My Baby Turns 1!

On December 30th, my little girl turned one!!! Can NOT believe it has been a year. We celebrated with friends and family and I think Peyton really enjoyed her cake :)


I made little piggy cupcakes because Peyton is slightly obsessed with animals.


My big girl!! Her birthday outfit from G-Mommy & G-Daddy!


Love that little nose :)


Smash cake!


Thoroughly enjoyed her cake...the icing colored her face! Oops.


She thought she looked great! HA


Happy Birthday, Peyton!

Christmas Time!

Tyler, Peyton and I celebrated 3 Christmas' this year! On Christmas Eve day we celebrated with Tyler's family. We went to our Christmas Eve service at the church that we grew up at and then came back to Tyler's parent's house to eat. We had fried shrimp, baked potatoes, salad, pie, etc. It was delicious! After supper, we opened presents with his parents and sister and brother-in-law. Tyler's family has always opened presents on Christmas Eve so it works out really well since our family has always opened presents on Christmas morning.


Peyton showing off her new hat and piano!

The next morning, Tyler and I got up and had our little family Christmas w/ Peyton. She wasn't really into opening the presents, she enjoyed just playing with a piece of wrapping paper. Next year, I'm sure that will be different. After our Christmas, we got ready and went to my parents for our 3rd Christmas. We spent the day with my family and later that evening came back to open stockings with Tyler's family and ended the night playing games with my parents and Tyler's family. It was great being able to be with both sides of the family this year.


Good morning! Merry Christmas!

The BEST Sugar Cookies

My mother-in-law and I made the most amazing sugar cookies I've ever had so I thought I would share the recipe with you guys!

1 C. of butter
1 C. of oil
1 C. of sugar
1 C. of powdered sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. of vanilla
4 C. of flour
1 tsp. of each: salt, baking soda and cream of tartar

Cream together butter, oil and sugars. Add other ingredients and mix well. Chill at least 1 hr. Drop by tsp. on greased cookie sheet. Flatten with fork. (I didn't flatten them) Bake @ 350 for 10-12 minutes. Sprinkle with sugar (I didn't sprinkle with sugar either). They melt in your mouth! Enjoy!

BFF's from College!

I got to hang out with 3 of my best friends from college. We had so much fun! Katie, has a little boy named James, who is 16 months old, and can play the drums LIKE NO OTHER!!! It's insane! Anyways, we had so much fun with our little kiddos!


Katie and I.

James and Peyton. We asked James to find Peyton's eyes.



Carrie, Me, Erin and Katie-All bridesmaids in my wedding :)