Much Updating!! - so its VERY long!!

I can't believe its been over a month since my last blog. I have so many pictures of Elizabeth to share. She is almost 7 months old. Gosh how time flies!! She is sitting up like an old pro. She is very close to getting on her knees. She'll lean over so far going after something and then realize that she's not on her butt anymore and go back to a sitting position. She has started to pull herself up. We have to watch her now when we have the rail down to her crib. She started an actual daycare about 3 weeks ago. She seems to be doing well with it. Her first day was definitely harder for me then it was for her! I think there is only 1 or 2 other little girls there so she is completely doted upon! We recently went to Alabama to visit my family and got some really great shots at Portrait Innovations. It was my niece's 1st birthday. I can't believe she is a year old. The only way you can tell that these 2 are related is by their nose. They are identical. Definitely a Curry nose! Elizabeth just did so well for all her pictures. It was soooo hard narrowing them down to just 5 poses!!!

In other news, today is my 31st birthday and I got a scrapbooker's dream gift......A Cricut!! I've only had a chance to play with it for just a little bit. But here's a picture of the beautiful thing! :) The other great thing I got was a $50 gift card to Hobby Lobby and I bought this great paper pack from Die Cut With a View. I used some of the paper to make these 2 pages. It's going to be a fun paper pack and I can't wait to use more of it! These are the only 2 pages I've gotten done in the past month. Man, I just don't always have the energy to do much of anything after Elizabeth goes to bed at night. There are times where it just doesn't feel like there are enough hours in the day.

Back to our trip to Alabama. I've got some more pictures of I want to share. Elizabeth loves the water. My folks have a pool so we went swimming Friday and Saturday (and I went swimming early Sunday morning by myself and it was COLD!) Anyway, here are some pics of us in the pool. My girlfriend from high school, Leah, and her daughter, Natalie (who's about 6 weeks older than Elizabeth) came over to go swimming. My sister, Kaci, and her daughter, Emma, were there as well. I also got some really cute pictures of Natalie and Elizabeth playing together. They were so cute. I don't think they really knew what to make of each other.

By the way, Natalie is not hitting Elizabeth in the back of her head. Just looks like it!

And FINALLY, it was my niece's 1st birthday! She was just a little princess! Here are some pics of the birthday party. Also, she was in a Little Miss Alabama beauty pageant (I think that was the name of it). Anyway, she won three awards - People Choice, Best Sports Wear and Best Personality. She was such a darling! It was an interesting experience being there. Not really my kind of thing. Actually, we kind of laughed at some of the older girls and the prancing they did. It was hard not to.

Well, I guess I'm done!! I guess it was more pictures than anything else. And actually, I probably have about a gazillion more pictures that I'll add at another time. I've been keeping up with the rest of you though!

One last thing - update on Sonya who I requested a prayer request on. She past away about a month ago. She was in a coma for 2 weeks and then finally lost the fight. Although she is gone, her family still needs your prayers to see them through holidays, birthdays, anniversaries and just the everyday things.