Uncla Bubba Visits

My brother was in Denver this past weekend for a conference and stayed with us. Like always, Isla loves having visitors and loved having him and my mom here. Since Uncle Harrison is just going to be too hard to say for a while, we've deemed him Uncle Bubba, and Isla quickly learned to say buh-buh. Harrison was smitten with her and spent lots of time playing with her. Mom and I started shopping for supplies and decor for Isla's first birthday party...crazy to us that she'll be a year old next month!

Busy Little Bee

Little Miss Isla is 10 1/2 months and into EVERYTHING. We can't take our eyes off her for a second. She loved to roll to wear we take our shoes off and play with the shoe strings. Hence, all shoes are now put away. She has properly crawled here and there, though it's not consistent. She did quickly make her way to a few dropped mangos under her seat at the table the other day. She managed to pull out her dad's Braveheart movie from the bookshelf, which made him very happy! She's loving all of her new toys from Christmas time and finds interest in different ones each day. She's so much fun right now, and we can't believe all the developmental changes taking place each day!

New Year's Eve 2010

Cheers to all for a healthy and prosperous 2011! We spent New Year's Eve with our good friends Sean and Erinn having a fabulous meal and lots of great wine at the Wine Experience. We all have babies at home that would be up early the next day and called it a night early. We felt a bit lame, but it was great to feel fresh the next day!

Christmas morning video

'Tis the season with friends

'Tis the season with family

Isla's First Christmas

We journeyed to Holly for most of this past week to celebrate the season. Wednesday night my mom hosted the Hammes family for dinner. Thursday night we had the Allens over for dinner, and all the Hammes and Allen kids stayed for drinks and laughs. Friday night we had the Salisburys and Eatons over for Christmas Eve. Christmas Day we headed to Monica's, and Isla quickly learned the art of ripping wrapping paper off her presents. We made it home safely early this afternoon, though we still have much unpacking to do. Isla has been a busy bee playing with her activity table, Zany Zoo cube, Violet puppy, Busy Ball Popper, Mickey Mouse airplane and some other new toys. We still have a wrapped present under the tree for her, but we've decided to wait a few days to give that to her. I need to get her 'baby' toys in storage to make room for the new ones!