1 MONTH OLD

I can not believe that this little girl is already 1 month old!! She is changing her looks EVERY day. She is seriously so dang cute. We just love her so much.

She sure loves her food. She eats every 3-4 hours during the day and will eat easily 4 oz at every feeding. She gets very upset if she is hungry. Her cry when she is hungry is more of a whine... until she feels like we are taking to long to get the food to her, then she gets mad! At night she will eat almost 5 oz of formula before we put her down for the night. She sure is learning that she needs to fill up her belly before she sleeps. Once she is feed at night she will usually go to bed around 10-11pm and sleep for 5 hours :)!! Then after her next feeding she will sleep between 3-4 hours. It is so nice that she is only up once a night (for the most part).

We have all been working hard at getting all of us on a schedule. We are learning when she is hungry, has a dirty diaper, when she is tired, and when she is just bored.

She loves to cuddle!! But.. hates having her arms wrapped up. I think she might be claustrophobic, just like Mommy!! She wants to be able to wiggle and move her arms freely.

She is a little heater when she sleeps and even sometimes when she is awake.

She started smiling when she was about 3 1/2 weeks old!! I love when she does it is the cutest thing ever!! Her eyes are becoming more and more blue as she grows. Her fingers and toes are very long and very cute. She can't even keep little mittens on her hands because they don't fit. Her fingers are so long that the gloves are to small :)!! When there are people around her, weather it be holding her or just paying attention to her on the floor, she does really well and is content for most of the time. She is such a joy in our lives and we can not get enough of her!!

Love Her.

Fally Time

Griff, Blakelee and I decided that we would take a drive up the canyon to see all the gorgeous fall leaves!! Well we were about 2 weeks to late to see to many red, yellow, and orange's!! Down towards the bottom of the canyon were the most pretty leaves... but as we drove to far up the leaves were already fallen off and dead haha!! Dang it!!

We did have a lot of fun taking a fun drive together and enjoying the fall weather. Next year we will have to be more on top of the timing and get up in the mountains much earlier.

I love fall!! The crisp in the air, boots, hoodies, blankets, hot coca, the smell of the heater in the house, changing of the leaves, the fun Halloween and Thanksgiving decorations in my house, and all the fun activities that come with this season!!

Cousin Love

All us girls had a scrapbook weekend on October 26th. We met at Five Guys for some lunch then went back to my moms to begin the scrap madness!! Without planning, my sister and I dressed our girls in there Halloween shirts. So of course we had to get a picture... well it is VERY hard to get these little ones to hold still and smile!! So these are a few that turned out :).

Blakelee is almost 4 weeks old here!

After getting pictures we continued scraping. We Scraped Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I got lots done on my Disney book and stared working on Blake's book!! What a super fun weekend!!!

1..2..3.. Suprise!!!

On October 22nd we had a surprise birthday party for my moms 50th!! Lindsay and Debbie Donaldson put so much time into making this day so special. I didn't do much but I did try to help as much as I could. We reserved the up stairs at Spaghetti Factory for that night and all waited until my mom arrived! She was so surprised, we had told her that just her and dad were meeting Lindsay, Zach, Griff, and me for dinner. Little did she know that she was going to be having lots more people at dinner. She opened her gag gifts.. haha she got some way funny things!! Lots of Over the Hill things, big undies, depends, glasses, medicine case, chocolate, and many more things!! After gifts we had dinner!! Yummy!! Love pasta, it was very delicious. Next.. Cake!!! We all sang happy birthday to her and ate the scrumptious cake!! We had a very fun group of people to spend the night with, it was a perfect party!!

Lisa and Bree... Missing Russ, he is in the gift picture.

Boyd and Rach

Sherri and Ron

John and Cathy

Our old Bishop and his wife (I was only about 5 years old so I don't remember their names..)

 and Dave and Sherry.

Lindsay and Zach

Kelly and Debbie

George and Debbie

My Hubby!

Trent and Karen

Grandma and Grandpa

Kortney and Jason

The Birthday Girl and my dad!

Cake!!!!

Blakelee Girl!!

Love you mom hope you had a fun night!

