1st Birthday Party!

We celebrated Peyton's 1st birthday a couple of weeks early so we could have all our family and friends come out to Manhattan while her Dad was in town with baseball. Brandon sadly will be leaving for out of town Thursday on her birthday with baseball for the Nebraska series:( I am just glad that he will be here in the morning to see her and that way we can celebrate as a family over breakfast.

Thank you to everyone for making the trip out to Manhattan to be there for Peyton and also for many of you it was your first time out to our house. It really meant a lot to Brandon and I that you made the drive to be there for Peyton. We could not have asked for a better day to celebrate Peyton's birthday with everyone and the weather in Manhattan was so nice all day to make it absolutely wonderful. Here are a lot of pictures from the party. It is hard to just pick a couple so hope you enjoy them all.

Peyton's Teddy Bear cake that I made for her

Happy Birthday Peyton! I love her birthday outfit!!

Peyton is playing with her tutu...she loved to touch her skirt

Uncle Drew with Peyton

Great Grandpa Horton and Peyton sharing a good moment together

Peyton happy to see her Dad arrive home after the baseball game was over so she could get her party started

Getting ready to sing Happy Birthday and Peyton excited about her cake. She really wanted to touch it.

Peyton blowing out her candle and getting a little bit of help from Mom

Opening up Gifts! There is no way that I could post all the pictures of every gift that she got, so I have just picked a few that I liked and if your gift is not here please don't be offended because Peyton loved everything.

The very cute bathing suit and robe that Great Grandma & Grandpa Horton got for her

Peyton very excited about her gifts that she is taking a dive to open another one

Peyton loves this Little People SUV that Kenny and Susan got for her. Thanks guys it is a huge hit with her and she loves to push it around the living room.

Uncle Drew got her this very cute black bear that rolls out into a blanket.

So many great gifts that it is making me tired!

Peyton loved playing with this green bow...I love how babies love to play with the tissue paper, ribbons and bows more then the toys. Go figure right!

Peyton getting the hang of it and started to help out a little bit with opening up her gifts

Peyton's Chair! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Reiff for my chair I love it!!

BIRTHDAY CAKE TIME!!!!

I want my cake!

I gave her the head of the teddy bear and she was not quite sure what to do with it

Mom and Dad with their birthday girl

Helping out to let her know that she can eat it and that it was okay

Peyton was a little more concerned that her hands were getting dirty then eating the cake

Once Peyton learned that she could eat the cake the real fun started...

Getting it in the hair

I love this picture!

Cake overload...

Dirty girl went straight into the bath tub

All cleaned up and taking a ride in my new wagon that Grandma and Grandpa Yoder got for her

Thank you to both of our parents for all your help in making this day so wonderful for Peyton. It made things much easier for me to not be so stressed and I would not have been able to have everything ready so thank you very much and we love you.

Blinds...Blinds...Blinds...

Peyton loves to play with the blinds at the back door. I will sit her down in the living room and she will crawl as quickly as she can to the blinds to play with.

Peyton pulling on the blinds

With a face like this it is hard to tell her No!

She would do this all night if I would let her

Watch Peyton playing with the blinds and having a great time

Welcome Baby Hadleigh!

Stacy, Jeremy and Audrey Bullcoming welcomed the newest addition to their family Wednesday, March 18th at 12:05pm. Even though she was 3 weeks early she is healthy and doing great. Brandon, Peyton and I made a quick trip to Kansas City last night to see everyone and to meet our new niece and Peyton's cousin.

Hadleigh Von Bullcoming

6lbs 14oz and 19 1/2 inches long

It is still too hard to tell but I think that Hadleigh really looks like Stacy

Aunt Kelly with Hadleigh

I am so very proud of my sister. She went through a long 24 hours of waiting so we could meet this beautiful baby girl. Don't hate me Stacy because I put this picture up...I think that you look great!

Uncle Brandon

All of us with Hadleigh! Peyton was happy to meet her cousin and would reach out to grab for her so we had to make sure to keep her hands far enough way

Grandpa with all of the older grandkids while we are visiting baby Hadleigh

Excited Grandma holding her 5th grandchild

Grandpa with Hadleigh

All the kids playing around while we are visiting their new cousin

I love how big Jon and Peyton are smiling at each other. Jonny always knows how to make his cousin laugh...jumping jacks!

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Happy St. Patty's Day to everyone!

