Happy Birthday, Annabelle!

We celebrated today at 1pm with the Mosher side of the family. Fourteen were in attendance, and we had a taco meal, watched Annabelle dig into her cake, and open presents! There was so much to post that I had to do 3 different smileboxes. In case you don't want to view all of them I labeled each one so you know what they are about! ENJOY! Wish you could be here to celebrate with us!

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Monthly Milestones

Well Annabelle turns One! It is truly hard to believe that a year ago we were holding our 6 lb 14 oz newborn girl, and now she is little Miss Personality! So much happens in this first year! Here are some new thing she did this month....

December 31st, 2006 about 6:09 PM

Tonight at 6:09! Exactly One year old!

1. She went officially to the sippy cup for every meal on December 2nd!

2. Wednesday, December 5th she stood for the first time. Of all places it was in the bathroom. She was holding onto the tub and let go just to look around. Then at Church she did it for the ladies in the nursery, but this time she stood and clapped to B-I-N-G-O!

3. Friday, December 7th she started using sign language. She can now do "more", "all done" and "Thank you!" She also points to things that she wants! That is not official sign language. :-)

4. Monday, December 10th she started drinking soy milk. We put her on soy milk because of her lactose issues.

5. Sunday, December 23 she took two steps to Mommy. Grandma and Aunt Em got to see and take pictures.

6. Annabelle now plays Peek-a-Boo using her hands!

7. She knows how to show affection. The other day we came back from somewhere and she went to each of us one at at time, gave us a hug and then put her arms out for the next person!

8. She has grown in her word knowledge. She knows things like "sit" and "please, wait" and other simple commands.

9. At the end of this month she finally had her 3rd tooth pop through! We are a bit slow with the teeth, but a nurse told me that the longer the teeth come in the better teeth she will have. Let's hope she is right!

10. She has tried more table food this month including, mashed potatoes, oatmeal, and olives to name a few. The first two she liked, the olives she did not! Her face was hilarious!

Annabelle is 21 lbs (50 percentile) and 28 inches long (25 percentile)

Christmas in Maryland

Here are more photos of our

Christmas in Maryland

Annabelle was showered with lot's of gifts!

Here are three videos of Annabelle.

The first one is my Mom singing a song called

"I'm Going To the Mansion On A Happy Day Express"

My Mom sings this song to every grandchild

she has. If you listen close, Annabelle interacts

and says Yes! just at the right time. At least once

a week my Mom calls and sings to her over the phone.

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Aunt Britt & Annabelle Grace

Pops & Annbelle have fun with a Santa Hat!

Annbelle got to meet Uncle Manny, Granny's brother! Cousins Ed & Faith
Aunt Kelly

A Gift that Keeps on Giving

We celebrated Christmas with my family at Thanksgiving. Because some of the gifts my sisters were also receiving I couldn't post our Christmas pictures right away. Annabelle got toys, clothes, videos, and some other cool items. Of all the gifts Josh and I received two gifts will keep on giving and we are very thankful for them. The first is a GPS Garmin, which means we will never use Map Quest again! In fact, we were EXTREMELY thankful for it last night as we went to find our second gift that keeps on giving. We got a digital camcorder/camera! We knew exactly which one we wanted and they had it for a great price at Wal-mart. So after dinner in Toledo last night we went to the nearest Wal-mart and they were sold out of the camera. We asked the sales associate if they had any left at any other Wal-marts in Toledo (since the Garmin told us there were about 7 in the Toledo area). They said there was 1 left at a Wal-mart about 4 miles away. So we hopped in the car and used the Garmin to get there, because it was in an area of Toledo that we had never been to before. We got there and got the last one!

Our Garmin -How did we live without it? :)

This was the first thing recorded, I wasn't happy at the moment, but find it funny now.

This should have been the first thing videoed!

Christmas Morning

There is NO greater gift than God giving his Son to die for us! We are most greatful for the gift of Salvation. We are, also, truly greatful for the way God has blessed our family this year, especially with the addition of Annabelle. It was a joy giving at Christmas this year and watching the wonder of a child! I hope you enjoy our pictures!

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Christmas Eve

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Christmas Sunday

Here are our pictures from Annabelle's first Christmas Sunday. The Wilsons arrived on Saturday night! They got to hear Josh preach on Sunday both in the AM and PM service. If you'd like to here Josh preach you can go to our church website, Jasper Bible Church.

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Pretty Princess PJs

Thanks Aunty Jenny and Kate for my new fabulous PJs! They gave me these for Christmas along with a Belle Princess Castle pocketbook which I love. I am learning how to put Belle in and out of the castle and am learning to open and close the castle door!

(sorry about the weird shadow on her head)

Sweater and Steps

My mom, aka Granny, made Annabelle this sweater! While we were taking pics of her in it Annabelle decided to take her first 2 steps toward Mommy! It was so exciting. Grandma and Aunty Em were there to see and you'll see Aunty Em's hands behind her ready to catch her if she fell!

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Happy 30th Josh!

