June 10th 2009

On Chloe's birthday Terah, Alicia and baby Abby met us at the park for some play time!

Chloe's first 1st Birthday Party

While Brian's family was here we had a birthday party for all June Birthdays. Chloe got to share the day with three of her aunties, (Julia and Kristin, married to Brian' brothers, and Sarah, Brian's sister.) who were all born on June 4th! Here's some fun pictures from the day.

One Year Old!!

On June 10th our little Chloe Elizabeth turned 1 year old! The year has flown by at an amazing speed and yet, I can say with thankfulness, that we have striven to enjoy and take note of every minute of it!! We praise the LORD daily for the joy that Chloe is! True, we have struggles and discipline issues and bad days, but as a whole the Lord has only used even those hard times to grow us in our dependence on Him for wisdom and strength, as well as in our love for each other and our little daughter. As usual I'm going to post chair pics and some updates on the past month but I'm also working on some special birthday slide shows, so keep checking back!!

Brian was home when we took these so he got to get in on some of them. I love watching my husband and daughter play together!

Chloe is growing and changing so fast! Here are some of the things she started learning and doing this past month as she grew from being an 11 month old baby to a one year old little girl! :D

Chloe figured out that Mommy talks on the phone while holding it to her ear so she has begun to mimic that. She holds random objects up to her ear and says "ah?" every now and then it even sounds like she tries to say "hello" but it comes out sounding like "eddo".

Shortly after she turned 11 months old, it might have been the day after if I remember right, Chloe started pulling up on things. Soon after she was "cruising", which is what they call it when they start walking along furniture to get accross a room.

Chloe really started figuring out that people and things have names. She likes to point at someone or something and hear me say the name. The cutest thing is when she points to herself and then laughs when I say "Chloe!"

Chloe has also mastered the art of "give me five". Her hand just looks so tiny as she holds it out to either give or recieve a hi-five!

So other fun favorites from the past month.

Still more pictures- Pizza Night

Casebolt have a tradition. Every Friday night they make home made pizza and watch a movie. We decided that the tradition must continue while they were here in California. With the hospitality of Mama Stitz, and her huge electric mixer and two ovens, it was very do-able!!

Rollin' out the dough!
Sarah Choppin' toppin's
Hannah Choppin' toppin's

busy! busy!

Danny- the official sausage chef!

More pictures from the Casebolt Family Visit

Casebolt Family Visit!

Brian's family came to visit! Once again we were almost all together for a fun packed and tiring week! I say "almost all" because we were missing a few. Brian's older brother Travis, his wife Kendra and their three little girls weren't able to make the trip down. Also Brian's sister Mandy is in school and couldn't get away, and brother Jon was finishing up another grueling week at Air Force Basic. We missed each one of them even though there were still about 14-16 people everywhere we went! It was so fun to be able to see each one of the ones that were able to come!! None of them had seen Chloe since she was about 3 weeks old so it was fun to reintroduce her to them as a little person, rather than just a sleepng newborn.

We planned a very busy week with a trip to Disneyland, the beach, Castaic Lake, Homemade Pizza Party, and large group viewing of "UP" (which made me cry btw). Anyway, here are some of my favorite pics from the week. Enjoy!!