Addison's Baptism

So I was going to attempt to catch up from my last post but got really overwhelmed with how much time has passed so I decided I would just start with this weekend. My hopes are to update the blog monthly but we will see...

This weekend we had the amazing opportunity to baptize Addison. It was such a sweet time for our family. As Sunday approached I found myself reflecting on how much has changed in just 3 years. Three years ago we found out that we had miscarried and we were devastated and questioned whether or not we would ever have a baby. AND now we celebrate God's gift to us! I wake up every day and thank the Lord that He has given us Addison. She is more than we could have ever hoped for or imagined...just the perfect fit for our family! He gives and takes away but blessed be His name!!

our joy

sweet cousins

our family

My parents were able to be here for the celebration.

Rejoicing that we have such a wonderful family!

Addison is blessed to have amazing grandparents, aunts, uncles & cousins.

She loves her Leigh Leigh!

3 generations

As we prayed for Addison before she was born, the Lord gave us a verse that we consider her life verse. Eph. 3:14-19 "For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and high and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge~ that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."

Fall 2010

This fall we've been busy traveling and it's been so much fun to share so many new experiences with Addison. I know she won't remember but I'm grateful that we have pictures to share with her once she is a bit older. We began our travels by heading up to Tuscaloosa, AL for the University's Homecoming. I had so many highlights of this trip. My first highlight was visiting with my friend Stacey and her three children. She had the twins (Aaron & Abigail) on July 1st. It was so fun being pregnant together and then being able to meet the babies. What blessings they are to each of us and an answer to our prayers.

Stacey & me with our babies!

I have a few more to go to catch up with her!

Abigail & Aaron

We had a blast as a family watching the parade, visiting sorority row and seeing family & friends that we hadn't seen in such a long time.

Another highlight was catching up with my high school friends, Lauren & Margaret. It was so surreal being back at the AXO house as our little ones ran around. What a gift to meet their boys and spend some time together.

As you can tell it's a bit hard to get them all looking at the same time but I did manage to get a great on of Caedman (sp?) kissing Addison. What a sweetie! I think they all kind of resemble their mammas.

Then we headed to the quad where we got to see our cousins, Catherine & Cate. Mom & Catherine are first cousins who both went to Bama together. Mom enjoyed introducing us to a few of her sorority sisters.

And last but certainly not least, we got to see my great friend Jamie and her family. I was thrilled to see her even if it was so brief!! Addison likes her Auntie Jamie!!

After our visit to T-town we headed down to Spanish Fort, AL to visit my mom & dad and grandparents. I LOVED dressing Addison in her fall smocked dress. We were walking around Fairhope and found some of the best places to take pictures!!

Of course we had to get a family shot with some pumpkins. I guess we will save the pumpkin patch for when she's a little older and can pick out her own pumpkin. By this time she was ready for a nap so no smiles from baby girl.

Game Day

Pappy & Addison practicing Roll Tide on game day!

Bama Baby!

We love visiting Leigh Leigh & Pappy's lake house!

One of my favorite faces she makes! All smiles and pure joy!!

Now we are back in Orlando and looking forward to more fall activities with our friends and their babies. More pics to come...stay tuned.

5 months

Today Addison is 5 months old!

She's wearing the dress I wore when I was 5 months...30 years ago!

Can we say VINTAGE! :-)

Checking out her feet

Happy girl!

Almost 5 months & not very good about updating...

On October 12th our baby girl will be 5 months old! I cannot believe how fast time flies but I guess it's true...time flies when you're having fun! And that's what life has been...fun! So much so that who has time to blog!!! I just thought for those that are interested you might want to see some updated pictures....

Addison and me hanging before dinner with some of our friends.

Meeting her great-grandparents Bill & Fern Mikkelson

Around 3/4 months we had a photo shoot with Ashley Poole because I really wanted to get a good picture of the three of us. We had such a fun time and got some great shots of our sweet little girl.

I cannot begin to tell you how much joy this sweet little girl brings to our life! She has such a sweet spirit and so easy going. She loves to laugh at mommy & daddy, finally rolled over from her tummy to her back (yesterday), loves to suck her thumb, fingers, etc., sleeps beautifully through the night most of the time, always smiles with her mouth wide open, and loves to "talk"! We are blessed because of her! Thank you Lord!!

Beach

Avery is such a sweet big cousin. She helps out so much!!

I love that I got this smile!

I feel like they have their own way of communicating!

It's like Barrett is saying, "Hey Addie, don't worry the Bear is here."

Cousin love!

Bath time!!

This weekend Adam & Matthew (my BIL) participated in a golfing event so Ashley (my SIL) and I decided it would be fun to take the kids to Papa & Grammy's beach condo for the weekend. We had a great time relaxing and I was thankful that I was able to get some sun while Addison napped thanks to Grammy & Ash!! I can't wait until all 3 of them are running around in the sand building sand castles and swimming in the ocean/pool. Fun times!!