We had a great night celebrating Josh's Birthday! This smilebox didn't have any room for text so I will tell you a little about our night. First of all I made his cake, it is an Ice Cream cake. (Thanks Aunt Colette!) For dinner, I made his all time favorite meal - Chicken Pesto Alfredo with all his favorite sides! At dinner Annabelle gave him Kisses which he said was the best birthday gift! After dinner we sang, blew out candles and opened presents. My parents and I gave him tickets to the Green Bay Packers last regular season game December 30th and surprised him with a new fleece jacket he has been wanting. His parents sent him the cool Yankee's hat (which he wore to the mall later on) and some money. Annabelle enjoyed the package that they came in, it had Mickey Mouse on it!

After dinner we went to Heritage Park to see the light display. You'll see a dragon, a castle and a beautifully decorated house in the scrapbook.

The bummer of the night is we came home and our car wouldn't start, so Josh has spent the last hour and a half going to get a new battery and installing it! I love that he is such a handy man!

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Winter Wonderland

We took Annabelle to the Children's Winter Wonderland in Toledo on Friday Night! We had a great time looking around at all of the sites. Annabelle loved it, so many brightly colored animated things! Hope you enjoy our pics!

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12 days of Christmas

This is a family tradition that we have been doing since, well, since I can remember! It is one of my favorites and gets you into the Christmas spirit. We celebrate the twelve days of Christmas by giving a small gift each day. As kids we'd get candy, cool pens, ornaments, and socks. Whatever it was we looked forward to every night sitting down as a family and getting to open our gifts. Honestly, one of my favorite parts was watching my mom and dad guess what they got eachother. Some nights they would get eachother the same thing! Anyway, Josh and I started this the first year we were married, and this year have included Annabelle! We guess what eachother got us just like my parents did when I was little. Tonight we both guessed right!

Annabelle knows how the gift bags work!

Annabelle trying out her new sippy cup

Josh with his crew socks

My table cloth for the Air Hockey

table, which doubles as our serving table

when the teens come over!

Growing Girl

Annabelle has gotten so big that it was so hard to put her into her baby car seat. We'd have to take her jackets off before putting her in it, b/c we couldn't fit her with her winter coats in it! She'd cry as we'd try to stuff her arm underneath the straps, and started really fighting us about going in it. So even thought this is her birthday gift and we are still about 18 days away we had to put her in it! It is so huge and she loves it! She looks like such a big girl!

No more fighting and

we can leave her jacket on!

Galling Gingerbread House

Galling means upsetting for those of you may be wondering.

Well again in efforts to create family traditions with Annabelle, I failed again! My Mom gave us a Gingerbread House kit for Christmas and I thought what fun! Last night Church was canceled so I thought after dinner would be the peferct time for the family to make it. Now I've never made a Gingerbread House before, so you would assume that we would read all the directions first, as they say to, but oh no! I got so excited to start that we decided to read the directions as we went along.

Well we started about 7pm. Everything started out great. We got Annabelle in her seat, we made the frosting as directed, and started putting the house together. As we went along, we realized first how difficult it is to get those walls to stay together. Secondly, it was going to take 30 minutes for the walls to set, and then another hour for the roof to set! Which by this time, Annabelle was done! She was tired and ready for bed! So we put her to bed and upon coming back our roof had fallen! LOL....many times Josh and I almost gave up, but we finally finished it at around 10 pm! It was definetly a memory and it was great bonding time for Josh and I, even thought Annabelle missed the fun decorating part!

Daddy preparing the bag for the frosting

Mommy putting the frosting tip in the bag

Annabelle being happy Annabelle,

as Mom fills the bag

Daddy trying to get the house to stay together

So to those of you who make such beautiful gingerbread houses (SHANNON) I applaud you! Seriously! It takes coordination, time, and talent (those windows are a lot harder to make than it looks)!

The finished product!

Look at the right window! LOL!

Sleepy Setback

Last night Josh went in to check on Annabelle before he headed up to bed! We usually stand over her bed and admire the way she sleeps and how beautiful she is! Hey what can we say, we are so in love with this child! But last night was a bit unusual.....here is what we found...

First of all, this is how she sleeps! With her butt up in the air!

Then we saw she had somehow

gotten her ARM out of her PJ's!

Daddy thought it would be funny

to take pics of him putting her back together!

Sweet Santa

Since today is Josh's day off we decided to take Annabelle to see Santa. We went to the Toledo Mall where Josh saw Santa for the first time! When we got there we looked and the cheapest package of pictures with Santa was $15.99. I knew we would not spend that much so I asked the lady if we could just pay them a little bit of money to take our own pictures. Basically, she said YES! All we had to do was buy something from their little store and she'd let us take pictures with Santa for free. So we bought a cute little ornament and with a sharpie marker I was able to personalize the ornament for Annabelle!

Here we are riding in the car...notice the snow on the ground!! Daddy and Annabelle at the entrance
Checking out the Elf Workshop

Annabelle was not afraid of Santa,
she just stared at him!
Santa was so sweet, he even gave her a little kiss