Allison's Birthday Weekend!!!

WARNING: Extreme amount of pictures follow this post!! 

Alli's Birthday was on Friday and I really can not believe that a full year has gone by!!  I guess that's why the saying is "time flies when you are having fun"!!!  We have had so much fun with her over this past year!!  This past weekend we had a ton of fun celebrating her 1st birthday!!!  On Friday morning, both Scott and I went to get her out of bed singing Happy Birthday, of course!!!  I swear she knew that it was a special day!!  She was all smiles!  Then her and Scott scratched off a lottery ticket before Scott had to go to work! (isn't that what all one year olds do?) Then for breakfast she had a cupcake!!!  (I know pure sugar in the morning is not the best but it was her birthday!!) Then we ran a couple errands and went to see Cousin Callie and Grammy at gym class!  Alli loves to play with the big kids at gym!  She thinks that anything Callie does, she can do!!  Then later that night Grammy, Grampy and Uncle Jimmy came over to help celebrate her birthday. We opened some presents and sang happy birthday with yet another cupcake!!! (Yes, right before bed...Again, I know not the best idea)

Saturday was Party Day!  It was a normal morning but in the afrternoon we had a ton of family and friends come over to help celebrate her big day!  She even had a special visitor...Dora! (Aka Aunt Sarah) Alli loved dancing, hugging and high-fiving Dora!  I think all the other kids liked her too!  Then, we had cake and opened presents!!! She got so many presents!!! (Thank you all so much!!) She is one lucky girl!!!  I think we now have every Dora toy they make!!!  She loves them all!!!   The rest of the afternoon we played with all of her new toys!!!

Thank you to everyone that came to her party and to all our family and friends that sent special birthday wishes from far away!!  It really made her birthday special!!! 

This is a picture form Thurday.  Her last day as a non-one year old!!!

Look at that smile!!!

Not a winner but they had fun!!

She was excited to have a cupcake for breakfast!!

Yummy!

Cousin Callie giving Alli a big birthday hug!!

Alli showing off her skills on the parallel bars!!

Opening some presents!

She got a Dora snuggie!!!

I think we heard Map about a thousand times over the weekend!!  (that's what she calls Dora)

Hugging her Elmo (Melmo) toy!!

Kicking back with Grampy and a bottle!!

Reading a book to Uncle Jimmy!

Enjoying her second cupcake for the day!!

Ready for her party!! She had just woken up from a nap!! 

Dora (AKA Aunt Sarah) ready for the party!

The kids loved dancing with Dora!

I think this is the "We Did It" dance!!

High-five Dora!

Even Tommy gave Dora a high five!

Yay! Dora!

Giving Dora a kiss goodbye!

Nina with our youngest party goer! This is baby Bristol - she is almost 3 weeks old!

Excited for some cake!!!!

Yum!!!  I love cake!!

Opening presents!! 

She got a Dora mic that she was pretty excited about!!

Some of my good girlfriends!!  Meredith (5 months preggo), Katy with her 2 yr old Brawley, Nina with Katy's 3 week old Bristol and Me with Alli and Sweet Pea! (Yes, I know I'm huge!)

Nina and Alli!

Callie knew that Dora was a costume so we let her wear the mask!!  Cute Huh?!!

Uncle Brad, Aunt Mackenzie and Cousin Lucy!!! (I told them this was a glimpse into their future!)

Cousin David reading to Alli and Callie!

Alli playing with her strollers! She would go back and fourth between them both!

Playing in her Dora house!

Crawling through her tunnel!

It was a long day! This one was ready for bed!

Happy Birthday Allison!!

Tomorrow is Alli's 1st Birthday!! I really don't know where this past year has gone!!  I also can't believe that's she's only been here a year...because I really don't know what we did before her!!  It has been so much fun to watch her grow and see her personality grow as well!!!    I will post some pictures of her party later this weekend but I wanted to share this video that Scott made for her.  It shows her from seconds old to now! He woke me up at 1:30 in the morning to show me it (on a work night for him!)! He was so proud!

Can you tell that she is a Daddy's girl?

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Melmo slippers, Dancing with Santa and Helping Daddy!!

Alli always takes her shoes and socks off any chance she gets.  Since it's been getting colder, I don't want her to be barefoot in the house.  So I got her some Elmo slippers!  Let's just say that she loves her Elmo slippers!!!  We started letting her watch Sesame Street and she loves the show, but especially loves Elmo!!  She calls Elmo "Melmo".  It actually sounds more like "Mellllll-mooowww"  Since it's Elmo, she actually keeps her slippers on and does pretty good walking in them! 

