Happy 1st Birthday, Saylor!!!

Harper's best friend, Saylor, turned 1 today! I seriously can't believe how quickly this year has gone by. When she was born, I remember thinking that the last 2 months of my pregnancy would go by really quickly now that she was here... and to say I was right is an understatement. And now... Harper will be 1 before I know it! But this post isn't about Harper or how fast time goes by. This one is dedicated to Saylor! Erica and Matt had her party on Saturday, and it was so much fun! Erica did a great job with the food and decorations... she definitely set the birthday party bar high! I am so thankful that we had our little girls so close together. Having their encouragement and friendship through parenthood is such a blessing... we love the Smiths! Here are a few pictures from her party. I had to cut it down since I did take over 80 pictures... can you even imagine what I will be like at Harper's party?!?!?

The birthday girl and her wonderful parents!

Me, Erica, and Mare

I am so thankful for these girls!!!

The cake was so beautiful and delicious!

Saylor's personal cake

The winter one-derland sign... so clever!

The awesome snowflakes that Erica made!

Harper and her aunt Mare

Blowing out her candle

Enjoying her cake and putting it everywhere!

Loving on her new baby doll... it was precious!

And Happy birthday to Erica tomorrow!!!

Kisses...

Harper has learned how to give air kisses, and it is the cutest thing ever!!! It started in Little Rock with Leah's fiance, Mike, and now she loves giving them out. At Saylor's birthday party yesterday, she gave them out the entire time to Matt's brother (someone she had never met before!). Her love/obsession for men is certainly something we are already concerned about!!! Enjoy this sweet video!

Christmas in Little Rock

We had such a wonderful time in Little Rock celebrating Christmas with my family. Even though I didn't get to see many friends (such a bummer!), I did get to spend some much needed time with my family. Harper thoroughly enjoyed our Christmas Day, which was Monday the 28th. She got some very fun presents and loved giving out her pieces of art. Everyone in the family received a "Harper Original" painting, and it was quite funny what everyone "saw" in their picture. I love a good homemade gift, so we will hopefully do something neat like that every year. Here are so many pictures from our time together... I just couldn't cut any out!

Our stockings on our Christmas morning

Playing with Kay-Kay's Vicks!

Checking out her stocking

Puffs and a piggy bank... it doesn't get any better!

Eliana taking about .2 seconds from

running around to show me her zhu zhu pet

She loved the bows and wrapping paper

Loving on Gran-D

Other than his National Championship Game tickets,

this was probably his favorite gift

Harper is OBSESSED with the mirror on this book!

Thanks Tia!!!

Opening her new Bible from Gran-d!

Playing with her farm from Kay-Kay

Chris showing off his new jacket!

Playing with her lion toy from the Wheelers

Tia keeping Harper entertained in Eliana's doll stroller

Thank you Papa G for the fun presents!

Eliana was thrilled with her gifts from Papa G!

Where is Papa G?

Eliana likes for people to lay on the ground

and then she covers you with anything she can find

DJ Eliana... this was hilarious!

Dance party... don't worry, I'll post videos soon!

Tyra taught her everything she knows

I love my sisters!!!

Add in the husbands/fiance

Sweet Harper wasn't interested in smiling...

But I still love any picture of the 3 of us!

Christmas in Atlanta

Slowly but surely, I will get this blog up-to-date! Christmas was crazy busy for us, and we are finally home! We had such a wonderful time with both families, and Harper loved being with everyone! Since we flew to Atlanta, I didn't take my nice camera. Thankfully my sister-in-law is pretty fabulous with her camera, so all of these pictures are from her. Harper loved being with her cousins (Lake and Maddox), Aunt Kacy, Uncle Jeff, Gama, and Pop-Pop... we definitely wish she could see them more! She also loved opening all the presents, even the ones that weren't for her! Enjoy the pictures... I think they are all pretty cute!

Harper and Maddox hanging out on the couch

Opening her new blocks... she loves them!

She also loves the precious puppy Aunt Kacy made!!!

Playing with their new toys

This cracks me up!!!

I love that she captured her "I'm not too sure about this" look!

Cousin kisses!

Doing what she does best... staring.

Yeah, she loves me.

Giving her best Christmas smile!

One of our few family photos

Thank you, Kacy and Jeff, for hosting such a wonderful Christmas!!!

We love y'all and hope to see you soon!

Fun with the dishes!

Who knew so much fun could be had when you're doing the dishes?!?! These videos only capture a small portion of the songs these boys sang tonight! They are hilarious! Hope you enjoy these as much as we did!

Merry Christmas!

We hope that everyone is having a wonderful day celebrating with their families! We're certainly enjoying Harper's first Christmas... and she has had a blast! I hope to upload some pictures soon, but it might take a while! Have a great day!

Love,

Lauren, Corby, and Harper

Harper's First Christmas- Part 1

Since we'll be doing a lot of traveling this Christmas, we decided to let Harper open her gifts from us last night. And by "open", I mean sit in front of them and look at them. I had already done so much wrapping, I didn't have it in me to wrap that huge box! And that leap frog toy was oddly shaped, so it just wasn't happening. I had gotten her another toy, several months ago. It was on sale at a toys r us that was closing. I got it out the other day and oops... it's in Spanish! I have no idea how I didn't see that all the writing on the box was in Spanish! It still cracks me up! Anyway, she enjoyed taking pictures with her new toys, and while she was sleeping, I put the house together. After her bottle this morning, I put her down by it, and SUCCESS! She loves it! It has so many parts that keep her attention! This will definitely be our best friend!

So excited about her Christmas gifts!

She loves it!!!

Peek-a-boo Harper!

She thought it was pretty funny that I was on the other side!