Peyton had a very excited day yesterday full with lots of activities. The home daycare that Peyton goes to is located next to the local Zoo here in Manhattan and when I picked her up on Monday they asked if it would be okay to take her to the Sunset Zoo on Tuesday. Of course I had no problems with that and if anything I was so jealous that I was not able to get out and enjoy the gorgeous weather that we had here yesterday. Renate told me that Peyton was wonderful and had a great time looking around at all the animals. I had already planned to take Peyton to the Zoo next weekend and I am glad that she had such a great time and I know that she will love going again this time with Mom and some of her friends.

Peyton has now graduated from being an army crawler to crawling up on her knees! Last night I watched her get up on her knees and slowly move forward and then it was like...I can do this and look how much faster I am!

Baby kisses! Peyton is now giving us kisses. They might be open mouth, but a kiss is a kiss and I will take one anytime. On Monday Brandon was hanging out with Peyton before bed and was asking her for a kiss. He would pucker up and wait for her to lean in to give him a kiss. Last night at the baseball game I was doing the same thing with her to see if she was really giving kisses and sure enough I puckered up and she would lean in and give me a kiss. I love it!!!!

Finally after a month of waiting and having a few nights of gum pain...Peyton's right top front tooth has broke through the gums! She is handling it all so much better then I thought that she would...Peyton is one tough girl!

Get ready...It's a long post!

Since I have not updated in a couple of weeks this is going to be a long post since we have been very busy and lots of pictures to share. Hope you like it!

Here Brandon and Peyton are talking with Grandma and Grandpa Yoder with the webcam. Thanks Uncle Drew for letting us use yours so Peyton can talk and see you all. We try to get on there every night if we can so Grandma and Grandpa can see her.

What a cute little bug!

Two weekends ago we went over to our friends house to celebrate their daughter Aubrey's 1st Birthday. Aubrey is a month and 2 days older then Peyton and they have a great time together. Peyton and Aubrey will be spending more and more time together this spring at baseball games (her Dad is the baseball operations manager) It is a lot of fun to get Peyton with Aubrey and Colten and when we can we have lots of play dates.

Aubrey getting ready to give some love to Peyton for coming to her birthday party.

I can't believe that they both are looking at the camera

The Tadtman kids can't get enough of Peyton!

Peyton is not sure how to take all the love that Colten and Aubrey give her just yet

Aubrey finally got in there to give Peyton a hug.

The cute purple dress we got Aubrey

Peyton with our friend Liz at one of the many baseball games that we will be going to this spring

Last Saturday Manhattan had their St. Patty's Day parade in Aggieville. Katie and I took the kids to see just what it was all about and we all had a great time. The weather was so nice and the kids really seemed to like it.

Peyton with Colten and Aubrey getting ready for the parade to get started

Peyton wearing her green for St. Patty's Day

Peyton's view of the parade

Mom and Peyton having a great day down in Aggieville for the parade

Moro street was packed with tons of people. The parade was a lot of fun and something that we will have to do every year

After the parade we headed to the ballpark to watch K-State play Butler in a double header. It was a long day and Peyton was wiped out from the morning fun. We are so lucky that we get to sit in the suites that Peyton has a great place to take a nap in her stroller.

My happy girl! She looks so cute and I love her in green.

The next three pictures are of Peyton and Aubrey playing together. How well do they play together?

Peyton has the toy paddle...

Aubrey is stealing the paddle...

Aubrey took the paddle!

I just have to laugh every time Peyton plays with her toys because they are always everywhere. Most of the time I am laughing while I am picking them up every night.

Hope all these pictures help for the long delay on my posting!

11 months old...count down to 1st Birthday!

Peyton turned 11 months old on Monday!

The past month has been so much fun watching Peyton learn to do so many new things that I wish I had a video camera attached to my hand at all times to capture all of it. Crawling is getting better and faster everyday and we are almost getting up onto our knees now. Excitement and cheer brings on the clapping. Peyton is getting 4 of her top teeth coming in all at once. I have been a little worried, but we have only had 2 bad nights and after I put the Orajel on her gums she went right to sleep. When Peyton was younger all she wanted to do was stand up and now that she can we have a case of the rubber legs. It is funny to watch! One thing that I can always count on is getting a smile. Peyton has one of the best smiles and it makes me so happy.

There is all sorts of baby talk these days but not much that we can understand.

Here are a few words that we have heard are:

Da Da (Brandon is loving this!)

Hi

Yeah

This morning I heard a lot of Na Na

Peyton Allison at 11 months

Look how big my little girl is getting!
Big Smiles...I love her!!!

We have been very busy planning Peyton's 1st Birthday and I am having a hard time knowing that it is almost here. I have been looking back at all of her month pictures and now I know that I need to post a baby parade. Really where has this year gone???