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Well... baby girl is out of control! This past weekend was a big one for some "firsts"...her first gooseegg, her first scraped knee, first time blowing kisses at the right time! She is flying around everywhere! She is sleeping pretty well. She went through a period of waking up every morning at 4:30am! I would say right now she is "sleeping through the night"...yes at almost one! Her big b-day party with Kent is this weekend. We are so excited to see so many of our friends and family! I am excited to see Mabry smash the cake in her face, as long as she shares some with me!!! The house is coming along-I feel like I say that every update! We have a little cabinet issue that we need to get fixed before we order the countertops and appliances. We can't decide on a tile, so our bathrooms are just waiting. THe house looks incredible since they installed the floors. Mabry and I go over there almost everyday to play outside...or in her room on rainy days! I'm sure I will not update until after her party. Maybe I will try and post house pictures before then (I feel like I say that everytime too!)

Lots of Love...

:-) L.A.

Love and Miss You Granddad!

On Saturday February 2 my granddad passed away. He was sick for a while but it is still hard. It is hard to see my dad and his siblings so sad, it is hard to know my grandmother "Kat Kat" is going through such a hard time right now, it is sad to think I will never give granddad another big hug this side of heaven, I am sad to know that Mabry will never know her great granddad. I am happy that granddad loved Jesus and is in perfect peace in heaven. I wonder if Mitch (bubby) got to reunite with granddad right away? I am curious. We will miss granddad very much. Love to all my family that is hurting.

Until Later...

L.A.

Still Around

I am still around...not much time to blog. To be honest there is probably a million other things I would rather do than sit on my computer writing my own blog. If I am "geekin' out" I would much rather be checking out other peoples blogs, catching up with friends on facebook, or just checking my e-mail! At the same time I do enjoy giving updates on my little family. Mabry is still everywhere! She forgot what crawling was the day she started walking. She did great when I was out of town for my conference. I suprised myself by doing ok as well. I missed her and Andy so much, but since I was gone I enjoyed the time at the conference and then the downtime...I actually took a nap and slept through the night! I am getting old. This was obvious when I was participating in a game and got a muscle spasm! I was haivng so much fun and of course being a "little" competitive and in a second I was out of the game...and the rest of the sessions. Total bummer! The house is coming along. This is a big week, the floors are being put in. I will hopefully I will post pictures soon. I have them, just not downloaded. Andy is a rockstar..he has worked on the house constantly and it is looking so good. I am holding out until Friday to see the floors b/c I want to se them completed and cleaned up! School is good. Hope everyone is doing well!

Until next time...

:-) L.A.

MY BABY IS WALKING!!!

HOLLA!

I don't even know where to start! I haven't blogged since our memorable visit with Santa. Since then we finished 1st semester of school, celebrated eli's first birthday party, Mabry had pneumonia and is soooooo much better, we went to the annual Christmas Eve party at the Langfords, played with T and Ricky, spent time at moms, dad and gayes and the Loeb's house for Christmas. We went to Indiana, Mabry saw her first "snow", she had lots of fun playing with her grandma Janet, grandpa Doug, aunts, uncles, cousins, Ashley, Levi, Jess, Trav and Aden. Andy and I celebrated our 4th anniversary! We had a family painting party at the new house...no we are not in yet, it will probably be a few for weeks (at least). Mabry is now walking as much as she is crawling...she cracks us up b/c she is so little waddling around. This week we are adjusting back to a schedule, we kind of got used to chillin in the pj's all morning and just hangin out. Life is good and busy in the Hanlon world. Hope everyone is doing well!
Miss and Love you all!
:-) L.A.

1st Picture with Santa!

After seeing Mrs. Sherlocks pictures of her girls with Santa from their 1st Christmas up until now made me want to go get a picture with Mabes and Santa. So thinking if we didn't do it tonight, we would be stuck in the masses at the mall tomorrow. So we made a memory tonight...Mabry crying, terrified of Santa! It was pretty sad, so mom and her greasy self and dad jumped in the picture to calm our precious little one. OUr picture is pretty funny...Mabry clinging on to my side. I'm glad we did it though.

A little celebration...school is out until Jan. 7th! I am ready to relax, spend time with family, hang out with Mabes during the day, have real lunches (like going to Hopkins during the weekday!), reading, working on the new house, packing up the townhouse, sewing, maybe cooking...Andy...that was a maybe. I haven't been to the grocery store in so long. We haven't even had milk in about 2 weeks, and those of who who know me, Andy and I usually have our late night OREO dates...it is time to go to the grocery!!

The gift of the year for teachers this year was baked goods...so if you have a sweet tooth just let me know, I could hook you up! I cannot count how many cookies, gooey bars, chocolate covered pretzels that I ate today. Tis' the season...

Tomorrow Andy plans on working on the house. I'll maybe get over there for a little while. We want to get it all primed so we can start painting the fun part-color!

The wallpaper is finally all gone-YEAH!!!! I don't ever want that job again. I can't believe people do that for a living, no thank you!

Mabry took about 6 steps for me today. I am in awe of that little stinker. She is getting over pneumonia, but always so spunky you would not of know that she was even sick.

We are headed for Indiana on Christmas night. Kind of a tradition for us to fly out then...it is because the tickets are cheaper. We are SO EXCITED to see our family. They are not going to believe how big, silly, spunky and sassy Mabes has gotten.

Love you all. Hope you have a very Merry Christmas and are blessed by the love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

:-) L to the A

Grandpa's Wedding!!!