Happy First Birthday Harper!

What an amazing year it has been...already! We are so thankful each day to have this precious, sweet baby girl in our life.

Life's A Party

Harper's Birthday isn't until the 24th, but we had a fun party on Saturday. Thanks to our family and friends who came and celebrated Harper's big #1 with us! She really dug into her smash cake-looooved the frosting too!

Here she is in the Cozy Coupe.

We had to try on these boots from Aunt Katie after the party. Soo cute!

Our Fam'

Mmmmmm!

What? It's my birthday!

Playtime

I laugh about getting good pictures these days, because Harper always makes a beeline for me/the camera. She doesn't understand that Mommy can't take focus with a 2 inch depth! I thought these turned out cute anyway! It was one of the days I actually got her to keep a bow in her hair for a while. She was doing good, then one day she just started yanking them out. Now her hair is starting to get in her eyes and she NEEDS to wears one.

Did I say that she is walking a little yet?!!! She took 7 steps at lunch! She got impatient because I wouldn't walk her around, and did this little grunt and stood up like, "Fine. I'll do it myself!" I'm a little biased, but she is adorable!

With her new ball (an early b'day gift from Grandmother Hollis)

Look what I can do!

Harper has stood up a few times before, like in the bath tub, but she started standing from a crawl or sitting position this past weekend! She can even take a few steps before she wobbles and sits down. We are about to be even busier at our house!

Harper loves to laugh! She understands so many more things now and gets really tickled when Mommy & Daddy act silly!

Gotta carry the baby doll too!

More Fall Fun!

Making up for lost time! Yesterday was so beautiful! We had fun playtime:)

A little unsure of the scary pumpkin

I think in her head she's saying "Mommy!"

October is Fun!

We have had lots of fun in October and Halloween isn't even here yet!

Yes, we went to a pumpkin patch, but the pumpkins were too small, so we had to go a get a good "carver" tonight! Here's Harper posing on a pile!

She's still intrigued with the tiny ones. Wonder why...

Here she is in the little dress I made for her.

Sunny days are just made for pictures!

Happy girl with baby doll in tow...

Harper is such a joy! She is truly a blessing to our lives. Every day brings more memories and reminds me to not sweat the small stuff! It sounds like she is trying to say more words and she even tried to put a bib on her baby doll yesterday. Chance? No, I like to think brilliance! I can't believe she is already 11 months old. It's been an amazing whirlwind and I look forward to many more fun days to come! Stayed tuned for carved pumpkin pics!

Pumpkin Patch Fun

We took Harper for her first trip to the pumpkin patch, also known as the Critter Creek Farm. She got to see ponies, sheep, goats, a donkey, bears, a cougar, a fox & all kinds of foul! Natalie, Anderson and Brent also went, and Anderson loved all of the animals! It was freezing up on top of the "mountain", but we just bundled them up and went for it. The hayride and real pumpkin patch got rained out, so they made a little fake patch to pick from. Seeing as how neither Harper nor Anderson will even remember the trip, that was just fine with us! It was a fun time:)

Our little goat!

Baby calf and pigs really liked Harper!

With Daddy in their orange

Look at what a good pumpkin she picked-ha ha!

Can we get one of these big ones?!