Our Exciting News!

Number 2 is on its way! I went to the doctor today and I am 11 weeks pregnant with my due date on April 24th. We are pretty excited to be having another baby. Abbi absolutely loves babies. She always wants me to wrap up her baby doll, then she'll carry it around the house patting it on the back. It's really cute, but I hope she doesn't expect to tote around her brother or sister! This pregnancy is going well. I've only been nauseous a couple times and mainly at night. The big thing is the exhaustion! But that is even starting to be better. I can actually get past breakfast and not feel like I need to take a nap! At the doctor today they needed to draw some blood and 4 pricks later they finally got enough. It's not fun having tiny veins! What can you do!? With Abbi I had no complications and I really hope that this one goes the same way!

Bear Lake

So this is our Welch family vacation to Bear Lake. We had tons of fun and LOVED seeing everyone again. Now the pictures are put in backwards according to our trip, so if you want start from the bottom!


Abbi is tuckered out from all the fun and is sleeping on our way home!


Abbi is playing peek a boo with us in the car.

Peek-A-Boo!


Here is Abbi with Grandma Welch and Grandpa has her cousin Nathan. Abbi had fun ALL day and was sad to leave the beach

Abbi loved playing in the sand. She preferred it to the water. As you can see she is covered in sand!

Working hard digging her holes in the sand!

Chillin out with dad out in the lake. The lake was so nice! It was great with kids because it was shallow for soooooo long!

Having a chip for lunch. We had fun taking that big tube out with Todd's boat. Thanks Todd for bring it! Had a blast!

Here is Grant taking off from the table to the couch. It's amazing what entertains these little munchkins and how much energy they have!

Grant getting ready for take off! It is quite the wind-up!

That's our vacation to Bear Lake! Can't wait to see everyone again!

Finally new pictures!

I couldn't find the cord that connected my camera to my computer for awhile, but I finally found it! So we get to have a little update. Of course 99% of all the pictures are of Abbi, she is the cutest one in the family!


This is how we usually find Abbi when she is taking her naps. Her knees are tucked underneath and her bum is sticking straight up into the air!

Looking longingly outside! Abbi LOVES to be outside.

She had fun eating her spaghetti!

Having a good time! Neadless to say, when we have spaghetti now, she is usually stripped down to her diaper and it's a bath after dinner!

All ready for church with mom!

And dad!

Abbi is starting to love books. She'll find her books and bring them to you and want to sit on your lap while you look at the pictures. She couldn't sit on my lap because I was cleaning the house, so she decided to sit in her own chair and look at the pictures. She looks pretty serious, must be a good book!

I guess breakfast tuckered her out!

Abbi all dressed for church in the dress Grandma Welch made her.

Abbi hanging out on the couch. I love her pig tails! They curl up into little pom poms!

Making sure to get every last bit of food!

This is Abbi and her attempt to feed herself oatmeal. Needless to say, not much got into her mouth. We haven't attempted it again yet, maybe soon.

Happy Birthday Abbi!!!

Abbi's 1st birthday was on the Sunday Feb. 14th. It was a fun day, we had my parents come over for dinner after church, and after dinner the festivities began! Abbi didn't quite know what to think of her cake. She just kind of stared at it, but we got the candle blown out and went on to presents!



Abbi is opening her first present from G & G Welch. She likes to hand whatever she has in her hand to you, hence I get the wrapping paper as she gets to her gift.

Abbi loves the book they got her. It has animals in it with different material etc. to feel. Her favorite is the "fluffy bird" She also got some cute outfits that Grandma Welch made and a cute little dress for when she's older.

I had to help unwrap the next present, but when Abbi could see what was in it...move over mom! She was pretty excited to see that she got a purse with her own things to go in it! I told my mom that Abbi loves to get into my purse and go through everything, and my mom was a genius and found this purse for Abbi! She absolutely loves it!

We got Abbi her own vacuum! I know, many are thinking wow, but Abbi loves it when I get our vacuum out to clean the floors, so now she has her own! It may be a little big for her though as it is as tall as she is! She also got some new Sunday shoes but she got those earlier so she could wear them to church.

Cake time!!! Abbi was not shy to dig right in as soon as the cake was set down in front of her. Notice the cake free face in this picture...it doesn't stay like that for long.

Woops! She dropped some cake and is looking for it. She doesn't want to waste a bit!

The cake face progression...getting more on there

And more...

Working to get a good handful to try and stuff into her mouth.

And let the stuffing commence!

The end product! She absolutely loved the cake! She looks like she has a cake beard! After this we ran off to the tub and did a quick wash. It was hilarious to watch. She was in heaven with the cake, however bedtime didn't come till 9:30 as it was a little more difficult than usual to get her to wind down. I wonder why???

Abbi Pics

A couple of misc. pictures of Abbi. (What else do we take pictures of???) I though Abbi was just looking quite cute on this day. Her hair is naturally this curly and when she lets it be it will stay this way all day. I love it!





Now when she doesn't leave her hair alone it will end up looking like this! I can't help giggling when I look at Abbi in this picture. The tongue sticking out is a staple for Abbi. She is getting up from her nap and is pretty happy. Gotta love her!



Abbi has learned to walk and likes to explore. She especially likes Dad's night stand. She likes to lose his place in the books he has there and move everything around. She can be pretty mischievous when she wants to!

Christmas

This is Abbi in her dress I made her for Christmas. By the end of the day at church the headband and bow had been pulled off and her hair was everywhere! If she isn't distracted she will ALWAYS pull her hair bows out. It frustrates me to no end, but what can ya do? I have pictures of Christmas morning on my phone (how horrible of me that I forgot our camera for Christmas!) I just need to figure out how to download them to my computer. So this is it for now as far as Christmas is concerned.