Lake Powell 2009

J and I had been looking forward to Lake Powell since last year. We love Lake Powell! Every year when the trip comes to an end we always say "I wish it were next year already." We have such good friends that we have such a blast whenever we go. Rain or shine we make the most out of it. J and I had already decided that we would go to Lake Powell after we had Ella. We really needed a vacation since we weren't able to go on one while I was pregnant; and we didn't want to miss out.
We headed down caravan style on Wednesday September 2nd. We finally got on the road at 11p, if I remember correctly, and arrived at 4a in Powell. We all agreed that we wanted to have the full day on Thursday to have the most time there possible. We had such a good time. The weather was perfect. We didn't have any injuries or accidents and the company was good (though Bryce and Auschel weren't able to come because they were in the hospital with their newest family member, Aiden Michael Felt).

Beware, there are lots of pictures :)

Yep, that's me out in the water doing sports just only 2 months after Ella was born :) This is one reason why I am glad Ella came 2 1/2 weeks early... I wouldn't have been able to do this (just as a side note I lost 3 lbs on this trip... having fun!)

A cool shot.
Baby waiting patiently for mommy to have some fun.

The Proud daddies.

J catching some wake.

I guess that's one way to do it...

Jax having a blast.

Chris always puts us to shame.

... until this guy showed up. This is Gabe. We are not worthy (everyone else bowing).

Ella's first Powell dip... she didn't like it.

There is one thing about boys that I envy, there is never a dull moment. They can have fun doing anything.

Ella is smiling now. A rare smile in the morning.

Gotta have cute toes for the trip.

Ella's first wave runner ride (and just to let you know, we only went about 3 mph).

Beautiful sunset.

Cute mommy and baby pic.

A family dip. Ella doesn't mind the water now.

Hottie Cherice.
Her favorite part, soaking up the rays :)

We tried new things this year. We were doing 180's and 360's on the wake surf board. It was a lot of fun. Jackie and I also tried to get up on both the wake board and the surf board together, we were so close... but yet so far (Next year Jax, next year). We also had two other families join us this year too. Gabe and Jessica with their little girl and Chet and Mia and their little boy and girl.

We can't wait till next year!

Silver Lake

Today we went with J's family to Silver Lake. J and I have been wanting to go up the canyon for a little while to have fun looking at the leaves and to take pictures. J's dad brought it up one day to go have a picnic at Silver Lake and I jumped on the chance to go with them. We loaded up two cars with yummy food and good company and headed our way up the canyon. It was a lot of fun. I love the leaf changes. We have such a beautiful state and I too often forget that.

Grandpa loves his grand daughter.

J had fun taking pictures with the sun rays.
Ella is actually sorta smiling. Love that baby!

Little La.

It is football season after all.
Had to have a photo with the football that is practically the same size as Ella.

What the football was actually brought for...

...and what inevitably happened to the ball.

A few little flowers amongst all the change.

Ella Photoshoot

Today I got up early and did a photo shoot of Ella. I've been trying to decide on a picture that I can use for a birth announcement for her and I didn't have one that was quite right. So, J told me to have another photo shoot for our little girl. I hate to get up early when I don't have to, but as most of you know a photographer is only as good as her lighting. I'm glad he pushed me to do it too because as it turned out I had a hard time choosing a picture from the choices. I have to admit I am pretty proud of myself. I did well. So, to show off my talents (I'm sooo modest :) ) I decided to show you some. Yay! Prepare to ooooo and awww... And no, you don't get to see the ones I picked for the announcement. You'll just have to wait :)

Ella will not curl up when awake. It's against everything she stands for. The same goes for me trying to bend that arm, nope, not gonna happen.
Oh well, you work with what you got :)

Little toes
(you can sorta tell in this picture, legs are straight out).

La la in a basket.

I love these tutu ones.
(Thanks to my cute sis for letting me borrow it; And thanks to me being crafty... what a cute headband!)

Singin'

That's it! That's all you get to see!

(another headband done by me)

And We Keep On Growing

Two of my best friends and I were able to be pregnant together. It was so much fun and it has been so much fun being able to talk to them both about everything since it is so fresh in our minds :) We have had a ton of fun comparing stories. Its fun to see how different each of our little baby growing journey's were. We have taken pictures of us at a couple of stages. Its great to see how things have changed and are still changing so quickly.

Auschel 16 weeks, Me 21 weeks, Jackie 38 weeks

Me just 2 1/2 weeks before I popped at my baby shower.
Auschel 30 weeks, Me 35 weeks, Jackie and Blake 3 months old

Aiden due in 5 weeks , Ella 2 1/2 weeks old and Blake 4 months old

All the girls and their babies (and/or bellies... I know I still had one).
Auschel (with Aiden), Me and Ella, Jackie and Blake, Cherice and Craeson (1 1/2 years old)

Baby Stats:
(so far... I'll update it when Aiden finally shows)
Blake was 8 lbs 13 oz, 20 1/2 inches long and 1 day late
Ella was 7 lbs, 19 inches long and 18 days early
Aiden was 7 lbs 8 oz, 21 1/2 inches long and 3 days late

Such A Good Baby!

