Getting ready for Christmas

This holiday season has been really fun so far with an almost one year old.  It's so special watching Lucy get so excited over everything; decorations, gifts, santa, etc.  Here are some pictures from the last few weeks. 

Picking out our tree in the rain

Doe Family pictures 2012

Thanksgiving

First we went to Texas to visit Jared, Marcie, Sophia and Micah (which was their first time meeting Lucy), and then we headed to Arizona to spend Thanksgiving with my family.  Here are some pictures from our two week vacation.  

Getting ready to board the plane.  Lucy did pretty well on the flights, all 5 of them.

Lucy meeting her cousins Sophia and Micah for the first time :)

Sophia, Ashleigh, Richard, me, Lucy, Micah, Marcie and Jared

Sweet cousin picture

 Now on to AZ!

Lucy with her Uncle Jonny and Uncle Jesse :)

Playing at the park with Uncle Jesse

First Thanksgiving.  She thought it was yummy!

Four generations!

Even my dad wore an OSU shirt!

Celebrating her birthday early with the AZ family.

She loved baby Belle

Happy birthday ice cream, she thought it was cold but yummy!

 

Pumpkin Patch

We went to a pumpkin patch last weekend and even though Lucy is a little young to understand, it was still a fun memory she can look back on. We walked through the fields and picked the perfect pumpkins and then took a bumpy hayride through the patch.  The weather was perfect, sunny and warm! 

Aunt Randee and Lucy :)

Little smiles :)

"what is this orange thing?"

Happy Fall!!

Lucy's 6-9 month video

Lucy's 6-9 month video

The rest of summer

This summer has gone by fast!  We have had beautiful weather and have been trying to take advantage of it as much as we can; it will be gone soon.  Lucy is getting so big!  Sitting up, crawling, balancing on her knees, pulling herself up.  She is such a curious little girl, and so smart too!  She can figure almost anything out.  

Richard and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary by staying in a cabin on Mt. Hood in Oregon.  Since it's summer, there wasn't any snow on the ground, it was actually pretty warm, but it was still nice to get away.
 

On the ski slope they had lots of "summer" activities.  We just watched :)

Richard and Lucy on a walk

These next few pictures are just random ones from our daily life at the Doe house.

I love her little ears

She's finally big enough for her jumper.

Playing with water in the back yard

Pulling herself up

She loves looking through her diaper bag :)

Such a good crawler now, and really fast!

Lucy supporting the Diamondbacks

We went to a lake with the youth group earlier this summer and Lucy came along.  She got to hang out with everyone and try out her new bathing suit in the cold lake.  She didn't stay in for long :)

Playing her in pack-n-play

Checking out the water

And she's had enough

Sweet girl