Today!!

Today I am HAPPY! I am so full of love right now and I am not quite sure why. To start off, I love that i can stay home with Mae. I am grateful that Fishbowl lets me work from home so I can be home with her. Mae is such a joy! It seems like overnight she started grabbing at everything. She used to just sit in my lap and be content, now she has to grab at ANYTHING in front of her. She smiles all the time now! I will catch her starting at me and when I turn to look at her she smiles really big. It warms my heart! She doesn't cry hard very often so when she does I think its so cute that I laugh at it. I love her chubby cheeks, and how chubby she is. I love our little family together. I am grateful that we have eachother. I love my whole family, and Terry's family. For the love and support that they show us. You can't beat a family that will be behind you no matter what. I am grateful for my faith. It is so needed in the world today. I love the way I feel today. Why can't I feel like this every day? There is no reason why I shouldn't :). Now enjoy looking at a few pictures of the girl I get to hang out with all the time :)

The "Mary" Diet

I am officially going on the "Mary" diet. If I can eat no fat, all the sugar I want, and fit into my pre-pregnancy jeans a week after having the baby, sign me up!!! Geez!! (although I didn't mention one small detail, she did have a gallstone to make her eat this way, but still. GEEZE!)

SANTA!!! I know him :)

Santa came to Fishbowl! Mae got to meet Santa for the very first time and she did pretty well I would say!

my new best friend!!

A lot has happened in the last little while, I wait far too long between posts!

So i have to say that the bumbo chair is amazing and Mae loves it! I love that she is able to sit up and just chill with me in the kitchen while I am cleaning or cooking (like that happens very often ha ha...) anyway, I just love it! And not to mention she just looks plain adorable while sitting in it!!

Proof...

We also got Mae this adorable little hat to wear for the winter, look how stinkin cute it is!! It looks like a little old fashioned football helmet, don't you think?

We also had a small friends shower for Mary the weekend before Beckham came, it was pretty fun I thought. Here are some funny pictures of a game we played!

We also tried feeding Mae some rice cereal and she would have none of it. She gagged, dry-heaved, and spit it out the whole time. She really hated it! I think I will wait a little while before we try to feed it to her again!!

And, I didn't have any baby spoons so that is why I am using a huge spoon haha!!

Well, so I guess all that has happened is not really that exciting but we are loving life with our little girl, everything with her is exciting to us!! :)

One really exciting thing though is we now have a new nephew named William Beckham Dick!! Mary had just an amazing birth and he is a wonderful baby despite having a sinus infection, and a circumcision that went not as planned.

He is such a cutie! Welcome to the world Beckham! We love you!

HALLOWEEN

This Halloween was not really that eventful but we got some cute pics! So Fishbowl had trick or treating for all of the kids so I took Mae in her little lady bug outfit. She looked cute, really cute, but I felt kind of stupid because every other little lady bug that was there was the gourmet kind. You know, darling little tutu's, striped tights, big bows in the hair, and sparkly wings... Mae was more of a literal lady bug. She was still adorable though! Frankly, I loved Mae's costume and didn't really care about the other lady bugs, but sometimes it just feels like a contest to have the cutest kid and I hate it! Anyway, Our friends little girl McKinlee wanted to hold Mae so here I am helping! McKinlee was a little red devil! Super cute!



My dad was a cowboy for work, and I called him a classy cowboy because he went to Gunnies and purchased real (expensive) cowboy stuff!! He had real cowboy boots, a Harley Davidson hat, a pearl button shirt, and a jack daniels belt buckle!!!
Here is Mae and Jane in their matching ladybug costumes! Jane was more of a love bug! Super cute!!!
And here are Terry and Mae all dressed up for church! They just looked really cute so I had to post them!!!
Well, that all folks! I hope you all had a fun Halloween!

Mae's Blessing

So this happened a while ago but Mae was blessed on October 11th, 2009. Here are some dang cute pictures my friend christy took the day Mae got blessed! It was so nice of everyone to come because our church was at 9 so some people had to get up way too dang early but we loved to have everyone there to share that special day with us.

Jane is 2!!

My sweet sisters little girl Jane turned 2 a little while ago and we got to attend her little party! It was a balloon themed party because Jane LOVES balloons! It was sooo cute! Mary put balloons everywhere and Jane loved it! Mary even made Jane a darling balloon cake! PS, Mary is practically 9 months prego and you can't even tell!!! She looks so dang good! It was such a fun night. Thanks Mary for inviting us and doing so much for us! We really love you guys!

And, Jane just loves baby Mae so much! She will grab her baby doll who she calls baby Mae and buckle her into Mae's carseat, she will wrap her up just like I do it, and she will even change her baby dolls diaper and need a wipe to wipe her bum with! Jane is getting so big and is so smart! I can't wait until Mae is big enough for them to play together!
Mae has done this really cute thing a couple of times, she will find her 2 middle fingers and just suck away on them like they are her binki!! I love it, it is so dang cute!
I just thought this picture was really cute I try to catch her when she smiles really big and it looks like she is laughing!
And I must say, she is one dang cute baby :)!!!

2 YEARS

Today is our 2 year anniversary! It has been 2 years and I am still married to this handsome guy!! :) We have known each other for 5 years now and we have had some pretty dang fun times together! Here are just a few!Fishing at Fishlake Feb. 29, 2004! One of the funnest memories ever!! :) The above picture of Terry was taken there too!
We drove all the way to Lake Powell to boat and fish for one day!! It was a long drive but a day filled with fun and funny memories! Remember how the boat almost sank :)!! June 2005.
One of the Funnest nights of snowboarding of my life!! December 28, 2004.We Drove all the way to Texas and spent thanksgiving there. Here we are eating cow testicles at the Big Texan...notice my face! Terry seems to be enjoying them!!! November 2004.
We got engaged in 2007 and Married in 2007. One of the most perfect days of my life!! :)
We have had some pretty awesome nights playing killer bunnies with these two!! Those nights were filled with tears, hatred, and maybe just a few swear words!! :) We Love hanging out with Mary and Ryan! (Wow Terry and I are looking pretty hott aren't we!) Jan. 2008
We Became friends with these two, biggest mistake of our lives...JUST KIDDING!!! We love Christy and Kendrick!! What would we do without them! :) March 2008
We have gone on some pretty amazing trips along the way. This one was to Bermuda in Feb. 2009.
We have the most precious little girl in the world, who we both have more love for than we ever imagined!!! July 2009.

And truly I could go on and on about our wonderful times together! I am so lucky to have Terry as my husband and I look forward to many many more wonderful years with him!

Being a Mom is WONDERFUL!

I love being a mom. It is just so fun and I love little Mae soo much! I can't believe she is already 2 months and 1 week old. Time really flies. She is starting to smile and talk sooo much more now and it is adorable! We had her 2 month appointment where she had to get her shots and it was horrible. I cried. Afterwords she seemed to be doing fine but a few hours later, I have never seen my child so fussy. She would not stop crying. Luckily Infant Tylenol came to the rescue and she eventually went back to her normal calm self! Here are a few of her stats from her 2 month check-up. 231/2 inches long, 90% percentile, 12lbs 5 oz, 90th percentile, 40 cm head, 85% percentile. It looks like she is doing awesome!!