Maybe somethings should be left unsaid...

I would like to quickly share a conversation that I overhead / saw in Wal-Mart today. You know you hear all kinds of things you wish you hadn't in Wal-Mart...

So I'm walking into the brassiere section in Wal-Mart. There is a couple... older... a little white trash looking (I hate to say it but it is true). They are having an argument about her wanting to buy a new bra. I didn't want to go to their isle since they were pacing up and down the isle plus there was another women there (I felt sorry for her, had to be so awkward), so I decided to wait on another isle until they left. This is what I heard:

Wife: It pokes me okay.

Husband: Well, what's wrong with the one we bought you 3 months ago.

Wife: It ripped remember, you pulled on it and it ripped. (saying this as she is lifting up her shirt to show him that it ripped.)

Husband: It ripped because I was trying to pull it off...

At that point I decided to finish my shopping elsewhere and come back. I went back 20 minutes later and they were still arguing about her purchasing a bra. I'm not sure if she ever got one...

SCHOOL!! and a few other things...

I put something on the blog last Friday about Addison going to school. I wanted to wait until I knew how she was doing at school before I wrote about it on the blog! She's going to Alpine Christian Academy, school at our church, on Monday's and Wednesday's. Last Friday they let me go ahead and let that be her first day since on Monday's she does the before and after school program and I didn't really want her first day to be 7-5, her school is 8:30 - 2:30. I'm glad they let her... Friday was not such a good day. It was both of the teachers first time in a class that age (first 12 -18 month class they've had at ACA) so they had a long day. Addison, or any of the kids, wouldn't take a nap and she cried from about 1:30 - 2:00. When I picked her us on Friday one of her teachers said "She's a very strong willed little girl," that told me how the day went... So, needless to say, I was a little nervous on Monday.But she did great! They said she was an angel on Monday and today! She getting the hang of it and has taken naps both days!! (I was really worried about the naps, she gets a little violent when she's tired)

Here are pictures of her first few days of school.

First day of school.

Second day of school... AKA, her birthday. I felt a little bad sending her to school on her birthday!!


Third day of school, TODAY! I had to take a picture because I love this outfit and I wasn't sure how much longer she'll be able to wear it since it's getting cooler!

Can you tell she was a little tired before we went to school today. So tired she couldn't even hold her blanket with her arms so she propped it underneath her chin.

Cheering on the Cowboys on Sunday. My Grandma sent me money to buy Addison something for her birthday. Christopher and I wanted to get her this so we pitched in the extra so Grandma and us got her this for her birthday!! Of course we had to give it to her a little early so she could wear it for the first game!!

Just happy the Cowboys are winning!

Mommy and Addison in our Cowboy stuff for the first game!!

Ready to go to the game in her birthday present from Christopher's Mimi (I want Addison to call her G-Mi)

And with birthday comes the forward facing car seat!! As I was adjusting the straps Addison came over and was ready to sit in it, so she climbed in and hung out so I decided to make sure I had the straps right. (love her curls in this picture!)
This car seat was my shower present from my ACU friends! I love it! Addison says thanks Ladies, she loves it, and it's so comfy!!

Last night she got away from me after the bath and before the diaper. Usually this is a big NO NO and she gets in trouble... I thought, it will be okay this one time, I'll see what she does... so she ran to the futon bed and climbed on...
Maybe that wasn't such a good idea... Oh well...

Birthday!!

Today was Addison's birthday party. It's hard to believe she'll be 1 year old in 2 days...

We had a lot of fun. The house felt very full inside and out but it was great! I wouldn't have wanted it any other way! Lots of family and friends that might as well be family! I'll give a shout out to Mark for coming early to help Christopher grill, what wonderful friends we have!

We had a flower party... not really a lot of flowers there, but it was how we decorated the cake and cup cakes. I was pretty excited about the cake and cupcakes. I have to give credit to Melissa, a few weeks ago when she was here she searched the Internet for cute cakes and after looking for a few hours we combined several different ideas into these! I thought that they turned out good!! The best part.. the flowers and dots are starbursts, yum!!
Addison and Blake decided to go for a ride in Blake's car... does that mean it was a date?

Maggie and Grayson thought that Blake needed to help getting around

You would think that one of the kids would have been the first to spill something. Oddly enough it was Drew... and I don't really think that any of the kids ever split anything.

My mom brought these bubbles that take forever to pop. They were everywhere, this was about 1:30 and there were still a few bubbles on the wall at 3:00.