"Melmo Slippers!!"

"Cheese"

"Alli, who's on your feet?"  "Melmo!"

"Mom, stop taking pictures of me!"

"Really mom, stop!"

Out of all of our Christmas decorations, Alli's favorite would have to be the dancing Santa and reindeer!  She will start dancing and then point over to the living room to have us take her there to play the music! 

Dancing with Santa!

We do this about 10 times a day!!



The other day Scott was raking the leaves in the front yard and Alli wanted to help!!  So we put her in the pile of leaves!!! She was a big help!!

Doesn't Scott look so happy raking leaves?

"Hey Dad, I got a leaf!"

"Here's some more!"

"Just kidding, I want to keep them!"

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I hope everyone had a great turkey day and got to spend some time relaxing and enjoying some good food!!  We went to my parent's house for the day (and night too)!!  It was a such a wonderful day and Allison's 1st Thanksgiving was very fun!!!  There was only one kitchen fire and no yelling, so I would say that Thanksgiving was a huge success for us!!!  My mom decorated the tables so pretty and this year we had a true kids table and adult table.  Alli got to sit at the adult table but David, Andy and Callie were at the kids table all by themselves!! Do you remember sitting at the kids table when you were younger?  I used to think it was the coolest thing that we were at a table all by ourselves!! Alli really enjoyed all the turkey, mashed potatoes, bread and of course dessert!!  She loves pumpkin pie (she takes after her mom)!

After dinner, we attempted to get a 2010 Thanksgiving day photo and you would think that would be impossible to get all the kids to look at the camera.  Well, we got all the kids to look at the camera but unfortunately Grampy didn't get the memo not to blink! But at least the funny family photo turned out good!After the photo session we ate dessert and hung out!! Uncle Lucas, Aunt Lindsay, Logan and Lucy stopped by and we got to hang out with them!! Well, we didn't see Logan that much. He was hanging out with Andy and David and was too cool for us!!! I tried to take a picture of the 3 boys playing a computer game but as soon as Andy saw me he backed away and so did Logan, so all I got was a picture of David trying to figure out what was going on?! We did watch some of the Cowboys game out back by the fire pit!! After the game was over, we played some Catch-Phrase!! The boys team won. This year Andy and David played and they were really good at it! I think that's how the boys team won! After that we watched some old Fullen Christmas videos! I know that Alli looks a lot like Scott, but in these videos I was 18 months old and you would think that Alli was in the videos!! You would also think that I was in the videos as a 30 year old Mom of 3 named Donna! (yes, I look just like her and sound just like her)

The adults table!

The kids table!

Scott and David excited about eating turkey!!

Did I mention we had 4 turkeys and a ham? And lots of leftovers!

Alli enjoying her turkey!

Showing off her Thanksgiving shirt!

Family photo!

Funny photo!

Andy eating his pie!

He ate 3 pieces of pie!!

Hanging out by the fire pit!

Andy and Logan didn't want me to take a picture!

Ready for her dessert! We had a wardrobe change after dinner! 

When you ask Alli what a Turkey says she says "yaaa yaaa yaaa".  When translated, she is meaning to say "gobble gobble gobble"!

It was a wonderful Thanksgiving and we are so thankful for all our Family and Friends!!!

Sweet Pea Update!!

Yesterday we went for another Sonogram to see how Sweet Pea is doing! I always love getting to see him/her!!  We got the all good from the tech so that is always nice to hear!  She did say that Sweet Pea is 2lbs 13ozs and is measuring right on size! The heartbeat was at 155 bpm, so maybe it's a girl?!!!!!  They say over 140 bpm is a girl) Alli's was all over the place when I was pregnant with her but never below 145 bpm.  Sweet Pea is usually around 135- 145 bpm, so Scott thinks it is totally a boy.  I guess we will have to wait another couple months to know for sure!!!! Either way, we will be very happy! All we want is a healthy baby!!!

Here are some of the pictures of the sonogram. We don't have a scanner so I just took pictures of them, that's why they are kind of blury.  Hope you enjoy!!

This is a face profile with his/her hand above it's face!

This one shows Sweet Pea with it's mouth open to say HI!!

Leg and Foot that kicks me all day!!!

Arm above Sweet Pea's face!