Date Night.. Mini Golf

We went Mini Golfing with our friends Steve and Lara on October 19th. Griff and I headed over to my sisters house around 6pm to drop off Blakelee and then headed to pick up Steve and Lara for our date night. We were going to go to Cornbelly's this night but by the time we dropped off Blake's, picked them up, ate some dinner, and got on our way it was getting late and we had to pick up Blakelee around 10:30! So we did plan B... Mini Golf!

So we headed to Boondocks.

I hadn't played Mini Golf in a long time so it was a lot of fun to play. We decided to play in teams, the girls against the boys. Lara and I killed it. :) We had quite a few hole in ones!!

It was really nice to get out with out Blakelee... I missed her liked crazy and I was texting my sister the whole time making sure she was OK.. but it was nice to get out and not have to worry about bottles and diapers!!

We had such a fun night out!! Can't wait for the next one!

Adjusting..

This is a whole new life for Griff and I, we have been learning so much with our daughter. She is such a sweet little girl but being a newborn there are many times that she is very demanding. Her only way to let us know there is something wrong or that she needs something is by crying.. it can get very hard and frustrating but we are slowly learning what to check and knowing what she needs. She has a little bit of acid reflux, so after she eats if you don't burp her, or she just won't burp.. we know that within a few minutes she will either cry with a stomach ache, or spit up! We have learned that she eats every 3-4 hours and will eat 3-4 oz. She doesn't do well with Enfimill, it is harder on her stomach. She loves to be held!!! Sometimes it can get hard because we can't get much done. With me staying at home right now for maternity leave I feel like I should be cleaning, and getting more done then just feeding, burping, and laying her down for a nap.

It is such a rewarding feeling being a mom and I will admit that at first I was thinking "what did I get myself into?" but now since we have been getting the hang of things it is getting a bit easier.

It use to take me 30 mins to an hour to get ready and be out the door, now it takes 2-2 1/2 hours to get us both ready and be out the door. I usually try to get ready while she is sleeping then pack her diaper bag, get her ready and head out. The very first day I had to get us both ready and be somewhere was crazy!! I felt so lost and scatter brained. I am now getting things figured out, what to pack the best way to get us both ready.

People tell you it is such a life adjustment to have a baby but I was not aware how much adjusting there is. Plus with a little baby blues that you feel as well... it is very overwhelming. There would be days that I would just cry because she spit up in her hair, I couldn't figure out the best timing on pumping plus feeding, not knowing how to bathe my own baby with her cord still on her belly button, and a couple other things! Griff is amazing with my baby blues he just comforts me and tells me that we will figure it all out!! I would call my mom or sister and just cry to them as well. I have learned so much and my baby blues have slowly been going away. The first week she had such a hard time sleeping, she was in her bassinet next to our bed but she would wake up almost every hour if not more!! If I heard any noise I was up making sure she was breathing. We could not sleep and neither could she so we moved her to her crib. She slept so much better and so did we! I still wake up every once in a while, if I haven't heard her for a few hours, and go in to make sure she is OK.

Learning to bathe a new born is very tricky! They scream and are cold. I want to make sure she is clean so I don't want to bathe her to fast but at the same time I want to get her in her warm clothes and blankets so she is comfortable. The first bath I gave her was a sponge bath...

Then my mom helped me bath her in the sink.

Once her cord fell off her belly button we were able to bathe her in her tub!! My mom helped me so I knew what to do. Blakelee loved her tub.

Tummy time with daddy!! We put her on her tummy every few days, she actually doesn't mind it and does really well with lifting her head now.

Sleeping time.

After she is full with a clean diaper she sleeps like a champ!!

She loves to sleep on the couch...

In her crib..

Sometimes in her swing...

Only after a diaper change will she sleep on the floor...

In her car seat/ in the car...

She is a good little sleeper!!

Time for her to eat.

Daddy learning to multi task :)

She sure loves her food!!!

She was born hungry. That is what my mom said about me, so maybe she will love food as much as I do!

Bonding time!!!

We love to snuggle with our little Sweetie.

Bonding with her Cousin Beau. It wasn't much bonding as it was sleeping, but how cute is this!!!?

And picture time of her cute outfits or her just fun pictures.

She is now 3 weeks old and changing her looks every day. At her last doctor appointment she weighed 7 pounds 5 ounces and was 21.25 inches long. So she gained 2 ounces from her birth weight and grew 1.25 inches!! She is so fun and so cute!!