we have moved!

there have been a lot of changes going on in the Barney household lately; one of them being that we purchased a new home! it was a long and hard decision but it was time to leave south phoenix. i will miss being close to downtown. i will not miss being woken up at 2am by the sound of police dogs and a helicopter search. i will REALLY miss our ward and my young women; i truly loved my church calling. i will not miss driving thru junk yards everyday. i will miss living two feet away from ten circle k's. i will not miss living in a small house.

we purchased a BEAUTIFUL 4 bedroom (plus a loft), 3 bathroom home in south Chandler. great area, great school district. we hope that we can stay here a LONG time:) lets not mention that the backyard is BOMB! pool+jacuzzi+firepit. i see good times ahead. we feel very blessed. and the crazy thing is that this house cost the SAME as our first home...craziness.

pictures to come, once i finish painting and get time to breathe:)

allyson's one year stats

WEIGHT: 18lb 7oz (15th %)
HEIGHT: 29in (50th %)

Allyson is a skinny minny! Makes me so sad that she is already one. People keep asking me about baby #2 but I feel weird even thinking about another kid because I feel like Allyson is still a baby! I know that this is going to change quickly in the next few months, but for now, I will soak up all her babiness! haha. Here are some tidbits:

*LOVES to dance...to anything, include the beat of the shopping cart going over cracks in the road! (silly girl)

*loves to eat vanilla wafers, pretzels, & cheez-its

*still breastfeeds twice a day (once right before bed and once right when she wakes up) but I plan to have her completely weaned in the next couple weeks

*has 9 teeth (i think?)

*loves to play patty cake and read books!

*FINALLY will sleep thru the night...but will only sleep good if she's in her own crib

*likes to have screaming contests

*will smile REALLY easily at ANYONE

*prefers walking over crawling

*loves to play games with her daddy

we love you allyson marie!

Allyson Marie turns 1!

I can't believe my baby girl is one! We celebrated her special day by having a BBQ with friends and family:)

she was so excited she could hardly contain herself!

she loves to walk now! prefers it over crawling:)

looking so innocent!

gets her goofy faces from her father!

mommy & daddy got her this cute lil quad!

she loves it!

playing patty cake on grampa frazier's head!

chillin' with grampa barney!

her cupcakes! which, were SO yummy, if I do say so myself!

her cupcake cake:)

had to put this pic in here because my dad built this lego car...LOL

jason & ashley

susanna & marc and elyse & brian :-)

the 'words with friends' players! aunt wissa is gorgeous...uncle richard is uh... lol

the food! (notice my dad was first up lol)

the master BBQ chef:)

gramma frazier brought her this cute birthday headband but she did NOT like it! haha

riggie is so cute!

checkin' out her cute sock doll

brody & rigden were showing her how it worked!

hahaha goofy face! allyson is like, um, i think thats mine!

new vans from aunt ashee!

uncle E & uncle J

she is looking at me like im nuts!

yay!

haha! eat that cake!

look at my hands!

here, have some:) (always has that one foot up! lol)

yummy!

Thank you everyone for coming! (especially our families that had to travel long distance!) We love you all:)

i live with 2 characters!

Per my friend Lycie "I think Ben was an angry Chinese man & Allyson was a customer lookin for egg rolls:) That's what I got from it" LOL