Brinley's Pictures....

I posted about a month ago that a friend of mine, Mindy at Mindy Renee Photography, took some pictures of Brinley. We had planned an adorable outdoor photo shoot with balloons, orchard baskets and antique chairs in a field. But at the end of September the weather decided to change our plans. We ended up with a photo shoot at my parents house and I think the pictures turned out so cute!

Wordless Wednesday....

Brinley is going to LOVE Christmas....

Brinley Grace is 9 months!!

Ok, so she actually turned 9 months almost two weeks ago and these pictures have been on my camera since then, but we've been busy and the blog has been neglected.

Brinley has blossomed over the last few weeks...I swear she hit 9 months and turned into super Brinley hitting milestone after milestone! Here is a list of her favorite things and milestones...

Favorites:

- boxes, wrapping paper, anything noisy
- dancing if ANYTHING has a beat the girl will dance
- her blanky she's obsessed and it's so cute!
- grinding her teeth (this makes Mommy cringe and she thinks it's funny)
- bath time...take the girl in the bathroom and she gets so excited baths are her favorite
- making messes...with anything any everything she can find
- favorite foods: black beans, rice, cheese, avacados, banana, cottage cheese, Mum Mums

Milestones:

- clapping
- crawling...in her own army crawl way
- screaming...oh the screaming she has new nickname...she's my little pterodactyl (ps who knew it was spelled like that...not this girl...thank goodness for google :) )
- sitting herself up by from the laying position


She's such a blessing and I love her more and more each day. She makes me so happy and I'm so lucky to be her Mommy.....

Happy Birthday Daddy!!

Saturday was Ryan's 28th birthday! We had a busy weekend planned with dinners and cake. Brinley did her best to start Daddy's birthday off right by sleeping in until 10am! The little stinker only sleeps until 8 for me...but for Dad it's 10 :)
You think that would be present enough for a "new" Dad, but Brinley didn't stop there. She pulled out all the tricks in her bag and decided Daddy's birthday was the best time to finally utter those precious words "Da Da", Ryan was thrilled and so was I. I had been working with her all week to try to get her to say "da da" since she has been saying "ma ma" for months. I was so excited to hear that she finally said it and now she' s a non-stop "da da" machine!

Here are a few pictures of Brinley "helping" Ryan open his cards and gifts. It was a glimpse into our Christmas future and I can't wait..she loved the wrapping paper and cards...Christmas is going to be a blast!!

Brinley's 1st Halloween...

We aren't  "Halloween people," sure I love the candy and some of the decorations are pretty darn cute, but I HATE being scared and I'm not much for dressing up. With that said, I loved Halloween yesterday. There's something about seeing your Little One all dressed up and can make you like any holiday. Thanks to Adrien's post about cheap Old Navy costumes I was able to snatch up an adorable Strawberry costume for Little Miss. It was warm and cozy and simply the cutest thing I had ever seen.

We started the night with dinner at Lindsay and Richie's. We got the kids into their costumes and snapped a few quick pictures before heading out to trick-or-treat.
We stopped by Ryan's parents house where Ryan's Grandpa, Aunt and Great Aunt where all there too.

By the end of the night, Brinley had a basket full of yummy candy that Mommy and Daddy will enjoy and she was exhausted! It was a great Halloween!

Getting all dressed up!

Who are you?!?!

Stawberry Brinley and Pluto Devon

Waiting...who's holding me?

Sweet Cousins...

Mommy's girl....

Great Aunt Carolyn

Great Grandpa "Pop"