1 year old

I know I need to better at this whole blogging thing. Time just slips away when you are having fun. The first birthday. She did not get as messy as I thought she would with her cake. I had to put her hands into the cake. She got a lot of great toys and clothes.

Vacation

Two weeks ago we went to Gatlinburg, TN for vacation. We went with five other couples. We stayed at an eight bedroom cabin. We had a great vacation. Everyone chipped in with meals and doing the dishes. I think the main attraction at the cabin was pac man and galaga. There was a pool table, fooz ball, and air hockey lots of entertainment.
We did a lot of hiking. Ashley loved it. Of course she was being carried around in a back pack. We loved the mountains and being outdoors. I am sure we will try to do more hiking we really liked doing that. We did not really like downtown Gatlinburg, to commercializied. To many t-shirt shops and people trying to get you to buy a timeshare. We went to the Ripley's Aquarium it was okay a little pricey.



This is daddy being funny. Note the sign. They were at ground level so there was no danger.


In this picture we are at the highest point of the Smoky Mountains. Ashley was interested by my teeth at that moment. There was some snow and ice in areas that were shaded. It was weird since we were in shorts and t-shirts. The hike to this point was half a mile at a 12% incline. You had a sense of accomplishment when you were at the top. Going down was much easier.

11 months old

Helping Mommy unload dishwasher

Sorry it has been so long since I have posted. Ashley has grown a lot since the last time I posted. She is doing all kinds of things now. She is eating regular food now, walking along furniture, and crawling all over the place. We are still waiting for the first step. One day she will surprise us.

Her favorite things to do are riding on daddies shoulders, taking a bath, and standing at the front door watching the cars go by. I forgot one thing she likes to crawl under things.

It is so funny when Courtney comes home from work she gets so excited when she sees him. She has to crawl over to see daddy.

One thing she does not like is grass. If you stand her up in the grass she will pull one leg up or if you sit her in the grass she will not move.

Ashley's hair is finally long enough to put it into puff's

Ashley tormenting the dog. The dogs do really well with her. Every once in a while we have to calm the dogs down. They don't realize that she is little.

I will try to do better at blogging.

First Christmas

We had a lot of fun with it being Ashley's first Christmas. She got many toy and much needed outfits. By the time Christmas day came around Ashley was tired of opening gifts. Although when she opened gifts the wrapping paper went directly into her mouth.

Finalized!

Well Ashley is officially a Snyder. Although she has been a Snyder to us since the day we got her. I would say that the court proceedings were the smoothest part of our whole adoption process. We were in the court room for a total of ten minutes. I was teary eyed the through the whole proceedings. The sweetest words I heard from the judge were " adoption granted," and as Courtney would say here come the water works. Yes, me crying tears of joy. There were two other couples finalizing their adoptions also. We all had huge smiles on our faces. We all had early Christmas presents.

Halloween 2007

I am finally getting to the halloween pictures. As everyone can see she was a hershey kiss. She really did not care for the hat. This year she got toys from pepole instead of candy.

I love this picture she is showing mom her protest.

4 month check up

Our Computer Genius

Last week Ashley had her four month check. She is now 14 1/2 lbs. and 25 1/2 in. long. She is getting so big. She gained 4 lbs. and grew 4 in. She had a clean bill of health. She had her first cold 2 weeks ago. Happy to say we survived.

Since Ashley is getting bigger I am putting her smaller clothing away. That makes me sad. She is now wearing 3-6 month clothing. Which is right on schedule. To think when she was born preemie clothes where a little big.

Slowly we are starting to introduce rice cereal. She is starting to get the hang of eating off a spoon. The first few times she had the look of what the heck are you giving me.

We got the letter in the mail for our new finalization date. It will be Dec. 6th at 2:45 pm.