A year ago...

Josh and I were meeting our baby girl for the first time.

As we think back to the day she was born we have such amazing memories; and we can't even believe how much has changed since that day.

Really we can't believe how much we have changed since that day. 

We have become different, but in a way that is unexplainable and amazing all at the same time.

This last week I have been getting very emotional thinking about the fact that our baby girl turning ONE.  It has been a mixture of pure JOY, and sadness as this year has gone by way to fast.

Thought you might enjoy a recap of our growing baby girl.

1 week

1 Month

2 Months

 3 Months


4 Months

5 Months

6 Months

7 Months

8 Months

9 Months

10 months

11 Month

12 Months

We don't even remember what life was like before she was a part of it or that we could ever love anything as much as we love her.  We LOVE you BO, we can't wait to see what the next year will bring for you.

Our Baby turned 1

Bo has grown so much in this last month

She has so many things she does now and Loves

You can't slow her down she has been a non stop walker and explorer.  She loves checking everything out and seeing what she can get herself into. 

There are so few things she doesn't like

However, her new FEAR is the vacuum I have never seen her get as upset as she does when she sees the vacuum.  SHE sound like someone is trying to kill her.  It is painful to watch and listen to.  We don't even have to turn it on she just has to see it.  When Pistol was scared of the vacuum we just threw treats at him, not sure what to do about this one.

Otherwise, Bo has become quite the little independent little girl, and I just can't ever get enough of how much fun it is to watch her grow and explore her world.

11 months has come and gone,  I can't believe I'm ONE already

Bo's First Birthday Party

We decided to have Bo's first birthday this weekend, and we enjoyed having everyone that could make it, and missed everyone that couldn't.

We decided to go with the Hungry Caterpillar theme I got all of my great idea's from Pintrest.  I attempted to do many of the idea's, some were revamped, and some I just said, I just don't have time for that.  There are some I just forgot about and some I wish I didn't forget about.  I really wish I would have remembered to do this one (which I think I might still ask everyone to do, so look forward to an e-mail from us.)

We started the party with snacks that hungry caterpillar ate.

1 apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries, 5 oranges
a piece of chocolate cake, an ice cream cone, a pickle, a slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon
  one nice green leaf

Then we decided to eat our cake before dinner =) (She just got to eat a cupcake though)

Then it was present time

Then we made caterpillar pizzas for the kids and stuff crust pizza for the adults.

My godfather's awesome

We then enjoyed some karaoke

Then to end the weekend a photo shoot with Aunt Jess

Thanks Aunt Jess for taking my 1 year pictures

New Years Eve

How we spent our New Years eve

I found this idea on Pintrest, and I had to do it. 
It will be our new family tradition every New Years Eve.

Another tooth

Bo added another tooth this last week, loving how cute her smile is getting.

2011 Year in Review

Wow I thought last year was amazing, but this year brought new and amazing things to our life.

January

 I was still pregnant

Bo Allison Cleveland was born Jan 25, 2011

February

Bo had her first babysitters,so we could enjoy our one year anniversary

We celebrate our 1 year  anniversary celebrating Grandma Warner's 85th birthday

March

Bo gets some pictures of bath time

Grady Baby turns 1

April

Josh turns 33

Grandma Theis enjoying her babysitting time with Bo when I went back to work

Bo had her first Easter with the Theis family

We have another successful MLC GALA

May

We celebrated the twins Max and Sawyer 6th Birthday

Mitch Graduates from ISU

Bo gets baptized (Bo and her godparents minus Cathie)

We celebrate Mark Cleveland and My 33rd birthday

June

Another successful year at MLC has come and gone, and summer vacation started.

Mom went home, her days as the live in grandma were done

We headed out west with my parents for our family reunion.

Bo going for a walk with daddy at dawn

We saw Yelllowstone together, and so many other amazing sights. Thanks mom and dad for the amazing adventures

July

We got to Colorado to enjoy our Theis family reunion

Bo turns 6 months and starts crawling

Bo's 6m pics

August

Bo gets her first tooth, and starts daycare for the first time

Josh decides to share the basement with his baby girl

 We celebrate Stevi and Chad at her Shower/Bachelorette party

September

We spend our first night away to enjoy Bobby and Missy's wedding

Bo goes on her first bike ride

October

We officially add a family member to the Cleveland Family.

Mr and Mrs. King

Our family

Bo enjoys her first Halloween

November

Bo takes her first steps

Just hanging out all by herself.

Puzzle season starts

Bo enjoys first Thanksgiving with the Theis' and the Cleveland's

December

 

We enjoy another Theis cookie baking day

Frosting cookies

We celebrate Christmas with the Porth's and Cleveland's

 

We spent our first Christmas eve with our little family and Bo got to open presents.

Enjoying the tree

We also got to spend time with the whole Theis clan for Christmas which was the first time we have all been together for Christmas in 5 years.

We rang in the New Year in our Basement, since Bo wasn't feeling so hot.

However, she loved showing off her dance moves before heading to bed for the night.

We also started our new tradition of all of our hand-prints  together.  

Come back again in a few days for the video, and picture of our night.

Hope 2012 brings as many adventures as 2011 did.

-The Cleveland's