L.O.V.E

This Valentines day was definately different having a baby, but it was so much fun.  We got to spend the whole day together as a family.  We woke up to a very happy vocal baby this morning, who was giving us all sorts of smiles. We all got ready and headed out for a little grocery shopping, then came home for lunch and to put L down for an afternoon nap.  She slept for a couple hours while Dad and Mom watched uncle S at Rootstech via skype.  We also were able to get a little snooze in while L was asleep.  We then played with her a little bit and started dinner.  I love Valentines day and making it cute and special.  Our first year of marriage I did a picnic in the living room and that has remained a tradition, to eat dinner on a blanket on the living room floor.  I planned a meal that I know is my mans favorite and went to work while he babysat.  We had Meatloaf, garlic potatoes and corn.  I also thought it would be fun to get some sparkling cider and make a big heart shaped cookie.  L was so good while we ate and we tried to keep her awake for as long as we could so we could give her a bath, feed her and then putting her to bed would be a piece of cake.  This was a great plan and she was so tired that we had her to bed by 7:45.
Happy Valentines Day all

 My two Valentines 

 Looks like we had brownies for dinner but thats the meatloaf.  We also ate on new plates that we got for our wedding but have saved until now. 

 L being good and talking to us while we ate

 I had found a recipe that is cookie dough for two so it makes just enough to like 4 cookies 

L's V-day outfit

Baby girl is 3 months

Wow my baby is 3 months old, and just getting cuter and cuter.
Highlights about baby L

- She usually sleeps anywhere from 6 to 9 hours at night, theirs occasional earlier nights and surprising all nighters.
- She is going longer periods of time without needing to eat, but is still a really good eater.
- She smiles a lot and coos at mom and dad.
-She rolls over with a little help in the leg/butt area, but once on her stomach she usually can roll back to her back.
- Shes getting better at napping other places besides my arms.  This week we've been working on putting her down for napping even if she only lasts ten min.
- She still seems unsure about baths still, hopefully that will become more fun as she gets older.
- She loves her hands and is becoming more alert to grab things and put in her mouth.  She always puts this monkey that hangs from her play mat in her mouth.
- She still doesn't really like car rides unless asleep
-She's still wearing a few 0-3 month clothing aslong as its longer, but shes in a lot of 3 month clothing.  Her pj's are another story, those would need to be 3-6 month or just wear nightgowns.  We have a long girl on our hands with long feet.
-We do this trick where it first started out us grabing her hands and putting her in a sitting possition, but she decided she likes to stand more.  Future fast walker on our hands.  She loves being upright, even when were holding her she sits on our hip like a toddler.

We sure do love her, and this cute new personality she's getting.

 3 months old

 I drool a lot so bibs are on a lot

 Feb 11th I was 3  months

 Rolling is fun 

 First time in overalls

 Eating my monkey friend

 My first stake conference (she was really good) 

 Fell asleep while dad was reading to me

It was a sunny day

My Baby is 2 months old

Holy cow how'd that happen?  I'm becoming okay with it though because she seems to be getting this adorable persoality.

Baby L updates
She still has an adorable sneeze
she smiles and talks baby talk to us
she loves her play mat
she got her shots and did so good
Shes 11 lb and almost 23 inches long ( future center or goalie on our hands)
She wakes up once a night and going longer stretches
Still eats about every two hours unless napping
loves to be held or walked around
had her blessing day
We still just love her to pieces

