Where has the year gone?

Wow, my baby girl is 1 year old!!! Hard to believe it has come so fast. It just seems like yesterday she was being placed in my arms for the first time. I know it will seem like just a few months and she will be in college... or getting married, uh! Stephen and I are so blessed to have her. She is such a little ham and definitely a gift from God. Her antics keep us in stitches! It's no surprise she is a "people person".

Our Family

Newborn Peyton 2-4-08

Peyton had a wonderful birthday on the 4th. Unfortunately I had to work in Dickson. She went to NCS that day and shared muffins with her buddies during snack time. I wanted to do something that I knew all the kiddos would eat and that didn't have icing. Mrs Kim was thankful for that :). Peyton had fun playing with her buddies and then enjoyed the night with Daddy at church.

Birthday morning All smiles at NCS Ava, Chase and Dalyn at NCS

Peyton and Lily Rose ready for muffins mmmmmmmmmm

Saturday the 7th was her party. No surprise she was the funniest girl and loved the attention. There are so many funny pictures and videos. She enjoyed being around everyone, but still wasn't that interested in opening presents. Of course she loved the tissue paper!
The funniest thing was when we opened her gift from mommy and daddy. I had bought a pottery barn chair with her name on it. I didn't think she would even know what it was or what to do with it, but she just smiled and climbed right in. She was giggling so hard she cackled!!! She then sat down and clapped and laughed till we all got cracked up. The video is hillarious as you can see!
Then on to the cake. She was very interested in it and had a blast scraping the icing off and quickly scrape it into her mouth. She LOVED it!
We had a blast with her so far and cannot wait for the next years of her life. She is a joy to us and what did we do before she was a part of our family? We are blessed...

Her "Lil Princess" invitation and Publix matched it perfectly!

P and Daddy before the party Getting ready to open! Yeah a Bunny!!!


Her Favorite Toy! All the Guests Family Watching

Ready for cake... CAKE!!!!!!!!!!

After a bath! Whew!

Happy Birthday my Lil Princess!!!

What a big girl!

This New Year has brought some new things for Peyton too! We visited Mawmaw and Papa for our traditional new year's dinner and she got to sit in Stephen's highchair !

Then we headed back to Nashville, and visited Stride Rite for her first pair of walking shoes! We got a cute brown and pink pair and a white sneaker type! She thinks they are fun, but still doesn't walk on her own yet... unless she is pushing her Princess toy or her highchair around the kitchen!

We also bought her big girl carseat for each of our cars. She loves being in her seat... only another month until she can face forward!!!!!

She also has started going to school on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on the days I have to work. She goes at least one day when I'm off so that I can run errands that are hard to do with an almost 1 year old! Her teacher is Miss Kim and P likes her!!! Peyton has her own crib at NCS with a snowman nameplate on the wall! Her first day was not fun for her, she was not a happy girl and missed us too much. She has now been going for 2 weeks and had a good day all day today 1-14-09!

She also has been using a cup everyday at least once since before Thanksgiving. I decided to get her off the bottle completely going cold turkey and she hasn't had a bottle for almost a week! What a big girl she is now! It is hard to believe that she will be a year in less than 20 days!

New Year's day in Daddy's highchair


Look at me in my big girl car seat with new shoes from Stride Rite!

First day at Nashville Christian School

Walking behind my Princess toy!

Drinking from my cup!

Christmas fun

So many pictures to post on here... Christmas was fun with Peyton. She loved the bows and the tissue paper, not so much her toys that day. She now loves her new toys and we can't wait for more Christmases to come!
This was a whole time of firsts... first tree, stocking, family ornament and many more! Peyton loved our Christmas trees, especially the UT tree! She was a bit confused on all the decorations and us saying, "no" more often than usual!
Peyton met the big red man for the first time on December 9th and was not happy with him. Apparently she doesn't like people with hats or with facial hair. We tried to go for a controlled environment at the church, but she wasn't having any part of it. A week later Santa came back to church on a Wednesday night and we tried again. No way... no Santa for Miss P!
Our holiday went like this: Christmas Eve morning visiting our Bank of Ripley Family, Christmas Eve lunch at Nana's (my aunt), Christmas Eve late snacks and dirty Christmas with Papa and MawMaw (stephen's parents) and Uncle David's family, Christmas morning at B's (my Mom), and Christmas dinner at Papa and Mawmaw's.
We had a busy time going from place to place, but Peyton was a sweet girl...even with a cold that eventually became CROUP! YUCK!!! Not a fun cough for her...but she was sooooooo good, even the day she had NO NAP!

P and Dad hanging...

Our family cheesing!

P's first stocking

Hanging with Mawmaw

christmas morning

Smiles at Mawmaw's house on Christmas Eve

Playing with her new toys!

Her Noah's ark toys

Clapping for the music on her Leapfrog alphabets

Cousin Cissy at Nana's

Seeing our Bank of Ripley Family

Opening presents with Cousin Matthew

All smiles at church!

Our family portrait for our Christmas card

Mommy and P at church

First visit with Santa... She didn't like him!

P's fan club with Stephen

Daddy and P

First look at our UT tree

Miss P and her "B"

Thanksgiving Day Fun

Stephen and I have started a new tradition and have had our families over to our house for dinner each Thanksgiving since we moved into our house in 2003. I enjoy cooking the whole meal and being the "hostess with the mostest" or "Lil Martha" as some refer to me!

This year was a special one being Peyton's first Turkey Day... She is just getting used to eating real food other than her baby food and it can be a challenge with eating; that is unless you're giving her Cherrios, cheese, bread or yogurt puffs. Funny, sounds like my Dad loving cheese and bread :) . I have posted some pics of all of us chilling and Miss P eating her meal! We had a wonderful time with our family and are happy that all could come and hope that there are many more Turkey Days to share.