We Are Back!

Justin took this picture!

Justin and I went on a four day cruise! We left Monday and came back today. It was soooo much fun! However, I was VERY emotional when I had to leave Annie on Monday. Luckily I had my mother (who watched her all week), grandmother (watched her on Monday), and Stephanie (watched her two mornings and helped my mom out) to watch her. So I felt some relief. But I was still very upset after we left. The cruise was great....well...except for the whole confrontation with Mexico security thing...but besides that, it was absolutely wonderful!(If you wanna know the story, just let me know!) We wanna go on a cruise every year! There was sooo much to do on the ship and tons and tons of food! I also got a purple Guess purse for my b-day! They had a shop with all this designer stuff in it! I love it!We got lots of pictures and a few videos! If you wanna see our reunion with our dearest little Annie this morning at the mall, just check out my cousin Steph's blog (Stephanie Young). It was perfect...I thought for sure she was gonna forget about me....but no..she didn't! If you wanna see how her week went without us, just look at my parents blog (Annie's Exuberant Grandparents) and also my cousin Stephs blog. Enjoy!

The Gallery

The little boats taking everyone from the ship to Catalina!

Golf day!

The elevators, there were 12 on each deck!

Our fake window

The old nasty man in Calvin Underwear!!

My, I can't take my self seriously enough to do these serious poses, pictures! We had a laugh with these!

Nasty Mexico (This picture actually makes it look decent)

Everyday we had a different towel animal

A dog

An Elephant

A Monkey

A Frog

Cabin Tour

Hanging out on the Deck

This is what you look like when you think you are taking a picture but really you are recording....very awkward!

Go check out my mom's and Steph's blogs....there great!

Wow That's A Lot Of Birds!

After Annie's doctor appointment this morning (She has an ear infection and a cough and cold) we decided to go feed the ducks and geese at the neighborhood pond! It was Annie's first time going, and I figured it would brighten her day. So we got some old bread at home and headed over to the pond. The birds were all over on the other side of the pond, but all we had to do was take one piece of bread out and they started a mad dash to get the first piece! I only saw maybe 7 ducks, so I figured they would all get enough bread. But as I started to feed them......I hear a loud honking sound...and like a little army marching over....about 10 white geese come waddling from out behind some trees across the pond and down into the water. They were loud! I got my camera out and starting filming them swimming and some others coming closer to feed and then all the geese that were swimming over started flying over! I have never seen tame birds in a pond fly! It was very scary! I thought they were gonna fly over the fence and land on poor little Annie! And all I could hear in the back of my head was "The Imperial March" song that plays when Darth Vader from Star Wars comes in the scene. I got video of it, but I didn't realize it was zoomed in all the way, so you don't get to see ALL of them! And I was so scared by the amount of birds flying towards us that I didn't even get all of the ones that were really close! But all in all, we had fun. Annie enjoyed pointing at them and doing her really fast laugh! Enjoy!

Pickin Pumpkins

We went to the pumpkin patch on Saturday with a few other family members. It was our first time being at this particular pumpkin patch, and I must say, it was very nice. Although it didn't have the bounce houses and obstacle courses the other one from last year had, it was still fun! Annie was the first one to find her pumpkin and to my amazement she actually carried it around for a while. But then she was over it and on to bigger and better things....like chasing down the other kids and trying to get them to play with her. I don't know why she is so attached to other children, but she loves them. Every time we are out somewhere and she spots another kid, she goes crazy and wants to go play with them. It really is weird cuz she isn't around other kids....my friend Katy is the only other baby friend we know! But I guess she is just a social butterfly! Anyways, we had a lot of fun!

Oh and for those of you who have asked...here is a little update on what Annie is doing and saying!

1. She waves hi and bye and says both of them

2. She blows kisses, gives kisses to toys and herself, and now she has started giving them to me!

3. She gives hugs to everyone, and she knows what the phrase "Give Huggies" means

4. She points to the candles when I say "Fire"

5. She knows where her nose is...but as for her mouth, eyes, and ears...she has no clue!

6. Stephanie taught her how to take her finger to her mouth and do that "bubble" sound with her lips

7. She knows what bottle means

8. You can ask her "are you hungry, are you tired, do you want more, is it good, wanna go to grandmas" and she with bounce her body up and down, kind of like a chicken eating......and that means "yes" I guess she doesn't realize that all I am doing is nodding my head when I say yes....

9. She says Kitty, Gi Gi (Great Grandma), Dog, "susi" means Lucy,"da do" means Thank You, "eese" means Please

10. when you say shoe, she will point to her feet

11. She says juice and will point to any drink when she is thirsty

12. When we say "Annie wanna use the potty?" she will go find her potty and bring it into the front room and sit on it!

13. If you make a noise from any toy, she will copy you and then bring that toy to you! -that is still crazy to us!

14. If she has poopie in her diaper and you ask her, she will open her mouth really wide as if having a shocked expression-this comes in use if you haven't smelled it already!

15. she says "Up" when she wants to be picked up

16. Still only 4 teeth but we think she is getting a back molar, she spits out most of her food and wont eat!

17. of course she says mama and dada

18. She can climb onto the couch and get off without falling

19. She chases our cat around and tries to hug him

20. when she wants you to stop talking she puts her hand over your mouth...

21. she does the scary "raaaarrrr" sound when you try to scare her! It is really funny!

22. And as you saw in the last post, she likes to clean! She will take a wet wipe and clean windows,the couch, the animals, the floor, toys, pretty much any thing!

Well there is more, but I have to get to bed! Work awaits tomorrow! Enjoy the pictures!

Doing Chores Already.....

Just For Laughs

Here are some pictures and a couple videos of our little one. She is getting so big and so smart! Enjoy!