Amy Turns One!

Amy is ONE! It has been the craziest, most emotional, roller coaster,

exhausting, sleepless, joyful, exciting, happy, pleasant and fulfilling

year ever! We had a big open house for Amy to

celebrate her birthday. We had a lot of family and friends

come to see Amy. Here are some pictures of the Birthday Girl!

 Jeff ordered this cake for Amy from Costco

 We decorated Nana and Papa Mortensen's house

 Aunt Crystal hung this sign for Amy

 We displayed lots of pictures of Amy, as well

as some of her "Premie" clothes

 and hospital "memorabilia" 

like her tiny blood pressure cuffs 

and her bilirubin goggles. 

 Jeff made cotton candy as party favors, he did

a great job! It made buying the cotton

candy machine really worth it :) 

 Amy was beautiful in the purple dress

that Jeff and I picked out for her.

 I know this pic is dark, but I still love it. 

 Such a big girl!!

 This is her "I'm so excited I can't even stand it" face.

She is such a goofy girl. Definitely not lacking in personality.

 Amy and cousin Jake

 Mom and Amy

 Dad and Amy

 Family photo- exactly one year later :)

We love her! We are so glad that she is ours!

Happy 1st Birthday Amy Alice :)

Studio Pics

My dad let Jeff use his studio to take some 

pictures yesterday. Jeff took some sweet pictures! 

Brady (and his mustang), Marcee, Emily

 and Tyler came along to help model.

Chompers

Amy's had bottom teeth for a while now... 

She's been working on her top teeth, they're almost here!

Mr. M

I love him. 

Horseback Riding

A few weeks ago we helped my mom with her 

"Activity Days" event. She had planned taking the girls

to Ashley's barn to ride horses. We went along to help.

Jeff helped Amy with her first horse ride! She had a great time!

She wasn't even afraid of the horses, I was impressed.

Fall Photo Shoot

I love when the leaves begin to change colors

and the weather starts to change. It's 

a beautiful time of year. A few weekends ago, 

we went up with my parents, Emily and Tyler,

to take some "senior pictures" of Emily.

While we were up there, we couldn't resist

taking a few of Amy! It's hard to believe she'll be 

turning ONE in LESS THAN A MONTH!

Amy's First Road Trip!

Labor Day weekend we went on a road trip with Brady and Marcee!

Our destination was California but we stayed in Las Vegas 

on our way to and from. We had such a great time!

Amy did surprisingly well overall. I think I whined

more than she did about being in the car so long! :)

She entertained herself a lot in this mirror. She has

some of the funniest facial expressions.

Hangin' out by the pool

What a bunch of kids!

Amy with Aunt Marcee

Dad and Amy

Amy and Uncle Brady

Brady, Amy and Marcee

Amy and Mom

This was Amy's first time ever in a

 swimming pool! She loved it!

 

Amy modeling her swimming attire :)

We drove to the beach one day. We had a really good

time. Amy liked when I dipped her toes in 

the water. She also liked having her feet in the sand.

My handsome husband, Jeff.

Brady and Marcee

Amy wearing Uncle Brady's cowboy hat

We went to Jeff's grandparents house in Sun City

to visit and to help Brady and Marcee pick

up a piano. This was Amy's first time

meeting Great Grandpa Hunsaker

We had a great trip! Thank you Brady and Marcee for making it

all happen! We're so lucky to have such

experienced travelers in our family. :)