Savannah's First Birthday!

So we celebrated Savannah's first birthday!! We had a lot of fun.
We took her to the Washington D.C Zoo and had a family party at our house. Here she is enjoying her cake. She was so funny she doesn't like to get her hands dirty so she started eating her cake by sticking one finger in at a time and licking it off and so on, but after a few licks she wanted more. So she stuck both hands in and grabbed big handfuls and shoveled them in her mouth. After a little while she realized her hands were messy and she waved them around in the air and made a whinny noise letting me know she wanted them wiped off, right now!!! As soon as we would wipe them off she would proceed to stick them back into the cake, we did this ritual at least 4-5 times. But it was fun to see her enjoy her first Birthday cake.

Here we are at the zoo watching a very lazy panda bear

Daddy and Savannah watching a very large elephant. Savannah was not to sure what she thought about the elephants

Savannah also loved the gorilla's, Orangutans and monkey houses
The D.C zoo has these big high towers over the park and they run from the orangutans house to what they call the "Thinking Tank" and the orangutans will climb these towers and at the top are two wires they can climb and swing on over the entire park to which ever building they want to be at. While we were there we saw two of them going across the wires. Its quite amazing. There are no nets and no cadges for them to crawl through they are just out in the open for you to watch!

We have and ice cream parlor withing walking distance from our house and we took Savannah for her first cone the other day. As you can see she enjoyed it very much! When she got done with hers she wanted to finish off Mom's. Savannah is now walking around everywhere and quite the busy body. We can't wait see everyone when we come out to Utah in a few weeks. And to Lee " I finally did it, I told you I would"

Gunner and Peyton

also would like to

say hello. Gunner is our 1 year old 100 lb. yellow lab/pony. And you all remember Peyton our little wimpy dog.

Hello from the Ballou's

Hello to everyone, I hope your happy Lee & Mom I finally updated our blog. Well here we are in Washington D.C during the Cherry Blossom Festival. We went with Beau's Uncle and Aunt and there kids. Here we are with the Jefferson Memorial behind us. Savannah was not all that happy because it was cold and raining off and on. But she was a trooper while we walked around the Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial and the Lincoln and well. We has lots of fun!And the trees are beautiful this time of year, everyone should come and see them at least once in there life, we love it!


I was folding laundry one day and Savannah kept pulling all the clothes out of the basket. It was driving me crazy! I hate to fold laundry as it is but having to do it over and over really gets to me so Beau to her away!

Savannah loves the laundrey basket now she crawls in it all the time

Here is our "Puppy" Gunner
He weighs about a 100 pounds and he just turned a year

Utah Trip

We had so much fun in Utah visiting our family, especially my big brother Lee, he is so incredibly awesome. I look up to him so much and we cant wait to move out there so we can hang out more and do fun stuff, again I repeat he is fantastic!!!