First Birthday

Well we have made it a year with our little Roxanne, and what a great first year it has been.  We celebrated Roxy's Birthday with all my family except Sterling and Brittney who had to get home that morning.  We had a pink zebra theme(gotta love Hobby Lobby).  She loved all the attention and especially the singing of Happy Birthday.  This girl loves music and to dance even if it is 2 seconds of a commercial on TV she is ready to get moving.  We are grateful for all our family for coming and making it a special day.

 

Didn't take long at all for her to dig in.  She was a huge fan of the cupcakes.

 

These two are such good buddies, cousin Wyatt can be such a fun playmate and entertainer for Roxy.

 

Gma and Gpa Poyer got Roxy a fun music set, she is a great tambourine player.

 

Enjoying an evening of bowling, however Roxy was not excited for this picture.

 

This is part of our New Year's Eve celebration.  We went downtown to watch the fireworks, but it was raining so we watched from the car.  Roxy went to bed early while Jon and I did a puzzle.  Exciting, I know, but we enjoyed it.

Holidays

We spent all the Holidays here in Omaha.  It was really nice to not have to travel.  We enjoyed Thanksgiving with Jon's parents.  This is the only picture, and shortly thereafter Roxy lost it and needed and nap, so we ate Thanksgiving dinner cold, oh well.

 The closest we got to Santa without tears this year.  We had such a sweet Santa for our ward party, to bad no fun pictures.

 

Tiny tree, but got us in the Christmas spirit.

 

Roxy's new discovery is opening the cabinets.  It is hard to baby proof a rental apt, especially the kitchen.

 

Remnants of pigtails.

 

This seahorse is the best investment I've ever made as a parent.  Bedtime is a breeze now, after 3 rough months of teeth and sickness, we are back to sleeping through the night and early bedtimes.  It lights up and plays soft songs for 5 minutes then fades out.

 

Poinsetta Festival, we haven't been back since we first got married.  It is really beautiful.  And who knew there were so many different varieties of poinsettas.

 

Christmas morning.

 

This was Jon's silly hat for Christmas morning at his parents.  It was quite fittting(j/k).

 

These weren't the actual silly hats, but it was one that Roxy got for Christmas and she couldn't take it off.  Grandma is just silly and pulled this hat out of the closet to match.

Halloween

 

For one Halloween Party we were the Mr. Clean family.  Roxy made a cute baby clean.

 

For Halloween and the ward party Roxy was a pink leopard.

 

She looks so grown up in this picture.

Busy October

Roxy is a crawling machine now.  She is pulling herself up on anything that will stay still for a few seconds and cruising along the furniture. She is a great clapper and high fiver.  She is still a fun happy girl, although she has started staring down strangers instead of her usual smiley excited self.  She finally got her two bottom teeth, they were here before we knew they were even coming in.  She is growing so fast.

 We made another trip to Houston and got to visit Grandma and Grandpa, as well as Crystal and Eric.

 Enjoying fall by picking some apples.  Luckily Roxy has a tall dad to help her out.

 We love the pig tails, but they are a lot of work, so you won't see them very often.

 Aunt Crystal came to Omaha, so we got to spend more time with her.

 I think she was dreaming about Uncle Alex, because I remember him falling asleep like this growing up.

 We were also lucky to be here when my Aunt Kathy came to visit.  We sure love her!

 

Quick trip over to Nebraska City to see some beautiful fall colors 

This picture should be at the beginning, oh well.  While we were in Houston I attended a CME conference and Roxy got to hang out with Grandma.  They had a great time.

Lake Tahoe part 2