Happy Birthday baby Girl!!!

So I am just amazed that Elise is already 1! Here are just a few of the pictures from her one year photo shoot. These pictures were not quite as easy as the 9 month photos because even though she was walking then, it was nothing like the little pro we have now. She was very hard to get to sit still for the pictures the little stinker :) but we did manage to capture her "how old is Elise?" hahaha So cute!

and here is the final monthly picture with the bear. I love that little smile, and its truly amazing how much she has grown in a year!

This year for her first birthday we were very lucky that it ended up being on a Saturday so we were able to celebrate her official first birthday with the people we love. Here she is having fun with her baby cake that GG helped her smash :)

and her pony from Grammy and Gramps, she loves it! the next weekend we finally got to go to the pumpkin farm and pick out or pumpkins :)

We had a great time, she got to ride a pony and a hay ride. She also got to pet some fun baby animals. She is just the happiest and loving baby girl, we are so blessed!

On Halloween this year I was Shocked when Eric said that he wanted to do something as a family (and if you have seen some of his previous costumes you would understand why :)I was of course thrilled though and I think we make a great flinstone family!On Halloween morning we flew to Orlando to stay with a wonderful friend of Eric's in hopes to see the shuttle launch. Carla a high school friend of Eric's works for NASA and had gotten us up close tickets to see the launch. Unfortunately due to technical difficulties and weather we didn't end up getting to see it but we had a wonderful trip and cant thank them enough! Here is a picture of our hosts Chris and Carla (about 5-6 months preggie

We did get to go to the space center and have a look around which was really neat.

Elise also got to put her little toes in the Ocean for the first time. She Loves water and this was no exception. She had a great time at the beach

While we were there we also got to go to Epcot!

She even got to meet Micky, Minnie, Daffy, Pluto and Goofy!

Carla and Chris had told us about this cute little local zoo that we should stop by and that we would be able to pet Giraffes. We were amazed that they would let you do that and decided that we had to see that for ourselves and sure enough they came right up to you and ate crackers out of your hand. They were amazing!

Afterwards we went to the beach.

And Eric couldn't help himself, he had to go over and talk to the bird lady. She gave us all tons of bread to feed to the birds and they flew right up and ate it out of your hand.

Overall it was a great vacation. (even the flights!!!! look how good she was!)

Happy Holidays to All!