Hello World!

3 months has gone by rather fast!  I am still getting used to the "new mom" routine.  It is a lot more time consuming then I thought it was going to be.  I can't complain though, I have a very well behaved, laid back baby!  At 1 1/2 months, Kyla started sleeping through the night.  I started with putting her down at midnight and she would wake up at 7.  As the weeks progressed, she started sleeping more.  Finally one night a month ago, I started putting her down around 10 pm and she didn't wake up until 8 or 9.  It has been very nice for me to get that much sleep!  Since she sleeps so much at night, she doesn't really nap during the day and she wants to eat every 3 hours.  It seems as if my day is spent feeding her.  But that is ok.  I would rather spend my day taking care of her and getting a good nights rest than having to wake up every few hours during the night.

She's such a good little girl.  Every morning, she talks to herself and lays in her crib patiently until I come and get her.  She only cries when she's hungry or needs a diaper change.  I have been dog sitting a lot lately and on the drive over one night, her beanie had fallen over her eyes and she started crying.  As soon as I realized what happened, I took it off her head and she stopped crying immediately.  So very lucky am I!

Here are some pictures from the last few months.  I almost take daily pictures of my sweet little girl.  I decided to start taking monthly pictures of her so we can watch her growth and development.  It is so fun to get her all dressed up for pictures!  Since I love pink so much, she is always surrounded by it.  I just love cuddling and kissing her!!

Kyla's Birth Announcement

Here is our Christmas card this year

This is her one month picture

2 months, she was still in new born clothes

 Our cute little Valentine, she is smiling at her Daddy!

3 months...she keeps getting bigger and bigger

She LOVES her Daddy!  When he gets home from work and she hears his voice, she immediately is looking around trying to see him and has a huge smile on her face.

I sure do love this little girl!

Kyla is Here!!

After 40 weeks, 3 days, and two hours of pushing, our princess was born! 

She was worth the wait!

Here are some pictures of the first 3 weeks of her life...

 Here is the ever so attractive hospital picture

 

Jon's such a great Dad!!

  

Getting ready to head home from the hospital

 

 She already can hold her own bottle, kind of

  

   First Thanksgiving, she was only 6 days old

Blessing day, Oma was here for it

 Blessing dress that Oma made from

my wedding dress material

 Oma with her new grand daughter

What's up?? :)

 

First bath...she LOVED it!

She was holding her binkie in so it wouldn't go anywhere

 Happy dreams!

Want to play a game??

Okay friends, are you ready for a game??  Whomever guesses the date AND time closest to when Beck is born, will win a fabulous handmade something from me.  Item is to be determined based upon who wins.  Since today was my due date and there is no baby in sight, I will give you one clue.  My doctor will let me go another two weeks.  You have a two week time frame to play with.

So what do you say?

Do you want to play?

Start your guessing!!

I figure that this game will keep me sane until

Beck decides to arrive!

No end in sight!

I feel so close but so far away to having this baby!

Still a lot of movement, but not many contractions.

I would be willing to bet $10 that Beck is not going to arrive by Tuesday.

Due dates are really estimations after all, right? 

For the first time this pregnancy, I had an emotional break down.

 I'm not proud to admit it and it is rather embarrassing.

Yesterday I decided that I would get all dressed up and

take pictures of myself in my backyard.

Beck is due in 5 days, so why not get some good quality pictures while I still can!

I spent almost an hour getting my hair perfect,

picking the right outfits and accessories.

I grabbed the camera and headed outside.

I spent an hour taking picture after picture hoping that the more I take,

the better chance I have of getting a really good picture.

I came in the house and had a lot of pictures to look through

and I had some really good ones.

Today, I decided that I would open them up in Photoshop

and play around with the colors.

As I transferred the files from the memory card to my external hard drive,

something wasn't working right.

I knew that something was up and I should save the pictures elsewhere,

but didn't listen to myself.

I was determined to save these pictures to my external hard drive.

It took triple the amount of time to transfer the pictures than it normally should.

When I went to open the folder, I saw that half of the pictures were now corrupt

and could not be opened.

I had already deleted all of the pictures off of the memory card.

I stared at the computer screen in amazement, disbelief, and frustration!

Can you feel all those emotions at once??

Before I knew it, I was crying.

I was trying to text Jon and tell him what happened

and I couldn't even see my phone screen.

I lost half of the pictures that I spent so much time and effort taking yesterday.

The majority of them were my favorite pictures.

My only irrational emotional outbreak so far this pregnancy.

Hopefully it is the ONLY one I will need to experience.

Here are three of the pictures that I got and actually liked.

Here's to hoping that Beck will arrive soon for all of us to see!!

Sugar Cookies

One of my favorite things to bake is sugar cookies. You have a plethora of options; shapes, sizes, colors, etc. I particularly love making frosting in all different colors. That way whomever is with me, can decorate the cookies in any way they want. It is like a coloring you can eat.
It makes it even more fun!

This past weekend I made sugar cookies for the kids in the Primary. We had our first practice for the Sacrament program and they were so good, they definitely deserved a treat! Here is what the cookies looked like on Sunday.

Here some of the sugar cookies that I have decorated over the past few years.

So many options!!
These are cookies that my nieces and nephew decorated.

Christmas 2008 

Halloween 2010

Super Bowl 2011 

 Valentines 2011

 Don't they look yummy? Well, they are!

If you're interested in my recipe, just let me know and I'll send it on to you.