Some January Pictures

I am a little behind with getting pictures up here. I wish I had some more time to take some pictures. She is a silly little girl that is now running around and getting into everything. She likes to tease by reaching out to give you something and then take it back when you

reach for it. Funny girl. She can't get enough bananas, avocados, and black beans - oh yes, and any type of pasta and green beans.

So, Mia is officially walking. We decided to stop
counting her steps (I can't count that high!!). This is
also her most favorite walking friend (yes, the milk box).

Cute Mia pictures from the month of December

Well this is a lot of pictures, I know, but she has been making very cute faces for the camera this month and since I will be going back to school next week I am sure I won't be posting many pics very often...also you may notice the Mia is full of bruises on her head...came out nice in her JC Pennies pictures too. She is walking some, mostly furniture walking, but has gotten up to 12 steps on her own, and let's just say that her being so active is taking a toll on her little head. Most of the bruises, though, come from when she is holding onto Daisy and then Daisy decides she wants to be somewhere else, leaving Mia behind on the floor. She doesn't usually get too upset with the bumps, though, but gets back up and keeps going. She is one busy little kid.

Look at her mouth - everything this last month has been "OOOOOO."

These next few are from Christmas morning.

She grabbed this one out of the tree.

Glad she loves her little doll we got her. I took forever deciding on which one to get her.

Thanks, cousin Matthew, for the car. I like to gum it.

Christmas Eve...mommy can't wait to open all the presents on Christmas morning.

I love this face.

Bundled up for our walk out in the snow.

Too bad Bobby got impatient and this is the best one we got.

Here are her "OOOO" lips again.

And again.

This is actually November, as you might notice, there is no snow out the window yet!!

Happy to open an early Christmas present.

Could we get any more snow...they are saying yes...

Well just to catch some of you out of towners up on the snow in Spokane...
I just read that our average snow fall in our snowest month, January, is about 13 inches. Well on the 17th and 18th of this month we hit a new 24 hour record - over 17 inches!! Did it stop there??? NO, it kept on going. Over 24 inches in that first storm. My parents couldn't get into town since the airport shut down, I got two extra days of vacation since schools shut down, and we are now battling over 4 feet of snow. Spokane almost tied the record for most snowfall in a season last year - over 92 inches...what will happen this year? All I know is that it was not like this any of the years I was in college! Enjoy the pictures.

We went for a walk in our neighborhood after they finally plowed the streets. This was the sidewalk in front our our house to get to the back streets to be able to walk. I could push the stroller through since the snow is so light and not yet a frozen chunk of ice.

This is what many of the neighborhoods look like. Well except that many still have cars that are burried and not showing at all.

These are two cars waiting for their owners to get back to college at Whitworth. Won't they have a suprise?

More waiting cars.

We went for a drive on the Whitworth campus - this is one of the dorms. I have never seen anything like this. It was really amazing to see the size of these icicles.

Walking downtown Christmas Eve day.

This is how they removed the snow they plowed to the center of the street downtown. Good thing they trucked it all out since we went down there the next day and it was all plowed back into the center of the roads. The trucks were filling up in just a few minutes of the plow blowing into it.

Down the street from our house when we thought it was bad...we have gotten at least another foot by now.

The sign says, "Beat the snow rush. Get snow tires on now!" Well this was here after we got around 20 inches in a little over 24 hours....

Our backyard.

Our backyard.

This is Bobby's second job - snowblowing and shoveling - too bad it doesn't pay - we would be rich with how much time he has been out there.

Mia Loves her dog!

We couldn't have asked for a more patient, loving, and good natured dog to have with Mia. Since Mia loves to climb on Daisy any chance she can get, Daisy has to have these qulities. She puts up with Mia pulling her hair to climb up on her, patting her, and just rubbing on her! It is cute.

Shelby and Mia Christmas Pictures

We went to the Davenport Hotel to take some pictures. I really like how they turned out. This is such a beautiful old hotel and it looks so great at Christmas time.