Love'n Uncle Jonny!

Isn't this photo great! We did a few family photo's for Jonathan & Janelle on Saturday & Annya was in a few too! I loved how sweetly she was looking and touching her Uncle's face! :)

Annya's Mile Stones & A July Baby!!! :)

I had to let everyone know that Annya took her first steps today! She walked to her daddy the first time and to the dish washer the next time! We are so proud of her and I just had to let you know! I hope to capture it one day on camera and I'll share it with you! She's growing up so fast! Annya would like to send out a special thanks to her cousin Hans for teaching her yesterday how to walk. Annya was not all that interested until she saw her cousin walking yesterday!
Also, we wanted to let you all know how excited we are to announce that we'll be welcoming another baby Rothwell into the family in July! I'm going to be an Auntie again! :) Congrats to Jonny & Janelle on the exciting news of baby Rothwell! We love you!!!
Ok, so how many of you thought that I was going to be having this baby? :) Got you! :) Unfortunately I think that it will be awhile until the Lord sends us another one...but you never know ;)

Daddy's Model

Tim got some new lighting equipment and so Annya was the model! What do ya'll think? Is She darn cute or what?!?!?! She has 6 teeth now and is going to be walking and talking before long, but we are not pushing her. She's getting better at letting us know what she wants and we're getting better at understanding her language! :)

My Sweet Ladies!

I love these two so much, and I feel it incumbent to share just a few more pics of those two people who are dearest to me in this life. Love you both so much!!

Annya's One Year Old!

Happy birthday baby girl! It's so hard to believe that it's been a whole year but it has been and we had a wonderful day of celebrating God's gift of life to us! Annya we love you! ~ Mama & Papa :)

This beautiful cake was made by Annya's Aunt Kristen!

She really enjoyed her cake as you can see! :) But she really loved opening presents and wanted to pass her ribbons around for everyone to see!

Annya had two parties yesterday so I'll get pics up from her other party soon as I get them as we forgot our camera for the first one :(

Happy Girl...look at those morning eyes!!!

I took these two shots so that you could see how long her lashes are!

Time to go back to bed! Ni Ni = Night Night

My heart...My daughter...My prayer

Tim and I took Annya on a photo shoot the other night and she look so cute I had to snap a few shots & here they are! It's so hard to believe that she's going to be ONE year a week from this Sunday! It's passed so fast. Everyone told me that it would but I guess I didn't realize just how fast it would really go. I'm so excited to see her changing into a little girl but it brings tears to my eyes too. Soon she'll be all grown up and will be ready to leave and start life with the boy that she falls in love with! I know they'll think they're so grown up and ready for whatever comes...and they will be but...knowing what I know now about life compared to when I met and married the boy I fell in love with. Wow, letting go of her is going to be hard...God help me. I've been thinking a lot lately about how much they learn by watching. Annya copies us all the time...God please help us teach her how to love you and surrender her whole heart to you alone. Parenting is so much more wonderful and more challenging then I ever thought possible. But when I look into her sweet face which looks adoringly back at me I know that there's nothing else I'd rather do! We'll my little woman needs me so this is going to be the end of my thoughts for now. Enjoy the pictures!

Fall Leaves!

Can you see the Stick Bug?

Make'n Faces

Annya loved when I dropped leaves on her!