 2 months

 smiles

 blessing dress

play mat fun

1 month with our Babe

Baby L just turned one month old on the 11th and its safe to say that we are still trying to figure her out, but I feel like this week she gaining a little bit of a routine so its getting better.  Baby L has put on a lot of weight which isn't from all the Christmas treats haha but just a better eating schedule and eating more.  I've had to already start packing away clothes that she is out-growing (in length, she is getting long).  She makes hilarious faces at me and Daniel, usually at night or early morning.  She still has this funny sound she makes when she sneezes that makes me giggle every time.  She has a very loud cry (scream) when hungry and food is taking to long.  We've established her hunger cry as apposed to the dirty diaper cry, and also her I'm bored or this place cry. She loves tummy time.  Since adding formula to her feedings she is only getting up about 2 times in the night.  We're usually up for a 3rd time right before Daddy leaves for work, which I like because then we get to send him off with baby kisses.  L is gradually liking her bouncer as long as she is in a happy mood to begin with.  She is kind of the opposite of most babies in that she really likes noise.  She sleeps at any gathering of people and has snoozed through church just like an experienced high priest haha.  It surprises me just because our house is very quiet all day and night.  Most people comment how shes always asleep, well the key is become quiet and you'll probably see those beautiful blue eyes of hers.  I'm pretty sure shes went through 200+ diapers since coming home, which I never expected to go through so many.   We just love her and her little personality.  I've commented to Daniel that although getting up with her in the night isn't fun, and sometimes shes been naughty you can't help but love her in the morning because she's just so darn cute.  Best Christmas/birthday/anniversary/v-day gift after Daniel of course I've ever received, I'm sure Daniel will agree as well.

 

Our cute little gift under the tree

 Her doing tummy time after a long shopping trip

Her hair usually is all over the place sticking up, so after a bath I parted it over

Baby L

 6 pounds 19 1/2 inches long

full head of dark hair

 these two are my whole world I tell ya, they're are buds

 Going home, I think we all were ready

 Going home outfit

 Mom likes to give me a mohawk

 Wasnt sure if this would fit by christmas so I wanted to take a picture

Birth story

We are proud parents to a beautiful baby girl.  Baby L decided to join our family last week on Veterans day (by a little help from inducing meds and doctors). I went in for my usual weekly appointments the Friday before and my blood pressure was slightly high and I was showing beginning signs of pre eclampsia.  My doctor wasn't way concerned but wanted to follow up on things over the weekend and for me to go back in on the following Monday to have my blood pressure taken and the proteins inside of me to be checked.  All my my blood work came back normal and my blood pressure looked great on Monday, but I still was showing high amounts of protein. My doctor wasn't supposed to be in on Monday but while I was there he walked around the corner.  He looked at my results and just came and said you know I'm not too concerned with you, but you're 38 weeks I really feel like its only gonna get worse, so I say we induce you tonight.  Definitely came as a little bit of a shock to me that I would be having a baby in the next hours or days.  I really can't even remember that drive back to Provo, and I'm pretty sure I was speeding the whole way.  I couldn't wait to get to Daniel and hug him and see how he was handling the news.  The best part for us about knowing ahead of time rather then just going in to labor was that I was able to prepare us a little before leaving.   I dropped Daniel off at school and was able to go do our laundry and make sure the house was clean and that all bags were packed.  When Daniel got home from school we decided to celebrate/get our last real meal that both of us would eat for awhile (Cafe Rio), then we waited to hear word from the hospital of when we could come in to start.  I was able to get a very sweet comforting blessing from Daniel and then we headed to the hospital.  We got there and I was pretty nervous, I've never been a patient in a hospital so it was pretty scary.  They got me in a room and got me my gown and then had me lay down.  We had a nurse that came and filled out all the questions she needed before starting the meds.  We started the meds about 10 pm to start the effacement process.  Which started the contractions pretty much immediately for me and left me not sleeping at all, I wanted to for go pain meds until I really needed them (which wasn't my best idea), and also the fact that a lot of times they slow the effacement process down.   I went the whole night like that and then at 5 am I was ready for an epidural.  After receiving that they started the pitosin (?) because I was almost completely effaced.  Everything picked up really fast and by 7 am my doctor came to check on us and I was dilated to a 7 so he broke my water.  Then everything really picked up.  I was still feeling contractions even after the epidural so they came and re-dosed that right before I began pushing at 10 am. A little over 3 hours Baby L came into the world.  The whole pregnancy and especially the last few weeks and her birth have been filled with so many blessings.  Tiny miracles in our book.  We are so grateful to our doctor who has always been so calm and fitting to mine and Daniels quiet calm personalities and always reassuring us that things would be okay.  We're also so blessed to have a loving Heavenly Father that knows our needs and trusted us enough to have one of his daughters.  Baby L has definitely brought a un discribable spirit to our home, and has brought us so much happiness.  

