Princess Tea Party

Each year the high school Drill Team does a Princess Tea Party fundraiser.  While Bridgette didn't quite understand the concept, she got some great souvenirs, ate some cupcakes, and we got some nice pictures.  I'm sure next year she'll have a much more fun experience.  

Rapunzel

Belle

Tinkerbell sprinkled pixie dust on her!

Snow White

Posing with 3 of her cousins

Our princess Bridgette Disney!  She received the tiara and wand as souvenirs.

Tiana

Cinderella

The Fairy Godmother

Walking to Ariel (Bridgette's Aunt Madison)

Prince Charming

Bridgette turned One!

Bridgette celebrated her first birthday with a Minnie Mouse party.  We had lots of family in attendance and Bridgette enjoyed opening her presents and eating her big cupcakes!

BIRTHDAY GIRL!

She loves to "read" and a new book is her favorite thing!

I was so happy with how the cupcakes turned out, so cute!

Happy Birthday to Bridgette!  She is such a ball of energy, she is always on the go and keeps us on our toes.  She is so fun to watch as she learns new things.  Thanks again to all who helped us celebrate this special day!

Happy 2013!!!

We had a great end of the year with Christmas celebrations and a visit from my mom and grandma from Michigan.  Bridgette learned how to walk just a few days before Christmas.  She is still getting the hang of it, but she's determined and I'm sure will have it down in no time!  Now we await Bridgette's birthday next week...I cannot believe she is going to be one already!!!  ( I feel like there is an overload of Bridgette pictures in this post.  This will just prepare you all for my next post which will be of her birthday...expect LOTS of pictures on that one!  haha)

Bridgette in awe meeting Santa at the Norton Family Christmas party

Getting comfortable in her new car seat

 Christmas packages from Michigan!!!

Ugly sweater party

Bridgette loves her farm toy from Santa!

This picture was rather once in a lifetime!  Bridgette with her 5 grandmas... (back) Great Grandma Woodward and Grandma Woodward (middle) Great Grandma Norton (front) Grandma Rittinger, Bridgette, and Great Grandma Jacobs

Getting her excited for her first trip to Disneyland in October 13'

Lounging around...it's not too often that she will just sit still for more than 5 seconds.  haha

Bridgette's Favorite Things

At 9 1/2 months old, Bridgette definitely has some favorite things...

 Bridgette would spend hours standing in front of this mirror if we let her.  She loves talking to the "other baby" and gets so animated that she has managed to break the mirror off the door a few times.

 We try to skype with Grandma and Grandpa Rittinger as often as possible.  Bridgette will show them how she plays with her toys and then crawls to the couch to pull herself up to see them.

We are a little sad with cooler weather coming in because Bridgette LOVES to be outside.  Most days we go for walks and sit in the grass and play.

Some other favorites not shown include:  

Bath time!  Some days I'm tempted to give her 3 baths in one day because I know it is one absolute thing that will make her happier.

Baby Einstein!  We usually let her watch baby einstein when she gets done with lunch and dinner.  She never stops smiling the entire time she watches it.  

Andee dog!  Bridgette is constantly looking for Andee, her toys, or her food.  And when Andee notices she is getting attention, she'll play right into it.  Andee can get her to laugh more than anyone else.

We are so proud of our little girl and can't believe how she's grown!  She has cut 5 teeth in just over a month and has been handling it very well.  She keeps us on our toes by crawling everywhere and getting into everything! 

We ❤ Fall

We've had a lot of fun so far this fall.  It's our favorite time of year, when things start cooling down and slowing down.  

In early October, I was able to quit my job with JCPenney and now I stay home with Bridgette, this has been a nice blessing for our family!  Than is now working during the day at the Parkdale Health and Rehab Center here in Price as the Marketing Director.  He is really enjoying working for Parkdale and his time working with the community to help get Parkdale's name out in the community.  He is still working nights at the sleep lab so we take time to enjoy every minute the three of us have together!

Bridgette's first time playing in the leaves 

   Trick or Treating at Parkdale

Than got another deer this year and we have a freezer full of meat!

We are looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas, being able to decorate our home and have extra time with family. 

Bridgette goes to Michigan

Our recent trip to Michigan was to attend Debbie's brother wedding.  Besides the wedding, there were many more people and places we saw.  We decided to fly so we could have more time to spend in Michigan...let's just saying flying with a 6 month old was as bad an experience as it sounds.  haha  But we made it, there and back.  Here are some highlights of our trip...

learning to play euchre with Aunt Catie

first time swimming!

 Bridgette made a new friend, Aria

 visited the Henry Ford museum

hanging out in grandpa's fishing boat

 Bridgette met her great-grandma

hanging out with grandpa and cousins

4 generations :) 

loving grandma and grandpa

Notice how there were NO wedding pictures posted...that's because we didn't take any!  We're not sure how that really happened, but that's why a photographer is hired, right?!?!  The wedding was beautiful and we are so happy to have Brittnii added to our family!

These pictures only show about half of what we did.  We had a great visit and were sad to have to leave, but Bridgette's first trip to Michigan was filled with lots of fun!

What? I haven't blogged since May???

Julyish...?

We were really excited to be able to expand our gardening desires this year now that we have our own yard!  We had some success and some failures, all to help us make our garden better next year.

 Than had a lot of success with his tomatoes and enjoyed the salsa he was able to make with them.

 Debbie picked so many green beans she was able to preserve some for later in the year.

And of course Than grilled outside as often as he could!

We had a visitor for the 4th of July, Catie came to see us again!  Besides going out to eat a few times, we didn't do much else except for hang out and enjoyed each others company.  The visit was short but sweet.