Mia's First Birthday!

Mia is such a fun, wild little one year old! She can take up to 5 steps all by herself, and she loves being more independent. She knows and can point to your nose, eyes, ears, and lips. She can tell you what the doggy, bear, and elephant say. A hug and kiss from this little angel is like winning the lottery! She does this adorable thing where sometimes I am busy cooking dinner or something and she will be holding onto my legs wanting me to hold her. I will tell her "Mia I can't hold you right now, sorry sweetie", and she will whimper and kiss my legs. Obviously this all ends with me holding her like she wants me to… who could possible resist such a thing?! I can't believe how lucky we are to have her in our lives. 

 Sweetest little smiles!

Too precious...

Enjoying her peanut butter square birthday treat like only a one year old can…:):)

Could be twins.

My little weirdos…:)

Little wild one

Daddy's proudest moment. 

Month #11

It's unbelievable that next month our little munchkin will be 1!  Mia had all four of her top teeth come in at the same time this month!  She is such a champ; she never acted like it bothered her too much.  She can free stand for a few seconds.  She has started to get a little possessive of me and has been known to bite Chris when he is kissing or hugging me and worm her way in between us and push Chris away while we are snuggling. It's pretty unbelievable :) She says "hi", "bye", "ba ba"(bottle), "gee gee"(giraffe), "ila"(Lyla), and she can tell you that the monkey says "ah ah ah". :) She gives the sweetest little hugs and kisses.

 

Little ponytail hair :)

Mia loves eating in her new highchair so much!  Thanks so much Grandma Kim!!!

 Still loves bath time! 

Loves the garden… 

And wearing daddy out…:)

Cambria is Home!

Our sweet little Cambie finally came home from her mission a day later than expected.  This moment was absolutely worth the wait!  We couldn't love her more!

So hard to wait… 

Cambria meeting Mia for the first time

Almost one complete set of Bitter Children…very rare…:)

After just one night of sleeping in her own bed, the whole Bitter Family  was off to a week long vacation in Colorado.

The Alpine Slide was a blast!

Sleepy little Mia…:)

We went on a gorgeous hike up to an amazing waterfall

The sign that Chris completely ignored…

 

Chris risking his life. He'll never learn… 

The boys went fly fishing and saw a bear!  You can barely see it in these pictures…

 Mia loving this little tent

Typical Mia after Cambria's homecoming.

A few days after being home from our vacation, a few of us were able to attend the Ogden Temple open house.  Sadly, Chris couldn't be there because he was at young mens, but it was such a sweet thing for me to experience with little Mia.  It brought me to tears to watch my little sweetie looking around so reverently in such a sacred place.