Today our baby girl turned two! I still cannot believe it’s been two years already.  It’s SO bittersweet as she gets older because we are done having babies and so all of these milestones we hit are just that much more special.

So, it’s time for my annual trip down memory lane!

Fresh baby!  All 7 lbs 1 oz of her! LOL

I love these two pictures so much

Baptism day

Pardon my horrid photography skills in some of these!

@2 Months

3 Months

Around 6 months

9 months

One Year!!

18 months

Almost two!!

Bailey, we love you SO MUCH and enjoy your spunky and hilarious little personality!  You constantly keep us on our toes, but laughing all the while!  Your sweet smile and belly laugh always give us such great joy.  You love your brother so much and you are his best friend too.  We are so blessed to have been given you as our daughter!  We LOVE YOU!!

I’m on Day #2 of my new chapter of my life.  It’s been going about how I anticipated it would.  Very busy mornings while we get Tyson off to school, then B and I head to the gym for her to play at “the babies” and for me to get my butt in gear.  :-)  I signed up for a 5K at the end of April, so it’s time to start training (did I mention I’ve always hated running?!)

It’s so bizarre not hearing the alarm go off every morning, but rather hearing Ty come into the bedroom asking when I’m going to get up.  Just a different kind of alarm now!  And lately, they’ve been waking up before 7, hopefully when daylight savings time ends in a couple of weeks, that will adjust to an hour later.

When we’re home and Ty’s at school, we spend a lot of time in our family room, just playing and hanging out.  I think one of B’s favorite gifts she got for Christmas was this fantastic toy!  She literally plays with this every day.  She is always busy drawing “horsies” and lots of circles which she tells us are of us all.  It’s so cute!  I love watching her little hands draw.

She’s so focused sometimes

Until this one has to interrupt her

As we all know it’s Valentine’s Day!  This is one of those holidays that I think is more fun for the kids than us old married folk  Tyson is having a fun Valentine’s party at school today and Bailey is spending the day with her “pop pop”.

Last weekend we had a little mini photo shoot to get some shots for Ty’s photo valentines I made for school.  I got these adorable matching outfits from here on Etsy.  They turned out so cute!

Hope you all have a wonderful valentine’s day!

Well, here we are, a month already into the New Year.  And once again, I’m slacking on posting on here.  A few things that we have been up to so far this year…

We had a wonderful Christmas!  We have the greatest family and we are so blessed that we get to see them all at Christmas and spend time with them.  We hosted on Christmas Day and it was SO much easier in our new house to have everyone over.  I know I still need to share photos from Christmas, so I’ll try to get those up soon.

The first week of January I gave notice at my full time job!!!  :-)  I’ve been here for nearly 4 years and as many of you know, about a year and a half ago, I launched my photography business, which has taken off more quickly than I ever dreamed possible!  I have been contemplating staying at home with B and Ty for some time now, and we finally decided that now was the right time.

So, as of February 25th, I will be a full time photographer and stay at home mommy!  I’m SUPER excited for all of the time I’m going to be able to spend now with B and Ty.  Hopefully they don’t make me too crazy!  LOL  So, I also hope that I’ll have more time to snap photos and videos of them and share them here more.  I’ve really missed being able to do that while basically working 2 full time jobs for the last year and a half.

In January I went to Maui with my mom, sister, cousin and Aunt.  We had SO much fun and it was so relaxing to get away without any kids or husbands (although I did miss them terribly, but it’s true, absence does make the heart grow fonder!)

At the end of 2010, I decided to become an Independent Consultant for BeautiControl too!  I fell in love with their products last spring and have been contemplating doing this for sometime now, so I’m excited to have finally made the leap!  More on that later, but in the meantime, you can check out my website here: http://www.beautipage.com/amylemaniak/ I plan to try and feature different products and such to share them all with you because I love them so much!

So, that’s what we’ve been up to in a nutshell!  It’s hard to believe that a year ago we were packing up and getting ready to move!  Time sure does fly!

Took these pics of the kids in their Christmas outfits a couple of weekends ago, because I knew I wouldn’t have time to do it on the actual holiday!  We have been SO incredibly blessed this year!  Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!  2011 is going to bring some big changes for our family, but they are all very good!  Will be sharing more in early January about those  :-)