Woe to haircuts

Yeah, Sofia had a mullet. I couldn't deny it any longer. It was bad. I could throw in a bunch of jokes about trailer parks or Tennessee or country music but I won't. Or maybe I just did. I wasn't about to cut it myself because I'm not a hair stylist and I didn't want her to look homeless. So a trip to the salon was in order.

She hated it. Just hated it.

But it looked great in the end. :)

Feeble attempted at obligatory year in review

I've been extremely neglectful of my blog. It's not that I didn't have much to write about either. I don't know, I just haven't had the energy or motivation. I think my last entry was in May. Based on what I remember...

At the end of May, my parents moved across the state and we took their house. That's right, we STOLE it!!! But really, it was an excellent situation for both of us. Husband and I didn't want to rent a crappy townhouse anymore with baseboard heat and only a one-car garage among other things, and my parents didn't want to have to deal with officially putting their house on the market and riding that whole thing out. So everyone wins, for the most part.

Another thing Husband did was clean out the garage and organize it so we can officially fit both cars in the garage. This made me so happy. Not happy enough to take a picture though. Oh well.

Sofia turned 1 in July! We had a rainbow-themed birthday party for her.

Shortly after her birthday, she began sleeping through the night. It took some "sleep training" on our part and the first couple of nights were extremely difficult. But not so bad in comparison to what I hear from other people and their experiences. Now we have a happy, well rested little girl who sleeps from 6pm to 6am and it's amazing. Remarkable. Fantastic. And best of all? I have my evenings back. I do things, like take showers, work on a knitting project, sit in the hot tub with Husband, and eat pineapple sherbet while watching television. I could make a whole blog entry just about this if I wanted to. Maybe I will.

Sofia got to go to the swimming pool for the first time!

We played in the grass.

We found a sunflower field.

We played with pots and pans.

Tried to teach Husband how to make an omelet. Can you guess which one is his?

It got colder.

Drove a tractor at the apple orchard.

Made a new friend.

Visited Daddy at work. BTW, this happened before it got cold, hence Sofia's outfit. I'm just too lazy to go back and rearrange things.

 

Saw a tiger.

Fell asleep eating.

Had family photos taken!

Made a headband.

Cute skirt.

Played in the leaves!

Dressed up like an owl.

Thanksgiving dinner!

Picked out our first Christmas tree.

Bought first snowpants!

And good thing, because we got like 20 inches of snow.

I'm sure there were many other things. In fact, I know there were. But at the moment I just can't think of anything else that stands out. I baked a lot of different things that I plan on blogging about, including caramel apple cookies and yummy enchiladas. I'll be posting soon. This weekend is baking weekend, with soft molasses cookies and pumpkin cheesecake! For those of you who care, it's going to be totally exciting.