Norah is 1!

Norah turns 1 tomorrow (December 3rd)!!! I can't believe it! She full blown walks now. It's weird because I can hear her walking around the apartment. I know that may not seem like a big deal, but I love the sound!

We have celebrated her birthday twice now. Once with friends in Canton, OH for the annual Malone Thanksgiving gathering. Our friends graciously helped us travel there via plane tickets. It was really the only way we were going to make the quick weekend visit and it was worth it.

The other celebration occurred over Thanksgiving with my family. We had Christmas morning on Thanksgiving morning, then Thanksgiving about 4 hours later and then we had a little birthday party for Norah and Caleb. Caleb is my sisters son who is two months younger, but we figured we would squeeze it in since all of my siblings were together with our little ones. It was a crazy weekend, but so much fun! It was like a mini daycare.

We have over 200 pictures from the past two weekends, but we will be uploading those to flickr over the next week, so check back. I am going to add a few favorites!

Here are the cousins in the tub!
(L-R Norah, Caleb, Ellie and Cora)

This is Norah and Ellie in a laundry basket! They were little chums over the vacation.
They often had yelling wars.

These are the great grandparents with all the kids!

These are the proud grandparents!

Here are all the siblings, spouses and kids!
(L-R Jarrod and Heather with Cora and Ellie, Andrew and Amanda with Caleb, Dave and Peg with Emmet and little Hazel who is due at the first of the year!, Josh and I and Norah)

This is Norah getting a little kiss from her cousin Emmet...so sweet!

This is Norah and Caleb getting ready to eat their cupcakes made by Josh, Emmet and Cora.

This is a cute picture!

Halfway done!

BAM! Caleb rubbed it in his eye and well, this pretty much wrapped them up and they were both sent to the tub to clean up!

Now that Norah is 1 or she was close enough to it we turned her car seat facing forward in the car! She seems to like it, but I think she gets a little distracted from falling asleep because she can see us. Oh well! I love it facing forward.