Grayson stopped to pose for a picture with Addison.

Blake and Mallory enjoying what Nonna and Grandad (Chris's parents) got Addison for her birthday!
Kanyon decided to cheese it up for the camera!

Addison wanted to try some of Jaymie's Sunkist... It's her birthday party... why not!!!

There were football games on... this was where you could usually find boys... and Mary Beth.

Addison and her cake. She was very careful and was taking a while to eat it.

Kanyon got a little bored and decided to eat Kory's shorts!

She paused and decided to soak up being the center of attention!

I mean, what else would you do when you have this many people watching you eat...

Yay... then she decided to dig in. I'm really not even sure how much of the cake she ate. She LOVED the icing the best.

Afterward, Poppy decided to clean her off in the pool. Chutch enjoyed the cake and icing right off of Addison.

PRESENTS!
At first she was really into opening and seeing what everything was...

Kanyon decided to get her a basketball so she wouldn't take his anymore! And he thought it was time for her to star learning how to ball!

Gotta love the shoes from Aunt Melissa, she got Addison her first pair of Nike's before she was born, now she was ready for a new pair!

Grayson and Mallory thought that the vacuum Addison got was pretty cool!

Addison got a little bored opening presents so I asked the other kids if they wanted to come and help, obviously they jumped right in!!

Addison and Maggie enjoyed Melissa teaching them how to use the giant gumball like machine from my mom, Addison played with it a lot today!

Partying is hard work! Poppy and Addison were ready for a nap very soon after everyone left!

What's been going on... and too many pictures!

Ok, so prepare yourself there are too many pictures in this post.

A few weekends ago Melissa came in for a night. She decided to come because she said she wanted to see Addison before her birthday party otherwise she would not want to share her at the party... Melissa helped Addison practice her cheerleading moves!!

I also made some burp cloths for some the the coaches wives at Melissa school. I thought they turned out cute, the track shoe one is my favorite!

Kanyon came over and we had to get a picture of them both in their Converse All Stars! I wish that you could see that hers are tie-dye!

Addison loves giving Chutch a treat now! She stretches her arm out and says "Dog" and he comes running! He's very careful though, he doesn't get his mouth on her hands!!

Addison came running down the hall the other day with the new toys she found in Mommy and Daddy's bathroom. She cried when I took these away, I told her I just wasn't ready to have that conversation yet...

BUBBLES!!! I finally got pictures of her playing with bubbles... she loves them!

This is one of my new favorite pictures of her!

Keep your eye on the ball... she'll make a great softball player one day with these skills!

Ummm, I wonder where she got this look from...

The Friday of Labor Day weekend we headed up to Paris to play on Jaymie's parent lake/pond.

Kory took us down to feed the fish on Saturday morning.

After Addison got over the fact that you are suppose to throw the food in the water and not eat it she thought the fish were sort of neat.
Hanging out on the dock with Buddy

"Dad, I can do it. Let me go"

We had to drive about 30 min. to get to Jay and Gay's land, and that was the only nap Ms. ABC took ALL DAY! Too many people to nap.. When everyone was there there were 10 kids and the oldest turned 2 in July...

Hanging out with Daddy in the water

Then got passed on to Jaymie...

Then Eric. She loved Eric! Friday night when we got to Paris Eric and Amber were still at Jay and Gay's within about 15 min. she was sitting in Eric's lap reading a book

All the girls in the water, minus a few babies. I didn't stay in long, if you didn't keep your legs moving fish would come and nibble at them. I never got bit but couldn't stand the though of it so I had to get out.

Addison hanging with some of the boys. Kanyon, Kory, Chris, Addison, Adam, Caden and Eric.

Addison talking to her new friend Roselyn. The picture was through the screen door. I felt like they were telling secrets of their curly hair!

Anyone that knows me well knows that I would LOVE to be a sports photographer... these are as close as I have come lately!!

See Jaymie, I didn't put the crazy one on here!

Chris on the wake board

I love this one with all the water splashing.

Flipping off of the diving board.

Addison's attempt at knee boarding.

Hanging out with Kory.
Blake and Mallory came over Monday night for some Chili's To Go... I promise they started the night with their clothes on... This is how it ended! Mallory was trying to have a dance party, Blake joined in, but Addison was having none of that

I'll leave you with this little tickler for the next post (hopefully coming soon)...

Where do you think Addison went today???