The dancer

Fun Things

The past few weeks have been full of food, crafts, and fun family time. We had a great Thanksgiving this year with just the three of us. Although it was sad to be away from family we sure enjoyed the relaxing Thanksgiving we had. Needless to say with three of us we have had a TON of leftovers.

Also, Bailey took her first step a few weeks ago and has since then taken up to five steps at a time. Her progress is kind of slow but she will get there. We have learned that Bailey has to completely do new things on her own schedule!

I realized that although awkwardly, I can run with this stroller so Bailey have gone on a few outings despite the cold weather. I think she actually enjoys being so bundled up!

I have also had what has seemed like a million projects in limbo the last umm...year or so. I decided to get to it and finish them. Below are a few of them: our bathroom wall which some sort of plant will accompany the art and the laundry room bag holders, thanks to a good friend of Dave's who gave us the wood to sand, stain, and hang!

I made this blanket and burp cloths for a sister in our ward who is having a baby. It sure is fun to do.

Dave has been working on our garden and our first pepper of the fall has come!

Motherhood

While starting yet another load of laundry and finishing the dinner and breakfast dishes at about 3 in the afternoon, I realized that mother's have the most important and the most incredible job in the world even with the monotony of what we do. The other day I was filling up the tub for Bailey to take a bath and I went back into her room to find her reading stories next to her book box. Bailey has started loving to brush her own teeth, has learned what the comb does for her hair, learned to sign a few words, and has started to cover her mouth when she coughs (even if they are fake)! There is such power and fulfillment watching children learn things that we teach them. What a blessing Bailey is to me to show me the incredible blessings I have in my life. Motherhood is such a blessing.

An update post cont.

Happy Halloween! Yes, it is a bit late but here it is. We had a great week celebrating. Bailey and I went to two story times that were parties. At both she made crafts and had a wonderful time. She dressed as Pebbles for one of them, just in case you can't tell that she has a bone on her head!! We had a ward trunk or treat which Bailey dressed up as a farmer for. She looked so cute despite the overalls being size 3-6 months and giving her a perma-wedgie. We had a fun Halloween and look forward to next year when we will take Bailey trick or treating.

I am not sure where she got the looks but I think this is a beautiful picture of Bailey.

For a playdate with the ward we went to a pumpkin patch/petting zoo. Bailey LOVED it all.

Our prize pumpkin Bailey picked out herself.

The Kroger pumpkin patch, authentic I know.

Bailey was again helping with laundry and I just couldn't help it...wearing her first pair of nylons!!

Some of October

Just too cute to pass up!

The month of October was full of fun and adventures. Dave and I were lucky enough to get away for a weekend. Bailey had a delightful time with Grandma and Grandpa. (Thank you so much.) She actually had a hard time seeing them go. I don't blame her! I think she gained about 5 pounds over the weekend but what are grandparents for!!

Here are some fun pictures of all of their adventures.

Her first experience with McDonald's

Dave and I went to San Antonio. We camped on Thursday night and then stayed in a Bed and Breakfast the rest of the trip. We seem to have this uncanny ability to find places where no one else is because both the campground and Bed and Breakfast were empty . What a delightful weekend it was. We went to the San Antonio temple, The Riverwalk, Six Flags, and took some wonderful walks around the neighborhoods. I would encourage all married folks to find a way to spend some time away from the hustle and bustle that is all around us and just enjoy your companion! We had a wonderful time.

There is nothing like breakfast in the fresh air. It was so nice to be in the woods although still not quite like the mountains.
Sorry this is the only way to get pictures when it is just two people!

Bumper cars. They were hillarious. I love that Dave is just a little boy in a man's body. It made six flags an awesome trip.

A Tribute to of course Bailey

It has been a while sorry. This post is dedicated to our darling little girl Bailey. She has changed so much and continues to change everyday. What a joy she is to us. It is a long post mostly for the grandmas!


Happy 1st Birthday to Bailey!!

These pictures are on Bailey's birthday. Since I scheduled her doctor visit on her birthday, Dave and I ended up unwrapping a lot of her presents. Mean mom I know. Then that night at mutual we celebrated her birtday with singing and with cake. Sadly, I had spent all this time trying to make Bailey's mini cake look like a beach ball. I thought it turned out pretty good. We all went to opening exercises, came back and some little fingers had found the beach ball and it must have tasted good because the finger marks were all over the cake. I was sad but what can you do. We had a fun evening and feel so blessed to have Bailey in our lives.

Bailey's first experience with blueberry muffins. She loved them! However, that isn't unusual, we gave her grapefruit the other day and she LOVED it.

She is old enough to have a forward facing carseat but as we found out at the doctor, she doesn't quite weigh enough yet.

Bailey has started trying to be more "helpful" around the house. She takes things out of the dishwasher, whether clean or not, she helps take clothes out of the laundry basket, whether folded or not. The fun thing is no matter what Dave and I are doing, she just loves to be with us! Who could get mad at a face like this?!?

Bailey has also started gathering "treasures". She will find things around the house and hold on to them while crawling throughout the house. She literally took these foosball balls all around the house just like this.

She loves shoes!! She is my kind of girl.

The end of August we went to Utah to visit family. It was a blast. Bailey just loved uncle Bean!




We went to the zoo as a family to celebrate Bailey's birthday and her favorite part was definately the water feature. She had a great time as did we. She got to pet a goat, see the elephants, and see her favorite, the giraffes.