Have a Great Valentine's Day :)

Have a great Valentine's Day this coming week! This obviously is just a little picture of something I love very much :)

We Love Sunday :)

Sundays are a great day. We always try and make Sunday a day of relaxation for us, so it's a day we look forward to every week. It usually starts with a big breakfast and lots of cuddling, a little napping...

Some sitting around...

And our favorite thing to do with Melody...go on walks!! It's now getting a little bit sunnier so we felt okay about finally taking Melody on her first walk!

She didn't know what to expect, just realized that we had her all bundled up :)

Melody and Daddy

Binkie kiss...the best!

We love this bunting outfit from Aunt Rosie...it makes it look like she always wants a hug ;)

We walked around the neighborhood and admired the new homes...the deals are hot right now!! We love our neighborhood..it's so family friendly. Any way, just posting some current pictures! Remember it's Sunday...the day of rest! So REST!! :)

My Girl

There are too many reasons I love my little girl. She brings me light even at 3 am...she makes me smile even when I am in the worst mood possible, and she brings out the best in me every day. I love being a mom, and she is such a good and happy baby. Today she is 12 weeks old and I can't believe how fast time has flown! She is smiling, giggling (a new development) and trying to push off everything with those little legs. She sleeps through the night now which is a major blessing for us.

These are some home-taken pictures that Dustin and I had a lot of fun with!

So here is a little ode to my girl :) Love you, Melody!

Thanksgiving and Fun with Cousins!

So, for Thanksgiving this year we decided to head down to Bear Lake! It was Melody's first trip away from Boise, and we had a nice couple of relaxing days staying at Aunt Debbie's beach house with some of the family!

Aunt Debbie had the baby fever and was such a cute grandma! She wanted to feed and hold the 3 babies that came all of the time :)

We had such a nice time relaxing!

Melody and Greyson are 6 weeks apart, so we posed them together! They are such cute cousins!

I think it's cute that they have the same look on their faces here!

Melody got tuckered out from all the noise and fell asleep on her cousin's shoulder! We didn't pose this!! :)

All the cousins that were there!

Melody is 6 weeks old now and growing like crazy! I will post pictures of her soon! She grew from 4 lbs 9 oz (lost 2 oz in the hospital) to 7 lbs 8 oz in 1 month!! The doctor was blown away but we are happy with our little girl's growth! :) She is so sweet!

Got the camera and internet going so hopefully I will be able to post more soon!

Getting Christmas-y, and Melody fun videos!

So I thought it was time for a little blog update! I have some pics and videos but they are all from cell phones. lol. I need to upload some real pics, no? We decided this past weekend to decorate for Christmas!!! I was so excited; last year we did nothing :( I know, lame. So first we went to Fred Meyer and got a tree. The above picture is Dustin, quite obviously, with said tree. Below is what happens when we decorate! YAY! All those decorations came from our wedding, which was in December 2 years ago. Bonus for having a wedding in December. Dustin says it needs more color. I say it matches our living room. We'll have to get some color to appease my husband, lol.

There is NOTHING like setting up the tree to get you ready for the holidays. But since we have the house this year, Dustin went another step forward and got lights. My brother Joe came over and helped!

Dustin up on the roof with my Brother Joseph!

When it was done, it looked so cute!! I will have to get a picture of the finished product. We just did the outline I guess you could say, but for now it's all we can do :) Next year we will keep adding on more lights until we have one of the best looking houses in the neighborhood!! lol!

Then there is the matter of the 'princess' who is one month old. We have both been shocked at how much she is growing. She is chunking out. She is around 6 1/2 lbs at one month.

She is SUCH an amazing, calm baby. So frickin cute. She looks just like both of us, too. We brought out my baby pics and were shocked that she indeed looks like me...A LOT. But she also looks like Dustin as a baby, so we'll see!!

I love this picture of her, it's so cute!

So in this video I caught her hillarious quirk---she growls after every sneezing fit, and I am telling you it is sooo funny... I love her little quirks. Here it is, in living color!!

Here is my baby, smiling at her grandpa Jetsel. She did her first little laugh/chortle shortly after this. It was so cute to see her smiling so much for him. I don't always get her to do it, but for certain people she is all smiles; my dad is one of them!

Bath time!

So, first the funny story about Melody's umbilical cord...I was doing an emergency breastfeeding at Dustin's office (lol, awkward). I knew the cord was almost off, but I didn't expect when it would fall off...I had to take Melody's onesie off so she would wake up and finish eating. After she was done I noticed her cord was off! But where was it? We looked everywhere until it finally showed up...in my bra! Nasty!! But we were so happy to give our baby her first real bath!

The order of these is really wrong but enjoy!

In her red towel from Aunt Verna!

She surprisingly loved the bath. We take one now every night as part of our nightly routine to get her ready for bed! Just like mom, loves the bath!

Dad is always so helpful when it comes to washing her. He lifted her up so I could get her back clean :)

Just relaxing in the bath!!

I love that cute white hair, it's so sweet :)

Life with Melody/some cute videos!

I am so blessed and lucky to have such a sweet girl! Melody is a wonderful baby and very calm. She almost never cries and I am getting very good at figuring out her different cries when she does cry. She lets us sleep all night between feedings and is getting more and more alert. Here are some videos from the last couple days. Melody grew from 4 9 at birth (then lost 2 oz in the hospital) to 4 15! Almost 5 lbs now! We couldn't be more in love :)

Daddy burping the baby! Shows a bit of how tiny she is :)

She is starting to open those cute little eyes a little more! I love it when she does; she is so sweet when she looks up at me! She is such an angel!

Daddy doing the baby rap :) No babies were hurt in the making of this film! She is so cute, she lets dad play with her like this and doesn't seem to mind in the least! She is so fun to play with, but mommy likes to be gentle when playing with her!