She's on the Move!

Tessa is 7 months old and is crawling everywhere!! It's so crazy, just a couple of weeks ago she woke up one morning and decided to get up on all fours, and the rest is history! She is movin!!! It's so cute to watch. It is so amazing to see something so helpless and innocent, start to become independent and moving all over the place!! It's even more crazy because she is still so tiny. At her 6th month check up she was 14 pounds, and in the 7th percentile. Yes she still fits her 3 month clothes. Healthy as can be though. Each day with this girl just gets better and better! I love her so much it's beyond words! Some other things about our little buttercup in her 7th month:

1. She's pulling herself up holding on to things, like her crib! Time to lower the mattress!

2. She LOOOOOVES being put in her high chair, probably because she knows shes getting yummy food while she is in it.

3. Squash and Sweet potatoes are still her favorite!!! She prefers them over fruit!

4. She loves her sippy cup

5. We are teaching her how to clap when we say clap, and wave bye bye. Sometimes she gets the two mixed up, but otherwise is getting pretty good at it.

6. She is fading from three naps a day to two. Kind of a rough transition.

7. She's such a giggler! For some reason when I make a cough noise she thinks is the funniest thing! This is kind of a long video but it's so stinkin cute!

8. She absolutely loves the shopping cart! She just swings her legs the whole time!

9. She loves when I play patty cake with her!

10. Baths are still the best part of the day!

Crawl Crawl Crawl!!!

Yay for 7 months! Where does the time go?

Jesse and Tessa at the car show!
Jesse showing of his shirt after the Kevin Hart show

Just because!

I had to post these pictures of our
Little Buttercup!

This is what I see when I open Tessa's door to get her from her nap! She watches the door for me to come through. Trying so hard to crawl!

OHHHHHH I just love her! I'm so glad shes ours!

Tessa's 1st Christmas

Christmas was the best this year!! I know now why everyone says your kids make Christmas so much more special. Even though Tessa is still really young and didn't know what was going on, she had a lot of fun with the family and was so giggly the whole time especially considering how late we kept her up and not getting her naps!! This is such a special time of the year and we are so grateful to have our family so close and be able to be with everyone on Christmas! We are so blessed! Here are A LOT of pictures from our wonderful Christmas holiday!!

First we start off with the huge snow storm! I loved it because it finally made it feel like Christmas! This is a picture of the snow on our deck. I made these really yummy peppermint chocolate cookies and Oreo truffles to take to our friends/neighbors and family. I was in the kitchen all day and made over 200 oreo balls! They are soooooo good everyone requested more! I guess next year I will remember to add more to the plates!!

Now on to Christmas Eve at Grandma Wheelers house! Rickie and Tessa!

Tessa watching all the kids before Santa arrives

Playing with daddy

Rickie, Tessa and I

Tessa getting her gift from Mr. & Mrs. Claus. She did great, didn't pout at all!!

Our family on Christmas eve!

Tessa on Christmas morning! We kept her up to late the night before and she crashed as soon as we got in the truck to go home, so she didn't get her bath. We usually give her a bath before bed but with all the kisses and everyone holding her she needed a wash! :)

Our awesome friends Chris and Cinnamon got Tessa this adorable coat for Christmas! They are such great friends, they also got her leopard shoes and little baby Nike shoes! The coat is a bit big for her obviously but she'll fit it soon! I hope!

Grandma Becky and Harley Christmas morning Grandpa Steiner and Tessa on Christmas Day

The twins playing with their cousin. LOL she looks so tiny compared to them!

Tessa and I about to open her giftsTessa got so spoiled. Clothes, books, and toys!

Her cute coat from Grandma!

The guys playing with yoyos!

Jeff and Jenn

The Wheelers, Christmas 2010

Tessa is 6 Months old!

Tessa you are your parents most precious gift!

Some things about you right now!!

-You start laughing for no reason! Maybe you know its because we start to laugh with you!!!

-You are so ticklish, everywhere!

-Squash is your favorite food to eat! You devour it and look at me funny when I try and feed you something else, like "uhh thats not squash mommy"

-You just got your first cold. Runny nose and a cough, but only lasted a couple days!!

-You sleep better on the weekends when you have been playing with Daddy all day! I think you know during the week that you don't see him as much because your usually asleep by the time he comes home, and I think you miss him so you cant sleep as well!

-You grab EVERYTHING! Reach and grab, reach and grab. All day long.

-You can roll over to your tummy so well, but then cant figure out how to get back!

-Your not to keen on the TV. You really could care less to watch it.

-You love tub time!

-You have only had diaper rash once, and that happened when you started sleeping through the night. Your welcome! :)

-You mean more to us then you will ever know!!

You gotta love baby drool

You have beautiful eyes!

The past few weeks

I need to catch up on pictures from the past few weeks. So here they are!!!

Annual Thanksgiving dodge ball tournament. This year Jesse put his team together instead of doing the family team. They did a really good job and got to the finals but then lost :)! This years team was Jesse, my brother Jesse, Jeremy, Wyatt, Culter, Chris, Mark, Casey, Kenton, and Brennen.

Tessa's First Thanksgiving!

Tess and I on Thanksgiving

Tessa's first time in a shopping cart! So cute!! Out to lunch with Rickie and Clement at the Olive Garden

Our cute family

Tessa in her cute snow clothes

First time with sweet potatoes. She really liked them and does really well with rice cereal.

Tess and I out to lunch while doing some Christmas shopping

Dinner on our Anniversary

5 Down, Eternity to go!

Where this journey started

Jesse and I have been married for 5 years today! Five years doesn't seem very long, until you start going through all the pictures! For our anniversary I am making a dvd of the first five years together. I hope to make one every five years so that when our 50th comes we can just put them all together and have a 10 disk set!! I love thinking back on all of the things we have done. If you think about it a lot of the "Firsts" happen in the first five years, for us, first house, first dog, first cruise, first Christmas together, first boat, first kid, etc. Here are a few favorite memories of us:

1. Vacations together!
2. Our late night cold stone runs!
3. Jesse bringing home twizzlers for me randomly. I love them, not sure why....they are a low fat candy lol.
4. The radio game we play when driving!
5. Catching Jesse listening to Classic Rock n Roll when he claims its crappy music!
6. Sunday night movies!
7. Jesse always spilling things on me. I know this one doesn't sound like it should be on the favorites list, but he honestly spills things on me all the time, and we can laugh about it every time we bring it up to each other! And laughing makes life happy!
8. Jesse's laugh! The best sound in the world!
9. Jesse's Mic Jagger dance! Oh and his morning singing, he wakes up with a different song in his head everyday!
10. Softball games together!
11. Family get togethers!
12. Never ending supply of Oreos in the house!
13. (one by Jesse) the way Tiffany lights up when she is excited about the cheesiest things.
14. When Jesse cries, it's only happened a couple of times, but it melts my heart when he does!
15. Quoting movies lines we love!
16. (another one from Jesse) Tiffany's Semi-OCD behavior.
17. And our favorite thing about us, Tessa of course!!!!
There are a million more but I better stop there.

Jesse,
Thank you for the priceless memories of us! Thank you for your loving heart, thank you for bringing fun to our home, thank you for loving me, thank you for your spirit, and thank you for Tessa! Here's to the next five years, and to Eternity!!! I Love You Honey!!
-Love your wife!