A few pictures and a few words.

My. Whole. Wide. World. The reason I breathe. The reason I exist. My soulmate. My best friend. I didn't know how much I loved him, until I saw how much he loved Raelinn. He makes life worth living.

This little girl. Learning how to walk. Making messes.

Truly this is when I'm my happiest.

That sweet 1 year old.

Best co pilot around.

When you take out piggie tails....

and they look like this. I laughed until I cried. She is my favorite little person. 

Tommy and Trisha's visit to the Wild West

I absolutely love when Tj's family comes to visit!! Our states are sooooooo different. The weather and scenery....the way we talk and do things, it's like two different worlds. We had a blast with Tommy and Trisha. On Tj and Rae's birthday we took a ride out to Belmont and walked around a little bit. We stopped at Dirty Dicks bar and Tj visited with Fly. (He has pushed cattle with him a few times) We also took a trip up to Virginia City and Lake Tahoe. It was cold, but beautiful!

Trisha was whistling and Rae tried to copy her! 

They had karaoke while they were visiting so we decided to take Trisha! We met up with Jessica and James and spent a few hours singing some good country music!

This is on their actual Birthday!!! 1 and 26! :) I love them more than words can explain!!

Big 1yr old riding in her big girl carseat for the first time!

Touring a museum in Virginia City

The smile of a one year old....makes my heart melt.

Lake Tahoe was amazing

........"but I love you SO much more than just to the moon and back"

You're cordially invited to Raelinn's first birthday

Raelinn's Madhatter Tea Party in ONEderland
So I made the cutest invitations for Rae's tea party.  Of course I totally procrastinated and didn't get any sent out. (Just like her birth announcements....Christmas cards...heck even our wedding invitations) To sum it up, I suck at party planning. I was bound and determined for this to turn out good, so I did a lot of ordering ahead of time. I found the most perfect outfit for the cute birthday girl, and ordered lots of decorations. The morning of the party was crazy! Tj's parents came to town for a visit (perfect timing with her birthday!!) and so I colored his moms hair at the salon that morning. I left Tj in charge of bringing in the table and all the chairs, moving out our dining room table and making room for everything! When we got home from the salon I started cooking and Jessica Maley and Sonya came and helped decorate. (thankfully!) I dressed Rae in her tea party outfit and within 5 minutes she had pooped out the side of it. LOVELY. So these were the only pictures we got of her in her lacey romper.

 Thank goodness I had another dress in her closet that I had bought for her one year pictures, so we washed her up and put that on....then we sat and ate!

 The cake was so gosh darn cute!! It went perfect with our Alice in Wonderland tea party theme.

Always sharing....

Raelinn loved her pony mommy and daddy got her. :)

Raelinn rode the pony all over the house. Since she couldn't walk, she would climb up on itand push her little feet on the ground and off she'd go! She used him as transportation for a couple months until she got the hang of walking. Daddy named him Trigger.

A few pictures from my phone 

Mommy and Daddy love you more than words can explain. You bring us so much joy!