Bedtime story

Once upon a time, there was a chocolate pudding snack pack. He was just sitting in the pantry, minding his own business when, RIP. his top was pulled opened. He started to panic as he was carried away from his warm and dark home. His fears were calmed when he saw that there was a responsible adult feeding a one year old. He sat back to enjoy the ride. BUT something happened that he never thought he would see...The responsible mother turned her back!!!The HUNGRY one-year was determined to finish her snack and took control over the feeding. The Snack Pack once again relaxed seeing that the child was going to be nice and easy on him. Then the responsible mother turned back around to see the mess that her daughter had started. She said, "Ah, what the heck" and put the child into a booster seat. The child ate, and ate, and ate. THEN SHE...

Played, and played and played...

Smeared, and smeared, and smeared...
resulting in one of the biggest messes seen by the Snack Pack EVER!
The moral of the story is that the messier the child is, the happier she is, and that just makes life fun!

Turkey's! Holli! Turkey's!

Holli is standing and walking now! She is still pretty stiff legged, but it is so cute to watch her walk! She is standing up with out help from couches or chairs. How fun! She wanted to know what I was doing behind the camera! So innocent.

Colton and Holli down in Sanford over General Conference weekend.

Papa playing ball with Holli. Balls are her favortie things!

Holli in nursery. She loves going in there. Family photos! Jessica's Turkey. Beautiful. Holli even petted the bird. We thought she would be kind of freaked out. She's a hunter in a making.

KJ's turkey. He called this turkey in and BANG! He was so excited. You should ask him the story sometime. It is a good one! We are so proud of him and all he does.

Holli loves to read. She will hide away in her room, pull off all the books, and read for 30 mins. It is so cute.

We go to the park often. On this trip she learned to slid down the slid, all by herself. I don't think that she really enjoyed it, but she kept doing it. Freedom is a wonderful thing!

Easter

Easter was fun for us this year!  This was Holli's second Easter, but we don't count last year!  We put six plastic eggs on the ground and let her find them.  Inside were some YoGo's and a piece of Smarties.  She was so excited to crawl to each one and shake it!
Look at those chompers!  She has 5 1/2 teeth now.  One top one keeps coming in and blistering back up.

Oh yeah, I have a new hair cut.  It's so easy with this little one.

Daddy showed her how to open them up to find the stuff inside.  YoGo's use to be her favortie, but now it is Smarties.  She had an Easter Dress, but while in Nursery, she made a mess of it!  We had a whirlwind of a day and so the Easter Bunny didn't come until about 5 that night.

Holli's Birthday

Holli has found Bubbles! She loves them, although not out side yet. I think when I clean my carpet next, I won't seed soap! This is Holli helping out make her cake. A little later in the process, she finds that she can dip her fingers in the frosting and eat it. It was her birthday and she ate A LOT of sweets that day. She loves to sit on the counter and play while we cook.

She loves this toy from Great-Grandpartents Bartholomew!

Daddy bought her some touching books. She loves books. Right now, her favoirte things are books, balls, and bubbles!

Her Birthday Cake. She is our litte ray of sunshine so I made a sun cake. This is the first cake that turned out well. I have a video of her eating it, but I will have to figure out how to load it. I will post that later.

All in all, the day was very good. She loved all of her gifts and can't wait for the parites that we will have at the grandparents. We can't believe that she really is ONE!