Standing up!!

Another new thing this week is that Isabella can pull herself up to standing! She also finally has two bottom teeth coming in, as soon as I can get a picture of them I will post it! Thanks Reeves and Rebecca for letting us borrow this toy!

Jason was taking pictures of her in her exersaucer when I got home day from work, trying to catch the excitement on her face!! It's adorable-- she jumps, reaches, squeals and says "mama mama!"

On the move!!

She gets so tickled with herself!!

Standing up on her own, and she pulled herself up!
Thanks Tallon for letting us borrow your toy!

Daddy, I want to hold that shiny thing that you keep pointing at me!!

Getting dressed for bed, after a long day of playing and a bath!

We can't resist taking pictures of her asleep in her crib. Just too adorable, precious, and sweet!

Marnie Moore's 50th B-Day Surprise Party!

Last Sunday night we helped sweet Anne throw a surprise 50th birthday get together for her sweet husband Marnie! Almost all of our original Bible Study was there--we love these people so much that I had to include them on our blog!! Isabella and the birthday boy!!
Miss Erin, Grant and Isabella! For those of you who don't know, Miss Erin and her husband Gus are great friends of ours and she keeps Isabella while Jason and I work! She is soooo wonderful to her and to us!!

Kristin and cutie Anna! You can't see it in this picture but there is another Patterson baby girl on the way!

Doff loved the birthday cake!
Cool Luke, in his shades!!!
Waiting to eat cake and ice cream--yummy!!

We had a really great time with everybody!! It was wonderful to get together on a Sunday night like we used to -- plus kids now!!

A BIG week for us!

This past week has been a pretty busy one! Isabella's Dada came home last Friday evening. She and I both were very happy to see him! She had been crawling around all week saying "Dada Dada?"--you could actually hear the question mark at the end! She is growing and changing so much and so fast lately!

She loves playing and crawling on our bed!! She won't sleep with us anymore, she moves too much and we get in her way! Please notice her pajamas--pink and purple Atlanta Braves pj's, Mommy is not a fan but Daddy is!

Here is my super sweet Sister-in-law--the best Aunt Kim ever!! (Thanks UT for sending this to me this week!!)

I thought that our 1st blog entry would not be complete without a few pictures!

Here are Jason, Isabella and myself on her first plane ride, to Chicago in June. As you can see she was more interested in what was out the planes windows!






Isabella loves her stroller! I can't believe that she is almost 9 months old already!!

Our new blog!!

The Allen's are finally getting into the blog world! We love looking at and reading our friends blogs and decided that we need one too! This week Jason is at Look-up Lodge with his youth group from Southside Baptist Church, so Isabella and I are home alone! We kept telling Jason that we were going to "party, party, party" without him; and we did, she tried mixed vegetables today for the first time and had a reaction to them! She got hives on her neck and back that lasted about an hour--I think that we will just stick with fruits for now!
She is growing and changing so fast. Today she went from crawling around to sitting herself up for the first time all by herself! Jason has the camera with him or I would have taken a picture, she was so excited and proud of herself!
I hope that this blog enables friends and family to keep up with our lives, and be able to see pictures of Isabella! I also hope that it encourages us to be better parents and take more pictures of our precious angel baby Isabella!!