Big Girl

Lila celebrated her 1st birthday on January 5th. It's still hard for us to believe a whole year has passed since the day she was born. We have so many memories - many of them captured on this blog - it's hard to imagine it all occurred in the last 12 months.

This photo was taken of Lila within the first 72 hours of being born. As you can see - she's all grown up. Our hearts are filled with love for Lila. She's the best thing to happen to us.

So, we had a little party for the birthday girl. The weather was terrible but everyone showed up and we had a great time! Lila was in heaven with all the little kids to play with. Both Grandma's were here to celebrate with her so she felt very special.

Singing Happy Birthday... She wasn't too sure what the fuss was all about.

Tyler, Jake & Alexandria enjoying the cupcakes...

Alex helped Lila open her gifts.

Alex opened the gifts. Lila played with them. Perfect.

Tyler, Lila, Nicholas & Stella

Hurrah! This toy is awesome man!

Party is over. PJ's are on. Time to kick the toys around.

Lila started walking almost immediately after receiving this gift.

Lila loves it when GG chases her.

GG loves her little grandbaby. What a great birthday!

More Christmas

Uncle Paul is really hoping... 49er fans be afraid.

Giving her little pony a kiss...

Test drive

Christmas afternoon...

It was a long day. We couldn't bother with brushing hair.

Lila's First Christmas

Lila's first Christmas was a success.

She was smiling and laughing all day long.

A new favorite word...

Peek-a-boo

Thanksgiving

The Hicks and Brown families have had many things to be thankful for this year - especially the last eleven months with Lila. Holidays are always special but Lila seems to make them more fun! We spent Thanksgiving at her Great Grandma Mary's house in Ridgecrest. Lila Mary is named after her Great Grandma. They were both really happy to spend those two weeks together.

Catching up with Nana...

Grandma sharing her water with Lila...

Reading "Brown Bear" for the 100th time...

Lila and her GREAT GREAT Grandpa Irvie...

We ate for an hour... Happy Thanksgiving!

How to entertain a baby at the dinner table...

Lila helped Uncle Paul with the Thanksgiving dishes...

Lila and Poppa

Reading "Brown Bear" again...

Lila's First Halloween

... and momma made her wear a duck suit!

Fireside in Arnold

Four Teeth

She Does Crawl!

Hey Stranger

Lila & Stuey

Introducing Stuey

Lila has a new pal to play with. We adopted Stuey a few weeks ago. He's just over two months old so Lila is no longer the baby in the house...

All Rise!

So, a few days ago I heard a very loud BAM! BAM! coming from Lila's room. I thought she was napping but it turns out she was wide awake. Time to drop the mattress!