Gettin a little crafty

So lately I've wanted things... Things I can't really afford to go buy or order online. But still as a new mom of a little girl who everyone thinks is a boy (due to her green and grey car seat) even when she is wearing a pink and purple blanket, I have waned to have more cute headbands and flower things. So I have joined up with the pinterest phenomena and I've learned to do things myself! I make one for her and one for me lol. Except I'll usually make more for her. Lol

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Still un-patently waiting for my sister to blog.

HUGE COMPLAINT!

My so called sister ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 takes way too long to post her next blog!
I understand that she has a life and is busy, but come on!
I need to feel like I am part of her and my nieces and nephew's lives! 

Rant ended. :p Love ya Nat!

I'll Write About The ZOO Too!

So my sister @ famthatplays.blogspot.com just blogged about when we went to the San Diego Zoo on New Years Eve....So I thought I should post the pictures that I have...You see Jared and I LOVE THE ZOO! Like way more than any adult  couple should...like that is where we went on our little mini honeymoon the Monday after we were married. So when we were in Cali for Christmas...going there was defiantly on our list of things to do... especially because its free for us since we have year passes. And you can be sure those passes have been used as much as possible. I think we went only 2 times when we were in Cali, we had planned for 3, but something came up and we didn't make it :( . But by our second trip as Nat said I was "hugely pregnant".

A little smaller...Still Huge for Zoo walking. (1st trip)

Here is your proof....HUGE!  (2nd Trip)

I realize I never really remember what happens with people because I am always concerned about whats going on in, and behind the camera.....So i do get a lot of pics, but I am realizing that I miss out on a lot more of the bonding experience when I am glued to my camera.....but I still remember loving every minute of being with family, especially my nieces and nephew....I love them more than anyone...(well except my husband and new baby girl who is screaming while I write this at 12 in the morning). So I am going to hurry and just post all the fun pictures I have. 

Cool Stinkin Lizard

Aunties can get pictures without bribery! ;)

lookin right at me! 

Largest lizard to exist

The zoo has beautiful Flamingos 

Love this little 20 year old

weird pose

SOOOO ATTRACTIVE

sweet girl on the way to the Zoo...
On the way home is a different story ...

For our Baby Hippo

cute kids! luckily mine is just as cute or
else I might have had to return her. lol jk

I guess you can only get happy pics of
 Kon-Man if he is climbing something 

I loved this trip....sorry to cut the stories short....got to tend to the midget. 

A gift from God

I so incredibly love when Liddy is just happy and content. Usually in those moods she looks around and "talks". I always wonder who she is talking to. I wonder if she already has relationships with her grandparents that have passed like I did. I wonder if she will know things about them that we've never told her. I wonder if she will find comfort in knowing her family will always be there for her even beyond the grave.

Usually in these times she will turn and look at me for brief moments, and in those moments you can tell she is trying do hard to say something. And when I respond she gets so excited and will talk to me for a moment then she will turn suddenly talk again at the other direction she was so intently focusing on.

I love this little angel more than anything and I'm so excited to see who she will become... Just as long she doesn't grow too fast... I can't stand having to pack up her itty bitty newborn clothes because she is getting too tall for them.

Visit from "NANNY" Kenda

At the end of February my mom came to visit. 

This was perfect timing because about a week and a half 

before this Liddy started mixing up her day and night. Meaning I was up all day and all night....

Lets just say I was beginning to become a wreck. 

SO my mom came to the rescue. Although it did not fix her sleeping schedule, it did give me the much needed break that I so deserved (HAHA).

On my mom's last day here we went to the coolest park in town (Porter Park). 

It is seriously like 4 Football Fields big. 

It's very pretty in the summer when it's all green and warm....

OH HOW DO I MISS THE SUMMER...THE WARMTH, ACTUAL NATURAL VITAMIN-D, AND A TEMPERATURE ABOVE 30 DEGREES. 

So we bundled Liddy up, Strapped her in her awesome stroller (the coolest one in town may I say) and trekked the rough terrain of snow at the park. Her snow suit is supposed to be 0-3 months.....she is now 5 weeks; the thing is ginormous on her....It was about 4-5 inches before her arms would even come close too reaching the end of the sleeves ..and her feet came no where near the  little elastic feet spots....but in all it did its job and she was super toasty the entire time 

(even when she wasn't in it, we had this girl layered up good!)

First Nice family Photo

The Girls (Liddy found her hands!)

The BIGGEST stinkers in town

"Nanny Kenda" as Jared calls my mom had a blast meeting her 4th Grandchild. 

She couldn't get enough! 

and I couldn't get enough of quiet time by myself or with Jared. 

Grandma loved showing her off wherever we went

I loved being able to walk and hold my husbands hand again :) 

Started snowing while we were taking pictures...mom loved the snow. 

L.O.V.E

Happy to see my mom

Traditions....

Beautiful baby.....Best Daddy

We had a great week with our  little lady that is growing so fast, 

and her "Nanny Kenda" who really helped us regain some sanity. 

Little Liddy

So our little girl is finally here. 

I never thought that nine months could feel so long and be so hard. 

although I loved my first year of marriage this last year has been very hard with being pregnant. 

my self esteem was defiantly affected. 

It made me not really like myself, or what I was doing. 

well the lack of what I was doing. 

Liddy is such a sweet little girl. 

She has made me feel like I was worth something again. 

although this week has been difficult with her, 

I would not change having her for anything in this world. 

I never knew that this love that I feel for her could ever exist. 

Me and Jared are having a blast watching her grow. 

She is a great sleeper. 

never really good at eating, but that is getting better. 

LOVES to cuddle (just like her Daddy) 

When she was first born Jared said that she looked like a little black baby with white skin.

  

She has defiantly looking more like Jared and I more every day. 

So far she has Jared's eyes.

I hope that they stay that way. 

our hoodlum baby

she kept smashing her face up against the nursery bed wall

Delivery went good. 

well for the most part. 

Our poor little girl was very stressed, 

I had to roll from one side to the other about every half hour to keep her heart rate from flattening out at 140. 

from the very beginning of labor her heart rate was not fluctuating.

This was not good. 

we were told very early in the morning that if it did not start fluctuating we would have to have a c-section

the second the nurse left the room I started crying. 

But our little girl, being the stinker she is, pulled through and we had a fairly normal delivery. 

To keep her from being too stressed they put me on oxygen.

for the most part it wasn't that bad, except when the contractions got really strong.

then  I felt like I couldn't breath because the air would get hot. 

At first Jared and I were very nervous to hold her,

but now we have a hard time putting her down.

We love being parents. 

Daddy's first picture with his little girl

First family photo

we get to go home 

our little family