We are back!!!

I know it's been way too long so I determined
to get caught up Sunday. Well I was close.
It's now Tuesday, but ain't that the life of a
mother? This post is going to be all about
Lilly. I know I need to get the boys in there
because it's been too long for them too and
they are all growing up sooo big!





This is how Lilly sleeps these days. On Friday
she started rolling over from her back to her
stomach and it's showing now when she sleeps.
It's kind of funny, and kind of not, because she
has been rolling over from her stomach to her
back for a long time and now she doesn't do it
often because she's bonked her head on a harder
floor a couple of times so she's afraid to do it.
So she gets on to her stomach and then gets tired
after a little bit and starts fussing but won't roll
back over. I finally give and roll her back onto
her back only to have her be on her stomach
again in less then a minute and then she starts
fussing again. She'll do this several times in a row
so I just have to put her in the bouncer or swing.
Down below is a picture of her thumb in her mouth.
Usually she puts her pointer and middle finger in
her mouth, but lately she always has a hand or
toy in there.








I put her in the swing last night and when I
checked on her she was sideways. That kid
doesn't stop moving unless she's sleeping.
We had almost 100 pictures of her from
the last down load and maybe 15 of them
are not blurry!
For example the next to pictures of are
where she starts and then where she
ends up even with out the rolling over.

Lilly has come to really enjoy toys lately.

This green pickle with legs is one of her favorites.

It's just long enough to get one of it's legs in her

mouth! This is one of the few pictures we've

been able to get of Lilly smiling. She smiles a

ton and is even laughing now, but every time

I pull out a camera she quits or does it right

before or after the picture gets taken. Mundy

took about 20 pics in a row (most of them blurry)

and this is the only one he caught her smiling .

This is a picture of Lilly with her cousin Paige

(whom I babysit occasionally). Paige is about

a month and a half younger then Lilly. The

cool thing is that Paige's brother is about a

month and a half younger then Jonah!

Lilly has graduated from the socks on the hands

for over a month now, but I was putting them

on her at night to keep her hands warm. Then

I discovered that it didn't do much good because

she sucks on them until they are soaking wet.

She's a little drool monster!

My girl has been so much fun and she's learning

so much. She is going to be loud and make sure

she's heard. I've already received a comment

about it at church. She is truly a happy baby and

only gets fussy if she's tired or not getting her

food fast enough. And don't even think about

start feeding her and the realize she needs a

diaper change and pull her off. You've never

seen her get so angry!! I love her little laugh

that is developing. She doesn't do it often yet,

but it's not far from coming. I can't believe that

we are almost at her 4 mo. appt! I'm really

not looking forward to the shots. :( I'll

probably cry again. I hear about others that

have lost their babies to Sids or even think about

the possiblity of her dying or being stolen

(I can have a morbid imagination) and it breaks

my heart just thinking about it. I love my girl.

I love being a mommy. It's better then anything!

I'm looking forward to solid foods and crawling

(kind of).

stopped in our tracks..

It may be a little while before I can post. We are having an issue with our external hard drive and may have lost most of our pictures. :( So until Mundy gets that resolved and we have a new way of getting pictures safetly off and stored I may not post much for a little while!

Western Legends Roundup

The weekend before Labor Day weekend
Mundy, Lilly, Mom, Dad and I all went
to Kanab for their annual Western Legends
Roundup. They have old movie stars, stunt
men, etc. come and you get autographs and
pictures with them. Lilly was the star of the
show as you will see in some of these photos.
Please watch out there are actually pics of me
in here and you will see why I like to be
behind the camera....

This is their old fashioned parade they do

every year, they even had a real cattle

drive. Our batteries died so we have

to use the pictures dad got, otherwise

I would have a picture of that.

Here is a picture from a set from a

movie. You can't see Lilly well because

of the lighting, but I liked the pic of

Mundy imbibing. As you can see

mom was pretty freaked out and

wanted out of her cage.

This is a pic of Don Shanks he

played and Indian in many movies

including Last of the Mohicans and

Wind Dancer.

These are pics of us with some of these

movie guys. I have to be honest I really

didn't know any of them, but I've never

been big into westerns. The guy in the

fancy black suit was Lilly's biggest fan and

made sure to of the professional photo-

graphers got her pic that may end up

in some of their literature for future

Western Legends Roundups. The lady

holding Lilly was said to have gotten teary

eyed holding her. Unfortunatly, I missed

it as I was holding the camera and trying

to get a good picture.

We had a lot of fun and I'm sure we will go

again now that we know about it.

Sad day continued

These pj's were the first
outfit born for Lilly after
her conception. Amanda
bought yellow because
we didn't know if she was
a boy or a girl yet.




Here's Lilly with a beautiful
smile!








Here she is with bandaids on
her legs after her shots.






Here she is kicking her way
into a blur.










With one of her goofy faces
while her hands are in action.

Sad day...

Everybody has been telling me it's time for more pictures so here I go. I will do another post though tonight,if possible, as for some reason I couldn't download more pics. Lilly had her 2 month appt today. It was so sad for me (and her). She got her first set of vaccinations and I cried right along with her.
She has been so much fun lately. She talks and coos with me and others. She blows bubbles like in the pic below. When you lay her on her back she is often on the move, hence the blurry hands and feet in the pics I'm going to put on the next post. Lilly gets so many compliments about how beautiful she is and how pretty her eyes are I'm beginning to get a big head!
She's slept well the last three nights in a row, about 7 hours with one short feeding. Although, that could change tonight due to her sleeping all day today. She has gotten big and many people in the ward will say, she's gotten bigger since I saw her last week. As of today Lilly is now 11lbs and 5oz and 23" long. Doc says she's healthy and strong.
I do have to say I don't know if she does have a tooth. It has either retracted or I was deceived by the way the top part of her mouth looks. I'll keep you posted.
We will be getting family pics done, hopefully next weekend and I will give you an update on everybody else then.

