Family Pictures

For this Christmas Season, we decided to get our family pictures taken. We had our friend Pye Jirsa of Lin & Jirsa photography take our pictures. He did a great job and we had fun at the shoot. A few minutes before we drove out to where we were going to take the pictures, it started to rain. However, it stopped when we arrived and didn't rain again until we were all done with the shoot. We wanted to share these pictures with you. Anna was 9 months in these pictures. She turned 10 months today. Where does the time go? I can't believe that she will be a year old in just 2 MONTHS!!!!!!! We are loving how her personality has started to shine and we are so in love with this sweet, beautiful little girl. We are so grateful that heavenly father has entrusted us with her care. I am planning on giving an update on her SOON.... that will include her stats and TONS of pics. I hope that all of you are having a Happy Holiday Season. Enjoy the pictures!

Daddy and Anna's 'Circus Act'

This tiger was what was making her smile in all of the following pictures. I love her face of victory in this picture because she finally got to touch it!

Cute!

"Grrrrrrr"

"Do I have to walk? I just want to sit on the ground and play with the rocks!"

Merry Christmas!!!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween friends and family! I hope that you all had a great holiday. I am pretty sure that Anna had a great 1st Halloween. We dressed her up as a Monkey for the ward trick-or-treat party. Since Anna was a monkey we thought that it would be fun to do a safari theme. Seth and I dressed up as if we were on a safari and Anna was souvenir. We had a good time shopping for your outfits and having a theme for our family.

Since Halloween landed on a Sunday this year, I wanted to put together a cute Halloween outfit for Anna to wear to church. What do think about this outfit?

"Cheeeese" Face

"Prepare to meet miss Angry Eyes"

VOTE please

Hello friends and family,

I added Anna's photo to the Gerber Generation Photo search. I would love if you would vote for our Anna. The website only lets you vote one time per computer and per e-mail address. Each month the top 6 with the most points get a Flip camera and then at the end of the year they will pick a couple for a college scholarship. I thought that it was worth a try. Thank you so much.

The website is www.gerber.com/photo/#/gallery/ , then you can click the search button and type in her #, 99239. Thank you so much.

Anna's reaction to solids

I have posted this on the "Manning Family Tree" Blog as well. About a month ago we started Anna on rice cereal. this was her first reaction to the taste. She is a pro at eating and has been enjoying many new flavors of solid foods. She has had watermelon, peach, mango, green beans, avocado, and yellow squash. She has been pretty accepting to new foods and I hope that continues throughout her life. Anna is such a joy and I love watching her eat... she cracks me up!

Anna on the move

The Days of putting Anna on a blanket to play with toys are LONG gone. the minute we set her down she rolls away. Some times she gets stuck up against the couch or a wall and gets very upset, sillly girl. It has been fun watching her follow me around by rolling. She is also becoming a lot more sturdy when she is sitting up by her self. What a fun age.

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Our summer trip to Arizona

We took a trip to Arizona for my cousin's wedding at the end of July. On the way to Greer the Garmin advised us to turn on a dirt road. I knew the area and thought "Oh we have enough time lets try this short cut". You know how that ends....right? The "short cut" was 5.4 miles long and started out friendly. We saw a herd of elk and the sun was just setting. As we left the elk it started sprinkling. The ground started getting soft and slippery. Before we knew it our tires were covered in mud and we had no traction. I ended up getting high centered in some ruts that trucks would breeze by. Katie got in the drivers seat, put the car in reverse, and i pushed the car out. We managed to maneuver the car several times passed some scary mud holes, up hills, and many deep ruts to the main road and listened to all the mud fall off the car. I had to find a car wash down the road and remove all the mud from underneath the car. We finally made it to my Grandma's house with everything intact. Here are some pictures from our weekend in AZ.


I still had mud underneath the car when we returned to CA.

Can you tell we don't feed Anna?

My baby has skills.

Anna and Greyson on the Boppy.

Anna and my Grandma Kelepolo at the wedding.

Fishing with Peyton and Kaleb.

Greyson doing the Jersey Shore fist pump.

I just found out how much i could be saving by switching my insurance to geico.