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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

BABIES!!!

This past month I had the privilege of taking pictures of  my two cousins babies.  They are sisters and had them about 2 1/2 weeks apart.  Wouldn't that be so fun!!  Both beautiful babies, I loved every second of it! I'm definitely not a professional but it was fun.

First came Calais.  She was tiny!! 6 lbs 11 oz same as Laina.  Isn't she a beauty!  I couldn't help but think of my Grandpa Daley while taking her pictures.  She looks so much like him!  






 The zoomed out picture of this one is my favorite.  Allie was admiring her new sweet spirit!  




 Then came Oliver.  What a sweet little chunk he is.  He was 9 lbs 4 oz!!  Who would have thought they would have been so different in size!!  He slept the whole time.  So content until his daddy would give him little kisses.  ;)


This is my favorite picture of Oliver with Grandpa.  I couldn't resist posting this picture.  Its so sweet!





Christmas

Way late post but I wanted to share these pictures.
This year we spent Christmas at my parents house.  It was a lot of fun with Zeign and Laina together.  They kept running back and forth to check out what each other got.  I'm so very grateful to my parents for letting us live with them for a few months.  And I'm grateful that Laina was able to be so close to her grandparents.  She has such a bond with them now!  I love it!

As tradition in my family.  My parents always put a blanket up to the room with the presents from Santa.  To make sure we didn't see what we were getting before my parents were ready.  I love this tradition because when we were all up we would go into the bathroom and bang on the wall to wake up my parents on the other side of the wall.  Then my dad would always come in and say "A herd of elephants woke me up!"


Laina loved her kitchen set!  She wouldn't open her presents after seeing it.






John and his mad gift wrapping skills!  That cool looking bow is hand made.  I don't know how he thinks of this stuff.




This Christmas was so special to me because I was able to spend it with both my families.  Sharing all the same traditions I did with my daughter in my childhood home.  It was a sweet feeling.  I love my family and am so grateful to spend times like these with them.  I'm grateful for my Savior and the love He has for me to give me the opportunity to have an eternal family.  And for my Heavenly Father for sending His Son.

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Laina was 15 months in October but forgot to update. Back in October she weighed 23 lbs  70%, and was 30 inches 20%!!  She's still my sweet and chubby baby. She is perfectly healthy and has 6 teeth! She started walking right before her 15 month mark. We thought she would walk sooner because she had such good balance before she was crawling but as soon as she started walking she was cruising!  I think she was talking steps when we were looking. And I think she was scared to walk around the other kids in day care. I took 3 weeks off from school and the 2nd day home she was walking.
She is living up to her hair color stereo type "fiery red" She is miss personality plus with some sass! She is super entertaining but we get quite a few tantrums.. She definitely likes things done a certain way. She's very independent! She can focus on a book for 30 min at a time! She loves TV especially mickey mouse Club house. We've taken her to the movie theater a couple of times and she sits really good through more then half of the movie but then usually falls asleep.
She is talking pretty good. She says mom, dad, Laina, teddy (the dog), thank you, we go bye bye, bath, duh duh(which means look look haha) no (in the cutest way) yeah. 
I can't think of any more right now.

The other day she hit her face on a glass table and under her eye started to bruise instantly she my mother-n-law gave her an ice pack but she didn't want me to help her hold it on her face. She took it from me and held it there herself. So we put blanket down and she laid down with the ice pack. Silly girl! 

This picture is of Laina on our little lunch date at JCW. She told me she didn't want anything but then ate all her food. She is such a good eater! Her favorite foods are any green vegetables and meat!

The other day I had the flu. Laina was so good to keep herself busy while John was at the store. At one point she found my bra in the CLEAN laundry and was having the best time trying to wear it and playing with her other toys. She was wearing it like a necklace.  You can kind of see it in this picture. 

She's in a toddler bed now. She loves it! She falls out of bed quite often though. We have a pile of pillows down so she never gets hurt. She's usually really good to just climb back in bed without even making a peep. She loves books too! I can sit her in bed with a book for an hour and she won't budge.

She loves wearing hats. She finds them in the day care and will wear them almost the whole time.  I would put hats on her all the time but she likes taking them off and putting them back on. 


Sunday, November 10, 2013

Halloween!!

So I had planned to put these up the next day after Halloween but I couldn't find the cord to download them off the camera.  I'm so glad John found it because this girl in her lady bug costume is too cute!!  I had to put her in a lady bug costume this year because next year she'll probably will want to be a princess or something.  And she is our little Laina bug!  Me and John dressed up as the game pieces from "Guess Who?"  It was funny seeing people's reactions.  Either people got it right away or they said they didn't know who Anita or Phillip are.  It was funny.  Well we just went to a park and took some pictures.  We took like 170 pictures haha so I tried to pick a few to post here.  Enjoy!


She was blowing kisses!


Look at those curls!

Love her blue eyes!




She was playing patty cake.  



This one is my favorite!  I had no idea he was making that face.



 She's such a stinker.  She loved those glasses!








I love my family!

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

This girl

These are just a few pictures I took.  She wouldn't look at me much because there was just to much to see and do!  I just took them with my phone and I couldn't see very well most of the time because of the glare on my screen.  But she is so cute they turned out pretty good I think!
Don't mind her crazy hair!! It's out of control these days!  But I love it!









She finally smiled and looked up when she saw John coming!!  She's a total daddy's girl!

 She's telling stories in the next two.  I love the expression on her face!




My sweet and crazy red head!