Since Noah's never really been the "baby" boy type I just couldn't throw him a typical Baby Boy Birthday
party and decided trucks was a much better theme to fit his personality!
Noah can literally entertain himself for an hour or more just with one little truck!
Haley of course loves to join in on all this fun and has her own favorite truck as well! Rather than really digging into his b-day cake Noah decided to share with all of the kids.
What a nice boy..hehe. It was more of a community kid cake than a smash cake this year. I was a little bummed though because I thought for sure Noah of all kids would dig right into his cake as he loves just about any other food in the entire world so why wouldn't he love his cake? He did love his
coke float though...
haha!! Noah flips out anytime he sees or hears Grandma getting a drink and demands that she gives him some of it so this was an obvious next choice. The rest of the kids enjoyed digging in the dirt and making their own
ice cream sundae's with oreo crumbs, gummy worms and hershey's syrup!
Aunt Sher Sher did another FABULOUS job on Noah's cakes and check out the "Can you DIG it, Noah's 1" banner that Aunt Miss made for Noah!!! I've always told you guys how creative my sisters are! I wonder how I'll ever repay them for always making Noah and Haley's parties so memorable with their special touches?? A big THANK YOU to Sheryl, Melissa and
Manace (w/ baby Jackson in her belly :-)) for coming over the morning of the party and basically doing all the decorations for me! Thank you to all our Friends and Family who made the journey to come to Noah's 1st Birthday party!! We love you guys!
Noah and Haley went for their 1 year and 4 year old check-ups on Friday and stats are as follows:
Noah (1 Yr): Height = 30.5 inches (75%) Dr. said if he continues at this rate he will be 6'1!!! Can you imagine our family pictures in a few years...HAHA!
Weight = 21.8lbs (58%)
Head = 18.25lbs (58.7%)
Haley (4Yr):
Height = 37.63 (11.28%) She'll probably be about 5'2 or 5'3
Weight = 29lbs (6%)
Man are those two complete opposites or what??? By the way the 4 year old shots are the worst ever.....6 shots plus the flu shot!!! Haley was a trooper though and only cried at the very last one and it was probably because she was upset about getting a band aid. She hates those things!!
Noah is such a wonderful and sweet little boy!! That's Papa's FSU hat he has on :-) He's a very relaxed and calm boy and usually just goes with the flow as long as he's not hungry. He's not hyper and enjoys LOTS of snuggling and playing with balls and trucks! We got him a
ball pit for his b-day and he LOVES it!!! It's in our media room so one of his favorite things to do with it is to get all 125 balls out and throw them through the railings so that they all come downstairs into the keeping room and then says "uh-oh!" Cute, but not fun for Clayton and I to have to pick all those up. We usually recruit help for Haley! Noah is standing all by himself for about 20 seconds at a time and can even
throw a ball while standing but NO steps just yet but I feel that they are right around the corner! He will walk by himself if he can hold one finger!!!!!
Haley and Noah surprisingly still get along
very well so far! I continue to pray everyday that it continues!!! We just love our
family of four and continue to be amazed at how fast time is flying by and how much we LOVE these two kiddos!!!
Haley's last soccer game was the morning of Noah's Birthday party and she received her very first trophy as well as she got the Team medal for the game for "Team Player"! YAY...go Haley!!! Luckily since I was at the house getting ready for the party Grandma, Papa, Clayton, Gary, Macy and Makayla were all able to be there to cheer Haley on!
The morning after the party Haley, Macy and Makayla got to let all the
balloons go! Oh and I almost forgot (sorry no pictures) but the girls got to have their VERY FIRST sleep over in Haley's room!!!!! They all did soooo well much to our surprise!!
Of course that precious little girl Manace is holding is not Jackson...he's still in her belly till around 2/11/12 but what an adorable belly his Mommy has in this picture :-) We had so much fun planning and celebrating for Jackson's arrival! Can't wait to meet this little man!!!!
In looking back over the past year I can't believe how blessed we have been! We are VERY grateful and continue to count our blessings every single day!! We have the most amazing Family and Friends and we are so thankful that you are all apart of our lives! Thanksgiving was spent at Mimi and Grandpa's house this year and Grandma, Papa, Melissa, Whit, Sheryl, Ryan, Gary, Mandy, Macy, Makayla, Smitty, Pattie and Angie all made the long distant travels to their house as well so we could celebrate as one big family! It was perfect! Of course we topped of Thanksgiving with our usual Black Friday shopping that started at Midnight Thanksgiving night! So much fun!!!!!!! 
We all stayed the weekend up there and were able 
to get in a lot of much needed, quality visiting time with the family! 
By the way...... go FSU! They beat Univ of Florida!
We also started a new tradition this year and decided to change things up a bit. Rather than putting up our usual fake Christmas tree we decided it was time to take a family trip to pick out a real one! Haley picked the perfect tree and we loaded it up and took it home! 
This year is a test, not sure if this tradition will stick or not :-)
Noah took his very first steps tonight!!! He's 1 year and 13 days old!! Haley was 1 year and 25 days old so I guess he beat her on this one even though she crawled much sooner than he did. Soooo very sad to see my baby boy growing up so quickly but I'm thrilled for him and all the new adventures that are ahead for him! Noah's really good at standing himself up....must have been from all those squats Papa had Noah doing when he was a little baby! Thankfully Clayton, Haley and I were all there to see it! Even Kylah was there for the big event. I will try to post my Thanksgiving update soon but wanted to share the news and video of Noah walking tonight.
party and decided trucks was a much better theme to fit his personality! 
Noah can literally entertain himself for an hour or more just with one little truck! 
Haley of course loves to join in on all this fun and has her own favorite truck as well! Rather than really digging into his b-day cake Noah decided to share with all of the kids. 
What a nice boy..hehe. It was more of a community kid cake than a smash cake this year. I was a little bummed though because I thought for sure Noah of all kids would dig right into his cake as he loves just about any other food in the entire world so why wouldn't he love his cake? He did love his coke float though...haha!! Noah flips out anytime he sees or hears Grandma getting a drink and demands that she gives him some of it so this was an obvious next choice. The rest of the kids enjoyed digging in the dirt and making their own ice cream sundae's with oreo crumbs, gummy worms and hershey's syrup! 
Aunt Sher Sher did another FABULOUS job on Noah's cakes and check out the "Can you DIG it, Noah's 1" banner that Aunt Miss made for Noah!!! I've always told you guys how creative my sisters are! I wonder how I'll ever repay them for always making Noah and Haley's parties so memorable with their special touches?? A big THANK YOU to Sheryl, Melissa and Manace (w/ baby Jackson in her belly :-)) for coming over the morning of the party and basically doing all the decorations for me! Thank you to all our Friends and Family who made the journey to come to Noah's 1st Birthday party!! We love you guys!
Haley and Noah surprisingly still get along very well so far! I continue to pray everyday that it continues!!! We just love our family of four and continue to be amazed at how fast time is flying by and how much we LOVE these two kiddos!!!
Haley's last soccer game was the morning of Noah's Birthday party and she received her very first trophy as well as she got the Team medal for the game for "Team Player"! YAY...go Haley!!! Luckily since I was at the house getting ready for the party Grandma, Papa, Clayton, Gary, Macy and Makayla were all able to be there to cheer Haley on!