Labor Day

Our Labor day was spent getting Daniel ready for school, figuring out me a couple projects to keep me busy and spending the day together.  Daniel had the day off from work so we got to sleep in a little bit which is always nice for him I'm sure.  We went on a little quiet picnic to this pretty little, shady area just to the side of BYU campus.  I thought I was being cleaver on picking this for an idea, turns out a lot of people got the same idea.  Great minds think a like I guess.   It was fun though, if it wouldn't have been a little cold we both commented that we could have taken a nap right there on the blanket in the fresh air.  We then headed to Walmart to get some last minute school supplies for Daniel.  We learned that Walmart is crazy the day before school starts in a college town.  College students were everywhere filling there grocery carts with microwavable foods, school supplies and things they probably realized there dorms/apartments didn't have.  It was also P-day for the missionaries so you can imagine how packed the store was.   We were able to get Daniel a large white board that he has already put to good use doing homework.  I got a little bit of fabric for our halloween costumes (more of that to come in October).  We came home and took a nap and then the work began.  We were able to organize, get rid of stuff, and just make things look nice in our apartments.  It looks so much better and we both just feel like were not as surrounded by boxes and storage.  It also makes room for baby stuff that we'll be needing in the next few months.  We also got a crib this weekend.  I've been stressing about finding one for quite sometime and I wanted it to be cute and in decent condition.  I'd been checking on KSL for a few months, checking all the stores I could think of everyday hoping there would be a clearance sale, and entering contests for them or money toward them.  Well I finally found one on Sat. morning I just so happened to look on ksl and see a good deal and it looked great, called the lady and she said that we needed to hurry because she'd been getting lots of calls about it.  So we jumped in the car and drove to Orem in our pajamas and took a look, and loved it.  It really is in great condition and looks so cute in our little girls room/office/storage.  haha gotta love apartments but with the cleaning we did it just makes it seem more like her room. 

There's our Labor Day of fun!

As of lately

When you don't have a high tech phone that sends pictures straight to your email it's hard to keep your blog updated.   I'm the type of person who loves to read blogs with pictures so it kills me to write a post without any, but I need to keep this updated. 

Some events from this past month

July 4th was spent with my (Juliann) family, we had an afternoon bbq at the parents house.  The kids got to swim and everyone else just got to enjoy each others company.

July 18th we got to go in for our big ultra sound and see our little girl.  The tech told us that she must have been asleep because she didn't do very much moving during the visit.  We're learning that she is pretty chill during the day and more active during the night.  Silly girl. 

July 19th we got to go to the Bountiful temple for Daniel's brothers endowment session, we then slept over at his parents house because the session got out late and also for the exciting events of July 20th :)

July 20th Daniel's Sister came home from her mission.  She was supposed to come home the wed. before but a storm hit the Philippines leaving her flight canceled.  It was fun to all go to the airport and get to see her for the first time in 18 months.

July 24th  We had a very quiet 24th just together.   We had decided that with all the driving back and forth we had done that we both were just so beat and tired of traveling, and Daniel had some home work to do too.  So we stayed home and relaxed and went and got ice cream cones later that night.  It was so nice to just spend that day with him. 

Aug 2-3  My family goes to Heber every year for the rodeo, parade, Heber days events.  This year some friends let us stay at there cabin just past Strawberry.  We decided not to do the rodeo this year and just go to the parade and stay the night at the cabin.  It was a fun little get away for the night and a great drive with the hubs. 


About us

Daniel is finishing up his first semester at BYU and will take his finals next week.  He has been working at Ancestry and has liked doing that.   He stays pretty busy with homework, work and sneaking in time to do the dishes for me.  (sure love him for that, because I hate dishes with a passion)

Juliann is staying pretty busy making things for the babe and finding little projects to do around the house.  Shes been making little learning packets for teaching our kids numbers, colors, shapes, etc.

Baby Girl like we said is very active at night, she knows when it is bed time for mom and dad because then its her play time.  It's like she already has this personality that is showing through her actions.   She loves with Daniel is around and usually makes it known when he is talking, she knows his voice.   She sure loves him just as much as I do for sure, but I don't blame her he's pretty awesome. 

Well that's us as of lately