over Thanksgiving week.

Happy Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving in Albuquerque with our families. Here are some pictures from our week. (Excuse my formatting...I can't figure out this blogging-formatting-thing out!)