Lilly with her pretty smile!









Lilly scowling, often when she
is having a bowel movement.









Lilly blowing bubbles in her sleep.

Oh My! She's growing up too fast!

In what has become a trend with my girl, she is ahead of herself on something else. Last night when I pulled her from her swing she had slober down to her shoulder. She has been blowing bubbles the last few days and slobbered enough to cause the dry skin patches where her binki sits on her chin. When I would put her on her stomach I noticed she slobbered lots too. I kept wondering if she had teeth coming in and I found one last night! It is one of her teeth on the top in the middle. I swear she's ready to catch up to her brothers already! I'm already starting to miss my baby!
Oh and apparently I being a slack off because I haven't posted enough pics of her. I'll do my best to get them up in the next few days.

Soul shots

In my blog list you will see one named soul shots. Amanda's friend Alma agreed to take some pics of Lilly for us. Of course Lilly was wide awake the whole time and ornery for most of it. I think she got some decent shots out of it though. Check it out!

A month gone by!!!

Here is my baby in her blessing

dress! I can't believe we've

already done this! Time moves

so quickly when you are having

fun ( and when you don't sleep

as well!). Lilly was blessed on

August 2nd. It was great. Mundy

was so nervous in the days leading

up to it, but he gave a wonderful

blessing. I couldn't even tell he

was nervous until he cut the

blessing a little short. It was

nice, we had our friends the

Roundy's there. As well as my

mom and dad, Daniel and

Megan, Mundy's brother

Scott his wife Heather and

their daughter Mykenna and

my cousin Richard & his wife

Annalise and their family.

Here is my girl in her bouncer

the next picture was of her

crying. She gets bored some-

times and lets us know it!

Here she is doing tummy

time. It has really helped

her to strengthen her neck

muscles which you can really

see when she's on her stomach

or when you are burping her

over your shoulder. At a little

after two weeks she also showed

us how she could roll over onto

her back. She's not much for

being on her stomach. This

picture is to show her scowl

which she often has on her

face. It's so cute! The next

picture is of her in her dress

the first day she went to

church. I was missing it and

so we just attended sacrament

meeting. Isn't she a doll?

She is ahead of herself in a

few areas. As I mentioned

she rolls over, she can also

roll from her back to her side.

From the first day she smiled. She also chuckles, usually

when she's half asleep. In her 3rd week I had her on the

bed with me while I visited with my mom and Aunt

Camilla and Mundy came in and started talking to Lilly.

She was facing my aunt Camilla and she turned her head

toward him after he started talking to her. She does this

often now. I love her bright eyes they seem so alert.

Another cute thing she does is when you put a binki

in her mouth she will often grab onto your arm or hand

with her hands. It is so cute. I can't believe how much

I love her. She is the light in my life. She has brought

much love into our home and all the boys love her, even

if they won't admit it verbally. She now weighs 9.5 lbs.

I'm not sure how long she is, but I do know I've had to

loosen her carseat straps once already and she's close

to outgrowing her newborn clothes. My baby is getting

so big. I've played with a lot of nicknames for her such

as Lil' Lilly & princess, but have landed on using punkin.
It just seems to fit unless she's screaming then I call her

fuss bucket. Interestingly, when my dad heard me call

her that he asked me where I got that. I told him I didn't

know. He said he used to call me that when I was a baby.

I wonder if I subconsciously remembered that. Do you

think it's possible?

A few more pictures of Lilly

This picture I caught
Lilly in the middle of a
yawn. This onsie is the
first piece of clothing
I put on her that acutally
fit!
The next picture is of
Jonah and his cousin
Justin. Justin is about

2 months younger then
Jonah. He has a baby
sister on the way and Paige
will be about 2 months
younger then Lilly. I thought
it interesting how that
worked out!



This picture is the first time
we could get Daniel to hold
Lilly. It only lasted a couple
of minutes. My brother was
pretty funny because he
never wanted to feel Lilly
moving when I was pregnant.
He wanted to wait until Megan
is pregnant (probably later
rather then sooner). I'm glad he finally plucked up the
courage to hold his niece.
We are both doing well. Lilly is putting on the ounces
since she became a little piggy. She is such a vital part
of my life now and I thank Him every day for allowing
me to have this precious child in my life.

Weight

When we took Lilly Ann for a check up on Monday she had gone from her birth weight of 7lbs 15oz down to 7 lbs 2oz. The doctor was a bit worried about that and said if we couldn't get her weight up this week he would like to see her diet get supplemented with formula. We really want her to be a breastfed baby and have done all we can to ensure that it happens that way. We thought maybe the reason for the weight loss might have been because my milk didn't come in until Sunday. It really has made a difference this week because this morning when we took her in she was up 7lbs and 6oz. We were very excited because now we won't have to supplement!

I also want to take a minute and tell all of you how much I love and appreciate you all. Your love, support, well wishes and gifts have been overwhelming! I am so grateful to have the family and friends that I have and hope you know how much we love you all! Thank you!