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So I of course intended to post last week but when we cram three celebrations into eight days blogging takes a backseat...

Camilla is 1!!!! We celebrated for what seems like two weeks, mostly because three of her grandparents went out of town on her birth day so she received gifts before they left on their trips (my parents went to New Jersey and her Grandma Snow went to a tennis tournament). Any who, her birthday was great, we had a party with each side of our family on the weekends and then one with friends on her birthday.

I kind of made last minute plans for her birthday so it wasnt the grandest first birthday, but I though it turned out well. I made 'healthy' cupcakes for babies and arranged them like "balloons," then made chocolate cake balls for everyone else. Camilla had her twin friends, our neighbors, come to her party and we had several friends come to wish her Happy First too! We didnt play games or open presents, just had a good time together and laughed while Camilla enjoyed her cupcake/birthday cake!Thanks everyone for making it a great fisrt birthday for her!
Oh the funniest part about watching her eat her cake was that she kept lifting her feet up, like eating was this whole body activity, so cute!

So there you have it, this last year flew by so fast! It really doesnt feel that long ago that we were all in the hospital with her... seeing her first smile, hearing her coo, watching her roll, army crawling, first say mama dada! She amazes me, she's a slice of heaven, she makes me laugh so hard sometimes and stand in awe at others! I love our baby girl and cant wait to see how she'll grow and change this next year of her life!

All grown up and saving China

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Dont worry, it's lemon!

These two pics are to show how big Camilla is, how much
she's changed
since she was itty bitty- these
were both taken on her changing table




Yay for icecream sundaes, this is the one Chad enjoyed the other day- Yum. I rediscover butterscotch about every 6 months so thats all i had on mine, and i loved it!!!!




I thought this shot was fun and shows how absolutely tiny Mobi was when we first brought him home, he's grown so much!!!




Befitting his name we created a cave for Abominable! He seems to enjoy it : )

More Snow!

here is our newest family member!
Mobi (nickname for Abominable Snow dog-
yes we know mobi isnt part of his name)
joined our family last tuesday. He and Camilla are getting used to each other though at first Camilla wasnt too excited about his addition to our home. That first night he got a lot of attention and she was pretty offended, but we've got a good balance now and she knows she's still number 1.

He is a shetland sheepdog, he is 7 weeks old now, he is sweet and soft and oh so cute!He is also super cuddly and competes with Camilla when there is a lap available to sit on. We are so excited to have a puppy in our family, we hope he'll grow to be a good dog and Camilla's best bud!

I wish I knew how to get pics off my phone - I took a picture yesterday of Mobi, after he'd been playing hard and fell asleep with his toy in his mouth! So cute!





After initially posting this, Chad reminded me that I could email pictures from my phone so thats what i did and here's that cute photo