Italia cleaning out her Pumpkin

Italia's early steps at 10 months

ONE YEAR ALREADY

Hey All! Well its already been 1 year. Italia turned one yesterday. I can't believe it! She is getting so big. We had a really good birthday party and all of our family members that could make it were there so it was really nice. (We did miss all of the family that was not able to make it, so there are pics coming) She got a ton of stuff, I could not believe it. She also loved opening the gifts just ripping and ripping sometimes little by little lol. She had a good time! So I just wanted to give a little recap of her first year because of all the milestones and everything else that has happened.

This is the best time of the year. Italia was born on 11/09/07 8 pounds 6 ounces. Bright eyed happy little girl.

I can't remember how old she was, but this is when she was really starting to smile and have some personality. She loved and still loves being naked!

This is when it all the trouble started, she was rolling over, sitting up and working on her crawling.

This was the hardest day of my life. Italia went into surgery and was in for a few hrs. She had to get slits into her skull so that her brain could grow and reform her skull.

This is how she is now. I know there aren't a lot of pictures of her starting to sit up and feeding herself and starting to crawl, and talking but one day I will learn how to put videos up. This has been the best, hardest, fulfilling, life-learning, patient, joyful, trial & error, year of my life. And there are only more to come. Being a mom is amazing and I hope that all of you are able to experience it. I luv you all! Have a good week!

Italia's first Halloween

Halloween Fun

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a great halloween! We had a really good time. First we had a really good party at my work. We definately know how to Party! Me and 3 other girls at work decided to dress up as Jem and the Holigrams. We did our best to match their costumes, but lets face it, DI only has so much. We had a good time. Our whole office dressed up which was really fun. We go all out for sure. We had to make up our own skits and go through a little obstacle course. It was great. Thursday night we carved our pumpkins and that was fun. Italia had a good time cleaning out all the gook. She did a good job too. She hit all the piles on the floor and all over the table. She only tried to eat it once, so that was a record. I was having a hard time putting the faces on them because Walmart was all out of their carving knives so I had to use our kitchen knives, yeah not easy at all. Lets just say I forgot to take a picture of the finished product lol. Friday was a blast. We went to Logan and went trick or treating with my sister and her husband and their family. It was a little chilly but not to bad, and the kids didn't mind the weather at all. They had a great time. Italia was funny because she always had to have one peice of candy in her hand at all times. So we took it from her right before she got another one. It worked out pretty good. We went trick or treating through her nap time so she was exhausted but she was definately a trooper. So that night we dressed her up in her Lion costume and went on our way trick or treating house to house. She hated her hat on at first so I was really worried but then I took her and let her see herself in the mirror and told her how cute she was, and well it was all smiles from then on. We went to grandmas and took pictures and grabbed the wagon to pull her around in. It was a little rainy by this time but she didn't seem to mind. I think she had a good time. When we got back Laura's family was all there and so we got to see all their cool costumes too! It was a good Halloween. The rest of the weekend was cleaning and resting. Well we watched some sad excuse for football watching the Broncos loose. What the heck? Well I hope you all had a good holiday and enjoy the week!