I am so terrible... I really need to get better at blogging, especially since I have something to blog about. Ella grows so quickly.

We noticed just the other day at how terrible we have been at taking pictures of her. What bad parents we are... I always take pictures of her on my phone, but the quality almost doesn't compare to an actual camera.

I'll give the Ella update :)
She is 7 weeks old, as of yesterday. I'm guessing she is around 10 lbs now. She is at the in between stage of clothes and diapers. She can still fit into newborn, but I know it's only a matter of time before she can't fit into the NB diapers so I have her in Size 1 even though they are a bit too big. As for clothes, the newborn sizes still fit and really well at that. But I feel bad when I'm undressing her and the onsies are a bit harder to get off (she doesn't like that part). So, I'm starting the transition. Her newborn pants still fit great though.
As of 6 weeks Ella is getting her first tooth. Too young in my taste, but then again, I also probably don't like it because it just means she growing so fast. I know people say that and so I'm trying to savor the time. The tooth that is coming in is the bottom left canine tooth (or vampire tooth as we call it). She is a lot more alert now which is so fun. I see her starting to pay more attention to things. She'll look at the toys that hang from her swing. I remember a couple of weeks ago (around August 11th) when she was moving her arms around in her carseat and she hit one of the bugs that hangs down from the visor. She had a cute surprised and interested look on her face as she looked to see what she had hit. That was when I started her noticing her surroundings more. She also is starting to coo. Which I absolutely love! She started this about 2 weeks ago, too. She normally just does one coo and then stops, but its getting more often. As of Monday she smiled at me for the first time. She has been smiling in her sleep ever since we got her home (I say that she's smiling at spirits because she sometimes does it when her eyes are still open). But now she does it at me or J, not often but she does it :)
I'm also back at work :( and that means that J gets to be Mr. Mom when I'm gone. I know he is liking it. He finally gets to have one on one time with our little girl. He has finally changed a dirty diaper, many in fact. And has dealt with a few leakages that got on him :) He been really good about it too, but if I'm home he doesn't come anywhere near. He also gets to feed her from a bottle which he doesn't like too much because it takes so much time and he can't do anything while he's feeding her. Since Ella has been eating from a bottle while I'm gone it's changed her eating habits, which I'm not to happy about. She eats a lot quicker. Which is fine, but she would normally eat 10-15 minutes total and now I'm fighting for close to 10. Last night I changed a greenish poopie diaper so I looked it up and found out that she is not getting enough hind milk, and too much fore milk. So, now instead of feeding her from both sides I just feed her from one side so that she can get more nutrition. I worry about this though because I don't want it to slow down my milk production. I'm very worried about that. I want to be able to breastfeed for as long as I want to versus having to stop.
She also has some chub on her now. My milk is doing what it should :) I also think she looks a bit more like I did when I was little because of her chubby cheeks, but she mostly has daddy's looks so far.

She has been a really good baby. She doesn't fuss much. She's always content.

We love our little girl!

This picture, the one at the top and the one below this picture are from a photo shoot that J and I tried to do when she was 2 weeks old. We are far from professional, but you work with what you got :)

Capturing that cute smile (2 weeks old, and no it was not gas :) )

Ella's first holiday, the 24th of July at Grandma and Grandpa H's

The whole family

Daddy and the La (27th of July)

Mommy and the La.

I made this pacifier holder and I got a bunch of cute pictures with Ella holding it. Awww!

These last 2 were just taken yesterday. What a cute baby! (7 weeks)

My Wedding Webpage

I was just wandering around on the internet, how I sometimes do when I am bored. After checking out all things I could randomly think of I then started looking at my old "Bookmarks" that I have listed. One of the ones I came across automatically brought a smile to my face. I wanted to share it with everyone. Some of you have seen this already but I didn't think it would still be active. How fun! What good memories :)

http://weddings.theknot.com/pwp/view/co_main.aspx?legacct=1&coupleid=3240533306453125&guestpassword=

Back to Life

So, I've decided that I am having huge anxiety about going back to work. I knew it was inevitable, and for heavens sakes I still have 4 weeks to go. I just want to be able to be home and watch my little girl all the time. I am worrying about what I would be able to work and such. Ahhh! This is so not fun. I wish I could just work at home doing something. I never have anxiety attacks, that's normally Jason's job, and I'm the one that tries to calm him down. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. Let me know if anyone has any ideas. I need the help :)